Anna Korwin: Between the Stage and the Screen

Artur Patek

kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University (Poland)

Abstract

Anna Korwin is a British actress of Polish origin. Her artistic personality is most fully revealed in the theatre, but she also regularly appeared in film and on TV, where she specialised in creating small character parts. She took part in the BBC adaptation of John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga (dir. David Giles, 1967). Her continental background and knowledge of several languages predisposed her to play foreign characters. Her most important artistic creations were in her mature years. Among them the title role in the monodrama of life and work of Maria Callas (based on the play by Jean-Yves Picq), in which she presented a psychologically interesting portrait of the Greek prima donna.


Keywords:

Anna Korwin, Maria Callas, David Giles, John Galsworthy

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Published
2014-12-31

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Patek, A. (2014) “Anna Korwin: Between the Stage and the Screen”, Kwartalnik Filmowy, (87-88), pp. 271–285. doi: 10.36744/kf.2401.

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Artur Patek 
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland

Profesor w Instytucie Historii Uni­wersytetu Jagiellońskiego; zajmuje się m.in. his­torią Bliskiego Wschodu w XX w. oraz dziejami Polonii; autor książek m.in.: Birobidżan. Sowiecka ziemia obiecana? Żydowski Obwód Autonomiczny w ZSRR (1997), Wielka Brytania wobec Izraela w okresie pierwszej wojny arabsko-izraelskiej, maj 1948-styczeń 1949 (2002), Władysław Sheybal: kadry z życia artysty (2004), Żydzi w drodze do Palestyny 1934-1944. Szkice z dziejów aliji bet nielegalnej imigracji żydowskiej (2009), Polski cmentarz w Jerozolimie (2010).



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