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Anna Magdalena Prucnal-Michaud (born 17 December 1940) is a Polish actress and singer who worked in film and theatre.
Life
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 Stanisław 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, Federico Fellini and Jacques Lassalle. She 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, she 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, as part of the celebration of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, and representing a homecoming of sorts for her.
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.
Filmography
1962 : Sun and Shadow (Original title: Слънцето и сянката or Slăntzeto i siankata)
1963 : Teenager (Original title: Smarkula)
1963 : New year eve adventure (Original title: Przygoda noworoczna)
1964 : The Flying Dutchman (Original title: Le Hollandais volant)
1966 : Reise ins Ehebett
1970 : Nowy
1970 : Unterwegs zu Lenin
1970 : Der Sekretär
1972 : Hellé
1974 : Sweet Movie
1976 : Dracula père et fils
1976 : Guerres civiles en France - premier empire - La semaine sanglante
1978 : Le Dossier 51
1979 : Bastien, Bastienne
1979 : Mais où et donc Ornicar
1980 : La città delle donne
1981 : Neige
1981 : L'Ogre de barbarie
1983 : L'Homme qui aimait deux femmes
1989 : Un amour tardif
1993 : Lepiej być piękną i bogatą (Better to be pretty and rich)
1993 : Au port de la lune
1994 : Crows (Wrony)
1997 : C'est la tangente que je préfère
2002 : Le Stade de Wimbledon
2005 : Slogans pour 343 actrices
Discography
1967 : Letkiss-Boy
1967 : Träume sind so wunderschön
1979 : Félicité
1979 : L'Été
1980 : Théâtre de la ville
1981 : Avec Amour
1982 : Loin de Pologne
1984 : L'âge de cœur
1987 : Rêve d'ouest, rêve d'est
1987 : Ivre vive - Luna moon
1988 : Concert 88
1993 : Monsieur Brecht
1993 : C'était à Babelsberg
1995 : Dédicaces
1995 : L'intégrale
1996 : Rêve d'Ouest - Rêve d'Est
1998 : Anna Prucnal chante Vertynski
1999 : Les années fatales
2001 : Le Cirque de Giuseppe
2002 : Je vous aime
2006 : Monsieur Brecht
2006 : Rêve d'ouest - Rêve d'est
Television
1968 : Przekładaniec, by Andrzej Wajda
1968 : Wege übers Land, by Martin Eckermann
1974 : The Festival with Spitz, by Edouard Luntz
1974 : A Young Man Alone, by Jean Mailland
1976 : Nick Verlaine or How to steal the Tower Eiffel, by Claude Boissol
1979 : Quincailler of Meaux, by Pierre Lary
1981 : War in neutral country, by Philippe Lefèbvre
1982 : Anna Prucnal, dream of west-dream of east, by Jean Mailland
1982 : The Ogre of cruelty, Pierre Matteuzzi
1986 : The Laughter of Caïn, Marcel Moussy
1988 : Toâ realized, by Yves-André Hubert
1988 : A madness, by Alain Dhenault
1989 : Anna Prucnal, until new order, by Jean Mailland
1990 : Silesia, letter with two votes, by Jean Mailland
Theatre
1971 : Small Mahagonny, Bertolt Brecht
1971 : The Parisian life, Jacques Offenbach
1972 : Seven deadly sins, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
1972 : Gave Mobil, Claude Prey
1973 : Rock bottom, Marc’ O
1973 : The Four binoculars, Copi
1974 : Ubu with the opera, Alfred Jarry
1975 : A.A. theaters of Adamov, Roger Planchon
1975 : Middle-class Madnesses, Roger Planchon
1975 : The Man occis, Claude Prey
1975 : Nights of Paris
1976 : The French Grandmother, by Eugène Ionesco'
1977 : Jacques or the tender and the future in the eggs, by Eugène Ionesco'
1977 : Domestic industry, F.K. Kroetz, Jacques Lassalle
1978 : Remagen, Anna Seghers, by Jacques Lassalle
1978 : Kabaret, Jean Mailland
1984 : The Beautiful Helene, Jacques Offenbach
1984 : The human Voice, Jean Cocteau and Francis Poulenc
1986 : Ghetto, Josual Sobol
1987 : Connected, Eugene O’ Neill
1988 : Awakes Philadelphia, François Billetdoux
1990 : The Opera of quat’ under, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
1991 : The Room, Wilhelm de Tove Ditlevsen
1992 : Mr Brecht, according to Bertolt Brecht
1993 : The human Voice, Jean Cocteau and Francis Poulenc
1994 : The following days which sing false, Josual Sobol
1996 : Gernika 1937, a lyric review, of Jean Mailland'
1999 : The Circus of Giuseppe, Jean-Louis Bauer and Piotr Moss
2000 : Song of the swan and other stories, Anton Tchekhov'
2002 : The Foreigner of the city, Bernard Martin
2003 : Red Evil and gold, Jean Cocteau
2004 : Anna Prucnal and Jean Cocteau
2005 : The Vagina Monologues, by Eve Ensler
References
External links
Anna Prucnal at IMDb
Official Webpage