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Wojciech pszoniak biography

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POLISH FILM ACADEMY

“Acting for me is what pen and ink wouldbe if I was a poet, or a brush, if I was a painter. It is my means to cope with the world and people. I'm not an actor from nine to five. At the moment, I am not playing any role, but I'm an actor. It's a way of processing reality, a kind of communication,” the actor said in an interview for “Gazeta Wyborcza” (2008).
He was born on May 2, 1942 in Lviv. He is a graduate of the Acting Department of the State Higher School of Theatre in Krakow (1968). After graduation, he joined the Krakow's Stary Theatre (1968-1972) and then worked for Warsaw theaters: Narodowy (1972-1974) and Powszechny (1974-1980). Since 1978, he has been performing on many French stages. Winner of many prestigious awards, including the Leon Schiller Award (1972) and the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Award (2001). In 2012, along with Daniel Olbrychski and Andrzej Seweryn, he recived the Lifetime Achievement Award, with particular emphasis on their outstanding performances in Ziemia obiecana/

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Wojciech Pszoniak

Polish actor (1942–2020)

Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak (Polish: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛx ˈpʂɔɲak]; 2 May 1942 – 19 October 2020) was a Polish film and theatre actor as well as theatre director and pedagogue. He received international recognition for portraying Moritz Welt in Andrzej Wajda's drama film The Promised Land. In 2016, he won the Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Life and career

Pszoniak was born in Lwów, Nazi occupied Poland, now in Ukraine. He gained international visibility following Andrzej Wajda's 1975 film The Promised Land, in which he played Moritz, one of the three main characters.[1]

The actor left Poland during the period of political unrest in 1980–81, when the Solidarity trade union began and was ended by the imposition of martial law on 13 December 1981. Pszoniak found roles in France, where he was living and working. After the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, Pszoniak appeared in Polish movies and plays.[2][3]

Internationally, he simplified his first name into Wojtek, w

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Wojciech Pszoniak… loved for his performances in such productions as “Wesele” (“The Wedding”), “Ziemia obiecana” (“The Promised Land”), “Danton” and “Korczak” by Andrzej Wajda, or “Austeria” by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, as well as for his countless other theatre and film appearances. Yet, as a teenager, the acting genius wanted to become a musician. Following in his grandfather’s and mother’s footsteps, he began his musical education with the violin, only to later learn the oboe and the clarinet. He played in a military band and in an opera orchestra. But then came the studies at the PWST (State Higher School of Acting) in Cracow, and a career in acting to which he chose to dedicate his life. He never forsook music, though, adding the saxophone to the list of instruments he mastered (an ability he employed in films and theatre productions); late in life, he also began to learn to play the cello…

The Poznań Philharmonic was lucky to rank Wojciech Pszoniak among its friends. It was with his acting skills and narration that he embellished several of our concerts at the University Auditori

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