Congolese Dianik Zurakowska appeared in multiple films of the 60s and 70s.
Libertad Digital
By Manuel Román
11/16/2019
The Spanish cinema of the mid 60's and
70's incorporated foreign beauties, in search of novelties. Sculptural
models, blond faces to contrast with the natives, with a predisposition for
high-pitched scenes, were common in comedies. In the case at hand today,
with Dianik Zurakowska as the
protagonist, she diversified her appearances on the screen in other genres:
terror, spaghetti western, suspense ...
Dianik Zurakowska , whose name appeared in deals and publications
sometimes with altered spellings and which looked Russian, she was actually
from the former Republic of the Congo,
then Zaire. Wrong
are the biographical records that, therefore, considered her Belgian. Born
in Elizabethville in 1947, daughter of Polish and Norwegian. The fact is
that in the mid 60's she landed in Madrid
where she shot her first film. And in Spain she continued to live and
develop her acting career for a decade. Blonde, with clear eyes, I think
that are blue, whitish face, look between naive and enigmatic, served for
several directors and producers who tried to turn her into a
"sex-symbol".
Reviewing her filmography it turns out
that she intervened in more or less secondary roles, in white comedies,
although she accepted more important roles, but where she had to appear without
much clothes. That happened in The Orgy of the Dead, The Night
Orgy of Vampires, Sexy Cat and Blood Cauldron, titles dated between 1971 and 1973.
There Dianik appeared showing the splendor of her naked body, usually looking
at the camera with the eyes of a lamb, as if she had not broken a plate in her
life. The truth is that it was mimetic in their interpretations and we
cannot praise their interpretive talent, which was rather scarce. Now,
they hired her for her physique, because her nudes could attract spectators,
let's not fool ourselves. Game that accepted those actresses who without
being endowed for it made a living by showing their charms.
Dianik's voice was doubled as her foreign
accent required it. We remember some commercial tapes, such as Two Magazine Girls, with Lina Morgan, and Separate Marriages. The most dramatic cut and
exhibiting the beauty of her gaze, was The Lost Eyes. Dianik Zurakowska came to appear in about
thirty films. Paul Naschy had her in his deals, although she ended up
being upset by the treatment she received from the actor and director
Gore. The truth is that the werewolf brand and
some other title with it ... left it marked.
Perhaps an independent woman, she did not
give papal for the whispering press. Very disciplined, she learned to
handle the "play-back", figuring to sing when who really did it
through a couple of lyric pieces was a soprano. It was in a series of
Spanish Television, directed by the imaginative and great creator Fernando
García de la Vega, in Bohemios a and Las Golondrinas : "Anthology of the
Zarzuela".
And one day, José García Galisteo,
brother of Carmen Sevilla, Pepito for the world of cinema, much appreciated as
an assistant cameraman and director of photography, turned on the charms
of Dianik Zurakowska and made her his
companion. Until they priced and each one looked for the sentimental life
on the other hand. Dianik, a polyglot, traveled to the United States and then settled in Paris, where he shot more
films. But here, we have lost sight of her, let's say more than forty
years ago. What does not prevent us from continuing to remember her great
beauty.
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