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Anna Prucnal

Anna Prucnal

Actor · b. 1940 · Warsaw, Poland

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.​

Movies23

  • Movie7.0

    La città delle donne

    City of Women

    1980 · 300 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Sweet Movie

    1974 · 151 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Dracula père et fils

    Dracula and Son

    1976 · 33 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Le dossier 51

    Dossier 51

    1978 · 55 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Wrony

    Crows

    1995 · 21 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Neige

    Snow

    1981 · 13 votes

  • Movie

    Images de femmes ou le corset social

    Images of Women of the Social Corset

    2011

  • Movie5.0

    C'est la tangente que je préfère

    Love, Math and Sex

    1997 · 11 votes

  • Movie7.5
  • Movie10.0

    Guerres civiles en France

    Civil Wars in France

    1978 · 2 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Reise ins Ehebett

    1966 · 5 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Hellé

    1972 · 8 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie7.0

    Nowy

    1970 · 3 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Unterwegs zu Lenin

    On the Way to Lenin

    1970 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Smarkula

    Teenager

    1963 · 3 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Der fliegende Holländer

    The Flying Dutchman

    1964 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Bastien, Bastienne

    1979 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Le Stade de Wimbledon

    Wimbledon Stage

    2002 · 13 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Przekładaniec

    Roly Poly

    1968 · 18 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie9.0

    The Sun and the Shadow

    Слънцето и сянката

    1962 · 2 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Przygoda noworoczna

    New Year's Eve Adventure

    1963 · 1 votes

Series6

  • TV6.0
  • TV7.5

    Numéro un

    1975 · 2 votes

  • TV8.0

    Le Grand Échiquier

    1972 · 3 votes

  • TV5.0

    Ciné regards

    1978 · 1 votes

  • TV9.0

    Wege übers Land

    Ways across the Country

    1968 · 2 votes

  • TV7.0