she is considered one of the best Polish comedy actresses. In the memory of the audience, she remains unforgettable Balcerkowa with or Zofia Matusik with , but she had over 150 outstanding acting performances on the screen and not much less in performances. Supporting roles were her greatest pride. “If the lead role is the salt of the movie, the episode is definitely its pepper,” she said.
The war marked her life forever. The dog saved the life of Zofia Czerwińska
She was born on March 14, 1933 as the only child of Marian and Anna Czerwiński. Her father was a doctor with four specialties and at that time he was the only one in Poland who had an X-ray machine. Although the family was well-off and led a high standard of living, it did not protect the then 6-year-old Zofia from the painful experiences of World War II.
Before the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, Zofia and her mother stayed in Józefów near Warsaw. However, she had to return to the capital, where her grandmother was waiting for her to take piano lessons. She was accompanied by a dog, Ihr, belonging to the German army. After class, unaware that fighting was taking place in the streets of the capital, she decided to go for a walk with her four-legged friend.
Ihr suddenly lunged at me and knocked me to the ground. He covered me with himself. I felt only a slight pain, I was scratched by a shard of a bullet in my right hand. Fortunately, only a scratch, because it was my dog who took the bullet (…). I could feel his heart slowly stop beating. I lay still, covered in his blood, and bullets whizzed around me
— on the pages of the book “Postcards from the Uprising”. Thanks to the fact that the animal was trained by German soldiers, she survived. She was 11 at the time. Later, together with her grandmother, she was sent to the camp in Pruszków and waited for selection for 4 days. She was pulled out of the oppression by her father, who tricked the soldier into allowing him to take her with him. — When the Uprising began, I was a spoiled, insufferable child. I left the Uprising mature, shaped, she said.
She preferred cohabitation to marriage. Her dream of having a child never came true
Adult life was not spared either. The first husband left his wife with a small child for her, and later treated her in the same way. On New Year’s Eve, he cheated on her with another woman. Czerwińska experienced it very much, she even thought of taking her own life, but “she lacked the courage”. Later, she was in several relationships because, as she repeatedly said, “concubinage is more interesting and simpler than marriage.” “Once a man was conquered, I began to get bored. I needed impressions – she said in an interview for . Eventually, she got married again, but after her husband’s departure abroad, the relationship broke up.
Although Zofia Czerwińska played many excellent roles, she was never able to fulfill herself in the most important role in her life. for years she dreamed of motherhood, but due to her illness she could not get pregnant. When it finally did, it turned out that the embryo had implanted in the wrong place. An operation was necessary, as a result of which she was infertile. “It’s my great tragedy because I feel like I’ve failed as a mother,” she said. “That’s the way I’ve taken on, but inside I suffer a lot because of it,” she would add bitterly.
Source: Gazeta
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