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Janusz Gajos
Janusz Gajos (; born 23 September 1939) is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as pedagogue and photographer. Professor of Theatre Arts and an Honorary Doctor of the National Film School in Łódź, he is considered one of the greatest Polish actors. Life and career He was born in Dąbrowa Górnicza. At the age of 11, he moved to Będzin where in 1957, he graduated from the High School No 3. In 1965 he graduated from the National Film School in Łódź as one of its best students despite having been rejected during entrance exams three times. He debuted while he was still in film school in children's film '' Panienka z okienka'' directed by Maria Kaniewska in 1964. Shortly afterwards he was cast in a role of Janek Kos in a widely popular TV World War II series '' Czterej pancerni i pies'' (''Four Tank Men and a Dog''). He starred in numerous other films and theatrical plays, notably in Krzysztof Kieślowski's '' Three Colors: White'', Ryszard Bugajski's ''Interro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dąbrowa Górnicza
Dąbrowa Górnicza is a city in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie, southern Poland, near Katowice and Sosnowiec. It is located in eastern part of the Silesian Voivodeship, on the Czarna Przemsza and Biała Przemsza rivers (tributaries of the Vistula, see Przemsza). Even though Dąbrowa Górnicza belongs to the historic province of Lesser Poland, it now is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (since 1999), and previously (1975–1998) it was in Katowice Voivodeship. Dąbrowa Górnicza is one of the cities of the Katowice urban area (2.7 million people), and within the greater Silesian metropolitan area (5.2 million people). The population of the city itself as of December 2021 is 116,971. Area and districts Dąbrowa Górnicza is the largest city of the province and the 9th largest in Poland in terms of territory, with total area of 188 square kilometers. The city lies among the hills, at 258 to 390 meters above sea level. Dąbrowa Górnicza borders Będzin County, Zawiercie Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escape From The 'Liberty' Cinema
''Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema'' ( pl, Ucieczka z kina "Wolność") is a 1990 Polish drama film directed by Wojciech Marczewski. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Janusz Gajos - The Censor * Zbigniew Zamachowski - Deputy Censor * Teresa Marczewska - Malgorzata * Władysław Kowalski - Professor * Piotr Fronczewski - Party Secretary * Jerzy Bińczycki - Cinema Manager * Michał Bajor - Film Critic * Krzysztof Wakulinski - Malgorzata's Husband * Artur Barciś - Projectionist * Ewa Wiśniewska - Censor's Ex-Wife * Monika Bolly - Censor's Daughter * Maciej Kozłowski - American Actor * Jan Peszek - Character Cut from Film * Aleksander Bednarz Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ... - Edward References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Polish Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Poland on 20 June 2010. As no candidate received a majority of votes in the first round, a second round was held on 4 July 2010. Bronisław Komorowski, the acting President of Poland and vice-chairman of the Civic Platform, defeated Jarosław Kaczyński, twin brother of recently deceased President Lech Kaczyński and chairman of Law and Justice. The global financial crisis, flooding in Poland and the Smolensk disaster were the main themes in the last months of the election campaign. Background The 2010 presidential election was expected to be a rematch of the 2005 election between Lech Kaczyński and Donald Tusk. Since the last presidential election, Polish politics had become centered around the rivalry between Law and Justice and the Civic Platform. President Kaczyński and Prime Minister Tusk were constantly battling each other over who should represent Poland on the international stage. Tusk was leading Kaczyński in all the opinion polli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronisław Komorowski
Bronisław Maria Komorowski (; born 4 June 1952) is a Polish politician and historian who served as President of Poland from 2010 to 2015. Komorowski served as Minister of Defence from 2000 to 2001. As Marshal of the Sejm, Komorowski exercised the powers and duties of head of state following the death of President Lech Kaczyński in a plane crash on 10 April 2010. Komorowski was then the governing Civic Platform party's candidate in the resulting presidential election, which he won in the second round of voting on 4 July 2010. He was sworn in as President on 6 August 2010. Komorowski thus became the second person to serve on two occasions as Polish head of state since 1918, after Maciej Rataj. On 25 May 2015, Komorowski conceded the presidency of Poland to the rival candidate Andrzej Duda, after the latter won the second round of the 2015 presidential election. Early life and education Bronisław Maria Komorowski was born in Oborniki Śląskie. Born as a son of Zygmunt Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabaret Olgi Lipińskiej
Kabaret Olgi Lipińskiej is a long series of TV shows directed by Warsaw theatre director and satirical artist Olga Lipińska.Wojciech Krzyżaniak Właśnie wraca kabarecik.'' Gazeta Wyborcza'', 11 June 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2012. The cabaret was inaugurated in 1974 (under a different name) and subsequently closed in 1984 under the military rule in Communist Poland. It was re-established soon after the collapse of the Soviet empire in 1990, and broadcast until 2005 five to six times a year, for about half an hour. It was taken off the air again, this time for five years due to criticism in the press, and brought back in June 2010 by the TV station TVP2.Mariusz Orłowski Kabaret Olgi Lipińskiej, czyli zielone lata dzieciństwa mojego… Komitet Wyborczy ''Ruch Palikota'', Wybory Parlamentarne 2011. Retrieved June 18, 2012. Background Olga Lipińska began producing satirical programs for Telewizja Polska in the late 1960s. The ''Gallux Show'' (1970–1974) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is an Alpha global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th century, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków. Warsaw served as the de facto capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, and subsequently as the seat of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łódź
Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canting, as it depicts a boat ( in Polish), which alludes to the city's name. As of 2022, Łódź has a population of 670,642 making it the country's fourth largest city. Łódź was once a small settlement that first appeared in 14th-century records. It was granted town rights in 1423 by Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and it remained a private town of the Kuyavian bishops and clergy until the late 18th century. In the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Łódź was annexed to Prussia before becoming part of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw; the city joined Congress Poland, a Russian client state, at the 1815 Congress of Vienna. The Second Industrial Revolution (from 1870) brought rapid growth in textile manufacturing and in po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Jaracz
Stefan Jaracz (24 December 1883 – 11 August 1945) was a Polish actor and theater producer. He served as the artistic director of Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw during the interwar period (1930–32), and within a short period raised its reputation as one of the leading voices for Poland's new intelligentsia, with groundbreaking productions of ''Danton's Death'' by Georg Büchner (1931), '' The Captain of Köpenick'' by Carl Zuckmayer (1932), as well as popular ''Ladies and Husars'' (Damy i Huzary) by Aleksander Fredro (1932) and ''The Open House'' by Michał Bałucki. Life Jaracz was born in Stare Żukowice near Tarnów during the Partitions of Poland. He studied law, history of art, and literature at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, but gave up his studies to join theatre. He moved to Poznań for yet another contract where he was drafted to the Austrian army in 1907. A year later he settled in Łódź where he performed until 1911. He moved to Warsaw in the Russian Partiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clergy (film)
''Clergy'' ( pl, Kler) is a 2018 Polish drama co-written and directed by Wojciech Smarzowski. The film stars Arkadiusz Jakubik, Robert Wieckiewicz and Jacek Braciak as three priests united by an event that almost took their lives. Plot Three priests meet on the same date of a past event that could have taken their lives. Cast * Arkadiusz Jakubik as Priest Andrzej Kukula * Robert Wieckiewicz as Priest Tadeusz Trybus * Jacek Braciak as Priest Leszek Lisowski * Joanna Kulig as Hanka Tomala * Janusz Gajos as Archbishop Mordowicz * Adrian Zaremba as Vicar Jan * Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska as Natalia * Antoni Barłowski as Czekaj * Jacek Beler as Priest Petarda * Stanisław Brejdygant as Priest Teodor * Bartosz Bielenia as Toady Release Box office Clergy was wide released in Poland on September 28, 2018 and grossed $29,913,342, breaking several box office records. About 935,000 viewers watched the film in its opening weekend, the best opening for a Polish film in Poland in 30 year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Smarzowski
Wojciech Smarzowski (born 18 January 1963 in Korczyna near Krosno) is a Polish screenwriter and director. He studied filmmaking at the Jagiellonian University and the National Film School in Łódź (1990). His 2004 film, '' The Wedding'' (not to be confused with the Andrzej Wajda film of the same title) earned special jury mention at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2005. He began his film career as a video camera operator. Smarzowski’s film '' Róża'' gained the Polish Film Award in seven categories in 2011. His film '' Traffic Department'' (2013) tells the story of seven policemen from Warsaw - colleagues and good friends whose lives change after one of them dies in mysterious circumstances. It competed in the main competition section of the 35th Moscow International Film Festival. ''Kler'' (2018) was described by Anne Applebaum in ''The Washington Post'' as "a searing, painful film that condemns the Polish Catholic Church as corrupt and hypocritical". In it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Body (2015 Polish Film)
''Body'' ( pl, Ciało) is a 2015 Polish drama film directed by Małgorzata Szumowska. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where Szumowska won the Silver Bear for Best Director. The film also received the Golden Lions Award at the 2015 Gdynia Film Festival and the People's Choice Award at the 2016 European Film Awards. Plot Olga who struggles with anorexia is sent to psychiatric hospital by the Attorney, where she is treated by Anna - a therapist who believes herself to be able to communicate with ghosts. Anna insists that she has been in contact with Olga's dead mother and she asks the Attorney to participate in a séance. Cast *Janusz Gajos as Attorney *Maja Ostaszewska as Anna *Justyna Suwala as Olga, attorney's daughter * Wladyslaw Kowalski as Władysław *Adam Woronowicz as director Zieliński *Tomasz Ziętek as attorney's assistant *Malgorzata Hajewska as Karol's mother *Ewa Kolasinska as a nurse *Ada Piekarska, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Małgorzata Szumowska
Małgorzata Szumowska (; born 26 February 1973) is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer, born in Kraków. Her 2013 film ''In the Name Of'' received the Teddy Award for Best Feature at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, and received the Grand Prix at the 32nd annual Istanbul Film Festival. Her film '' Body'' was selected to be screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. Szumowska won the Silver Bear for Best Director for '' Body''. In 2018, she received Jury Grand Prix at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival for her film '' Mug''. Career Szumowska spent two years studying history of art at the Jagiellonian University before she started film studies. Szumowska graduated from the celebrated National Film School in Łódź, which boasts such alumni as Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polański or Krzysztof Kieślowski. As a student, Szumowska made a short which was ranked 14th in the history of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
