''Copernicus'' ( pl, Kopernik) is a 1973 Polish
historical film
A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and swa ...
directed by
Ewa Petelska
Ewa Petelska (24 December 1920 – 20 August 2013) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. She directed 26 films between 1951 and 1985. Her 1963 film '' Black Wings'' (''Czarne skrzydła'') was entered into the 3rd Moscow Internationa ...
and
Czesław Petelski
Czesław Petelski (5 November 1922 – 19 September 1996) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1953 and 1990. His 1963 film '' Black Wings'' was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival w ...
.
The film was entered into the
8th Moscow International Film Festival
The 8th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 10 to 23 July 1973. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Soviet film '' That Sweet Word: Liberty!'' directed by Vytautas Žalakevičius and the Bulgarian film '' Affection'' directed by L ...
where it won the Silver Prize.
It was also selected as the Polish entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
46th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
[Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
Cast
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Andrzej Kopiczyński
Andrzej Kopiczyński (15 April 1934 – 13 October 2016) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television between 1958 and 2016.
Selected filmography
* ''Copernicus'' (1973)
* ''Czterdziestolatek'' (1974-1977)
* '' Korc ...
as
Mikołaj Kopernik
Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated ...
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Barbara Wrzesińska as Anna Schilling – cousin
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Czesław Wołłejko as Lukasz Watzenrode – bishop of Warmia
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Andrzej Antkowiak as Andrzej Kopernik
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Klaus-Peter Thiele as Georg Joachim von Lauchen gen. Rhetikus
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Henryk Boukołowski as Cardinal Hipolit d'Este
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Hannjo Hasse
Hannjo Hasse (31 August 1921 – 5 February 1983) was an East German actor.
Biography
Hasse began studying acting in 1938, and attended Lily Ackermann's Institute for Stage Artists' Education in Berlin. At 1941, he was drafted for the Labour Ser ...
as Andreas Osiander – editor
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Henryk Borowski
Henryk Borowski (14 February 1910 in Płock - 13 November 1991 in Warsaw) was a Polish theater, radio and film actor. as Tiedemann Giese – bishop of Chełmno
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Jadwiga Chojnacka
Jadwiga Chojnacka (11 October 1905 – 23 December 1992) was a Polish film actress. She appeared in more than 30 films between 1948 and 1989.
Selected filmography
* ''Five Boys from Barska Street'' (1954)
* ''Tonight a City Will Die'' (196 ...
as Thief Kacper's mother
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Aleksander Fogiel
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
as Matz Schilling – Anna's father
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Emilia Krakowska as Kacper's wife
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Gustaw Lutkiewicz
Gustaw Lutkiewicz (29 June 1924 – 24 February 2017) was a Polish actor and singer.
He was born to a Polish family in Kaunas.
He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1970, the Officer's Cross in 1985 and the ...
as Jan Dantyszek – bishop of Warmia
*
Leszek Herdegen as Mönch Mattheusz
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Witold Pyrkosz
Witold Pyrkosz (24 December 1926 – 22 April 2017) was a Polish actor.
He was best known as Lucjan Mostowiak in Polish TV series " M jak miłość", as Pyzdra in " Janosik", as Wichura in "Czterej pancerni i pies", as Balcerek in "Alternaty ...
as Prepozyt Płotowski
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Wiktor Sadecki Wiktor may refer to:
*Andrzej Wiktor (1931–2018), Polish malacologist
*Wiktor Andersson (1887–1966), Swedish film actor
*Wiktor Balcarek (1915–1998), Polish chess player
* Wiktor Biegański (1892–1974), Polish actor, film director and scree ...
as Wojciech z Brudzewa
See also
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References
External links
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1973 films
1970s biographical films
1970s historical films
Biographical films about scientists
Biographical films about mathematicians
Polish biographical films
Polish historical films
1970s Polish-language films
Films directed by Ewa Petelska
Films directed by Czesław Petelski
Films set in the 16th century
Cultural depictions of Nicolaus Copernicus
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