Anna Prucnal
Also Known As: Анна Пруцнал
Biography: Anna Prucnal (born 17 December 1940) is a Polish actress in both cinema and theatre, as well as a singer. Prucnal was born in Warsaw, Poland. After her father, a surgeon, was killed by the Nazis during World War II, Anna and her sister were raised by their mother, who was of noble descent and related to the 18th-century King of Poland Stanislas Leszczyński. After studying piano and lyrical song, Anna Prucnal went on an acting career at the Studencki Teatr Satyryków, in Warsaw. Prucnal first appeared in a movie at the age of twenty-two in the film “Sun and Shadow” (Slăntzeto i siankata), a popular release. In 1970, Prucnal moved to France and embarked upon a theatrical career, appearing in a number of plays by Bertolt Brecht. She worked with many important directors including Jorge Lavelli, Georges Wilson, Roger Planchon, Jean-Louis Barrault, Marc’O, Petrika Ionesco, Lucian Pintilie and Jacques Lassalle. She also appeared in several notable films, the most notorious of which was Dusan Makavejev's “Sweet Movie”, which Polish authorities deemed to be pornographic and anticommunist. As a result, Anna was banned from using her Polish passport, effectively exiling her from her homeland. During the 1970s, Anna developed her career as a singer. Her album “Dream of West, Dream of East” was popular, initially in France, then Belgium, worldwide and, finally, in Warsaw in 1989… to celebrate the bicentenary of the French Revolution, and representing a homecoming of sorts for Anna. Prucnal has continued to release records (such as “Monsieur Brecht” in 2006), and act in movies (“Wimbledon Stage” in 2001) and TV, as well as appearing on stage in the acclaimed play “The Vagina Monologues” in 2005. In 2002, Prucnal published her autobiography (not yet translated in English) entitled “Moi qui suis née à Varsovie” (“I, who was born in Warsaw”), co-authored with Jean Mailland. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Prucnal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Adult: No
Birthday: December 17, 1940
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Female
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Sweet Movie
Overview: The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-12
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Dracula and Son
Overview: With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son Ferdinand head abroad. Dracula ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl. Naturally, tensions arise when father and son are reunited and both take a liking to the same girl.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-14
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City of Women
Overview: The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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Images of Women of the Social Corset
Overview: A man asks himself about the image of women who are offered for his gaze. A documentary about the image of women in fashion, film, and life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-01-05
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Dossier 51
Overview: A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-30
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Crows
Overview: In a quiet, lonesome Polish city, a neglected ten year old girl kidnaps a pampered toddler and pretends to be her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-09-12
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Snow
Overview: Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is caught by narcotics agents, Anita takes it upon herself to score for his struggling clients.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-20
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Roly Poly
Overview: Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved in many car accidents. After each car crash he gets a transplant for one or another internal organ. After a while there is a question: Who really is Ryszard Fox?
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-03-17
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The Sun and the Shadow
Overview: The first love between two very different characters is the prism through which we are shown the point of view of the film-makers who denounce war and plead for simple human happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1962-10-21
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The Flying Dutchman
Overview: In order to escape her narrow and restrictive life, Senta, the daughter of a rich shipowner, seeks refuge in her fantasies and dreams. In this realm of imagination, a bold and restless sea captain appears to her—the Flying Dutchman—who is cursed to wander the seas forever. In her obsessive dreams, Senta frees this man through her love for him.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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Teenager
Overview: A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-06-07
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Love, Math and Sex
Overview: A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-05
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Bastien, Bastienne
Overview: Catherine (Juliet Berto) is the temporary head of the family while her husband, whom she loathes, is away fighting in the war. Her widowed sister-in-law Suzanne (Anna Prucnal) lives with her, and after awhile it becomes apparent that Catherine loathes her as well. The children in the house are all boys -- Catherine has two sons, twelve and thirteen, and Suzanne also has a twelve-year old. While the relationship between Suzanne and Catherine is coming to a head, Catherine is having an affair with an army officer, and the boys in the family are planning a musical performance for everyone. The crescendo may be barely audible at the beginning, but it builds up to a tragedy at the end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Hellé
Overview: Hellé is a young deaf-mute living among the mountains. She’s ignored by everyone except, now and then, the local woodsmen, who use her for their pleasure. She has no education, no knowledge of right or wrong. One summer, a young man comes to spend the holidays in her village.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-02
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New Year's Eve Adventure
Overview: A couple plans to spend a New Years Eve in a friend's empty apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-12-30
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Wimbledon Stage
Overview: The story is about a woman who is going to Trieste (a city in Italy) to search for informations about a writer who has never written.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-08-01
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Reise ins Ehebett
Overview: The captain of a ship of the merchant navy is always on the move because of his job – and has a different girlfriend in every harbour. But his friends think that he should change his way of life. Thus, they take the lovely reporter Eva on board for a trip to Leningrad. But at first, Eva′s presence causes a lot of upheaval on board.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-04-07
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Civil Wars in France
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Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-15
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Nowy
Overview: A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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L'Artifice et le factice
Overview: "L'Artifice et le factice" is the episode that covers the period from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1988 of my filmed Notebooks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-19
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Les lettres de Saïgon
Overview: During the war of Indochina, Claire tries to maintain the link between her parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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On the Way to Lenin
Overview: A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them. During the journey, the stations on his way to Lenin wake up again.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-04-15
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Mais où et donc Ornicar
Overview: They are in their thirties. They have now children, an appartment, a work, cars... and still have loves, dreams and passions. They will meet each other, leave each other, under the eye of their kids.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-28
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