Ligia Branice

Acting

Ligia Branice

Born 1932-12-07 · Krasnymstawie, Poland

Ligia Borowczyk (7 December 1932 – 6 September 2022) was a Polish actress. Borowczyk was married to film director Walerian Borowczyk[2] and held roles in some of his earlier films, including Goto, Island of Love and Blanche. She made an appearance in the Chris Marker film La Jetée. Borowczyk died in Warsaw on 6 September 2022, at the age of 89.

Acting credits

La Jetée poster
7.9

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

La Jetée

1962

Behind Convent Walls poster
5.0

On the surface the women at the convent are your average nuns. However, what they get up to in their spare time is far from what you'd expect from nuns.

Behind Convent Walls

1978

Winter Twilight poster
6.2

Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.

Winter Twilight

1957

Rosalie poster
6.7

Based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, Borowczyk relates the plight of a servant girl who killed and buried her child in the garden.

Rosalie

1966

Goto, Island of Love poster
6.3

A petty thief works his way up the absurd hierarchy of Goto, an archipelago cut off from civilisation by a tumultuous earthquake. His dream is to possess Glossia, a stifled beauty trapped in a loveless marriage to a melancholic dictator.

Goto, Island of Love

1969

Blanche poster
6.0

Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master.

Blanche

1972

The Astronauts poster
6.3

An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting ‘human’ planets, and becoming involved in intergalactic warfare.

The Astronauts

1959

Spotkania poster
6.0

Four stories showing the various facets of love.

Spotkania

1957

House poster
5.3

An experimental short film.

House

1958

Kamizelka poster
10.0

Anna tries to prevent her husband suffering from tuberculosis.

Kamizelka

1971

Behind the camera