I am an actor, director, counselor, and currently, the Managing Director of Teatr Polski im. Arnolda Szyfmana in Warsaw. That was the visit, which totally changed my personal, professional, mental, health, intellectual and any life.
This is not true that once the martial law was announced, no one could have gotten out of the country. I kept in touch with my daughter, mother, sister. How do you remember the beginnings of your acclimatization in France?
How did the local community accept you? Well, those days it was trendy to be interested in Poland, it was trendy to be interested in Poland. Poland was considered a wonderful country, that resisted the totalitarian regime, some people called the communist system, some named it the Soviet empire, whilst others simply called it a pseudo-socialist system. We all know what we are talking about.
We were accepted with some sort of warmth and not noly by the artistic community, but also by common people, you know. Later on, when the martial law was announced, it caused an immediate social action in France. There were various meetings, manifestations, parades, protests, fundraisers all around. So, there are basically three reasons why I stayed in France.
Firstly, because of announcement of the martial law in Poland, and I was performing here, I was doing my job in this place, and then, my return to the homeland was⦠it would immediately⦠well, it would end up with limitation of my freedom. Secondly, I set up a family and it was not the Polish family, from Warsaw, from Cracow, or from Lublin, but from Paris. Were there any breakthroughs occurring in the emigration, thanks to which you reached so high and were greatly appreciated by the French theater critics?
