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Teresa Szmigielówna
Teresa Szmigielówna (9 October 1929 – 24 September 2013) was a Polish actress. She appeared in more than sixty films from 1951 to 2012. Filmography References External links * 1929 births 2013 deaths Polish film actresses {{Poland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarnopol Voivodeship
Tarnopol Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo tarnopolskie) was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939), created on 23 December 1920, with an area of 16,500 km² and provincial capital in Tarnopol (now ''Ternopil'', Ukraine). The voivodeship was divided into 17 districts (powiaty). At the end of World War II, at the insistence of Joseph Stalin during the Tehran Conference of 1943 without official Polish representation whatsoever, the borders of Poland were redrawn by the Allies. The Polish population was forcibly resettled after the defeat of Nazi Germany and the Tarnopol Voivodeship was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. Since 1991, most of the region is located in the Ternopil Oblast in sovereign Ukraine. September 1939 and its aftermath During the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in accordance with the secret protocol of Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet forces allied with Nazi Germany invaded eastern Poland on 17 September 1939. As the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marysia I Napoleon
''Marysia i Napoleon'' (Mary and Napoleon) is a Polish historical film. It was released in 1966. The film is set in two time periods: modern and historical. Plot A young French historian, Napoleon Beranger, comes to Warsaw on a foreign scholarship. While driving his car along a detour he runs into an old manor in Walewice village. On the wall of the manor he finds portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte and his great love Maria Walewska, a Polish aristocrat who used her charms to convince the emperor to stand up for her country. Beranger meets there by accident a beautiful woman, a student of art history by the same name of Maria Walewska (Marysia). The pair of modern heroes both notice the striking resemblance of each other to the historical figures, and as if by magic, move back into the Napoleonic period, where they play the roles of Napoleon and his Polish consort. They fall in love. Main characters * Beata Tyszkiewicz - Maria Walewska/Marysia *Gustaw Holoubek - Napoleon Bonaparte/Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Before Twilight
''Before Twilight'' ( pl, Jeszcze nie wieczór) is a 2008 Polish comedy drama film directed by Jacek Bławut. The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to regroup and stage Goethe's '' Faust''. The film stars a number of esteemed veteran Polish actors including Irena Kwiatkowska and Roman Kłosowski, who plays Nostradamus. The film, produced in 2008, was featured at the 2008 Polish Feature Film Festival where it won a Silver Lion award for director Jacek Bławut and picked up several other awards. It was later released theatrically in Poland on 15 May 2009. The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra were invited to perform part of the soundtrack. Cast * Nina Andrycz as herself * Maria Białkowska as Zosia *Sonia Bohosiewicz as Malgorzata * Stefan Burczyk as Sodolski *Wieńczysław Gliński as himself *Witold Gruca as himself *Lech Gwit as Henryk * Robert Jurczyga as Czarek * Fabian Kiebicz as Fred * Roman Kłosowski as Nostradamus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Never Lived
''Who Never Lived'' ( pl, Kto nigdy nie żył...) is a 2006 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Seweryn. It was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival. Cast * Michał Żebrowski as Father Jan * Joanna Sydor as Marta * Robert Janowski as Pawel * Teresa Marczewska as Jan's Mother * Stefan Burczyk as Priest * Andrzej Zarnecki as Bishop * Cezary Iber as Krzysztof * Natalia Rybicka as Kasia * Mateusz Banasiuk as Mateusz * Wojciech Mecwaldowski as Artur * Joanna Liszowska Joanna Liszowska, (wł. Joanna Patrycja Liszowska Serneke) (born 12 December 1978 in Kraków), is a Polish actress, singer and model. In 2007, Liszowska won the 2nd season of Jak oni śpiewają, the Polish edition of "Soapstar Superstar". Fr ... as Elka * Boguslaw Parchimowicz as Jarek References External links * 2006 films 2006 drama films Polish drama films 2000s Polish-language films Films scored by Jan A. P. Kaczmarek Films set in Warsaw {{2000s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Foreigner (2003 Film)
''The Foreigner'' is a 2003 American action thriller film starring Steven Seagal. The film was shot entirely in Warsaw, Poland, and was the first of a long string of direct-to-video films released starring Seagal from 2003 to 2009. The film recouped its budget from the US home video market alone. Plot Jonathan "Jon" Cold (Steven Seagal) is a former "foreigner", or deep cover operative who now works as a freelance agent who is frequently commissioned to deliver high-risk packages. As Jon prepares for his father's funeral, Alexander Marquet (Philip Dunbar) asks him to take on an assignment. Jon is keen to leave the business, but he reluctantly accepts the job. His task is to take a mysterious package from France to a wealthy man in Germany. But Jon will soon find that there are a lot of people who are determined to prevent him from doing so. Jon is accompanied by Dunoir (Max Ryan) to a farmhouse to pick up the package, and they are attacked by assassins. Jon fights them off and de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korczak (film)
''Korczak'' is a 1990 black-and-white biographical war film directed by Andrzej Wajda and written by Agnieszka Holland, about Polish-Jewish humanitarian Janusz Korczak. An international co-production between Poland, Germany and the United Kingdom, it stars Wojciech Pszoniak as Korczak, with Ewa Dałkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Marzena Trybala, Piotr Kozlowski, Zbigniew Zamachowski and Jan Peszek. The film was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Reception Among the strongest defendants of the epic was Marek Edelman, the Polish Jew who survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Wajda saw the idea of showing the children being led into the Treblinka gas chambers as unnecessary addition of tearjerking moments. Annette Insdorf, a film scholar and str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Turning Point (1983 Film)
''The Turning Point'' (also screened with the English name ''Held for Questioning''; ) is a 1983 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren and Klaus Piontek. The film is based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Hermann Kant, which was based on Kant's own experience as a prisoner of war in Poland. The film tells the story of a German prisoner of war at the end of World War II who is wrongly accused of being a war criminal. The film was controversial upon release as Polish commentators criticized that the film showed the Polish army wrongly accusing someone of war crimes. Nevertheless, the film was successful and won several awards and was the East German official submission to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Plot In October 1945 the 19-year-old German prisoner of war, Mark Niebuhr (Sylvester Groth) arrives together with other prisoners at a train station in Warsaw. A Polish woman waiting for her train at the statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camera Buff
''Camera Buff'' ( pl, Amator, meaning "amateur") is a 1979 Polish drama film written and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Jerzy Stuhr. The film is about a humble factory worker whose newfound hobby, amateur film, becomes an obsession, and transforms his modest and formerly contented life. ''Camera Buff'' won the Polish Film Festival Golden Lion Award and the FIPRESCI Prize and Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival Otto Dibelius Film Award in 1980. Plot The film is set in the late 1970s in Wielice, People's Republic of Poland. Factory worker Filip Mosz ( Jerzy Stuhr) is a nervous new father and a doting husband when he begins filming his daughter's first days with a newly acquired 8mm movie camera. He believes, as he tells his wife, that he now has everything he ever wanted since his youth as an orphan, but when the local Communist Party boss asks him to film a celebration event of the jubilee of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarosław Dąbrowski (film)
''Jarosław Dąbrowski'' is a Polish historical film about Jarosław Dąbrowski. It was released in 1976. Cast * Zygmunt Malanowicz − Jarosław Dąbrowski * Małgorzata Potocka − Pelagia Dąbrowska, żona Jarosława * Aleksandr Kalagin − Tuchołko * Wiktor Awdiuszko − Władisław Ozierow * Władimir Iwaszow − Andrij Potebnia * Stanisław Niwiński − Bronisław Szwarce * Stefan Szmidt − Walery Wróblewski * Józef Nowak Józef Nowak (8 April 1925 – 16 January 1984) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1951 and 1980. Selected filmography * ''Warsaw Premiere'' (1951) * ''Drugi brzeg'' (1962) * ''Westerplatte'' ... − Bronisław Wołowski References External links * 1976 films Polish biographical films Polish historical films 1970s Polish-language films Films set in the 1860s Films set in the 1870s Films about the Paris Commune Soviet multilingual films Soviet biographical films Soviet hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrier (film)
''Barrier'' ( pl, Bariera) is a Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, released in 1966. The hero quits his studies, resolving to seek social advancement by any means. A new girlfriend changes his mind. (in Polish) Details * Title : ''Barrier'' * Original title: ''Bariera'' * Director: Jerzy Skolimowski * Writer: Jerzy Skolimowski * Country of origin: Poland * Format : Black and white- Mono – 35 mm * Genre : Drama * Length: 77 minutes * Release date: 1966 Cast * Joanna Szczerbic : Tram conductor * Jan Nowicki : Protagonist * Tadeusz Łomnicki : Doctor * Maria Malicka : Businesswoman * Zdzisław Maklakiewicz : Paper seller * Ryszard Pietruski : Oberwaiter * Bogdan Baer : Man at bar * Henryk Bąk : Doctor * Stefan Friedmann : Tram conductor asking for help * Andrzej Herder : Manius * Malgorzata Lorentowicz : Owner of the apartment * Zygmunt Malanowicz : Eddy *Janusz Gajos : Streetcar *Marian Kociniak Marian Kociniak (11 January 1936 – 17 March 2016) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
