Krystyna Janda
Date of birth: 1952-12-18
Place of birth: Starachowice, Poland
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Krystyna Jolanta Janda
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Krystyna Janda (born 18 December 1952, Starachowice, Poland) is a Polish film and theater actress best known, in the West, for playing leading roles in several films by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, including Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru, 1976) and Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza, 1981). In 1982, Janda played the lead character in Ryszard Bugajski's film Przesłuchanie (Interrogation), which first premiered only 7 years later in 1989, following the collapse of communism. Despite the film's late release, she garnered international acclaim for her performance, including winning Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and Polish Film Festival in 1990. Janda is also known for her leading role in the second episode of The Decalogue series of Krzysztof Kieślowski. Description above from the Wikipedia article Krystyna Janda, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Man of Marble
1977-02-25
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who beca
Man of Iron
1981-07-27
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up d
A Short Film About Killing
1988-03-11
Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutall
Mephisto
1981-02-11
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performan
On the Silver Globe
1989-02-10
A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They
Without Anesthesia
1978-11-27
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full polit
Talking Heads 2021
2021-09-23
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talki
Reverse
2009-11-12
A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just
Polish Cuisine
1991-11-22
A Polish lieutenant from the Royal Air Force comes home with his British wife and faces political pe
Spy, Stand Up
1982-01-27
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his pe
Interrogation
1982-12-13
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of frie
How I Fell in Love with a Gangster
2022-01-05
A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gang
Sweet Rush
2009-04-23
As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel youn
Decalogue II
1989-05-16
Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband'
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
2000-09-08
Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatm
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
1985-01-28
The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anythi
The Call of the Toad
2005-09-22
A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for ex
On, ona, oni
1983-12-12
Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.
Elles
2011-09-09
A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on col
Golem
1980-03-18
Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any detail
Inventory
1989-10-23
Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his m
The Border
1978-01-27
Zenon Ziembiewicz, a young, budding journalist, comes to his parents' manor house for a vacation. He
Tato
1995-12-14
Tato is the story of a divorced father fighting for the right to raise his 7-year-old daughter. When
The Yellow Scarf
2000-12-20
The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The da
Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift
1984-12-30
In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish w
The War of the Worlds: Next Century
1981-11-01
Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and e
Julius
2018-09-14
An organised arts teacher has only one main problem in life, which is his father – a painter always
Weiser
2001-01-18
The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It
The Cop & the Girl
1985-04-18
A tough cop but his life in ruins. His superiors are only looking for a reason to sack him. The girl
The Clowns
2024-12-13
Students from the Faculty of Acting find out that their graduation film will be made by the famous d
In Broad Daylight
1981-03-16
Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad.
The Conductor
1980-02-27
A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a vi
Synthesis
1984-06-11
In 2059 scientists manage to revive two people after 80 years of suspended animation - a boy Marek T
All About My Parents
2014-12-25
The story about the friendship between two women, family problems and difficult childhood.
Suspended
1987-10-19
Anna, a nurse, meets her wartime lover Marcel in 1951. Learning that he has been sentenced to death
Madame Bovary, That's Me
1977-04-10
Anna, a stay-at-home mom stifled by the tedium of domestic life, becomes obsessed with Flaubert’s Ma
A Sketch in Six Parts
1973-01-05
Loosely connected scenes in the life of a young student.
It's Only Rock
1984-05-18
After watching a concert by a fledgling rock band, renowned songwriter Marczak decides to promote on
Przedwiośnie
2001-03-02
Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1
Damaged
2015-10-02
Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mr
Inner State
1989-08-25
December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world w
Laputa
1987-07-30
Extensive dialogue and the tight focus of a single apartment setting marks this romantic and politic
Vertiges
1985-04-09
In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, n
Dismissed From Life
1992-09-17
Set in 1989, story of a man beat up by two ex-policemen and left to die in a dump. Marek survives af
An Air So Pure
1997-09-03
In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a
The Green Bird
1980-02-24
The love story between a German cancer researcher and her Polish colleague that drags on for more th
Wałesa: Man of Hope
2013-09-23
How was it possible that a single man influenced contemporary world so significantly? This film is a
Pestka
1996-01-19
Agatha is reaching her 40s, but despite her many romances she has not started a family. She lives as
Decalogue V
1989-05-16
Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to
My Mother's Lovers
1986-05-02
Rafal takes care of his dysfunctional carefree mother who is more interested in men, pills and alcoh
Bella Donna
1983-03-26
This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort re
A Few People, a Little Time
2007-04-27
The unusual bond between a blind female writer and an acclaimed poet changes their lives and forms a
Dolce Fine Giornata
2019-05-10
In Tuscany, Maria's stable family life begins to erode as her relationship with a young immigrant de
Weekend Stories: Unwritten Law
1998-04-28
A handsome young chauffeur hired by a powerful and charismatic businesswoman discovers he has been m
Embers
1983-09-01
Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's hom
Matka swojej matki
1996-09-27
Barbara leads a stable life, is fulfilled professionally and has a loving family. Her foster daughte
Fik-Mik
1988-02-17
Kill It and Leave This Town
2020-11-27
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, w
Solidarność, Solidarność...
2005-08-31
A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consi
Kręć! Jak kochasz to kręć!
2010-01-01
In this documentary, Andrzej Wajda presents a biography of the famous filmmaker and his long-time co
Pan Olbrychski
2025-08-29
Biographical documentary film presenting the silhouette and artistic path of the outstanding actor D
The Doll
2026-09-30
Wealthy merchant Stanislaw Wokulski falls tragically in love with beautiful yet vain Izabela Lecka.
Młynarski. Piosenka finałowa
2017-11-03
A moving documentary depicting a recent and very candid interview with Wojciech Mlynarski, in which