 Czyżewska was expelled, and partly because she promptly accepted a role in exiled director Aleksander Ford's adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The First Circle", she was unable to work in Poland until 1980, when Lech Wałęsa's Solidarność movement had great influence.The 1987 Hollywood film "Anna" is loosely based on Czyżewska's life.In the film, an exiled European movie star played by Sally Kirkland struggles to find work in New York City following her divorce from a well-connected intellectual, presumably based on Halberstam.