Aktorka

A documentary about Elzbieta Czyzewska, one of Poland's greatest actresses, a beauty icon of the 1960s, who died in 2010. She had a great career in Poland, but the filmmakers focus more on her attempts to make a name for herself as an actress in America, after her sudden emigration to the United States with her husband, American journalist David Halberstam. Friends and acquaintances of Elzbieta Czyzewska speak without embellishment about her failed marriage, her battle with alcoholism won after years, and her attempts to return to Poland. This is a story about the fate of the actress at different stages of her career: at the top, at the bottom and in between.
Cast

David Margulies
Self

Andrzej Wajda
Self
Annette Insdorf
Self

Małgorzata Potocka
Self
Michał Kott
Self

Beata Tyszkiewicz
Self
Robert Brustein
Self

Liliana Komorowska
Self

Daniel Olbrychski
Self
Nita Weissman Okamoto
Self
Bernard Weissman
Self
Barbara Ungeheuer
Self
Magdalena Komorek
Self

Gay Talese
Self
Nancy Weber
Self

Adam Holender
Self

Meryl Streep
Self (archive footage)
John Guare
Self
Joanna Rostropowicz Clark
Self
Julia Ain Krupa
Self
Michał Urbaniak
Self

Omar Sangare
Self

Myra Paci
Self
Mac Wellman
Self
Hanna Hartowicz
Self
Teodor Zaręba
Self
Carol Monda
Self
Perri Yaniv
Self

Barbara Sass
Self

Krystyna Czubówna
Voiceover (voice)

Elżbieta Czyżewska
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bohdan Łazuka
(archive footage) (uncredited)

Krystyna Janda
(archive footage) (uncredited)

Dorota Stalińska
Ewa Orzechowska (archive footage) (uncredited)
Crew

Kinga Dębska
Director
Maria Konwicka
Director, Screenplay
Bartosz Karczyński
Editor

Radek Ładczuk
Director of Photography
Zbigniew Domagalski
Producer
Janusz Skałkowski
Producer
Witold Będkowski
Co-Producer
Leszek Freund
Sound
Kamil Skałkowski
Production Manager

Meryl Streep
Thanks
Magdalena Komorek
Thanks
Nancy Weber
Thanks
Monika Markowicz
Thanks
Elisabeth Wolynski
Thanks