Grażyna Szapołowska
Birthday: 1953-09-19
Place of Birth: Bydgoszcz, Poland
Biography: Grażyna Szapołowska (Polish pronunciation: [ɡraˈʐɨna ʂapɔˈwɔfska]; born 19 September 1953) is a Polish film and theatre actress. After passing the baccalauréat she joined at Wroclaw Theatre of Pantomime. In 1977 she graduated from The Theatre Art School in Warsaw. From 1977 until 1984 she was in the theatrical company of the National Theatre, Warsaw. She is best known for starring in A Short Film About Love (1988) by Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski, and in its earlier and shorter form the sixth episode of Dekalog. It was she who suggested to Kieslowski the different ending of the full-length version. She had previously starred in another Kieslowski film, Bez końca.
Movies
No End
1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to se...
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Visiting Van Gogh
In the 22nd Century, antiquities command huge prices. A woman uses a time machine to travel back the...
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The Last Days
Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for indepen...
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A Short Film About Love
19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through bino...
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Enclosure
In one of the developing countries, local and Soviet geologists discovered a tantalum ore deposit. H...
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Talking Heads 2021
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talki...
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Abissinia
Antonio (Enrico Salimbeni) may not have been the most energetic waiter in the most popular restauran...
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Trick
Kidnappers demand six million in ransom, but the United Nations does not negotiate with terrorist. O...
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Komediantka
A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with ...
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Battle of the Sexes
The story of an unemployed journalist who fights overweight and account shortages more effectively t...
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Just Love Me
Modern-day Warsaw shines in this romantic comedy about the love life of a young, hip architect. In h...
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First Encounter - Last Encounter
The story concerns the events in Saint Petersburg on the eve of the First World War. Private detecti...
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Warszawa
On an ordinary winter's day, various people from outside Warsaw come to the Polish capital city for ...
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Three Colors: White
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wi...
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Angel in Love
Giordano, an angel assigned to an orphan in Krakow, is two years into the job when his celestial ove...
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Another Way
Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. Passionate and determ...
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Everyone Knows Better
The adventures of a couple who try to put together one family from two different worlds. Other peopl...
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Seychelles
A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable clepto...
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Fort 13
A captain and lieutenant of the Russian army are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress dur...
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Decalogue VI
A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated ar...
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Battle of Warsaw 1920
Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ol...
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Hotel klasy lux
The five participants in the meeting for the construction of a luxury hotel meet years later at its ...
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The Conviction
A girl and her art professor get trapped inside a castle-museum after it closes at night. After a li...
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Nachbarinnen
The single package-delivery woman Dora lives a somewhat reclusive life in a high-rise in Leipzig and...
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Medium
Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a mu...
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Custody
A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly...
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The Young Magician
A 12-year boy feels left out by his classmates because he has no interest in athletics. He finally d...
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Beautiful Stranger
Strangers on a train. Late in 1916, a brave and idealistic Russian officer in his 20s comes to his s...
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Król dopalaczy
Inspired by actual events, an ordinary guy builds an empire of legal drugs....
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Fanciful
After her mother’s death, 15-year-old Roma falls ill with a strange disease. Previously distant and ...
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The Magnate
This Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty ...
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Polnische Ostern
Grumpy baker Grabosch can't bear the thought that his granddaughter, now that her mother has died, w...
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Hanussen
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in...
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Nie kłam kochanie
Ania, a sensitive, shy green-architecture student, tends the gardens of an elegant building and find...
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Pokaż kotku, co masz w środku
The plot is a series of unfortunate events happening to unremarkable characters. The father of the m...
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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker'...
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Run Boy Run
A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to su...
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Botoxx
"Botoks" is intended to be a record of the authentic history of strong, determined and expressive ph...
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Taboo
Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looki...
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The Scent of Earth
The trials and tribulations of a peasant's life in the 30's, finally overshadowed by the destructive...
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Ivy
Kinga, a divorced woman raising her daughter Emilka, decides to change her professional life and sta...
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The Twenties, the Thirties
On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza...
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Big Shar
Released from prison after five years, con-artist Szu is sent packing by his young wife; he heads fo...
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Flowers of Reverie
The seeming hopelessness of combatting an all-powerful government that will not tolerate political d...
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Kill Cruise
Two British beauties go to Barbados with a yacht captain who does not know what he's in for....
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Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupi...
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Lava
On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the...
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Our God's Brother
In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to...
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365 Days
A woman falls victim to a dominant mafia boss, who imprisons her and gives her one year to fall in l...
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Home Chronicles
The protagonist of the film is a 12-year-old boy - Witek, the son of a small-town miller, a former e...
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Asymmetry
Piotr and his girlfriend Weronika plan their future together. They don't expect one evening to chang...
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The Big Picnic
Rysiek is an escapee from a reform school. Julek escapes the anger of a fire brigade in a small town...
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Little Rose
Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected wri...
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Tomorrow, We're Going to the Movies
Three high school graduates prepare to start the next chapter of their lives, but the outbreak of Wo...
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Goodbye Stranger
Set on the deserted North Sea island of Langeness, a lonely woman begins an affair with a stranger; ...
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In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles
In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mi...
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