Man Of Iron
''Man of Iron'' ( pl, Człowiek z żelaza) is a 1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It depicts the Solidarity labour movement and its first success in persuading the Polish government to recognize the workers' right to an independent union. The film continues the story of Maciej Tomczyk, the son of Mateusz Birkut, the protagonist of Wajda's earlier film, ''Man of Marble''. Here, Maciej is a young worker involved in the anti-Communist labour movement, described as "the man who started the Gdańsk Shipyard strike", and a journalist working for the Communist regime's radio station, who is given a task of slandering Maciej. The young man is clearly intended as a parallel to Lech Wałęsa (who appears as himself in the movie). ''Man of Iron'' clarifies the ending of ''Man of Marble'', which left the death of Mateusz Birkut ambiguous. ''Man of Iron'' explicitly states that Mateusz was killed in clashes at the shipyards in 1970. The film was made during the brief thaw in Communist c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski
Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski (16 March 1928 – 3 April 1983) was a Polish screenwriter and film director. He wrote for more than 25 films between 1951 and 1981. he was born in aristocratic family of Clan Ostoja. Selected filmography * ''Rok pierwszy'' (1960) * ''The Impossible Goodbye'' (1962) * '' Black Wings'' (1963) * ''The Ashes'' (1965) * ''Man of Marble'' (1976) * ''Dagny'' (1977) * ''Man of Iron'' (1981) See also * Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski * Clan Ostoja The Clan of Ostoja (old Polish: ''Ostoya'') was a powerful group of knights and lords in late-medieval Europe. The clan encompassed families in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (including present-day Belarus and Ukraine), Hungary and Upper Hu ... * Ostoja coat of arms References External links * 1928 births 1983 deaths Polish film directors People from Grudziądz 20th-century Polish screenwriters Male screenwriters 20th-century Polish male writers {{Poland-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marian Opania
Marian Opania (, born 1 February 1943) is a Polish film actor and singer. He has appeared in more than 50 films since 1965. Biography He was born on 1 February 1943 in Puławy as the second son of Julian and Jadwiga. His father was a forester and an infantry officer in the Polish Army, he died in the Warsaw Uprising. In the years 1964–1971 he performed at the Classic Theater in Warsaw, then at the Studio Theater (1971–1977), the Kwadrat Theater (1978) and the Komedia Theater (1979–1981). Since 1981, he has been an actor at the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw. In 2015, he recorded an album with songs by Leonard Cohen and Jaromir Nohavica — ''Opania Cohen Nohavica.'' Married to Anna, with whom they met in 1960. Awards * Zbigniew Cybulski Award (1970) * Meritorious Activist of Culture (1988) * Order of Polonia Restituta (2003) * Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (2009). Selected discography * ''Fascynacje'' (2013) Selected filmography * '' Pearl in the Crown'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1980s Polish-language Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. 24 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Palme D'Or Winners
Palme may refer to: Places * Palme (Barcelos), a parish in the municipality of Barcelos, Portugal * La Palme, Aude, a commune in southern France * Palmanova, in Italy, known as ''Palme'' in the local Friulian language People * Palme (surname) * Sieur de la Palme, (Lord of Palme), a lord of French North America for Plaisance in what is now Newfoundland * Olof Palme (1927–1986), the assassinated former Prime Minister of Sweden Entertainment * ''Palme'' (film), a 2012 Swedish documentary film * Tree of Palme, a 2002 anime film Other uses * ''Palme'', a Finnish ship which sank off Dún Laoghaire on Christmas Eve 1895, resulting in the Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster See also * Palme d'Or * Praslin, in Seychelles, formerly known as ''Île De Palme'' * Palmen Palmen is a surname. Notable persons with that name include: * Annie Palmen (1926–2000), Dutch singer * Connie Palmen (born 1955), Dutch author * Erik Palmén (1898–1985), Finnish meteorologist * Manfred Palmen Manfred Pa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Films Directed By Andrzej Wajda
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1981 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1981 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten films released in 1981 by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * May 16 – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie '' Heaven's Gate'', a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it. * March 30 - The 53rd Academy Awards are postponed due to the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan earlier that day. They are held the following day with a message from the President recorded for the ceremony prior to the assassination attempt. * June 8 - Marvin Davis acquires 20th Century Fox for $720 million. * June 12 – '' Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is released by Paramount Pictures. It became Paramount's highest-grossing film of all ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Polish Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Poland has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film on a regular basis since 1963. The Oscar is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. It was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since. Submissions The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. , 54 Polish films have been submitted for the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Submissions To The 54th Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 54th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States. The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country. For the 54th Academy Awards, twenty-five films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from Italy, Japan, Poland and Switzerland. Hungary won the award with the film ''Mephisto''. Submissions Notes * The Soviet Union submitted ''O, Sport, You – the Peace!,'' a 2-hour documentary on the 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anna Walentynowicz
Anna Walentynowicz (; ; 15 August 1929 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish free trade union activist and co-founder of Solidarity, the first non-communist trade union in the Eastern Bloc. Her firing from her job at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in August 1980 was the event that ignited the strike at the shipyard, set off a wave of strikes across Poland, and quickly paralyzed the Baltic coast. The Interfactory Strike Committee (MKS) based in the Gdańsk shipyard eventually transformed itself into Solidarity; by September, more than one million workers were on strike in support of the 21 demands of MKS, making it the largest strike ever. Walentynowicz's arrest became an organizing slogan (Bring Anna Walentynowicz Back to Work!) in the early days of the Gdańsk strike. She is referred to by some as the "mother of independent Poland." She was among the dignitaries killed in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash near Smolensk in Russia, which also claimed the lives of the President of Po ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Krystyna Zachwatowicz
Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda (born Krystyna Zachwatowicz; 16 May 1930) is a Polish scenographer, costume designer and actress. She is a daughter of architect and restorer Jan Zachwatowicz and Maria Chodźko ''h.'' Kościesza, and wife of film director Andrzej Wajda. Member of the Polish Film Academy. She is a co-founder (with Andrzej Wajda) of Centre of Japanese Art and Technology "Manggha" in Kraków. Biography Zachwatowicz was born on 16 May 1930 in Warsaw, Poland. She graduated from the History of Art Faculty of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1952) and Scenography faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (1958). In 1958, she made her own debut as a scenographer in Marin Držić's ''Rzymska kurtyzana'' on the stage of Teatr Zagłębia in Sosnowiec. In 1960, she moved to Sosnowiec, where she was associated with student's theatre of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. There, she designed a scenography to Witold Gombrowicz's '' The Marriage'' ( pl, Ś ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jerzy Trela
Jerzy Józef Trela (14 March 1942 – 15 May 2022) was a Polish actor. In 2003 he starred in the film ''An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God'' under Jerzy Hoffman. He is also known for ''Three Colours: White, White'' (1994), ''Quo Vadis (2001 film), Quo Vadis'' (2001) and ''Ida (film), Ida'' (2013). Trela played also many roles on stage at The Old Theatre in Kraków (Polish language, Polish: Narodowy Stary Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej w Krakowie) and he was Professor and Rector at the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts. Honours and awards * Decoration of Honor Meritorious for Polish Culture, Meritorious for Polish Culture (1989) * Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011), previously awarded the Commander's Cross (2000) and Knight's Cross (1981) * Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Polish Film Awards: Eagles for Best Supporting Actor in ''Quo Vadis (2001 film), Quo Vadis'' (2002) * Gold Medal "Gloria Artis" (2005) [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marek Kondrat
Marek Tadeusz Kondrat (born 18 October 1950) is a former Polish TV, film and theatrical actor, director. Career He is a graduate of the Jan Śniadecki High School No. 30 in Warsaw. In 1972, he graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw (PWST). He played his first role as a child in 1961 film ''Historia żółtej ciżemki.'' Between 1972-1973, he worked at the Stanisław Wyspiański Silesian Theatre in Katowice. He also worked at the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw (1973–1984, 1987–1988), French Institute (1984), New Theatre (1985–1986), Comedy Theatre (1989), Za Dalekim (1990), Ateneum Theatre (1992–1999) and Zygmunta Hübner's Theatre (2002). His most notable roles, which made him one of the most popular actors in Poland, are featured in such films as Janusz Majewski's 1975 film '' Hotel Pacific'', Andrzej Wajda's 1976 film ''Smuga cienia'' where he played the role of Joseph Conrad, Krzysztof Zanussi's 1981 biographic film ''From a Far Country'', Janu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |