Barbara Brylska - birthday girl: acting career and personal life of a Polish star

Childhood

Barbara Brylska was born in early June 1941 in the Polish town of Skotniki, which is located near the city of Lodz, and was once the Lodz Voivodeship. It is known that at the time when the famous actress was born, the place where her parents lived was occupied by Germany.

The parents of the future actress were simple people who worked hard. Barbara's father worked as a mechanic, and her mother worked as a seamstress. After the war, another daughter was born into the family - Yadviga. At home, Barbara was called Basya. Parents tried to raise their children in strictness, so the future actress was a timid and quiet girl with a lot of complexes.

First marriage

Since childhood, Barbara grew up to be a beauty. A graceful, long-legged girl with beautiful thick hair could not leave the opposite sex indifferent. This is exactly how the future celebrity met the young handsome Jan Borowiec from Warsaw. He fell in love at first sight with a beautiful stranger and made every effort to find her. Their acquaintance ended with a wedding.

However, is this what Barbara Brylska dreamed of? Her personal life required significant sacrifice from her. At that time, the girl was studying at the theater institute, in her first year. Barbara dreamed of becoming an actress. The girl liked studying. The teachers predicted her great success.

However, conservative-minded relatives of the husband did not share the daughter-in-law’s choice, considering it frivolous. And the groom himself wanted to see his sophisticated wife exclusively as a housewife. Barbara was given an ultimatum. The girl, in love with her boyfriend, dropped out of university.

Education

In her childhood, Barbara Brylska (whose photo is in this article) showed a penchant for drawing. My parents immediately noticed this and tried to do everything to develop these abilities. So, the girl was sent to study at an art lyceum. At one of the reporting concerts, the director of this educational institution noticed her and suggested that a director he knew take a closer look at the talented girl. At the age of fifteen, Barbara began acting in films for the first time.

After this, the future actress entered a drama club, where she successfully studied. And when she graduated from school, she entered the Higher School of Theater, Television and Film in Warsaw.

The collapse of a marriage

At first, Jan was supportive of his wife’s hobby. He even indulged her “quirks.”

But not everything was so rosy. Misunderstandings in the family began during the period when Barbara Brylska became famous. The films that were released brought her fame. This was unpleasant for Ian.

Initially, it was he who insisted that Barbara act in films under her maiden name - Brylska. This will bring him a lot of suffering later. Because Yan will be ironically called Pan Brylsky.

Gradually the couple began to move away. Barbara led a noisy social life and often went abroad. The husband patiently endured the withdrawal and loneliness. He watched with understanding films in which Barbara starred in explicit love scenes.

But the feelings of the spouses were already fading. And soon they felt that there was nothing left between them in common.

Film debut

Barbara Brylska in her youth was not only talented, but very beautiful and charming. This combination of beauty and talent attracted the attention of many directors. But the first film in which she starred was the film “Galoshes of Happiness” directed by Antonio Bogdzevich. This comedy film was released in 1958.

According to the plot of this film, Sadness and Joy own galoshes, which have magical and magical powers. You just have to order them, and they can easily transport their owner to any place and at any time. And these wonderful galoshes begin to reach different people and perform various tasks. The aspiring actress starred in a cameo role in this film, because she was still a teenager.

Film career

In 1965, Barbara Brylska, whose films the whole country knows and loves, starred in the film “Then There Will Be Silence” directed by Janusz Morgenstern. This military drama tells the story of the love between Lieutenant Marek Kolski and Ewa, played by Barbara. After that there were films such as the drama “Yokmok”, the comedy film “Their Weekday” and the melodrama “Boomerang”, which was released in 1966, and in which Barbara played the largest role at the beginning of her career.

From 1966 to 1968, the famous actress Barbara Brylska, whose life was eventful, played Inga in the Polish TV series “Bet Bigger Than Life.” It is known that this serial film was incredibly popular after its release, and the artists who starred in it received success and fame. This series was even shown in many European countries.

Soon Barbara Brylska, whose photos in her youth present us with a very beautiful woman, accepts offers from foreign directors. The first such film in 1968 was the German-Soviet film “Trace of the Falcon” directed by Gottfried Colditz. Two gold miners violate a peace treaty and search for gold in the lands of the Dakota tribe. Soon the war with the white invaders begins. In this film, the talented actress plays Katherine Emerson.

After this, the famous actress Barbara Brylska starred in the Yugoslav film “White Wolves”, which is a continuation of the previous film. In this film, the talented actress also plays Katherine Emerson. After this, in 1968, she starred in the Bulgarian film “Dying is a Last Resort,” where she plays Linda.

In 1968, the famous actress changed her appearance and in the film “Pan Volodyevsky” directed by Jerzy Hoffman, she appeared before the viewer in the image of a brunette Kristina Drochonovskaya. The film tells the story of a Polish commander who managed to successfully stop enemy raids. In 1969, Barbara Brylska, whose biography is bright and tragic, starred in the Soviet film “Liberation,” which tells about the Second World War.

This was followed by filming in the German film “The Mystery of the Wooden Idols,” which tells about an incredibly complicated crime that detective Laube is trying to solve and investigate. But unexpectedly, the detective himself comes under suspicion, and then his assistant, Bentheim, takes over the investigation of this case. The talented actress also receives many job offers from Polish directors. Thus, Barbara Brylska starred in many Polish films: “The Criminal Who Stole the Crime”, “Anatomy of Love”, “The Red Hotel” and others.

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Little erotica from times of great hopelessness
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There are many New Year's films, but it is “The Irony of Fate” that people watch over and over again every December 31st. During the filming of the film, Eldar Ryazanov himself was in love (he had an affair with Mosfilm editor Nina Skuibina ) and was full of inspiration, which is why the love story he created between Nadya Sheveleva and Zhenya Lukashin turned out to be so poignant. It is impossible to imagine the film without Barbara Brylska , but she ended up on the set by chance.
As cameraman Vadim Alisov , who worked on “The Irony of Fate,” recalled, many wonderful artists, famous and unknown, auditioned for the role of Nadya Sheveleva (among them Lyudmila Gurchenko, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Antonina Shuranova ). Sometimes three or four applicants a day came to the site, the assistants kept trying to separate them so that they would not see each other. However, Ryazanov, who always made an “ideal” list of whom he would like to direct (for example, the hero is Gregory Peck, and the heroine is Audrey Hepburn), was not satisfied with any of the candidates. And then the second director of the film, Igor Petrov, said to Ryazanov: “My son has a portrait of some Polish actress hanging over his bed. I think she's cute. Would you like me to bring it and show you?” The director nodded, saying, of course, bring it.

Eldar Alexandrovich liked the portrait and began to find out what kind of actress she was. It turned out that this was Barbara Brylska, who also recently starred in the USSR with Alexander Zarkhi in the film “Cities and Years,” so she spoke Russian quite decently (of course, with an accent - that’s why in the end Brylska was voiced by Valentina Talyzina ). They sent her an invitation to Warsaw, and Brylska was so happy that in her homeland she announced to correspondents that she was going to film in the Soviet Union in the leading role with Ryazanov himself. She had no doubts about this, so upon arrival she was discouraged: “What tests? I came to you to film, not to audition!” After all, by that time Barbara Brylska was a very famous Polish actress: she starred in more than ten films, and the role of Krzysi in Jerzy Hoffmann’s “Pan Wolodyjowski” made her very popular in Poland. However, after joint tests with Andrei Myagkov , which still had to be filmed, Ryazanov was satisfied: they finally found Nadya!

Barbara Brylska as Marie Urbach in the film "Cities and Years", 1973

Barbara Brylska knew her worth, and she had a good sense of humor. According to the stories of the members of the film crew, for some reason the lighting designer looked into the costume room just at the moment when Brylska was changing clothes there. He opens the door and sees Barbara, completely without clothes. The guy was taken aback by surprise and stared at her. But the actress was not at all embarrassed. “Close the door,” he says, “or you won’t be able to look at your wife!” By the way, Brylska turned out to be a very enterprising lady: she brought some shortages from Poland, and when she managed to get something here, she took it home. In her free time from filming, she was constantly busy with her “small business” and succeeded in this, earning well in addition to the fee.

Action movie: Three Poles, Georgians and a dog

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Film “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!”
was first shown in the USSR on January 1, 1976 on the first program of Central Television. The audience of the first screening is estimated at 100 million viewers; already on February 7, the film was repeated due to numerous requests from viewers, and until 1978, the film was watched by about 250 million people. In Poland, the film was shown under the title “Happy New Year”, and it is still remembered and loved by older Poles. In 1977, the filmmakers, including Barbara Brylska, became laureates of the USSR State Prize in the field of cinematography. And although the actress also has high Polish awards - the Cross of Merit (1975) and the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland (1985), some jingoists still remember her receiving the Soviet State Prize. As Barbara Brylska said in an interview with the publication “Arguments and Facts” more than 15 years ago, “your State Prize put an end to my work in my homeland - I mainly began to work abroad: in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Russia. In Poland, they almost didn’t give me roles; I gradually fell out of this artistic circle.”

Barbara Brylska during the filming of the feature film “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath”

According to the actress, in Poland they were jealous of her not so much for accepting the USSR State Prize, but for her insane popularity in the Soviet Union and for her connections in the USSR. “They don’t know that, having such fame, I could afford to give very tough interviews in which I openly talked about what I didn’t like. Any Russian would be afraid to say such things out loud. But the Poles, naturally, did not read these interviews - they only knew that I often visit the USSR and that the audience here really loves me,” Brylska said then.

Timur Bekmambetov in 2007 . And although the film clearly lacked the soulfulness of the 1975 film, it became the highest-grossing film in Russia and the CIS in 2008, collecting about $49.92 million. In 2008, Barbara Brylska played Rosa Karlovna, little Kolchak’s nanny in the film “Admiral”, and in 2014 - in the Russian fantasy “The Secret of the Four Princesses” (so far the last film with her participation). In many of her interviews, the actress emphasized that politics was primarily to blame for the negative attitude of Poles towards Russians, and expressed hope for improving relations between the peoples of Poland and Russia.

In October 2010, during the visit of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov to Poland, Barbara Brylska was awarded a Diploma for her services to mutual understanding and rapprochement of the societies of Poland and Russia, and she stated: “I love all the Russian people. And I quarrel with those who don’t love him. My only political argument is to quarrel with those who don't love you. I hate them, actually." In 2012, the actress became a laureate of the international Baltic Star award for her contribution to the development and strengthening of humanitarian ties in the countries of the Baltic region.

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A year ago, Barbara Brylska, against her will, became the heroine of the campaign of one of the presidential candidates in Russia. In December 2020, Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that he had always opposed the screening of “The Irony of Fate” because “it is a film that promotes drunkenness!”
When Brylska was asked to comment on the words of the Russian politician, she replied: “This is funny. Well, you idiot, sorry!” The press secretary of the leader of the LDPR faction, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, threatened the actress with a lawsuit, but the story was not continued. In 2020, “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!” As usual, it remains one of the hits of the New Year’s airwaves on Russian TV channels, and, of course, it will be the same in 2019. But in Ukraine, the film is watched mainly on the Internet: although it is not formally banned, the “black list” of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture includes Valentina Talyzina , who played in it, and publicly supported the annexation of Crimea to Russia, and many TV channels do not risk broadcasting the film.

True, on social networks there is another version of why the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko personally does not like “The Irony of Fate” - because of the phrase “You need to drink less, you need to drink less, you need to drink less, you need to drink less, you need to drink less...”

Filming in the film "Pharaoh"

In 1966, the famous and talented actress Brylska starred in the historical film “Pharaoh” by Polish director Jerzy Kawalerowicz. This film tells how the fearless warrior and ardent young man Ramesses the Thirteenth, who was a pharaoh, lived and ruled. His power is no longer as strong as before, since the treasury is empty. He is in love with two women at once, but this love does not bring him happiness. He also has a son, whom Sarah, a Jew, gives birth to. But he has no right to inherit his father's throne.

The second woman, Kama, is a priestess who has no right to carnal love. She is played by actress Brylska. But the pharaoh hates the high priests, who have now taken possession of all the wealth.

Main role in the film “Anatomy of Love”

In 1972, the film “Anatomy of Love” directed by Roman Zalusky was released on Soviet cinema screens. But this film was shown in a slight reduction. The main character Eva, successfully played by Brylska, recently buried her husband. She lived with her unloved husband for seven years. She married him because her mother insisted on it.

One day at an exhibition, the widow Eve meets Adam, who stays with her overnight, and after that he doesn’t even remember her or call her. But the girl is trying to achieve his love and in the final scene Eve forgets about Adam, and he is waiting for her call.

The film “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!”

But still, the talented actress was remembered and loved by Soviet viewers after the film “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!” was released in 1975. directed by Eldar Ryazanov. According to the plot of the film, the main character goes to the bathhouse, where, according to tradition, he always meets with his friends. But, having drunk more than necessary, he falls asleep, and his friends, confusing the hero with Pavlik, send him to Leningrad.

It turns out that in this city there is not only Third Street of Builders, building 25, apartment 12 on the second floor, but also the layout of the house and the rooms in the apartment are the same. It is in this apartment in a foreign city that the main character meets Nadya Sheveleva, a teacher. She is not married, but she was not going to celebrate this New Year alone. A strong feeling flares up between Zhenya and Nadya, and they completely forget about those who were waiting for them that night.

Barbara Brylska: biography

Barbara Brylska is a Polish theater and film actress. Russian viewers are known primarily for her role as Nadya Sheveleva in Eldar Ryazanov’s New Year’s film comedy “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!”

Barbara was born in the town of Skotniki near the city of Lodz. Now this territory belongs to Poland, but at the time Brylskaya was born, the village was occupied by Germany. Barbara's parents, whom they called Basya at home, were working people - her mother worked as a seamstress, and her father worked as a mechanic. They raised their daughters Barbara and Yadwiga, who was born after the war, in provincial strictness, which is why Brylska grew up as a notorious, quiet girl.

Actress Barbara Brylska

Nevertheless, when Basya showed an ability to draw, her parents did everything in their power to ensure that their daughter studied at an art lyceum. The director of this educational institution once saw Barbara at an amateur concert and recommended that a director he knew pay attention to the talented student. So already at the age of 15, Brylska first appeared on the screens.

After this, Barbara began to intensively study in a drama club, and after receiving secondary education she entered the Warsaw Higher School of Theater, Film and Television. The actress had an interesting and varied film career ahead of her. But Barbara Brylska entered the theater stage already in adulthood.

Film "The Secret of the Four Princesses"

In 2014, the last film was released in Russia, starring Barbara Brylska, whose personal life is always available to the public. In this musical fairy tale, the famous actress played a fairy.

In the film “The Secret of the Four Princesses” we are talking about the poor tailor Hans, who is tasked by the king to find out the secret of his daughters. His daughters disappear from the bedroom somewhere every night, and he really wants to reveal this secret.

Theater career

Brylska always considered herself a film actress and had a very cool attitude towards the theater. Moreover, her husband and children demanded her attention and care, and theater actors almost all their evenings are busy with performances, so the actress did not agree to participate in theatrical productions. And in 2003, the famous film actress made her debut on the theatrical stage: the Galina Vishnevskaya Center for Opera Singing invited her to participate in the play “Quartet” by the English playwright Ronald Harwood, where famous Russian actors became her partners.

The Polish actress is also in demand in Russian cinema. In 2000, she was invited to the film “Down House” - a modern interpretation of the novel “The Idiot” by F. Dostoevsky, which takes place at the end of the 20th century.

In 2007, something happened that the audience had been dreaming about for 30 years - Timur Bekmambetov took the risk of filming a sequel to the film “The Irony of Fate,” where he invited the slightly older main characters of Eldar Ryazanov’s cult comedy, including Barbara Brylska. Some were disappointed by the plot, but the majority of viewers were satisfied with the fate of the heroes.

In 2009, the actress took part in the filming of the TV series “Admiral”, where she plays Admiral Kolchak’s nanny, Rosa Karlovna.

Barbara Brylska’s last film role to date is the Fairy in Oleg Shtrom’s musical fantasy film “The Secret of the Four Princesses.”

Personal life

The famous and talented actress Brylska was married three times. But each time her marriage ended in divorce. Barbara's first husband is a mathematician from Poland. She met Jan Borovets on a train when Barbara was only seventeen years old. After the wedding, Ian asked Barbara to quit classes at the theater studio, the girl obeyed her husband. But she could not live long without the theater and very soon, secretly from her husband, she returned to this studio.

Having learned about this, Yang, agreeing with the filming of his wife, demanded that she be listed under her maiden name in the credits. But since Barbara soon became famous, they began to call Jan Brylska, and he really did not like this.

In 1966, on the set of the film “Pharaoh,” the talented actress began an affair with the actor who played the main role. The actress quickly divorced her first husband and married Jerzy Zelnik. But the new husband turned out to be very flighty and soon he found himself another woman.

In 1969, on the set of the film “White Wolves,” actress Brylska fell in love again. And again the actor became her chosen one. The actress hoped that her life would improve with Slobodan Dmitrievich and they would live together for a long time. As the actress herself would later recall, she had the strongest feelings for this man. But this love was doomed, since the actor’s aristocratic family was against such a marriage, and the actor did not dare to disobey.

Such an unexpected breakup led to the fact that the famous and talented actress fell into depression. The doctor, gynecologist Ludwig Kosmal, helped her get out of this psychological state, who later not only became her third husband, but in this marriage Barbara gave birth to two children. In 1973, daughter Barbara was born, and nine years later son Ludwig. Although the marriage lasted eighteen years, it was not happy. Constant betrayals and domestic conflicts completely destroyed this family. Over the past ten years, Ludwig has constantly insisted on a divorce, but Barbara could not decide on it.

Immediately after the divorce, the actress Brylska began to constantly change her romantic relationships, since she perfectly understood that they were all frivolous and would not lead to anything in the end.

Barbara's personal life

The Polish actress was legally married three times. The marriage to mathematician Jan Borowiec did not last long, as did family life with the Polish actor Jerzy Zelnik.

Brylska had a serious affair with film actor Slobodan Dmitrievich, but this relationship never ended in a wedding.

Barbara's longest marriage turned out to be with doctor Ludwig Kosmal. During their 18 years of marriage, the couple gave birth to two common children - a boy and a girl, whom they named by their own names - Ludwig and Barbara. The actress's third marriage broke up due to regular quarrels and betrayals of her husband. Unfortunately, a tragic fate befell the star's daughter - in 1993, Barbara died in a car accident.

Nowadays, the famous film actress rarely pleases fans with new roles. Let's hope that Barbara Brylska's filmography will be replenished with worthy films.

Tragedy in the life of an actress

Barbara Brylska's daughter not only followed in her mother's footsteps, becoming an actress, but was also a sought-after model. The young girl starred in the films “Shadow Motif” and “The Flying Dutchman” and worked on a new role in the film directed by Jerzy Hoffman. In the film “With Fire and Sword” she was supposed to play Helena. The famous actress Barbara Brylska hoped that her daughter would continue her acting dynasty.

But the girl had barely turned twenty years old when she tragically died in a car accident. This broke Barbara greatly, and she even had thoughts of committing suicide. But her teenage son was growing up and still needed her. This is what stopped her at that moment. Now she helps her son raise his children. Her grandchildren Yakub and Shimon bring her great joy. She is currently almost never filmed.