Role in “My 20th Century” by a Hungarian director, which won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Festival in 1989 Ildiko Enyedi was her first major film role Dorota Segda. The then 23-year-old actress accepted it, hoping that thanks to her participation in an international production, she would be seen by the whole of Europe, and maybe even the whole world. Unfortunately, instead of enjoying every day spent on set, she had to constantly run away and hide from her partner, who turned her stay in Budapest into an ordeal.
Only recently, Dorota Segda decided to talk about what happened to her from a pushy “admirer”, who turned out to be the favorite of Soviet cinema fans – Oleg Jankowski.
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“I am a young actress and I play the main role in the Hungarian film ‘My 20th Century’. My partner is a star of Soviet cinema. He called himself ‘the history of Soviet cinema’. Then I experienced MeToo,” admitted Dorota Segda in an interview with “Tygodnik Powszechny”.
The star of “Girls from Lviv” endured harassment from Oleg for several weeks because she was afraid to tell anyone that he was behaving – to put it mildly – inappropriately towards her.
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“I still can’t believe that I didn’t go to the producer and tell him that if this guy touched me again, I would leave the set and not come back,” she recalls.
Back then (it was 1988) no one was talking about MeToo out loud. Dorota Segda remembers perfectly well that she had to face the pushy man alone, because she did not receive support even from the translator, who practically never left her side.
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“Of course, I hit the actor’s paws and face, but it didn’t help much. What he didn’t do: he broke into the villa where I lived through the window. The owners didn’t react to what was happening. Maybe they thought it was normal customs between actors, male-female games on film sets,” the actress told Katarzyna Kubisiowska from “Tygodnik Powszechny”.
Dorota Segda does not hide that she dreamed that the shooting of “My 20th Century” would end as soon as possible. After returning to Poland, she put Oleg Jankowski and his behavior towards her out of her mind. She remembered about the case only years later.
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“When the MeToo era began and students asked me if I had ever experienced this form of violence on set, I first denied it, and only after a few days the memory of those days came back,” she claims.
30 years after the end of filming the Hungarian film, Dorota Segda met director Ildikó Enyedi at the New Horizons festival, who had just brought her new – Oscar-nominated – film “Soul and Body” to Poland.
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“I told her what was happening on the set. Ildikó, a feminist, was shocked that she didn’t know anything about it,” she said in an interview for Tygodnik Powszechny.
Oleg Yankovsky, who for several decades was the leading star of first Soviet and then Russian cinematography, was famous for his love conquests. Dorota Segda was certainly not the only actress who had to defend herself against his “loves”.
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Actor known, among others, from roles in the famous series “Doctor Zhivago” and “Anna Karenina” and the film “The Man Who Cried” (he starred in it alongside Johnny’ego Deppa, Cate Blanchett i Christiny Ricci) and – above all – the works of Andrei Tarkovsky, at the end of his life he faced pancreatic cancer. He died on May 20, 2009.
It is worth recalling that the role (actually three roles, because she played a mother and her two twin daughters) in the film “My 20th Century” is still considered one of Dorota Segda’s best roles. The actress received many awards for her work, including the award for the best… Hungarian actress of the year. She was also nominated for the European Film Award in the Star of Tomorrow category and accompanied Ildikó Enyedi on the red carpet in Cannes.
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