Aleksander Bardini

Attore, Regista

17 novembre 1913 — 30 luglio 1995 (81 anni)
Aleksander Bardini (17 November 1913 – 30 July 1995) was a Polish actor, theatre director, artistic director, and educator.Born in Łódź to a Jewish family, after finishing high school in 1932 he studied violin and performed in the string quartet of the Jewish Music Association as well as in a Jewish cabaret. In 1935 he graduated from the Acting Department of PIST in Warsaw.He worked as an actor at the Municipal Theatre in Wilno (Vilnius) (1935–1936) and at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw (1938). In 1939 he joined the COP Travelling Theatre. For the 1939/40 season he was engaged by the Municipal Theatres in Lwów (Lviv), where he remained until 1941, working as both actor and director.During the German occupation he was initially in the Lviv ghetto, then hid in a private apartment. He returned to the Polish Dramatic Theatre in Lviv in 1944, where he served as a member of the artistic council, director, actor, and head of the acting studio until the company’s evacuation in August 1945.In the 1945/46 season he moved with the Lviv ensemble to the Municipal Theatre in Katowice. He had planned to join the Polish Army Theatre in Łódź for the 1946/47 season, but after the Kielce pogrom in July 1946 he decided to emigrate. Between 1946 and 1950 he lived in the USA, Canada, and West Germany, working manual labour and collaborating with the Jewish theatre in Munich.He returned to Poland in 1950. Until 1957 he worked as a director at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw. His greatest achievement of that period was the first postwar staging of Adam Mickiewicz’s Dziady (Forefathers’ Eve). He also occasionally appeared as an actor.In the 1957/58 season he was artistic consultant and director at the Stefan Jaracz Theatre in Łódź. From 1958 to 1960 he served as director and artistic manager of the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw. Between 1960 and 1964 he was an actor and director at the Contemporary Theatre (Teatr Współczesny) in Warsaw, before returning to the Polish Theatre for the 1964/65 season. Afterwards he worked as a freelance director, staging productions in Poland and abroad.He also directed opera productions (he was a great lover and connoisseur of music). He frequently collaborated with Polish Television, hosting highly popular music programmes featuring amateurs.A talented and very popular educator, from 1950 to 1982 he taught at the Acting, Variety, and Directing Departments of the Warsaw State Theatre School (later also in Łódź). He became associate professor in 1950 and full professor in 1966. He also taught at the Warsaw Academy of Music, co-directed and lectured at summer music courses in Austria and the Netherlands, at the drama department of the University of Georgia (USA), and at the music-drama school in Stockholm.He held many positions in ZASP (Polish Actors’ Association), ZAiKS (authors’ society), and the Jewish Historical Institute (member of the scientific council).He was the father of Maria Bardini, editor and producer of Television Theatre productions.He died in Warsaw and was buried in the catacombs at the Old Powązki Cemetery.

Famoso per

  • Tre colori - Film bianco
    Tre colori - Film bianco1994
  • La doppia vita di Veronica
    La doppia vita di Veronica1991
  • Decalogo
    Decalogo10 episodi
  • Senza fine
    Senza fine1985
  • Paesaggio dopo la battaglia
    Paesaggio dopo la battaglia1970
  • Il dottor Korczak
    Il dottor Korczak1990
  • La spirale
    La spirale1978
  • Il tocco della mano
    Il tocco della mano1992
  • Beltenebros
    Beltenebros1991
  • La valle di pietra
    La valle di pietra1992
  • Ciao America
    Ciao America1994
  • Ovunque tu sia
    Ovunque tu sia1988

Filmografia

1994
Inspector Rex · as Gregorij Ganscheff
1994
Auf Wiedersehen Amerika · as Pastor Ladislaus
1994
Three Colors: White · as Notary
1994
Obcy musi fruwac · as Widz Na Premierze
1992
The Touch · as Prof. Jerzy Kern
1992
1992
1991
Beltenebros · as Bernal
1991
1990
Korczak · as Adam Czerniaków
1990
Decalogue II · as Consultant
1989
Dekalog · as Consultant
1989
The Last Schoolbell · as Członek Jury Festiwalu Młodych Teatrów W Gdańsku
1988
Decalogue IV · as Consultant
1988
Wherever You Are... · as Prof. Steinberg
1988
1987
Elysium · as Menyus Bácsi, Festõ
1985
No End · as Mieczysław Labrador
1982
Schwarz Rot Gold · as Richter Riemenfranz
1978
The Spiral · as Doctor
1977
The Gorgon Case · as Mecenas Maurycy Axer, Obrońca Gorgonowej
1976
Polskie drogi · as Stefan, Naczelnik Poczty
1974
The Catamount Killing · as Attendant (as Aleksander Bardin)
1972
Ocalenie · as Professor
1971
1970
Landscape After Battle · as Professor
1962
Jutro premiera · as Zakrzewski
1953
Television Theater · as Jonathan Jeremiasz Peachum
1948
Lang ist der Weg · as Farmer
1938
Profesor Wilczur · as Doctor