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Elżbieta Starostecka to be awarded the Golden Angel for a Lady of Polish Cinema!

photo: Dariusz Gałązka, AKPA

The Golden Angel for a Lady of Polish Cinema is one of the special awards of the BellaTOFIFEST International Film Festival. Every year, it is presented to those great women of cinema, whose versatile talents have been instrumental in advancing Polish cinema and who are remembered among audiences for their excellent and varied roles in both film and theatre. During this year’s edition of the festival, the Golden Angle statuette is going to be awarded to a very special Polish actress, Elżbieta Starostecka.

It will be yet another Special Award this year, and this time it is the Golden Angel for a Lady of Polish Cinema. We are going to give it to Elżbieta Starostecka, a great actress, a true icon of cinema, a timeless artist, and an undisputed lady of Polish cinema, says Kafka Jaworska, Director of the BellaTOFIFEST IFF.

Elżbieta Starostecka is an outstanding film and theatre actress from Poland. She performed on stage of the Wojciech Bogusławski Theatre in Kalisz (in the years 1965-1966), the Kazimierz Dejmek New Theatre in Łódź (in the years 1966-1972), the Variety Theatre in Warsaw (in the years 1972-1980), and the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw (in the years 1980-2008). Among the vast portfolio of film roles, Elżbieta Starostecka has many character roles, and appearances in films directed by masters of Polish cinema, for example in the comedy ‘Hell and Heaven’ by Stanisław Różewicz (1966), ‘The Doll’ by Wojciech Jerzy Has (1968), ‘Women’s Republic’ by Hieronim Przybył (1969), the comedy ‘How I Unleashed World War II’ by Tadeusz Chmielewski (1969), the film ‘Nights and Days’ by Jerzy Antczak (1975) and the TV series under the same title (1977), or ‘Leper’ by Jerzy Hoffman (1976). In 2023, she was cast in the Christmas romantic comedy ‘I Believe in Santa.’ In 2025, the film had a continuation under the same title. She played the role of Anna Ostrowska in the feature series ‘Czarne chmury / Black Clouds’ directed by Andrzej Konica (1973), which was very well received by viewers. She is also famous for her musical achievements, with the song ‘Za rok, może dwa’ being the one she is most remembered for. The song was first performed in 1978, during the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole. The lyrics for the song were written by Jan Zalewski, and the music composed by Włodzimierz Korcz, an outstanding Polish composer and also husband of Elżbieta Starostecka.

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