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name: "Krystyna Janda"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 December 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T13:12:56.273838+00:00"
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# Krystyna Janda

Actor. Born 18 December 1952 in Starachowice, Poland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 December 1952, Starachowice, Poland
- **Also known as:** Krystyna Jolanta Janda

## Biography

Krystyna Jolanta Janda is a Polish film and theatre actress. She graduated from the State Dramatic Arts College in Warsaw in 1975.

She is known for her roles as Agnieszka in *Man of Marble* (1977) and *Man of Iron* (1981), Dorota Geller in *Decalogue II* (1989) and *Decalogue V* (1989), Barbara Bruckner in *Mephisto* (1981), and the lead in *Interrogation* (1989). She has also directed for theatre and film, and appeared in *On the Silver Globe* (1989) and *Elles* (2011).

Janda won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990 for *Interrogation*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, filmweb.pl.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Decalogue V* (1989), Fi1m 84, as Dorota Geller — [page](https://film.one/film/decalogue-v.md)

## Also known for

- *A Short Film About Killing* (1988), Dorota
- *How I Fell in Love with a Gangster* (2022), Rita
- *Decalogue II* (1989), Dorota Geller
- *Elles* (2011), Mutter
- *On the Silver Globe* (1989), Aza
- *Mephisto* (1981), Barbara Bruckner
- *Dekalog* (1989), Dorota Geller
- *Man of Marble* (1977), Agnieszka

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