Adam Hanuszkiewicz

Adam Hanuszkiewicz (16 June 19244 December 2011) was a Polish actor and theater director. He was known for his involvement in Television Theater, as well as for his invaluable stage and film works.

Life and career Hanuszkiewicz was born in Lwów, Poland in 1924. He began his acting career at the Wanda Siemaszkowa Theatre in Rzeszów, where he made his debut in Aleksander Fredro's The Revenge (Zemsta) directed by Stefania Domańska (1945). Between 1946 and 1955, Hanuszkiewicz acted in Polish theaters in Kraków, Warsaw, and Poznań.

In 1974, Hanuszkiewicz directed one of the most notorious stagings of Balladyna at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw. The story was set as the opera Goplana in 1897, with Goplana riding a Honda motorcycle on stage and wearing a costume stylized to resemble Jane Fonda from Barbarella. A record number 336,911 spectators watched the Grand Theatre production. In 2006 Hanuszkiewicz received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit to Lithuania.

Hanuszkiewicz died in Warsaw in 2011, aged 87.