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Zbigniew Hubert Cybulski was a Polish film and theatre actor, one of the best-known and most popular personalities of the post-World War II history of Poland.

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Zbigniew Cybulski

Polish actor

Zbigniew Hubert Cybulski (Polish pronunciation:[ˈzbiɡɲɛft͡sɨˈbulskʲi]; 3 November 1927 – 8 January 1967) was a Polishfilm and theatre actor, one of the best-known and most popular personalities of the post-World War II history of Poland.

He is known for portraying young rebels in such films as Night Train and Innocent Sorcerers. His role in Andrzej Wajda's 1958 drama film Ashes and Diamonds is widely considered to be his greatest artistic achievement.^[1] His iconic image symbolizing youthful rebellion and his tragic death have drawn comparisons to American actor James Dean.^[2]^[3]

Life and career

Zbigniew Cybulski was born 3 November 1927 in a small village of Kniaże near Śniatyń, Poland (now a part of Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine). After World War II he joined the Theatre Academy in Kraków. He graduated in 1953 and moved to Gdańsk, where he made his stage debut in Leon Schiller's Wybrzeże Theatre. Also, with his friend Bogumił Kobiela, Cybulski founded a famous st

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Act Like a Man: The Defiant Individualism of Zbigniew Cybulski

Act Like a Man is a column examining male screen performers past and present, across nationality and genre. If movie stars reflect the needs and desires of their audience in any particular era, examining their personas, popularity, fandom, and specific appeals has plenty to tell us about the way cinema has constructed—and occasionally deconstructed—manhood on our screens.

In the postwar Polish cinema, it’s difficult to overstate the revolutionary difference presented by the screen appearance of Zbigniew Cybulski. In a nation so thoroughly devastated by the Nazi occupation and the horrors of Stalinism, Cybulski and his generation helped represent the future, though not unchecked by the nightmares of the past. In his short 39 years, he starred in dozens of films—the most prominent of which were collaborations with close friend Andrzej Wajda.

In 1956, what would later be called “the thaw” would help spring Polish filmmakers from creative prison. Occasioned by the death of Stalin, and a number of other political f

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Retrospective of films with the actor

He was referred to as “the Polish James Dean”. Since the start of his career and until his death in 1967, Zbigniew Cybulski appeared on the screen many times. But only Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes And Diamonds helped to see an embodiment of the time in him. The director himself has distinguished the film and Cybulski’s part in it among all his works. Andrzej Wajda told in an interview: “When I think about what my films gave to people, I can tell one thing for sure – Zbygniew Cybulski’s sunglasses.”

Ashes And Diamonds

Poland, 1958, 110 min.

Directed by Andrzej Wajda

Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżyński, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumil Kobiela, Halina Kwiatkowska, Barbara Krafftówna

The events of the film take place during one day, May 8 1945, the last day of the war and the first day of peace. Young Home Army soldier Maciej Chelmicki is given the assignment to assassinate Szczuka, a Communist. A tragic turn of events causes the death of civilians who have nothing to do wi