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Zbigniew Cybulski
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3 November 1927 - 8 January 1967
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Zbigniew Cibulski is a legend of Polish cinema, a symbol of the generation that came out of the war, the collective image of which he perfectly recreated in Andrzej Wajda’s film Ashes and Diamond. Zbigniew was born in 1927 in the village of Knyazhe near the city of Stanislava (now it is Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). Zbigniew Cibulski studied in the postwar years at the Trade Academy, the Higher School of Journalism and finally at the Higher Theatre School in Krakow. He worked in the Krakow Academic
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Zbigniew Cibulski is a legend of Polish cinema, a symbol of the generation that came out of the war, the collective image of which he perfectly recreated in Andrzej Wajda’s film Ashes and Diamond. Zbigniew was born in 1927 in the village of Knyazhe near the city of Stanislava (now it is Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). Zbigniew Cibulski studied in the postwar years at the Trade Academy, the Higher School of Journalism and finally at the Higher Theatre School in Krakow. He worked in the Krakow Academic Theatre, the Vybrezh Theatre in Gdansk, created his own student theater, in which he was an artistic director. Since 1961 he worked in the Warsaw theater "Atheneum".
Cibulsky’s first film role was Kostek in Andrzej Wajda’s Generation. With this film began a long friendship and cooperation of the actor and director. His best and most famous role Cibulsky also played in the film Vajda. It was the role of Macek Helmicki in Ashes and Diamond. Later, Wajda said that he thought about it for a long time before confirming Cybulsky for the role. The director himself was a soldier of the Army of the Kraiova and perfectly understood that an intelligent actor, and even in dark glasses (and their actor could not shoot because of eye disease), is absolutely not the type. But they took a chance. And we won. The movie was watched by millions of viewers, and none of them said, “It’s not like that.” It was Tsibulsky’s talent that made the situation plausible. Another common success of the actor and director was the film “Love of twenty years.”
For Cibulsky, the role of a romantic hero was fixed. But he played in action films, comedies, and tragedies. Tsibulsky also thought about directing, wrote the script for the film, which he intended to shoot himself based on Konvitsky’s novel “Modern Dream Book”.
Cibulsky died in a boyishly ridiculous way: he was hit by a train. According to actress Beata Tyszkiewicz, he had a very dangerous hobby: jumping into the carriage of an already moved train. Perhaps, with these risky tricks, he proved to himself that he was “fit” and capable of playing youth roles at a time when age forced him to change roles. He could have overcome this crisis, but... What happened happened happened. Upon learning of a friend's death, Wajda said he " owed him a movie" and directed the biopic All for Sale. Another documentary film “Zbyshek”, dedicated to the memory of the actor, was directed by Lyaskovsky.