Halina Łabonarska

Acting

Halina Łabonarska

Born 1947-08-15 · Gdańsk, pomorskie, Polska

Halina Łabonarska (born 15 August 1947 in Gdańsk) is a Polish theatre, film, and television actress. A graduate of the acting department of the National Film School in Łódź, she began her stage career in the early 1970s at the Bogusławski Theatre in Kalisz and later performed at the Nowy Theatre in Poznań and several major theatres in Warsaw. Łabonarska has appeared in numerous films and television productions, gaining recognition for roles in films such as “Aktorzy prowincjonalni” and “Europa Europa”. She has also been active in television series, including “Na dobre i na złe” and “Korona królów”, where she portrayed Queen Jadwiga. Over her career she has received multiple theatre and film awards and has been honoured with several Polish state decorations, including the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture “Gloria Artis”.

Acting credits

Europa Europa poster
7.2

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

Europa Europa

1990

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NR

The play by Wojciech Tomczyk. The topic taken up by Wojciech Tomczyk is a very hot one, dealing with the still painful settlements with the People's Republic of Poland, the problem of victims and executioners, entangled in the communist and post-communist system. A retired military counterintelligence officer is approached by a journalist. Hanka wants to get information about the colonel with whom our retiree met at the infantry school, where they studied since the fall of 1953. Stefan Kolodziej, however, has other plans. He wants to tell Hanka his biography, which is suspiciously intertwined with the journalist's life. The Colonel's confession reveals the horrifying cesspool of communism: finished people, destroyed families and careers.

Norymberga

2006

Synthesis poster
7.0

In 2059 scientists manage to revive two people after 80 years of suspended animation - a boy Marek Torlewski and a dictator Muanty, who quickly becomes a serious threat to humanity. Synteza is an adaptation of a novel by Maciej Wojtyszko.

Synthesis

1984

Joanna poster
6.3

In an era in which it is difficult for the true emotion and excitement, Feliks Falk found the key to the human heart. How many of us love? How much we are able to self-sacrifice? Is there a price that can not pay, when it comes to life of a loved one? Are we really as good as we think about yourself? In Joanna's life is given forever. Today's friend suddenly becomes an enemy. Reflex heart turns into a curse. When one of the lonely woman takes care of little girls-czynkę do not know that from now on, her life will be sweet - bitter taste. Fate in this film is everything. Allows people to find that in a moment blow and lead to separation. After-forgives love, for which you have to pay a huge price. Fulfills the promise of happiness loneliness, brittle as glass.

Joanna

2010

Man of Iron poster
7.0

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.

Man of Iron

1981

19. Południk poster
NR

The conspiracy story takes place in Poland, at the beginning of the 21st century. in 2003, Poles decide in a referendum not to join the EU, and in 2007 Bartlomiej Czop, a demagogue and primitive, devoid of education and personal culture, is elected president of Poland. He begins his tenure in office by brutally ejecting ex-president Kazimierz Czechmeszynski from the Belvedere when the latter wants to hand over the insignia of power to him. He then insults the Russian and German ambassadors. He also puts his crime-fighting program into practice, liquidating several hundred convicted criminals on high sentences in a faked accident at a military training ground.

19. Południk

2003

A Year of the Quiet Sun poster
6.5

Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...

A Year of the Quiet Sun

1984

Futro poster
3.8

A wealthy grandfather throws a party to celebrate his grandson's First Communion. Soon the family gathering takes unexpected turns.

Futro

2007

Childish Questions poster
8.1

A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.

Childish Questions

1981

Dziady. Część III poster
NR

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Dziady. Część III

1981

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Klucz

2005

Smolensk poster
2.5

Inspired by true events of 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash in Smolensk, the film tells the partially fictional story of crash and various people affected by the tragedy. The protagonist is a journalist Nina, who refuses to accept the official version of the story and pursues her own independent investigation.

Smolensk

2016

Vinci poster
6.8

The sophisticated thief of art Robert "Cuma" Cumiński is released on probation from the local prison by the corrupt Doctor Wiaderny to organize the theft of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci painting "Lady with Ermine" for the dealer Gruby. Three years ago, Cuma was accidentally arrested by the snoopy detective Wilk after a successful heist in the house of the collector Lehman, but he has not ratted his comrade Julian.

Vinci

2004

Podróż do Arabii poster
7.0

Anna is a seemingly content thirty-year-old wife and mother whose orderly life is upended when a rejected young suitor’s suicide attempt lands him in the psychiatric ward where she’s drawn into his recovery.

Podróż do Arabii

1980

Wedle wyroków twoich... poster
7.0

As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses Ruth tries to survive and grow up.

Wedle wyroków twoich...

1984

No artwork available
9.0

The protagonist of the film is a 12-year-old boy - Witek, the son of a small-town miller, a former entrepreneur who, after the war, holed up in a small town as a craftsman. The boy's mother is a beautiful and subtle woman, raising children and raising a home. Through the house of Witek's parents there is a gallery of picturesque characters who are perceived by the child warmly and with humor.

Home Chronicles

1998

Provincial Actors poster
5.9

The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints and frustrations, while resigning herself to a fading career in a puppet theatre.

Provincial Actors

1979

Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us poster
6.8

Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by communist secret police.

Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us

2009

Hania poster
5.8

A contemporary story of a young married couple, Wojtek and Ola, who take in Kacper, a boy from an orphanage, for the Christmas season. This unusual child changes their approach to life and each other.

Hania

2007

A Woman and a Woman poster
6.0

A story of a female production manager in a garment factory discovering that an award is being given to the wrong person on purpose. She stands up the injustice. Her best friend backs her up instead of the cultprit, the man she is living with. Later, the former production manager becomes a mayor in a resort town, where she in turn practices malfasance and is caught in the act by her friend.

A Woman and a Woman

1980

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cztery kawałki tortu

2007

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NR

A young cinematographer is hired to work on a puppet film. Soon a tragic accident occurs on the set of production.

Bajki na dobranoc

1983

Jesienią o szczęściu poster
6.0

Anna, a young and beautiful woman, takes lonely walks along the beach, when one day she attracts the attention of Jan, a film director.

Jesienią o szczęściu

1986

Pensja pani Latter poster
10.0

The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls' school - Mrs. Emma Latter. Ms Latter is struggling with the financial problems of her institution, because the parents of the students are still in arrears with payments. In addition to professional problems, she is tormented by problems with adolescent children. All this causes Mrs. Latter to experience a mental breakdown.

Pensja pani Latter

1983