How the beautiful Marusya-Ogonyok lives today from the cult film "Four Tankmen and a Dog": Paul Rax

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Paula Raxa was one of those actresses that viewers fell in love with literally at first sight and forever. The role of Marusya-Ogonyok in the TV series "Four Tankmen and a Dog" made Paul Rax famous, and then her success only increased. But once the brilliant Zosia from the film of the same name decided to change her whole life. She said goodbye to cinema and devoted herself to a completely different cause, refusing any interviews.

Fluke

Apolonia Raksa was born in April 1941 in the city of Lida on the territory of modern Belarus. When the girl was 2 years old, her family moved to Foresters in Wroclaw, and then to the city of Jelenia Góra, where Paula's mother worked as a seamstress, and her father was engaged in making hats. Paula herself studied at elementary school No. 4, and then at the Stefan eromski secondary school. After receiving secondary education, the future screen star entered the Faculty of Polish Philology at the University of Wroclaw.

She never dreamed of becoming an actress, but the fate of Paula Raxa was changed by chance. Once, after class, she found herself in a cafe, where she had never been before. It was at this time and in this place that a famous Polish photojournalist, who came to Wroclaw, was having lunch to photograph a girl for a competition held by a youth magazine. As a result, he persuaded Paula Rax to take a photo shoot, and it was her photograph that appeared on the cover of the magazine. This determined her entire future destiny.

This magazine fell into the hands of director Maria Kanevskaya, who simply could not help but pay attention to the beautiful blonde. An invitation to star in the movie "Satan from the Seventh Grade" followed, and then offers from directors poured in one after another.

Soon, the girl took the documents from the university and entered the acting department of the National Film School in Lodz. After receiving her diploma, the actress was accepted into the troupe of the ód Theater, and later moved to the Warsaw Modern Theater, where she served until 1986.

The film career of Paula Raxa was quite successful. True, despite the fact that her filmography includes about 30 works in films and serials, the actress is recognized, first of all, by the role of Marusya, nicknamed "Fire" from the television series "Four Tankmen and a Dog". Unfortunately, the star role determined her entire future professional destiny: Paula was often invited to the cinema, but she always played similar types.

The actress herself admitted: hardly anyone would agree to such a limitation of the role that she received at the very beginning of her career. After the very first roles played by Pola, she was invited to embody the images of beautiful, simple and kind-hearted girls. The actress even dreamed of the role of some villain.

She tried to go beyond this image and even in one of the episodes of the series "Captain Owl on the Trail" she played the role of a killer, but the audience immediately expressed their dissatisfaction. They wanted Paul Raxa not to destroy the image of a romantic girl and not be ready to accept her as a person capable of crimes.

Glory and loneliness

In 1967, she starred in the title role in Mikhail Bogin's film "Zosia", where she worked on the set with Yuri Kamorny. Colleagues had a very close relationship, there were even rumors that Paula was going to marry Kamorny. Later, the actress will say that the relationship with Yuri initially had no prospects, allegedly there was something fatal in the actor.

The beautiful actress always had many admirers, but she chose the director Andrzej Kostenko as her husband, in marriage with whom the son Martin was born. But the long-awaited personal happiness of Paul Rax never found.

According to the memoirs of contemporaries, Andrzej Kostenko was never a faithful husband, and he did not fit the role of head of the family. In addition, he was too jealous and literally harassed his wife with suspicions. It got to the point that he forbade Paul Rax to act or play love scenes in the theater.

Six years later, the marriage broke up, and Paula Raxa never married again. True, there was an affair in her life with a young actor Boguslav Linda, a relationship with whom lasted 11 years. The actor lived in Paula Raxa's apartment, which caused conflicts with his son Martin.

Unfortunately, Boguslav Linda never took the actress as seriously as she did him. He was not going to give up his riotous lifestyle, protested against any restrictions on his "freedom" and enjoyed spending time in the company of other women. In the end, Paula Raxa broke up with him. Subsequently, she was associated with a short relationship with the director Marek Pivovsky, which also ended in collapse.

Life after cinema

The last time Paul Rax appeared on the screen was in the movie "The Abduction of Agatha" in 1993. After that, the actress finally broke with the cinema.

Paula Raxa wrote a column on fashion in the magazine Respublika, passed qualifying exams and received a design diploma, and created collections of clothes and original theatrical costumes. In 1997, she organized her own exhibition of paintings created in non-traditional techniques on various materials. But later, the actress decided to finally go into the shadows.

Paula Raksa moved from noisy Warsaw to quiet Kalushin, where she settled in an old house. It is there, according to her confession, that she feels safe. She prefers to lead a closed life, does not appear in public and refuses to be interviewed. She communicates only with local residents when she goes to the store to shop.

Paula Raxa's relationship with her only son remained very cool. Even today he cannot get rid of childhood grievances. He was desperately jealous of his mother for work, numerous fans and was upset because of the lack of time for him. The actress considers this to be her biggest mistake, but today she cannot fix anything.

Paula Raxa has never sought to be the center of attention or shine in society. She remains completely indifferent to fame even today. That is why no one manages to persuade one of the most famous and beautiful Polish actresses of the twentieth century for an interview or participation in social events. She also does not agree to the filming of a documentary about herself, preferring to hide her life from strangers.

The Soviet audience idolized these actresses with foreign names. Paula Raksa, Eva Shikulska, Barbara Brylska, Beata Tyshkevich gladly accepted offers from Russian directors about filming a movie. These films have invariably been a resounding success. And also these beauties liked Russian men so much! Even today they remember their Russian novels with trembling tenderness and nostalgia.