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Magdalena Cielecka
Magdalena Cielecka (born 20 February 1972) is a Polish actress. Life and career Cielecka spent her childhood in the small town of Żarki-Letnisko. In 1995, she graduated from Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna in Kraków. Soon after, she joined the Teatr Stary Theatre Company in Kraków, where she stayed until 2001, when she moved to Warsaw and joined the Teatr Rozmaitości Theatre Company. Although she made her first cinema appearance quite early in a film by Barbara Sass called ''Pokuszenie'' (1995), she initially was known mainly for her work in theatre. A few years later she became widely recognized as an actress and she gained popularity with her cinematic roles such as ''Samotność w sieci'' or the TV series '' Magda M.'' At the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival she played the leading role in a critically acclaimed adaptation of Kane's ''4.48 Psychosis'' by the Polish theatre company Teatr Rozmaitości.McMillian, JoyceTheatre review: 4.48 Psychosis ''The Scotsma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myszków
Myszków is a town in Poland, with 31,650 inhabitants (2019). Situated on the Warta river in the Silesian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Częstochowa Voivodeship (1975–1998), it is the capital of Myszków County. Myszków historically belongs to Lesser Poland, and the area where the town is now located, until the Partitions of Poland was part of Kraków Voivodeship’s County of Lelów. Myszków is located along one of the oldest Polish rail lines – the Warsaw–Vienna railway, also, near the town goes another important rail line – the Central Rail Line Coat of arms Myszków has for years been a center of heavy industry, which is reflected in the town's coat of arms. Created in 1969, it shows four black smokestacks, with fumes coming from the two in the middle. Above the smokestacks is the White Eagle, on the sides are two heads of corn, and the blue ribbon symbolizes the Warta river. History The history of the town called Myszków is very short, and goes back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katyń (film)
''Katyń'' () is a 2007 Polish historical drama film about the 1940 Katyn massacre, directed by Academy Honorary Award winner Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the book ''Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn'' by Andrzej Mularczyk. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for the 80th Academy Awards. Wajda’s Katyń is the first screen portrayal of this long-suppressed and “highly controversial historical event.” Historical Background Six months before the massacres at Katyn, on August 23, 1939, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin authorized the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression agreement with Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Within days, German troops invaded western Poland, the first action aimed at fulfilling Hitler’s ultimate goal of “Lebensraum,” Within days, Stalin sent Soviet troops into eastern Poland, a region historically at odds with its former rival, Tsarist Russia. Hundreds of thousands of Poles, including soldiers, officers and civilians were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Births
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar time he legal time scale its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908). Events January * January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations. * January 4 - The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395). * January 7 – Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed. * January 9 – The RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor. * January 10 – Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Bangladesh after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. * January 11 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares a new constitutional governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland On Sunday
''Scotland on Sunday'' is a Scottish Sunday newspaper, published in Edinburgh by JPIMedia and consequently assuming the role of Sunday sister to its daily stablemate ''The Scotsman''. It was originally printed in broadsheet format but in 2013 was relaunched as a tabloid. Since this latest relaunch it comprises three parts, the newspaper itself which includes the original "Insight" section, a sports section and ''Spectrum'' magazine which incorporates ''At Home'', originally a separate magazine. It backed a 'No' vote in the referendum on Scottish independence. History ''Scotland on Sunday'' was launched on 7 August 1988 and was priced at 40p. Ultimate ownership of ''Scotland on Sunday'' has changed several times since launch. The Scotsman Publications Limited, which also produces ''The Scotsman'', ''Edinburgh Evening News'' and the ''Herald & Post'' series of free newspapers in Edinburgh, Fife, West Lothian and Perth, was bought by the Canadian millionaire Roy Thomson in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Girl And An Astronaut
''A Girl and an Astronaut'' ( pl, Dziewczyna i kosmonauta) is a Polish sci-fi drama romance television series created by Netflix, based on an idea by Bartek Prokopowicz and Jakub Korolczuk. Synopsis It is 2022, and Niko is a young arrogant fighter pilot who gets the opportunity of a lifetime: to go into outer space in a Russian capsule for 24 hours, as part of a private experiment on human cryopreservation. He is madly in love with Marta, who is equally pursued by Niko's best friend, Bogdan. Shortly after being launched into orbit, Niko begins to hallucinate and accidentally sets the capsule timer for thirty years, immediately going into sub-hibernation. In 2052, Marta is married to Bogdan, and they have a daughter, Oliwia. One day, Niko's capsule reappears in the sky and lands in the ocean. SkyCOMM, the Russian company that launched him into space, retrieves it and brings it back to Russia. There, Nadia, who thirty years before was a seven-year-old girl whose grandfather was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking The Limits
Breaking the Limits ( pl, Najlepszy) is a 2017 Polish biographical film directed by Łukasz Palkowski about the life of Jerzy Górski. The film stars Jakub Gierszał as Górski. Film shows how Gorski manage to win the double Iron Man triathlon after years of being drug addict. In this inspirational film we get to know Gorski from the very beginning, at the onset of his addition to drugs. But along with rising action, main character becomes more and more addicted and lose his best friend and soon, a lover. It's during the second half of movie when he decides to change and fight his demons. For his mother, himself, new lover and most important his daughter which was left without mother after his girlfriend died from overdose. However leaving your addiction is much more harder than winning the biggest triathlon... Cast *Jakub Gierszał as Jerzy Górski * as Ewa Meller *Anna Próchniak as Grażyna *Arkadiusz Jakubik as swimming pool manager *Janusz Gajos as Marek Kotański * Artur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blind Love (2015 Film)
''Blind Love: A Holocaust Journey Through Poland with Man's Best Friend'' is a 2015 documentary film about blind Israelis traveling to Poland with the help of their guide dogs, to learn about the Holocaust. Footage includes blind participants taking part in the 2012 and 2013 March of the Living programs. The film is narrated by Michael Enright of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Synopsis ''Blind Love'' recounts a trip to Poland of six blind Israelis and their guide dogs who took part in the annual March of the Living, where they visited once thriving sites of Jewish life and culture. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the blind participants and their guide dogs marched from Auschwitz-Birkenau in memory of the victims of Nazi genocide and against prejudice, intolerance and hate. The Holocaust survivors who appear in the film are Belgian Auschwitz survivor David Shentow, and Polish born Max Glauben, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and Majdanek. Both survivors reflect upon the dramatic c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Of Love
''United States of Love'' ( pl, Zjednoczone Stany Miłości) is a 2016 Polish drama film directed by Tomasz Wasilewski. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. At Berlin, Wasilewski won the Silver Bear for Best Script. Cast * Julia Kijowska as Agata * Magdalena Cielecka as Iza * Dorota Kolak as Renata * Marta Nieradkiewicz as Marzena * Andrzej Chyra as Karol Reception Critical response In a positive review for the ''Krakow Post'' Giuseppe Sedia commended the film for "the overwhelming use of grey in the superb cinematography by Romanian new wave hero Oleg Mutu" adding that "grey is also used to drench the stories of the four leading female roles in the monotony and dreariness of their daily life without Antonioni-esque cliches". References External links * 2016 films 2016 drama films Polish drama films 2010s Polish-language films {{2010s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lure (2015 Film)
''The Lure'' ( pl, Córki dancingu, lit=Daughters of Dancing) is a 2015 Polish horror musical film directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska. It tells of two sirens who emerge from the waters and perform in a nightclub. One falls in love with a man, and gives up her tail, but loses her voice in the process. The story is a reworking of the 1837 fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen, with inspiration from Smoczyńska's experiences. After a Polish premiere, the film screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and Fantasia Film Festival, to positive reviews. Plot Some time in the 1980s, two sirens, Golden and Silver, encounter a rock band, Figs n' Dates, relaxing and playing music on a beach in Poland. They accompany the band back to the nightclub where they regularly perform and begin playing gigs there, performing as strippers and backup singers. The sirens soon become their own act, The Lure, with the band backing them. Golden murders a bar patron after a show one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh International Festival
The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, spread over the final three weeks in August. Notable figures from the international world of music (especially classical music) and the performing arts are invited to join the festival. Visual art exhibitions, talks and workshops are also hosted. The first 'International Festival of Music and Drama' took place between 22 August and 11 September 1947. Under the first festival director, the distinguished Austrian-born impresario Rudolf Bing, it had a broadly-based programme, covering orchestral, choral and chamber music, Lieder and song, opera, ballet, drama, film, and Scottish 'piping and dancing' on the Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle, a structure that was followed in subsequent years. The Festival has taken place every year since 1947, except for 2020 when it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. A scaled-back version of the festival was held in 2021. Festival directors *1947–1949: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AST National Academy Of Theatre Arts In Kraków
AST National Academy of Theatre Arts (Polish: ''Akademia Sztuk Teatralnych w Krakowie'', often shortened to AST), is a drama school based in Kraków and Wrocław, Poland. It was founded in 1946 by actor Juliusz Osterwa, who took the initial steps leading to the establishment of the Academy through the amalgamation of three local studios; Stary Teatr, the Słowacki Theatre, and Iwo Gall's Dramatic Studio. __TOC__ History The history of the Ludwik Solski Academy began in 1946 with a three-year training course in drama for prospective actors. In 1949 the name of the school was changed to the State College of Acting (''Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Aktorska''), and the curriculum extended to four years. Its current name, the Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna, was determined in 1955. From 1954 to 1964 the college also provided courses in puppetry and the puppet theatre, reactivated in 1972 as an independent Puppet Theatre Faculty located in the city of Wrocław. The new Faculty of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda M
Magda is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of names such as Magdalena, which may refer to: * Magda Apanowicz (born 1985), Canadian actress * Magda B. Arnold (1903–2002), Czechoslovakian-born American psychologist * Magda Danysz (born 1974), French art curator and art dealer * Magda Davitt, name in 2017 of Sinéad O'Connor (born 1966), Irish singer-songwriter * Magda Femme, Polish pop singer and songwriter born Magdalena Pokora in 1971 * Magdolna Magda Gabor (1915–1997), Hungarian-American actress and socialite * Magda Gerber (1910–2007), Hungarian-born early childhood educator in the United States * Magda Giannikou (born 1981), Greek-born composer, film scorer, singer, pianist and accordionist * Johanna Maria Magdalena Magda Goebbels (1901–1945), wife of Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels * María Magdalena Magda Guzmán (1931–2015), Mexican film and television actress * Magda Ianculescu (1929–1995), Romanian operatic sop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
