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Łukasz Karwowski
Łukasz Karwowski (born December 30, 1965, in Toruń) is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer. Early and personal life Karwowski grew up in Toruń, Poland, in the turbulent years of Solidarity and the struggle against the martial law. His father spent time in prison for his anti-communist activity. He lives in Warsaw, married to Weronika Karwowska and has six children: Franciszek, Roch, Mia, Leon, Tymon and Iwo. Education Karwowski studied Polish philology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. He then obtained a degree from the Film and Television Directing Department in the world-renowned National Film School in Lodz, where he was taught by Wojciech Jerzy Has (Winner of Cannes Grand Jury Award for The Hourglass Sanatorium and nominee for several more). In 1989 he studied directing at the National Film and Television School in the UK. In the same year in Belgrade, he was elected for a film masterclass by Istvan Szabo. As a student, he already sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toruń
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Borys Szyc
Borys Michał Szyc-Michalak (; born Borys Michalak; 4 September 1978) is a Polish film and theatre actor and musician. Life and career He was born in Łódź, Poland. He graduated from High School No. 26 in Łódź. In 2001, he graduated from Warsaw-based Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy and started a successful film and theatre career. Since 2001, he has performed at Teatr Współczesny in Warsaw. In 2007, he was awarded the Wiktor, the prize of the public Polish Television (TVP), for the best Polish TV actor. He achieved nationwide popularity by starring in such films as '' Vinci'' (2004), ''Testosteron'' (2007), ''Mole'' (2011), '' The Secret of Westerplatte'' (2013), ''Persona Non Grata'' (2015), '' Spoor'' (2017) and ''Cold War'' (2018). Apart from his film career he appeared in numerous popular TV series including '' For Better or Worse'', '' Honey Years'', ''Foster Family'', ''Kasia i Tomek'' and ''Niania''. In 2008 he recorded a single "Choć wieje, pada, grz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kino Świat
Kino Świat ("world cinema") is a Polish independent film distributor and producer. The company was founded in Warsaw in 2001. It was honored by the Polish Film Institute Polish Film Institute ( Polish: Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej ) is a state legal entity established in 2005 to support the development of cinematography.http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WDU20051321111/U/D20051111Lj.pdf The Institu ... for film distribution in 2011 and 2012. References External links 2001 establishments in Poland Companies based in Warsaw Film production companies of Poland Film distributors of Poland Video on demand services {{PL-film-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawid Ogrodnik
Dawid Ogrodnik (born 28 May 1986, Wągrowiec (german: Wongrowitz) is a town in west-central Poland, from both Poznań and Bydgoszcz. Since the 18th century it has been the a seat of a powiat. Administratively it is attached to the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The town is situated in the mi ...) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than ten films since 2010. Filmography References External links * 1986 births Living people Polish film actors Polish male film actors Polish male stage actors Polish television actors 21st-century Polish male actors People from Wągrowiec Lielais Kristaps Award winners {{Poland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Brown
''Jackie Brown'' is a 1997 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, based on Elmore Leonard's 1992 novel ''Rum Punch.'' It stars Pam Grier as Jackie Brown, a flight attendant who is caught smuggling money. Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, and Robert De Niro appear in supporting roles. ''Jackie Brown'' pays homage to 1970s blaxploitation films, particularly ''Coffy'' (1973) and '' Foxy Brown'' (1974), both of which also starred Grier. It is the only feature-length film that Tarantino has adapted from another work. ''Jackie Brown'' revitalized the careers of Grier and Forster, neither of whom had been cast in a lead role for many years. It earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Forster, and Golden Globe Award nominations for Jackson and Grier. It was released on December 25, 1997, received positive reviews and grossed $74 million worldwide. Plot Jackie Brown, a flight attendant, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Forster
Robert Wallace Forster Jr. (July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019) was an American actor, known for his roles as John Cassellis in ''Medium Cool'' (1969), Captain Dan Holland in ''The Black Hole'' (1979), Abdul Rafai in ''The Delta Force'' (1986), and Max Cherry in ''Jackie Brown'' (1997), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Forster's varied filmography includes: '' Reflections in a Golden Eye'' (1967), ''Alligator'' (1980), ''Me, Myself & Irene'' (2000), ''Mulholland Drive'' (2001), ''The Descendants'' (2011), '' Olympus Has Fallen'' (2013), ''London Has Fallen'' (2016), ''What They Had'' (2018), and ''The Wolf of Snow Hollow'' (2020). He also had prominent roles in television series such as ''Banyon'' (1971–1973), ''Heroes'' (2007–2008), ''Twin Peaks'' (2017) and the ''Breaking Bad'' episode " Granite State" as Ed Galbraith, for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Guest Starring Role on Television. He reprised the role in the film '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcin Bosak
Marcin Bosak (born 9 September 1979 in Łódź) is a Polish actor. He appeared in more than twenty-five films since 1995. Biography He was born and raised in Łódź. He has a younger sister, Anna, finalist of the You Can Dance: Po prostu tańcz!. He attended the Tadeusz Kościuszko Secondary School No. 3 in Łódź. In 2003, he graduated from Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. He was the Polish junior karate champion several times. He became recognizable as Kamil Gryc, the roommate of Kingi (Katarzyna Cichopek) and Piotr ( Marcin Mroczek) Zduński and Magda (Anna Mucha) in the TVP2 M jak miłość series (2003–2006 and again from 2019). He appeared in the music video for the song by Maciej Maleńczuk "Last nocka" (2011) and in the video clip for the ''Czerwone Świnie'' band "Parafiańszczyzna" (2019). In 2012, he joined the Studio Theater in Warsaw. In 2020, he was a participant in the eleventh edition of Polsat entertainment program Dancing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida (film)
''Ida'' () is a 2013 drama film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Set in Poland in 1962, it follows a young woman on the verge of taking vows as a Catholic nun. Orphaned as an infant during the German occupation of World War II, she must meet her aunt, a former Communist state prosecutor and only surviving relative, who tells her that her parents were Jewish. The two women embark on a road trip into the Polish countryside to learn the fate of their relatives. Called a "compact masterpiece" and an "eerily beautiful road movie", the film has also been said to "contain a cosmos of guilt, violence and pain", even if certain historical events (German occupation of Poland, the Holocaust and Stalinism) remain unsaid: "none of this is stated, but all of it is built, so to speak, into the atmosphere: the country feels dead, the population sparse". ''Ida'' won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, becoming the first Polis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agata Kulesza
Agata Kulesza-Figurska (; born 27 September 1971) is a Polish film, television and stage actress, and a member of the Polish Film Academy.Pnf.pl In 2013, she appeared in the critically acclaimed ''Ida''. She was a contestant in season eight of Polish-version '' Dancing with the Stars'' in 2008. She gained wide popularity in mass media after winning the competition. Kulesza was also the first winner of the show who donated the prize to charity. Early life Kulesza was born in Szczecin. She has an older sister. Her childhood friend was future roc ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blair Witch Project
''The Blair Witch Project'' is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez (director), Eduardo Sánchez. It is a fictional story of three student filmmakers—Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard—who hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland, in 1994 to film a documentary about a local myth known as the Blair Witch. The three disappear, but their equipment and footage are discovered a year later. The purportedly "found footage" is the movie the viewer sees. Myrick and Sánchez conceived of a fictional legend of the Blair Witch in 1993. They developed a 35-page screenplay with the dialogue to be improvisation, improvised. A casting (performing arts), casting call advertisement in ''Backstage (magazine), Backstage'' magazine was prepared by the directors; Donahue, Williams and Leonard were cast. The film entered production in October 1997, with the principal photography taking place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Leonard
Joshua Granville Leonard (born June 17, 1975) is an American actor, writer, and director, known for his role in ''The Blair Witch Project'' (1999). He has since starred in films such as '' Madhouse'' (2004), '' The Shaggy Dog'' (2006), '' Higher Ground'' (2011), ''The Motel Life'' (2012), ''Snake and Mongoose'' (2013), ''If I Stay'' (2014), ''The Town That Dreaded Sundown'' (2014), ''6 Years'' (2015), and ''Unsane'' (2018). Early life Leonard was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Joann, an author, and Robert Leonard, a theater professor at Pennsylvania State University. He was raised in State College, Pennsylvania. Leonard obtained his GED and at age 16 travelled to Chiapas, Mexico, where he taught at an elementary school and volunteered at an anthropological institute. Leonard then spent time in Seattle and London, where he developed an interest in photography, before settling in New York City at age 19. He is Jewish on his mother's side. Career In 1997, Leonard auditioned for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnieszka Grochowska
Agnieszka Grochowska (born 31 December 1979) is a Polish film and theatre actress. Life She was born on 31 December 1979 in Warsaw. She graduated from the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw in 2002. In 2003, she started working at the Studio Theatre in Warsaw. She is the recipient of the 2007 Shooting Stars Award. For her role in ''Shameless (2012 film), Shameless'' (2012), she received the Polish Academy Award for Best Actress, while her performances in ''The Welts'' (2004), ''In Darkness (2011 film), In Darkness'' (2011) and ''Walesa. Man of Hope'' (2013) earned her three additional nominations. Grochowska was also recognised as the Best Actress for her role in the Norwegian comedy film ''Upperdog'' (2009) at the Amanda Awards, and received Polish Film Festival, Polish Film Festival Awards for ''Trzy minuty. 21:37'' (2011) and ''Obce niebo'' (2015). She was nominated for the Kanon Award, awarded at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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