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Wojciech Pszoniak
Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak (2 May 1942 – 19 October 2020) was a Polish film and theatre actor. Biography and career Pszoniak was born in Lwów, Nazi occupied Poland, now in Ukraine. He gained international visibility following Andrzej Wajda's 1975 film '' The Promised Land'', in which he played Moritz, one of the three main characters. The actor left Poland during the period of political unrest in 1980–81, when the Solidarity trade union began and was ended by the imposition of martial law on 13 December 1981. Pszoniak found roles in France, where he was living and working. After the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, Pszoniak appeared in Polish movies and plays. Internationally, he simplified his first name into ''Wojtek'', which is the standard diminutive of the relatively formal ''Wojciech'' in the Polish language. Pszoniak often played Jewish characters, although he was not of Jewish descent. In France, this was partially attributable to his role in ''The Promis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe. The preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland defines the Polish nation as comprising all the citizens of Poland, regardless of heritage or ethnicity. The majority of Poles adhere to Roman Catholicism. The population of self-declared Poles in Poland is estimated at 37,394,000 out of an overall population of 38,512,000 (based on the 2011 census), of whom 36,522,000 declared Polish alone. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora (the '' Polonia'') exists throughout Europe, the Americas, and in Australasia. Today, the largest urban concentrations of Poles are within the Warsaw and Silesian metropolitan areas. Ethnic Poles are considered to be the descendants of the ancient West Slavic Lechites and other tribes that inhabit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Pszoniak Gwiazda Lodz
Wojciech () is a Polish name, equivalent to Czech Vojtěch , Slovak Vojtech, and German Woitke. The name is formed from two components in archaic Polish: * ''wój'' (Slavic: ''voj''), a root pertaining to war. It also forms words like ''wojownik'' ("warrior") and ''wojna'' ("war"). * ''ciech'' (from an earlier form, ''tech''), meaning "joy". The resulting combination means "he who enjoys war" or "joyous warrior". Its Polish diminutive forms include ''Wojtek'' , ''Wojtuś'' , ''Wojtas'', ''Wojcio'', ''Wojteczek'', ''Wojcieszek'', ''Wojtaszka'', ''Wojtaszek'', ''Wojan'' (noted already in 1136), ''Wojko'', and variants noted as early as 1400, including ''Woytko'', ''Woythko'', and ''Voytko''. The feminine form is Wojciecha (). Related names in South Slavic languages include ''Vojko'', ''Vojislav'', and ''Vojteh''. The name has been rendered into German in several different variations, including: ''Woitke'', ''Witke'', ''Voitke'', ''Voytke'', ''Woytke'', ''Vogtke'', ''Woytegk'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mit Meinen Heißen Tränen
''Mit meinen heißen Tränen'' ("with my hot tears") is a West German-Austrian-Swiss joint production film which depicts the final years of the life of 19th century Austrian composer Franz Schubert. It was released on 31 October 1986 in Germany, Austria and Netherlands. The film's lead actor Udo Samel was nominated for 1986 European Film Award for Best Actor. Cast * Udo Samel as Franz Schubert * Daniel Olbrychski as Franz von Schober * Wojciech Pszoniak as Kajetan * Traugott Buhre as Schuberts Vater * Maja Komorowska as Anna Schubert * Gabriel Barylli as Moritz von Schwind * Florentin Groll as Joseph von Spaun * Vitus Zeplichal as Josef Hüttenbrenner * Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger as Johann Mayrhofer * Therese Affolter as Magdalena * Erni Mangold as Gräfin Rieder * Dorothea Neff as Die alte Gräfin * Christian Altenburger as Johann Strauss * Michaela Widhalm as Schuberts Halbschwester Josefa * Monica Bleibtreu as Ferdinand Schuberts Frau * Despina Pajanou as Frau von gegenà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angry Harvest
''Angry Harvest'' (german: Bittere Ernte) is a 1985 West German film directed by Agnieszka Holland. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It is based on a novel written by Hermann Field and Stanislaw Mierzenski while they were imprisoned by the Polish government in the early 1950s. (The circumstances under which the novel were written are documented in Field's autobiographical story, "Trapped in the Cold War: The Ordeal of an American Family".) It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. Plot In the winter of 1942–43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Moves
''Dangerous Moves'' (french: La Diagonale du fou) is a 1984 French-language film about chess, directed by Richard Dembo, produced by Arthur Cohn, starring Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, as well as Liv Ullmann, Leslie Caron, and Bernhard Wicki in prominent supporting roles. Its original French title is ''La diagonale du fou'' ("The Fool's Diagonal", referring to the chess piece called the bishop in English but the fool in French). The film was a co-production between companies in France and Switzerland. It tells the story of two very different men competing in the final match of the World Chess Championship. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew who holds the title, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier. Cast * Michel Piccoli as Akiva Liebskind * Alexandre Arbatt as Pavius Fromm * Liv Ullmann as Marina Fromm * Leslie Caron as Henia Liebskind * Wojciech Pszoniak as Felton, Fromm's team * Jean-Hugues Anglade as Miller, Fromm's tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austeria
''Austeria'' (aka ''The Inn'') is a Polish feature film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, produced by ''Zespół Filmowy "Kadr"'' and released in 1983. ''Austeria'' takes place during the opening days of World War I, in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia. Tag, played by Franciszek Pieczka, is a Jewish innkeeper whose inn (''austeria'' means inn in the Polish dialect) is located near the border with the Russian Empire. War has broken out and local civilians are fleeing the advancing Russian Army. A number of refugees have taken shelter in Tag's inn for the night. A group of Hasidic Jews from the neighboring village arrive, followed by an Austrian baroness, and a Hungarian hussar, cut off from his army unit. The film is based on a 1966 novel of the same name by Julian Stryjkowski, who collaborated with Kawalerowicz on the screenplay. Cast * Franciszek Pieczka as Tag * Wojciech Pszoniak as Josele * Jan Szurmiej as the cantor * Ewa Domanska as Asia * Wojciech Standello as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympics 40
''Olympics 40'' ( pl, Olimpiada 40) is a 1980 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Kotkowski. The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 53rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Plot The film is based on actual events from World War II. During August 1940, prisoners of war celebrated a "special Olympics" called the ''International Prisoner-of-War Olympic Games'' at Stalag XIII-A in Langwasser, near Nuremberg, Germany. An Olympic flag, 29 by 46 cm in size, was made of a Polish prisoner's shirt and, drawn in crayon, it featured the Olympic rings and banners for Belgium, France, Great Britain, Norway, Poland, and the Netherlands. ''Olympics 40'' tells the story of these games and of one of the prisoners of war, Teodor Niewiadomski. Cast * Mariusz Benoit as Piotr * Jerzy Bończak as Jacques * Tadeusz Galia as Leon * Krzysztof Janczar as Andrzej * Ryszard Kotys as Schlappke * Wojciech Pszoniak as Schulz See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tin Drum (film)
''The Tin Drum'' (german: Die Blechtrommel) is a 1979 film adaptation of Günter Grass' novel of the same title, directed by Volker Schlöndorff from a screenplay co-written with Jean-Claude Carrière and Franz Seitz. It stars Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach, Charles Aznavour, and David Bennent in the lead role of Oskar Matzerath, a young boy who willfully arrests his own physical development and remains in the body of a child even as he enters adulthood. A darkly comic war drama with magical realist elements, the film follows Oskar, a precocious child living in Danzig, who wields seemingly preternatural abilities. He lives in contempt of the adults around him and witnesses firsthand their potential for cruelty, first via the rise of the Nazi Party and then the subsequent war. The title refers to Oskar's toy drum, which he loudly plays whenever he is displeased or upset. The German-language film was a co-production of West German, Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mieszko I
Mieszko I (; – 25 May 992) was the first ruler of Poland and the founder of the first independent Polish state, the Duchy of Poland. His reign stretched from 960 to his death and he was a member of the Piast dynasty, a son of Siemomysł and a grandson of Lestek. He was the father of Bolesław I the Brave (the first crowned king of Poland) and of Gunhild of Wenden. Most sources identify Mieszko I as the father of Sigrid the Haughty, a Scandinavian queen (though one source identifies her father as Skoglar Toste), the grandfather of Canute the Great (Gundhild's son) and the great-grandfather of Gunhilda of Denmark, Canute the Great's daughter and wife of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor. He was the first Christian ruler of Poland, but he continued the policies of both his father and grandfather, who initiated the process of creation of the Polish state. Through both alliances and military force, Mieszko extended ongoing Polish conquests and early in his reign subjugated Kuyavia an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gniazdo
''Gniazdo'' (English: ''The Nest'') is a 1974 Polish historical film about Mieszko I, the founder of the first independent Polish state, circa 960 AD. The film was written by Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski and directed by Jan Rybkowski. Cast and characters * Wojciech Pszoniak as Mieszko I * Marek Bargiełowski as Czcibor, Mieszko's brother * Wanda Neumann as Dubrawa * Franciszek Pieczka as Mrokota * Bolesław Płotnicki as Siemomysł, Mieszko's father * Tadeusz Białoszczyński as Gero * Janusz Bylczyński as Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark * Czesław Wołłejko as Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto the Great (german: Otto der Große, it, Ottone il Grande), was East Francia, East Frankish king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973. He was the olde ... References External links * Films set in the 10th century Films set in Poland 1974 films Polish biographical films Polish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
