Women's Salon: Maria Pakulnis

Conducted by Marzena Sobala

MARIA OBEYS

Film, theater, television actress. A graduate of the Warsaw State Higher Theater School. For her artistic achievements she has been awarded several awards: the Zbyszek Cybulski Award, the acting award at the IFF in Taormina, the Bronze Lions at the Festival of Polish Feature Films in Gdańsk, the Golden Screen. Winner of the Grand Splendor — the Polish Radio Theatre Award and the award for acting at the Two Theatres Festival in Sopot (2018). For her supporting role in “Johnny” she received the Golden Eagle, the most prestigious film award in Poland.

A star who shone with Konwicki, Kieślowski, Trelinski, in dozens of performances, films and series. She played demonic women and virgins, intellectuals and gang bosses, mothers and daughters, wives and mistresses. Her face is one of the icons of the cinema of moral anxiety, and the eyes with an icy glow have no equal in Polish cinema.