Irena Byrska

Irena Byrska

Birth : 1901-10-09, Warszawa, Rosja (obecnie Polska)

Death : 1997-01-28

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Irena Byrska

Movies

Blind Chance
2. Ciotka
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
Man of Iron
matka Hulewicz
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
Filip z konopi
matka Krystyny
The Contract
niania w domu Adama
Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.