Apolonia "Pola" Raksa (born 14 April 1941) is a Polish movie star, singer, and model who was especially popular in Poland and abroad in the 1960s and 1970s.
Born to Edward Raksa, Pola was born in
Lida
Lida ( be, Лі́да ; russian: Ли́да ; lt, Lyda; lv, Ļida; pl, Lida ; yi, לידע, Lyde) is a city 168 km (104 mi) west of Minsk in western Belarus in Grodno Region.
Etymology
The name ''Lida'' arises from its Lithuani ...
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[Film Polski]
/ref> Her parents left German Nazi-occupied territory in 1943 and after the World War II
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settled in Wrocław
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(western Lesnica neighborhood).
Her career started in the 1950s, when she was spotted by a reporter of the '' Dookoła Świata'' magazine in a bar mleczny (Polish cafeteria).[Wiadomosci, film]
/ref> He took some shots of her and Raksa appeared in the magazine as ''Girl of the Week''. Soon afterwards, she was offered her first cameos in movies. After graduating from the Liceum ogólnokształcące A general education liceum (Polish: ''Liceum ogólnokształcące'' ) is an academic high school in the Education in Poland, Polish educational system. They are attended by those who plan to further their academic education upon graduation from Educa ...
No.1 in Wrocław, she studied in the Wroclaw University, Department of Philologie (Polish Language).Ost film
Raksa participated in the student theater ''Kalambur''. Later she changed her major and moved to Łódź
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, to the National Film School in Łódź
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.[ She graduated in 1964 and in the same year debuted on stage.][ Between 1964 and 1968, she played in ''Teatr Powszechny'' in Łódź, then moved to ]Warsaw
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, to play in ''Teatr Wspolczesny'' (at Śródmieście, Warsaw
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The area is home t ...
).[ In 2003 readers of the '' Super Express'' daily chose her the best of all Polish blonde actresses. Raksa was awarded several prizes.][
She has a son, Marcin Kostenko, with her first husband, ]Andrzej Kostenko
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Filmography
As a directo ...
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Selected filmography
* ''Szatan z siódmej klasy'' ('' Satan from the Seventh Grade''), as Wanda (debut, 1960) along with
* ''Panienka z okienka
''Panienka z okienka'' is a 1964 Polish romance film directed by Maria Kaniewska.
Cast
* Pola Raksa as Hedwiga / Marysia Kalinowska
* Jadwiga Chojnacka as Mina - maid
* Aleksandra Karzyńska as Mrs. Flora
* Halina Kossobudzka as Salomea Korycka
...
'' (Lady in a window), as Hedwiga (1964)
* ''Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie'' (''The Saragossa Manuscript
''The Manuscript Found in Saragossa'' (; also known in English as ''The Saragossa Manuscript'') is a frame-tale novel written in French at the turn of 18th and 19th centuries by the Polish author Count Jan Potocki (1761–1815). It is narrated ...
''), Inezilia, Camila's sister (1964)
* '' Popioły'', as Helena de With, Olbromski's love (1965)
* ''Bicz bozy
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'', as Hania, Pawel's crush (1966)
* ''Czterej pancerni i pies
''Four Tank-Men and a Dog'' (Polish: ''Czterej pancerni i pies'', ) was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided i ...
'' as the nurse Marusia nicknamed Ogoniok (in one of the episodes she sings a song in Russian ),
* ''Przygoda z piosenka'' (Adventure with a song), as Mariola Bronska (1968).[
* ''Uprowadzenie Agaty'' (Agata's Abduction), as Agata's mother (1993, latest)
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Awards
* Prize of the journal ''Soviet Screen'', at the International movie festival in Moscow 1967
* 1967 best actress by the readers the ''Soviet Screen'' journal
* Distinguished Culture Personality of Poland (1979)
* Laureate of the prize of the II Television Festivals of Drama Theater for her role in ''Romeo and Juliette'' play (1965)
* Laureate of the ''Silver Mask'' prize (1967, 1969, 1970)
* Golden Cross of Merit
The Cross of Merit () is a Polish civil state decoration established on 23 June 1923, to recognize services to the state.
History
At the time of its establishment in 1923, the Cross of Merit was the highest civilian award in Poland. It was aw ...
(1974)
* Laureate of the journal ''Soviet Screen'' prize at the Moscow International Film Festival
The Moscow International Film Festival (russian: Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. ''Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál''; abbreviated as MIFF) is the film festival first h ...
(1967, for her role in ''Zosia'')
References
External links
Images of Pola Raksa on google image
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1941 births
Living people
People from Lida
Polish actresses
Łódź Film School alumni
University of Wrocław alumni
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