Actors: The Man in the Green Lenses

Zbigniew Cybulski may have an unpronounceable name, but women in a couple of dozen countries have developed a sudden passion for linguistics in order to fondle his exotic consonants. Poland's Cybulski, now 37, is the first international film star, in the celebrity sense, to come from behind the Iron Curtain. He first became known in the West when his Polish pictures The Generation and Eighth Day of the Week won critical praise in Western countries and Ashes and Diamonds took numerous festival prizes. Now he has begun to appear in films made in Western nations. His newest is To...

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