
Antonina Girycz
Known For & Full Filmography22 Titles

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as pacjentka w szpitalu przeciwgruźliczym
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes • as Kępińska
The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.

Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • as Nanny Klara Przytyk
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes • as sprzedawczyni domu w Aninie
A story about the professional and personal struggles of the lawyers at a law firm in a town near Warsaw. In their work, they encounter a wide range of human problems, while often dealing with complicated family lives of their own.

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as redaktorka w tv na próbie "Antygony"
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.

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m • as (voice)
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.

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Cell Top Dog
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.

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Old Lady
Hania is a young journalist who suddenly discovers that she is more connected with dancing than she could ever imagine ...

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Marta's Friend
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.

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Włodek's Boss
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.

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Szymańskis' Daughter
The residents of an apartment complex in World War 2 Poland face a moral dilemma when they discover one of their neighbours is hiding a Jew.

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • as Jarząbek's Wife
Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Elżbieta Misiakowa
Sports officials are trying to decide the result of a football match before it starts. The stake is to stay in the top league.

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Clerk / Circus Actress
A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m • as sekretarka
An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first time to appear in a charity performance, and he immediately clashes with his ex-wife, who stayed behind when he defected.

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Woman at the Party (uncredited)
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.

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Matka Jackowskiego
As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland.

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Manager's Secretary (uncredited)
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.

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Ewa
A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A mysterious man takes a writer back to the 19th century, where they meet Death.
