Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass

Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass
Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass
Born	Barbara Kwiatkowska; 1 June 1940; Patrowo, Wartheland
Died	6 March 1995 (aged 54); Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Resting place	Rakowicki Cemetery, Kraków, Poland
Other names	Barbara Lass; Barbara Kwiatkowska; Barbara Kwiatkowski
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1958–1995
Spouse(s)	Roman Polanski ; (m. 1959; div. 1962); Karlheinz Böhm ; (m. 1963; div. 1980); Leszek Żądło ; (m. 1980)
Children	Katharina Böhm

Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass (1 June 1940 – 6 March 1995) was a Polish actress.

The grave of Barbara Lass in Poland

Early life and career

Barbara Kwiatkowska was born in Patrowo, a village near Gostynin in central Poland, then under German-occupied Poland, which the Nazis had renamed Gasten in 1939 through 1941 (at time of her birth). Then changed to Walrode from June 1941 until the end of the war. Although she received ballet and dance education, she eventually took up an acting career. After her debut role in Tadeusz Chmielewski's comedy Ewa chce spać (1957) she gained wider popularity in Poland. The role had been offered to her after she took the first place in a contest organized by a popular Polish cinema magazine.

In 1959 she left Poland for the West and soon starred in a few major films like La millième fenêtre (with Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Che gioia vivere (with Alain Delon). She played roles in several Italian, French and German films such as Krzysztof Zanussi's Blaubart (1983) and in Stachel im Fleisch (1981).

Personal life

She married film director Roman Polanski in 1959; they divorced in 1962.[1] The following year she met Karlheinz Böhm on the set of the movie Rififi in Tokyo (Rififi à Tokyo, 1963) in Tokyo; the couple later married, their daughter is actress Katharina Böhm. Kwiatkowska-Lass divorced Böhm in 1980, and married Polish jazz musician Leszek Żądło, with whom she lived until her death.

Politics

Kwiatkowska was opposed to the Communist regime in Poland and cooperated with the United States-controlled Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which transmitted anti-communist propaganda, information and programmes free from censorship to Poland.

Death

On 6 March 1995, Kwiatkowska-Lass collapsed and died from a brain hemorrhage aged 54, in Munich.[2] She was interred in Kraków's Rakowicki Cemetery.

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1958	Ewa chce spać	Ewa Bonecka	Credited as Barbara Kwiatkowska
1958	Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru	Sabinka Lemiecka
1958	Pan Anatol szuka miliona	Iwona Slowikowska
1959	When Angels Fall		Short, Alternative title: Gdy spadają anioły Credited as Barbara Kwiatkowska
1960	Tysiąc talarów	Kasia Wydech
1960	Zezowate szczeście	Jola Wrona-Wronska	Alternative title: Bad Luck Credited as Barbara Kwiatkowska
1960	La 1000eme fenêtre	Ania
1961	Ostroznie, Yeti!	Bride
1961	Che gioia vivere	Franca Fossati	Alternative title: The Joy of Living
1961	Lycanthropus	Priscilla	Alternative title: Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
1962	L'Amour à vingt ans	Basia	Alternative title: Love at Twenty (segment "Warszawa")
1963	Vice and Virtue	Prisoner
1963	Rififi à Tokyo	Françoise Merigne	Alternative title: Rififi in Tokyo
1965	Serenade für zwei Spione	Tamara	Alternative title: Serenade for Two Spies
1967	Jowita	Agnieszka "Jowita"	Credited as Barbara Kwiatkowska
1970	Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli	Dagmar	Alternative title: The Priest of St. Pauli
1974	Effi Briest	Polnische Köchin
1974	Jak to sie robi	Holiday-Maker	Alternative title: How It's Done
1981	Stachel im Fleisch	Ines
1986	Rosa Luxemburg	Rosa's mother
1986	Das Schweigen des Dichters	Janina
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1970	Hauser's Memory	Angelika	TV movie
1972	Doppelspiel in Paris	Renée Borni, seine Geliebte	TV movie
1984	Bluebeard	Rosalinde	TV movie
1990	Eine Wahnsinnsehe	Herta	TV movie
1991	Moskau - Petuschki	Fürstin	TV movie, (final film role)

References

Bradshaw, Peter (15 July 2005). "The Guardian profile: Roman Polanski". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
Gańczak, Filip (6 March 2010). "Taka była pierwsza żona Polańskiego". Newsweek Polska (in Polish). Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2012.

External links

Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass at IMDb

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[1] Bradshaw, Peter (15 July 2005). "The Guardian profile: Roman Polanski". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 26 November 2009.

[2] Gańczak, Filip (6 March 2010). "Taka była pierwsza żona Polańskiego". Newsweek Polska (in Polish). Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2012.