伊娜·贝妮塔，Ina Benita (1 March 1912 – 9 September 1984) was a popular Polish actress of the interwar period. She was born Inna Florow-Bulhak in Kiev, then part of the Russian Empire. She is referred to as the first femme fatale of the Polish cinema of the interwar period.Benita's father, Mikołaj Gerwazy Bułhak, and mother, Helena Jeszczenko, considered themselves as Poles and were planning to move to Cracow, but when World War I broke out their plans were delayed. In 1920, the future actress and her family finally moved to the newly resurrected Poland. In the late 1920s, Benita left for Paris and graduated from the Sacré Cœur School. After returning to Poland, she continued her education in Warsaw. Ina debuted on stage on 29 August 1931, with the Warsaw Theatre group Nowy Ananas ("New Pineapple"), in the show Raj dla mężczyzn (Paradise for Men). One year later she debuted in Ryszard Briske's film Puszcza. From then on she performed mainly in movies. Benita, however, also appeared on stage, mostly in Warsaw's revues, such as Cyrulik Warszawski (1937), Wielka Rewia (1938–39), and Ali Baba (since spring 1939).During World War II, in German-occupied Poland, Benita played in German-sponsored theaters, which resulted in allegations of collaboration with the Nazis. However, during the German occupation, she worked undercover for the counterintelligence services of the Polish resistance - Home Army. Sometime in 1943 she began a relationship with an Austrian Wehrmacht officer (his name remains uncertain—according to some sources he was Otto Haver, with whom she left for Vienna. In the summer of 1943 Benita's partial-Jewish ancestry (she had a Jewish grandmother from the father's side) came to the attention of Gestapo, and both her and her lover were accused of "Rassenschande"—a crime against racial purity—which, under German laws in occupied Polish territory, meant a death sentence. However, most certainly due to the backstage pressures from Benita's German admirers, they were judged a