---
name: "Krystyna Zachwatowicz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/krystyna-zachwatowicz"
fi1m_id: "krystyna-zachwatowicz"
imdb_id: "nm0951677"
tmdb_id: 2817
wikidata_id: "Q526135"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 May 1930"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T00:45:09.896485+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Krystyna Zachwatowicz

## Identity

Krystyna Zachwatowicz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/krystyna-zachwatowicz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** krystyna-zachwatowicz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0951677
- **TMDB ID:** 2817
- **Wikidata ID:** Q526135
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystyna_Zachwatowicz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q526135, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0951677/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2817

Actor. Born 16 May 1930 in Warszawa, mazowieckie, Polska.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 May 1930, Warszawa, mazowieckie, Polska
- **Active:** 1977–1981
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 86 (1), 1980s 78 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystyna_Zachwatowicz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q526135, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0951677/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2817

## Biography

Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda is a Polish scenographer, costume designer and actress. Born in Warsaw on 16 May 1930, she graduated in art history from the Jagiellonian University and in scenography from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. She began her career as a scenographer in 1958 and was a performer with the cabaret Piwnica pod Baranami from the late 1950s into the 1970s.

She appeared as an actress in several films directed by Andrzej Wajda, to whom she was married from 1974 until his death in 2016. Her roles include Hanka Tomczyk in *Man of Marble* (1977) and its sequel *Man of Iron* (1981), Kazia in *The Maids of Wilko* (1979), and Mrs Greta in *Katyn* (2007). She has also designed costumes and sets for many of Wajda’s stage and screen productions. With Wajda she co-founded the Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology in Kraków.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, pl.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Man of Iron* (1981), Fi1m 78, as Hanka Tomczyk, żona Birkuta — [page](https://film.one/film/man-of-iron.md)
- *Man of Marble* (1977), Fi1m 86, as Hanka Tomczyk — [page](https://film.one/film/man-of-marble.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Katyn* (2007), as Mrs. Greta
- *Korczak* (1990), as Szloma's mother
- *The Possessed* (1988), Costume Design
- *Crime and Punishment* (1987), Art Designer
- *Chronicle of Amorous Accidents* (1986), as Witek's Mother
- *A Love in Germany* (1983), Casting
- *Man of Iron* (1981), as Hanka Tomczyk, żona Birkuta — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/man-of-iron.md)
- *As the Years Go By, As the Days Go By...* (1980), series, Costume Designer
- *The Maids of Wilko* (1979), as Kazia
- *November Night* (1978), Production Design
- *Man of Marble* (1977), as Hanka Tomczyk — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/man-of-marble.md)
- *The Shadow-Line* (1976), Costume Design
- *The Wedding* (1973), Costume Design
- *Dziady*, Costume Designer

## Gallery

- ![Krystyna Zachwatowicz](https://film.one/media/person/3921337/gallery-69bcba978f86.jpg) Krystyna Zachwatowicz — Mariusz Kubik, 2005, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Krystyna_Zachwatowicz_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Zdjęcie zrobione podczas międzynarodowego festiwalu kina niezależnego Off Plus Camera 2011 w Krakowie.](https://film.one/media/person/3921337/gallery-5280197a8865.jpg) Zdjęcie zrobione podczas międzynarodowego festiwalu kina niezależnego Off Plus Camera 2011 w Krakowie. — Piotr Drabik from Poland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Andrzej_Wajda_z_%C5%BCon%C4%85_%285650344748%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Andrzej Wajda mit seiner Frau Krystyna Zachwatowicz auf der Haltestelle Woodstock 2010.](https://film.one/media/person/3921337/gallery-c004866fd549.jpg) Andrzej Wajda mit seiner Frau Krystyna Zachwatowicz auf der Haltestelle Woodstock 2010. — Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/2010-08_Andrzej_Wajda_4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Zdjęcie zrobione podczas międzynarodowego festiwalu kina niezależnego Off Plus Camera 2011 w Krakowie.](https://film.one/media/person/3921337/gallery-e0fb1d0ab409.jpg) Zdjęcie zrobione podczas międzynarodowego festiwalu kina niezależnego Off Plus Camera 2011 w Krakowie. — Piotr Drabik from Poland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Andrzej_Wajda_z_%C5%BCon%C4%85_%285649779393%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Zdjęcie zrobione podczas otwarcia wystawy "Szuflada Szymborskiej" w Muzeum Narodowym w krakowskich Sukiennicach. (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/3921337/gallery-0a3bfbfece7d.jpg) Zdjęcie zrobione podczas otwarcia wystawy "Szuflada Szymborskiej" w Muzeum Narodowym w krakowskich Sukiennicach. (2013) — Piotr Drabik from Poland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Jerzy_Miller_%288482624140%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 7 won

- Duke Mestwin II Medal 2023: Duke Mestwin II Medal (won)
- Award named after Professor Aleksander Gieysztor 2016: Award named after Professor Aleksander Gieysztor (won)
- Order of the Rising Sun 2013: Order of the Rising Sun (won)
- City of Kraków Award 2011: City of Kraków Award (won)
- Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta 1998: Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta (won)
- Cracoviae Merenti 1995: Cracoviae Merenti (won)
- Armia Krajowa Cross 1981: Armia Krajowa Cross (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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