Anatol Stern (24 October 1899 in

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– 19 October 1968 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, writer and art critic. Born 24 October 1899 to an assimilated family of Jewish ancestry, Stern studied at the

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Faculty of the University of Wilno but did not graduate. Prominent among Polish

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poets, between 1921 and 1923 he co-authored (together with

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) the "Nowa Sztuka" (''New Art'') monthly. He also collaborated with other notable art magazines of the time, including the ''

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'', Tadeusz Peiper's ''Zwrotnica'' and '' Wiadomości literackie''. With time he drifted away from avant-garde poetry and became a notable screenwriter. Prior to the outbreak of

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, he authored more than 30 screenplays for both Polish and foreign films. After the

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he moved to Soviet-held

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, where he was arrested by the

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and sent to Soviet

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. Released after the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, he joined the

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and with it reached

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. There he made his living translating some of his pre-war works to

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. In 1948 he returned to his home town, where he died 19 October 1968.

Selected filmography

* ''

Exile to Siberia ''Exile to Siberia'' (Polish: ''Na Sybir'') is a Polish historical film directed by Henryk Szaro and starring Adam Brodzisz, Jadwiga Smosarska and Mieczysław Frenkiel. It was released in 1930. The film's art direction was by Józef Galewski ...

'' (1930) * '' Róża'' (1936) * ''

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'' (1936) * Barbara Radziwiłłówna (1936) Imdb filmography, , https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827629/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

References

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