1940-12-17 ( 84 years old ) in 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.
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Movies
L'Artifice et le factice
2012-07-19
Les lettres de Saïgon
2012-01-01
Images of Women of the Social Corset
2011-01-05
Wimbledon Stage
2001-08-01
Love, Math and Sex
1997-08-05
Crows
1994-09-12
Snow
1981-05-20
City of Women
1980-03-28
Mais où et donc Ornicar
1979-02-28
Bastien, Bastienne
1979-01-01
Dossier 51
1978-08-30
Civil Wars in France
1978-03-15
Dracula and Son
1976-09-14
Sweet Movie
1974-06-12
Hellé
1972-05-02
On the Way to Lenin
1970-04-15
Nowy
1970-01-09
Roly Poly
1968-03-17
Reise ins Ehebett
1966-04-07
The Flying Dutchman
1964-12-25
New Year's Eve Adventure
1963-12-30
Teenager
1963-06-07
The Sun and the Shadow
1962-10-21
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