Wanda Jakubowska

Wanda Jakubowska, born in Warsaw in 1907, spent part of her childhood in Russia and studied art history at the University of Warsaw. In 1930 she co-founded the Start association, which championed an artistic and social cinema, and later a filmmakers' cooperative; she made documentaries before her first feature film of 1939, whose negative was lost. A member of the Resistance, imprisoned at Pawiak, she was deported to Auschwitz in April 1943 and then to Ravensbrück. A communist faithful to her convictions, she died in Warsaw on 25 February 1998.

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• CinemaThe Last StageOstatni etapWanda Jakubowska · 1948Cinema