“Janka Traczykna has passed away, unforgettable Michasia from» Nights and Days «. Dear Janko, you did not leave. You just changed your place of residence. And your brilliant role in our film ensured you immortality. You will remain in our hearts until your last breath … With love. Yours, Jadzia and Jurek “- wrote the director of” Nights and Days “Jerzy Antczak on his Facebook page.
Janina Traczykna was born on May 16, 1930 in Włodawa on the Bug River. In the years 1955-92 she was an actress of the Dramatic Theater in Warsaw, earlier than her debut – in Szczecin.
She performed, inter alia, in the films: “People from the train”, “Jack of Spades”, “Noce i dnie”, “Brunet in the evening”, “Dzień światra” and “We are all Christs”, or in the first series of Polish television “Barbara i Jan” from 1965 together with Jan Kobuszewski.
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Jan Kobuszewski and Janina Traczykana in the series “Barbara i Jan”
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According to data from filmpolski.pl, run by the Lodz Film School, Traczykana graduated from the acting department of the State Drama School in Warsaw in 1953, and had its theatrical debut in November of that year. In 1960, she received the Acting Award of the ZASP-u im. Stefan Jaracz. She was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit and the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In 2015, she received the Special Award of the 1st Festival of Polish Television Series in Elbląg.
In the “supporting female role” category, she was nominated for the Polish Eagle Film Award in 2003 for her performance in Marek Koterski’s “Day of the Wacko”.
“She was a great and beautiful man”
In an interview with PAP, actress Barbara Horawianka recalled that Traczykna “wanted to live again, enjoyed every green leaf she looked at in the spring”. – I was supposed to leave first, that was the deal. What she feared the most happened to her – said the actress.
– She was a wonderful, wonderful and most beautiful person I have ever known. She was a man of infinite goodness, but also shyness and greatness at the same time, she pointed out. – We have been in a great friendship since we met, that is, from my arrival in Warsaw, from 1963.
– I was 12 years in one theater with Traczyki – at the Dramatyczny Theater in Warsaw – she reminded. – We worked together for these 12 years in only one play, we always passed each other somewhere – she added. Horawianka explained that it was a play about Emilia Plater.
The actress also said that “although we had not seen each other since the beginning of the pandemic, because we could not come to each other, we spoke on the phone every day, at least twice a day.” – What more can you say when you lose such a friend? We’ll meet in a moment, I strongly believe in that. This is a great rush – said Barbara Horawianka.
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