Maria Dłużewska died
date:10 May 2024 Editor: Editorial
Maria (Majka) Dłużewska died at the age of 72 – journalist, journalist, screenwriter, outstanding documentaryist, associated with the independency opposition. Author of many documentary films and books devoted to Smolensk tragedy.
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Maria Dłużewska was born on 26 September 1951 in Kielce. She graduated from the State Higher Theatre School in Warsaw. As an actress, she played in theatres in Koszalin, Gdynia and Warsaw.
She acted in the NSZZ “Solidarity”. She co-organized the Mass for Homeland and Weeks of Christian Culture. She ran the Monday Theatre in Ursus. She was a collector of underground publishing. She was editor and songwriter of Radio Solidarity. From 1984 to 1988, she worked in Fighting Solidarity.
After 1989, she worked as a writer in the weekly "Meetings" and "Solidarity Week". Since 1993, she has been active in documentaries.
After the tragedy in Smolensk in 2010, she began making films and writing books about this event. In “Mgle” (film and book), she focused on showing the disaster itself, in “Pogrze” she showed the tragedy experienced by the families of the victims. “Daughter” was dedicated to the daughter of the presidential couple Lech and Maria Kaczyński, Marcie, “Testament” told about the children of 5 victims of the disaster. The protagonists of the movie and book “Poles” were 4 scientists investigating the causes of the catastrophe. The movie and book “Dam” commemorated the figure of the First Lady, Mari Kaczyńska.
Her death is simply a large failure to Polish culture and to us who knew her and appreciated her for her courage and uncompromisingness and large individual charm.
May he remainder in peace...
