Anna Prochniak from “The Tattooist of Auschwitz”: Will a Polish woman set out to conquer Hollywood? She has starred in these films before

Anna Prochniak – who is she and where did she play?

Anna Prochniak is 35 years old and comes from Lublin. She made her big screen debut in 2012, with a role in the film “Without shame” Philip Marczewski. There she played the role of a gypsy woman named Irma, and won her first award. Nomination for the Golden Duck Award. Two years later, we were able to see her in a famous war production entitled “City 44” (directed by Jan Komasa), in which she played alongside Antoni Krolikowski, Zofia Wichlacz, Józef Pavlovski, and Maurice Popile. For her role as Kama, she received the “Elle Rising Star” award during the 39th Gdynia Film Festival..

Later, Anna Prochniak, among others, played in “Belle Epoque”, “The Best”, “1800 Grams”, “Vote of No Confidence”, “Behaviour”, and “Parade of Hearts”. Netflix, where she got one of the main roles (along with Michał Czernecki) – Unfortunately, the film was not very well received and went largely unnoticed.

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but this is not all Anna Prochniak has played secondary and major roles in many foreign productions or co-productionsincluding, among others: In British crime fiction “Baptiste”also starring Tom Hollander and Txiki Karjó, is an Icelandic thriller “the Eagles” And British “Bad day for cutting”. Now he is sailing the proverbial wide waters – And in the spring we will see her in the role of Jetta, the beloved main character of the series “The Tattooist of Auschwitz.”. This is one of the most talked about series of the season and will premiere on June 7 on SkyShowtime. It could open the door to an international career for the Pole.

“The Tattooist of Auschwitz” – the series is controversial, SkyShowtime authorities respond

Heather Morris' novel received widespread attention, and there was a time when almost everyone was talking about it. However, not everyone is free. The book “The Tattoo of Auschwitz” contributed to the development of the fashion for “camp romance novels”, which in itself is a terrifying, even dangerous phenomenon. Accusations of distorting the facts of life in the camp and a simple historical contradiction.

To put it bluntly, it distorts camp relations and prisoner life. […] Many events have been described that had no right to happen at all. Starting with the killing of prisoners in a bus prepared for the gas chamber, where an SS man poured a caustic substance into it, causing the death of the prisoners, through maintaining a semi-open (or almost completely open) sexual relationship between the prisoner and the SS. The man and their nights together in the camp, until the prisoners left outside the camp wall on Sunday afternoon […] – explained Dr. Wanda Vitek-Malecka from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum Research Center in Onet.

Onet journalists asked SkyShowtime representatives for comment. This, of course, appeared – and it was noticed The series is not a documentary production, and some errors in the original have been corrected.

This is a fictional adaptation of the novel, not a documentary production. It is a story based on the experiences of a man who survived Auschwitz. Many errors highlighted in the novel have been corrected. […] An example of this is the scene in which Lali gets penicillin for Geeta, who has an injured arm. Today we know that penicillin was not available at Auschwitz, so we replaced it in the series with the antibacterial agent used in this scene – For: Onet.pl.

Did the series' makers really correct the blatant errors of the author of the literary original? We'll find out in June.

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