She was one of the best Polish actresses in post-war cinema and at the same time one of the longest professionally active. She had roles in productions such as “Forbidden Songs”, “The Yellow Scarf”, “Farewell to Maria” and “No Matter How Hard We Tried”. In total, she created almost 200 excellent characters, and she retired after almost 80 years, and not by choice, but because of a broken hip during a rehearsal. For a long time, her career was her priority, for which she sacrificed not only her family life, but also her relationship with her daughters.
How many children did Danuta Szaflarska have? She sent her older daughter to a sanatorium for 2 years
The actress’s first was the pianist Jan Ekier, whom she married in 1942. When their daughter Maria was born less than 2 years later, their marriage was going through its first serious crisis. Szaflarska did not want to slow down her professional pace, which often caused arguments and finally, after the end of the war, the couple decided to divorce. After the breakup, she threw herself into work, but she could not devote herself to it as much as she wanted, because her firstborn was struggling with numerous health problems. At that time, she decided to send her little girl to a health resort in Zakopane, where she ultimately spent 2 years. “She claimed that there was no way out, she could not get sentimental, because it would have been even worse,” Maria said.
That’s why Szaflarska decided to start a family. Her younger daughter resented her for it.
After several failed relationships, in 1952 Szaflarska got married for the second time, to her colleague Janusz Kilański. It was with him that she had her second child, Agnieszka, although their relationship was extremely difficult from the start.
I envied other children who had a normal home. Because I had a terribly lonely childhood. My mother was often gone, and when she was, she was resting after work. She wasn’t interested in school, she didn’t go to parent-teacher meetings. She was strict with me. Once she gave me a look and evaporated: ‘You’re so fat. It’s sad to look at you’
– the younger sister recalled bitterly in the book “Szaflarska. Grać, to Żywi” by Katarzyna Kubisiowska, adding that the actress did not accept compromises and if anything did not go her way, she immediately became furious. – I remember it as a nightmare – she said. In difficult moments, Agnieszka’s father supported her, who moved just a few streets away from their apartment so that he could see her regularly.
Maria was not so lucky, because Ekier was not particularly eager to take care of her, which is why she ended up in a boarding school. She was expelled from this school shortly afterwards, as well as from other schools she had attended before taking her final exams. In an interview with Kubisiowska, she confessed that her mother did not hold a grudge against her and accepted her individuality, while emphasizing that she also appreciated her passion and did not reproach her when the theater turned out to be more important to Szaflarska than her needs. “She was a phenomenon. I admired her as a phenomenon,” she explained. However, Agnieszka could not treat it in a ren way, and she never hid the fact that her childhood experiences had marked her adult life. In the same conversation, she even revealed that before her mother died, she tried to find out what had driven her when she decided to . She did not expect such an answer. “She told me that during the occupation there was no place to act, so that is why she had her first child,” she concluded. If you’d like, please vote in our poll below.
Source: Gazeta
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