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The Codes
''The Codes'' is the English title for ''Szyfry'', a Polish film released in 1966, directed by Wojciech Has. Plot Tadeusz (Jan Kreczmar) is a Polish veteran of World War II who fled to London at the end of the war, leaving behind his wife Zofia (Irena Eichlerówna) and two sons, Maciek (Zbigniew CybulskiDirectory of World Cinema, Volume 8 edited by Adam Bingham, v. 8 p. 15) and Jedrek, who disappeared when he was 17 years old. Tadeusz returns to Kraków to discover if Jedrek may be alive. His wife and son Maciek were members of resistance – was it possible that the second son may have been the traitor? During Maciek's struggle to explain to his father their history during German occupation, questions arise concerning collaboration with the Gestapo and retribution by the Home Army. Has pictures the mystical lost boy in a dark fairy-tale forest, full of the war's ghosts and wholesale executions. The hypnotic quality of these excursions foreshadows the mesmerizing passages of Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Has
Wojciech Jerzy Has (1 April 1925, Kraków – 3 October 2000, Łódź) was a Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer. Early life and studies Wojciech Jerzy Has was born in Kraków. Has himself was agnostic. However, his family on both sides was Roman Catholic, although he was a committed philosemite. He was Jewish roots on his father's side, and Roman Catholic on his mother's.Moldes, Diego,'' El manuscrito encontrado en Zaragoza. La novela de Jan Potocki adaptada al Cine por Wojciech Jerzy Has'', Ediciones Calamar, Madrid, 2009. ISBN 84-96235-32-7 The name ''Has'' is the Hollandic, Yiddish and Germanised Jewish surname ''Haas'' (האָז), meaning ''hare'' in English. During the wartime German occupation of Poland, Has studied at the Kraków Business and Commerce College and later clandestine underground classes at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts - until it was disbanded in 1943. When the war ended, he went on to study at the reconstituted Academy of Fine Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Army
The Home Army ( pl, Armia Krajowa, abbreviated AK; ) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II. The Home Army was formed in February 1942 from the earlier Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Armed Resistance) established in the aftermath of the German and Soviet invasions in September 1939. Over the next two years, the Home Army absorbed most of the other Polish partisans and underground forces. Its allegiance was to the Polish government-in-exile in London, and it constituted the armed wing of what came to be known as the Polish Underground State. Estimates of the Home Army's 1944 strength range between 200,000 and 600,000. The latter number made the Home Army not only Poland's largest underground resistance movement but, along with Soviet and Yugoslav partisans, one of Europe's largest World War II underground movements. The Home Army sabotaged German transports bound for the Eastern Front in the Soviet Union, destroying German supplies and ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish War Films
Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwriters Polish may refer to: * Polishing, the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by rubbing or chemical action ** French polishing, polishing wood to a high gloss finish * Nail polish * Shoe polish * Polish (screenwriting), improving a script in smaller ways than in a rewrite See also * * * Polonaise (other) A polonaise ()) is a stately dance of Polish origin or a piece of music for this dance. Polonaise may also refer to: * Polonaises (Chopin), compositions by Frédéric Chopin ** Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 (french: Polonaise héroïque, lin ... {{Disambiguation, surname Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Films
The year 1966 in film involved some significant events. '' A Man for All Seasons'' won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Top-grossing films North America The top ten 1966 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Outside North America The highest-grossing 1966 films in countries outside North America. Events * October 19 - Gulf and Western Industries acquire Paramount Pictures. * November - Seven Arts Productions reach agreement to acquire Warner Bros. for $32 million, later forming a new company Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. * December 15 - Entertainment pioneer Walt Disney, best known for his creation of Mickey Mouse, breakthroughs in the field of animation, filmmaking, theme park design and other achievements, dies at the age of 65. He died while he was producing ''The Jungle Book'', ''The Happiest Millionaire'', and ''Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day''; the last three films under his personal supervision. Awards Academy Awards: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Polish-language Films
There are two lists of Polish language films: # Alphabetical by Polish title # Alphabetical by title of English release Alphabetical by Polish title * ''Austeria'' * '' Bilans kwartalny'' * '' Człowiek na torze'' * '' Człowiek z Marmuru'' * '' Człowiek z Żelaza'' * '' Dekalog'' * ''Dług'' * '' Eroica'' * ''Faraon'' * ''Golem'' * '' Jak być kochaną'' * ''Kanał'' * ''Klincz'' * ''Lotna'' * '' Miś'' * '' Nóż w wodzie'' * ''Ogniem i Mieczem'' * '' Ostatni dzień lata'' * ''Pan Wołodyjowski'' * '' Pasażerka'' * '' Pianista'' * '' Pociąg'' * '' Pokolenie'' * '' Popiół i Diament'' * '' Potop'' * '' Pożegnania'' * '' Pręgi'' * '' Przez dotyk'' * '' Quo Vadis'' * ''Rejs'' * '' Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie'' * '' Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą'' * ''Seksmisja'' * '' Trzy Kolory: Bialy'' * ''Zemsta'' * '' Ziemia Obiecana'' Alphabetical by title of English release * '' Ashes and Diamonds'' * ''Austeria'' * ''Blind Chance'' * ''By Touch'' * ''Camera Buff'' * ''Colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Poland
The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as the history of cinematography, and it has universally recognized achievements, even though Polish films tend to be less commercially available than films from several other European nations. After World War II, the communist government built an auteur-based national cinema, trained hundreds of new directors and empowered them to make films. Filmmakers like Roman Polański, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Agnieszka Holland, Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Żuławski, Andrzej Munk, and Jerzy Skolimowski impacted the development of Polish film-making. In more recent years, the industry has been producer-led with finance being the key to a film being made, and with many independent filmmakers of all genres, Polish productions tend to be more inspired by American film. History Early history The first Movie theater, cinema was founded in Łódź in 1899, several years after the invention of the Cinematograph. Initially dubbed ''Living Pictures Thea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazimierz Opaliński
Kazimierz Opaliński (22 February 1890 – 6 June 1979) was a Polish stage and film actor. He appeared in more than forty films between 1936 and 1975. Selected filmography References External links * 1890 births 1979 deaths Polish male film actors Polish male stage actors People from Przemyśl {{Poland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zofia Merle
Zofia Merle (born 30 March 1938) is a Polish character actress. She has made over 75 appearances in film and television. She starred in the 1978 comedy film ''What Will You Do When You Catch Me?''. Filmography * 1961: ''Komedianty'' as Young Actress (directed by: Maria Kaniewska) * 1962: ''Jadą goście, jadą'' as Maryna * 1964: ''Agnieszka 46'' as Pela (directed by: Sylwester Chęciński) * 1965: ''Katastrofa'' as Zofia (directed by: Sylwester Chęciński) * 1966: ''The Codes'' as Wacka (directed by: Wojciech Jerzy Has) * 1969: ''Rzeczpospolita babska'' as Irena Molenda * 1973: ''The Peasants'' as Magda Kozlowa (directed by: Jan Rybkowski) * 1975: ''Nights and Days'' as peasant Maria Kałużna * 1978: ''What Will You Do When You Catch Me?'' as Krzakoski's domestic servant (directed by: Stanisław Bareja) * 1981: ''Teddy Bear'' as Tradeswoman (directed by: Stanisław Bareja) * 1985: ''Memoirs of a Sinner'' as Weaver's wife (directed by: Wojciech Jerzy Has) * 1988: ''The Tribulatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Krafftówna
Barbara Krafftówna (a.k.a. Barbara Krafft-Seidner; 5 December 1928 – 23 January 2022) was a Polish film actress. She appeared in more than 40 films and television shows between 1946 and 2022. She died in Skolimów on 23 January 2022, at the age of 93 from COVID-19.https://www.o2.pl/plotki/wypadek-operacja-i-covid-19-tak-odchodzila-barbara-krafftowna-6734752115481312a Selected filmography * ''Tonight a City Will Die'' (1961) * ''How to Be Loved'' (1963) * ''The Saragossa Manuscript ''The Manuscript Found in Saragossa'' (; also known in English as ''The Saragossa Manuscript'') is a frame-tale novel written in French at the turn of 18th and 19th centuries by the Polish author Count Jan Potocki (1761–1815). It is narrated ...'' (1965) * '' The Codes'' (1966) References External links * 1928 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Polish actresses Polish film actresses Polish stage actresses Actresses from Warsaw Polish cabaret performers Officers of the Order of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ''Interrogat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Dzieszynski
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including ''adam'', meaning humankind; in God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground", places him in the Garden of Eden, and forms a woman, Eve, as his helpmate; in Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and God condemns Adam to labour on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death; deals with the birth of Adam's sons, and lists his descendants from Seth to Noah. The Genesis creation myth was adopted by both Christianity and Islam, and the name of Adam accordingly appears in the Christian scriptures and in the Quran. He also features in subsequent folkloric and mystical elaborations in later Judaism, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Klosinski
Janusz () is a masculine Polish given name. It is also the shortened form of January and Januarius. People * Janusz Akermann (born 1957), Polish painter *Janusz Bardach, Polish gulag survivor and physician *Janusz Bielański, Roman Catholic priest *Janusz Bojarski (born 1956), Polish general *Janusz Bokszczanin (1894–1973), Polish Army colonel * Janusz Christa (1934–2008), Polish author of comic books *Janusz Domaniewski (1891–1954), Polish ornithologist * Janusz Gajos, Polish actor *Janusz Gaudyn (1935–1984), Polish physician, writer and poet *Janusz Głowacki (1938–2017), Polish-American author and screenwriter *Janusz Janowski (born 1965), Polish painter, jazz drummer and art theorist *Janusz Kamiński (born 1959), Polish cinematographer and film director *Janusz Korczak ( Henryk Goldszmit), Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogist *Janusz Kurtyka (born 1960), Polish historian specializing in the culture and religion of Poland in the 16th an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
