Polish Film School
However, Cybulski is best remembered as a screen actor. He first appeared in a 1954 film "Kariera" as an extra. His first major role came in 1958, when he played in Kazimierz Kutz's "Krzyż Walecznych". The same year he also appeared as one of the main characters in Andrzej Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds" and Aleksander Ford's "The Eighth Day of the Week" based on a short story by Marek Hłasko. From then on Cybulski was seen as one of the most notable actors of the Polish Film School and one of the "young and wrathful", as his generation of actors were called at the time.