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Lucyna Winnicka
Lucyna Winnicka (14 July 1928 – 22 January 2013) was a Polish actress. She appeared in 21 films between 1954 and 1978. She played the lead role in the film ''Mother Joan of the Angels'', which won the Special Jury Prize at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. In 1967 she was a member of the jury of the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. Partial filmography * ''Pod gwiazda frygijska'' (1954) - Madzia * '' The Real End of the Great War'' (1957) - Róza Zborska * '' Night Train'' (1959) - Marta * ''First Spaceship on Venus'' (1960) - Fernsehreporterin / Joan Moran * '' Knights of the Teutonic Order'' (1960) - Duchess Anna Danuta of Masovia * ''Mother Joan of the Angels'' (1961) - Mother Joan of the Angels * ''Godzina pasowej rózy'' (1963) - Eleonora * ''Pamietnik pani Hanki'' (1963) - Hanka Niementowska-Renowicka * ''Ubranie prawie nowe'' (1964) - Director's Wife * ''Sam posród miasta'' (1965) - Ewa * ''Sposób bycia'' (1966) - Irena - Wife * ''Pharaoh'' (1966) - Priestes ... [...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] |
Gazeta Wyborcza
''Gazeta Wyborcza'' (; ''The Electoral Gazette'' in English) is a Polish daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It is the first Polish daily newspaper after the era of "real socialism" and one of Poland's newspapers of record, covering the gamut of political, international and general news from a liberal perspective. History and profile The ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' was first published on 8 May 1989, under the rhyming masthead motto, "''Nie ma wolności bez Solidarności''" ("There's no freedom without Solidarity"). The founders were Andrzej Wajda, Aleksander Paszyński and Zbigniew Bujak. Its founding was an outcome of the Polish Round Table Agreement between the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland and political opponents centred on the Solidarity movement. It was initially owned by Agora SA. Later the American company Cox Communications partially bought the daily. The paper was to serve as the voice of the Solidarity movement during the run-up to the 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Joan Of The Angels
''Mother Joan of the Angels'' ( pl, Matka Joanna od Aniołów, also known as ''The Devil and the Nun'') is a 1961 Polish art film on demonic possession, directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, based on a novella of the same title by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, loosely based on the 17th century Loudun possessions. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The story takes place in and around a seventeenth century Polish convent. A priest, Father Józef Suryn (Mieczyslaw Voit), arrives at a small inn for a night's rest. He has been sent to investigate a case of demonic possession at the nearby convent after the local priest, Father Garniec, was burnt at the stake for sexually tempting the nuns. The next day, Father Suryn sets out for the convent, where he meets the abbess, Mother Joan (Lucyna Winnicka), said to be the most possessed of all the nuns. Already four priests before Father Suryn have tried to exorcise Mother Joan, but without success. The villagers at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)
The Jury Prize (french: Prix du Jury) is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the third-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix, and it was considered a "second place" award until after the latter award was introduced. According to American film critic Dave Kehr, the award is "intended to recognize an original work that embodies the spirit of inquiry." History The award was first presented in 1946. The prize was not awarded on 10 occasions (1947, 1949, 1953, 1967, 1974–79, 1981–82, 1984, and 2001). The festival was not held at all in 1948, 1950, and 2020. In 1968, no awards were given as the festival was called off mid-way due to the May 1968 events in France. Also, the jury vote was tied, and the prize was shared by two films on 21 occasions (1957, 1960, 1962–63, 1970–71, 1973, 1987, 1991–93, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2019, and 2021-22 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Cannes Film Festival
The 14th Cannes Film Festival was held from 3 to 18 May 1961. The Palme d'Or went to the ''Une aussi longue absence'', directed by Henri Colpi and ''Viridiana'', directed by Luis Buñuel. The festival opened with ''Che gioia vivere'', directed by René Clément. The festival also screened Shirley Clarke's debut film '' The Connection'' due to the efforts of the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics. The success of the film caused the festival to create International Critics' Week the following year. Jury The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1961 competition: Feature films *Jean Giono (France) Jury President *Sergei Yutkevich (Soviet Union) Vice President *Pedro Armendáriz (Mexico) *Luigi Chiarini (Italy) *Tonino Delli Colli (Italy) * Claude Mauriac (France) * Edouard Molinaro (France) *Jean Paulhan (France) (author) *Raoul Ploquin (France) *Liselotte Pulver (Switzerland) *Fred Zinnemann (USA) Short films *Ion Popescu-Gopo (Romania) *Pierre Prévert (France) *Jur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Moscow International Film Festival
The 5th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 July 1967. The Grand Prix was shared between the Soviet film '' The Journalist'', directed by Sergei Gerasimov and the Hungarian film ''Father'', directed by István Szabó. The festival line-up included the film ''Spellbound Wood'', directed by Norodom Sihanouk, the former King of Cambodia. Jury * Sergei Yutkevich (USSR - President of the Jury) * Román Viñoly Barreto (Argentina) * Aleksey Batalov (USSR) * Lucyna Winnicka (Poland) * Todor Dinov (Bulgaria) * Hagamasa Kawakita (Japan) * Leslie Caron (France) * András Kovács (Hungary) * Grigori Kozintsev (USSR) * Robert Hossein (France) * Jiří Sequens (Czechoslovakia) * Dimitri Tiomkin (USA) * Andrew Thorndike (East Germany) * Leonardo Fioravanti (Italy) Films in competition The following films were selected for the main competition: Awards * Grand Prix: ** '' The Journalist'' by Sergei Gerasimov ** ''Father'' by István Szabó * Special Golden Prize: '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Real End Of The Great War
''The Real End of the Great War'' is the English title for ''Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny'', a film released in 1957, directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Plot Roza (Lucyna Winnicka) marries a promising young architect, Juliusz ( Roland Glowacki). They have a blissful life together for the first few months, but then World War II breaks out and Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp soon after. Months and years go by, and Roza gradually abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, and then out of pity, Roza starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly transform into a kind of revulsion. Kawalerowicz here takes up a theme that would be frequently addressed by later Polish films: the lingering psychological and emotional sca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Train (1959 Film)
''Night Train'' (Polish: ''Pociąg''), also known as ''The Train'', or ''Baltic Express'', is a 1959 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and starring Zbigniew Cybulski, Lucyna Winnicka and Leon Niemczyk. ''Night Train'' received numerous awards including the Georges Méliès award, and the Best Foreign Actress at the 1959 Venice Film Festival awarded to Lucyna Winnicka for her role as Marta in ''Night Train''. Plot Two strangers, Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka), accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast; and reluctantly agree to share the 2-bed single-gender compartment. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover Staszek (Zbigniew Cybulski), unwilling to accept her decision to break up after a short term affair, and leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Spaceship On Venus
''Milcząca Gwiazda'' (german: Der schweigende Stern), literal English translation ''The Silent Star'', is a 1960 East German/Polish color science fiction film based on the 1951 science fiction novel ''The Astronauts'' by Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem. It was directed by Kurt Maetzig, and stars Günther Simon, Julius Ongewe and Yoko Tani. The film was first released by Progress Film in East Germany, running 93 min.An entry about ''Der schweigende Stern'' and DEFA film database (retrieved 27 October 2018) Variously dubbed and cut versions were also released in English under other titles: ''First Spaceship on Venus'', ''Planet of the Dead'', and ''Spaceship Venus Does Not Reply''. After finding an ancient, long-buried |
Knights Of The Teutonic Order (film)
''Knights of the Teutonic Order'' (Polish: ''Krzyżacy'') is a 1960 Polish film directed by Aleksander Ford based on the novel of the same name by Henryk Sienkiewicz. The plot is situated in the late-14th century and early-15th century Poland and centers on the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War (1409-1411) and the final Battle of Grunwald (1410). 15,000 extras were employed to create the battle scenes. The film attracted to cinema masses of viewers and remains one of the most attended films in Polish history: it sold 2 million tickets within several months, 14 million after four years and as of 1987, it had some 32,315,695 admissions. It was also exported to forty-six foreign countries, and sold 29.6 million tickets in the Soviet Union and 2,650,700 in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, and was the most successful Polish film internationally. It was a Polish submission to the 33rd Academy Awards. It was released on 15 July 1960, the 550th anniversary of the battle of Grun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pharaoh (film)
''Pharaoh'' ( pl, Faraon) is a 1966 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and adapted from the eponymous novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. In 1967, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also entered into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. It sold more than tickets in Poland, becoming one of the highest-grossing Polish films of all time. ''Pharaoh'' is among 21 digitally restored classic Polish films chosen for ''Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema''. Novel Pharaoh (Prus novel) ( pl, Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus (1847–1912). Composed over a year's time in 1894–95, serialized in 1895–96, and published in book form in 1897. It was the sole historical novel by the author. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, who had previously directed such films as ''Cellulose'' (1953), ''Under the Phrygian Star'' (1954), '' The Shade'' (1956), ''The Real End of the Great War'' (1957) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman's Decision
''A Woman's Decision'' ( pl, Bilans kwartalny, also known as ''The Quarterly Balance'') is a 1975 Polish drama film written and directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the OCIC Award. Cast * Maja Komorowska as Marta * Piotr Fronczewski as Jan * Marek Piwowski as Jacek * Zofia Mrozowska as Jan's Mother * Halina Mikolajska as Roza * Mariusz Dmochowski as Director * Barbara Wrzesinska as Ewa * Chip Taylor as James * Eugenia Herman as Zofia * Elzbieta Karkoszka as Maria * Celina Mencner as Halina * Krzysztof Machowski as Rower * Malgorzata Pritulak as Anna * Danuta Rinn as Marta's Colleague * Kazimiera Utrata as Marta's Colleague * Stefan Szmidt as Rescuer * Dariusz Adamczuk * Marian Friedmann * Józef Fryzlewicz Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
