Antonina Girycz

Acting

Antonina Girycz

Born February 20, 1939 · Berdychiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

Died January 19, 2022 · aged 82

No biography available.

Known For

Yes, YesYes, Yes · 1993
Yes, Yes
4.21993
MovieComedyRomance
Set in Poland in the 1970s, the main character half-heartedly goes about his job as a censor at the state run television station, whilst conducting affairs with nurses, airline pilots, etc. Interesting scene where main character must illegally emigrate to his own country.
The Sundial ClockThe Sundial Clock · 1997
The Sundial Clock
4.51997
MovieDramaComedy
The story of a married couple, actress and director, who live in the bosom of nature, in a stream hut, and realize a story about their own lives, thoughts and fantasies. Working on a film is a naive attempt to search for meaning in life.
InterrogationInterrogation · 1989
Interrogation
7.11989
MovieDramaThriller
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
An Immoral StoryAn Immoral Story · 1990
An Immoral Story
6.71990
MovieDrama
Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a dead end. She lives in a faceless housing development. She is totally engrossed in herself and dreams of making a comeback as a singer. But her overbearing personality time after time sets her into conflict with those she tries to work with in the theater and her bedroom.
Love and DanceLove and Dance · 2009
Love and Dance
6.12009
MovieMusicDrama
Hania is a young journalist who suddenly discovers that she is more connected with dancing than she could ever imagine ...
Without LoveWithout Love · 1980
Without Love
8.51980
MovieDrama
Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one of her own shoestrings and falls short of the goal she has been pursuing so fanatically.
Hunting FliesHunting Flies · 1969
Hunting Flies
5.61969
MovieRomanceComedy
Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. When Włodek draws the interest of a library patron, the beautiful young woman encourages him to strive for better things in his life and professional career. Together, the two take off for a three-day affair, but surprises could await Włodek upon his return home.
A Woman's DecisionA Woman's Decision · 1975
A Woman's Decision
5.11975
MovieDrama
The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start. She discovers love for the first time, but turns to old ways rather than to break loose.

Filmography

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The Smaller SkyThe Smaller Sky · 1981
The Smaller Sky
7.01981
MovieDrama
A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.

Woman at the Party (uncredited)