Anna Prucnal

Anna Magdalena Prucnal-Michaud (born 17 December 1940) is a Polish actress and singer who worked in film and theatre. 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. 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 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 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 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 "Fototeka". Fototeka (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-02-15. 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