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Łukasz Karwowski
Łukasz Karwowski (born 30 December 1965 in Toruń) is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer. Early and personal life Karwowski grew up in Toruń, Poland, in the turbulent years of Solidarity and the struggle against the martial law. His father spent time in prison for his anti-communist activity. He lives in Warsaw, married to Weronika Karwowska and has six children: Franciszek, Roch, Mia, Leon, Tymon and Iwo. Education Karwowski studied Polish philology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. He then obtained a degree from the Film and Television Directing Department in the world-renowned National Film School in Lodz, where he was taught by Wojciech Jerzy Has (Winner of Cannes Grand Jury Award for The Hourglass Sanatorium and nominee for several more). In 1989 he studied directing at the National Film and Television School in the UK. In the same year in Belgrade, he was elected for a film masterclass by Istvan Szabo. As a student, he already started g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toruń
Toruń is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland and a World Heritage Sites of Poland, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its population was 196,935 as of December 2021. Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–1998) and the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1919–1939), Pomeranian Voivodeship (1921–1945). Since 1999, Toruń has been a seat of the local government of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship and is one of its two capitals, together with Bydgoszcz. The cities and neighboring counties form the Bydgoszcz–Toruń twin city metropolitan area. Toruń is one of the oldest cities in Poland; it was first settled in the 8th century and in 1233 was expanded by the Teutonic Knights. For centuries it was home to people of diverse backgrounds and religions. From 1264 until 1411, Toruń was part of the Hanseatic League and by the 17th century a leading trading point, which greatly affected the city's architecture, ranging from Brick Gothic to Mannerism, Mann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borys Szyc
Borys Michał Szyc-Michalak (Polish: ; born Borys Michalak; 4 September 1978) is a Polish film and theatre actor and musician. In 2010, he received the Polish Academy Award for Best Actor. Life and career He was born in Łódź, Poland. He graduated from High School No. 26 in Łódź. In 2001, he graduated from Warsaw-based Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy and started a successful film and theatre career. Since 2001, he has performed at Teatr Współczesny in Warsaw. In 2007, he was awarded the Wiktor, the prize of the public Polish Television (TVP), for the best Polish TV actor. He achieved nationwide popularity by starring in such films as '' Vinci'' (2004), ''Testosteron'' (2007), ''Mole'' (2011), '' The Secret of Westerplatte'' (2013), ''Persona Non Grata'' (2015), '' Spoor'' (2017) and ''Cold War'' (2018). Apart from his film career he appeared in numerous popular TV series including '' For Better or Worse'', '' Honey Years'', '' Foster Family'', '' Kasia i Tom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kino Świat
Kino Świat ("world cinema") is a Polish independent film distributor and producer. The company was founded in Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ... in 2001. It was honored by the Polish Film Institute for film distribution in 2011 and 2012. References External links 2001 establishments in Poland Companies based in Warsaw Film production companies of Poland Film distributors of Poland Video on demand services {{PL-film-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawid Ogrodnik
Dawid Ogrodnik (born 15 June 1986, Wągrowiec) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than ten films since 2010. He was honoured by the Polish Film Academy The Polish Film Academy (Polish: ''Polska Akademia Filmowa'') is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures. History The academy was founded in 2003 on the initiative of the I ... with three Polish Academy Awards for Best Actor. Filmography References External links * 1986 births Living people Polish film actors Polish male film actors Polish male stage actors Polish television actors 21st-century Polish male actors People from Wągrowiec Male actors from Greater Poland Voivodeship Lielais Kristaps Award winners {{Poland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Brown
''Jackie Brown'' is a 1997 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, based on the 1992 novel ''Rum Punch'' by Elmore Leonard. It stars Pam Grier as Jackie Brown, a flight attendant who smuggles money between the United States and Mexico. Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton and Robert De Niro appear in supporting roles. ''Jackie Brown'' pays homage to 1970s blaxploitation films, particularly '' Coffy'' and '' Foxy Brown'', both of which also starred Grier. It is the only feature-length film directed by Tarantino that was based on another work. ''Jackie Brown'' was released in the United States on December 25, 1997, by Miramax Films. It received positive reviews and grossed $74.7 million worldwide on a $12 million budget. It was both Grier and Forster's first lead role in a major film for many years, and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Forster, and Golden Globe Award nominations for J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Forster
Robert Wallace Foster Jr. (July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019), known professionally as Robert Forster, was an American actor. He made his screen debut as Private L.G. Williams in John Huston's '' Reflections in a Golden Eye'' (1967), followed by a starring role as news reporter John Casellis in the landmark New Hollywood film '' Medium Cool'' (1969). For his portrayal of bail bondsman Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's ''Jackie Brown'' (1997), he was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Forster played a variety of both leading and supporting roles in over 100 films, including Captain Dan Holland in '' The Black Hole'' (1979), Detective David Madison in ''Alligator'' (1980), Abdul Rafai in '' The Delta Force'' (1986), Colonel Partington in ''Me, Myself & Irene'' (2000), Scott Thorson in '' The Descendants'' (2011), General Edward Clegg in ''Olympus Has Fallen'' (2013) and its sequel '' London Has Fallen'' (2016), Norbert Everhardt in '' What They Had'' (2018), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcin Bosak
Marcin Bosak (born 9 September 1979 in Łódź) is a Polish actor. He appeared in more than twenty-five films since 1995. Biography He was born and raised in Łódź. He has a younger sister, Anna, finalist of the You Can Dance: Po prostu tańcz!. He attended the Tadeusz Kościuszko Secondary School No. 3 in Łódź. In 2003, he graduated from Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. He was the Polish junior karate champion several times. He became recognizable as Kamil Gryc, the roommate of Kingi (Katarzyna Cichopek) and Piotr ( Marcin Mroczek) Zduński and Magda ( Anna Mucha) in the TVP2 M jak miłość series (2003–2006 and again from 2019). He appeared in the music video for the song by Maciej Maleńczuk "Last nocka" (2011) and in the video clip for the ''Czerwone Świnie'' band "Parafiańszczyzna" (2019). In 2012, he joined the Studio Theater in Warsaw. In 2020, he was a participant in the eleventh edition of Polsat entertainment program Danc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida (film)
''Ida'' () is a 2013 drama film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Set in Poland in 1962, it follows a young woman on the verge of taking vows as a Catholic nun. Orphaned as an infant during the German occupation of World War II, she must meet her aunt, a former Communist state prosecutor and only surviving relative, who tells her that her parents were Jewish. The two women embark on a road trip into the Polish countryside to learn the fate of their relatives. Hailed as a "compact masterpiece" and an "eerily beautiful road movie", the film has also been said to "contain a cosmos of guilt, violence and pain", even if certain historical events ( German occupation of Poland, the Holocaust and Stalinism) remain unsaid: "none of this is stated, but all of it is built, so to speak, into the atmosphere: the country feels dead, the population sparse". ''Ida'' won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, becoming the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agata Kulesza
Agata Kulesza (born 27 September 1971) is a Polish actress who has appeared on film, television, and stage. She made her film debut playing the leading role in the 1993 comedy-drama ''Czlowiek z...'' and later appeared in films '' Poznań '56'' (1996), '' The Spring to Come'' (2001), ''Moje pieczone kurczaki'' (2002), '' Expecting Love'' (2008) and '' Suicide Room'' (2011), for which she received Złota Kaczka Award for Best Actress. In 2011, Kulesza starred in the war drama film ''Rose'', receiving her first Polish Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2013 she starred in the drama film '' Ida'', for which she received positive reviews from critics and Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, Polish Film Festival for Best Actress, Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress and her second Polish Academy Award for Best Actress, as well nomination for National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress and European Film Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blair Witch Project
''The Blair Witch Project'' is a 1999 American psychological horror film written, directed, and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez (director), Eduardo Sánchez. One of the most successful independent films of all time, it is a "Found footage (film technique), found footage" pseudo-documentary in which three students (Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams (actor), Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard) hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland, to shoot a documentary about a local myth known as the Blair Witch. Myrick and Sánchez conceived of a fictional legend of the Blair Witch in 1993. They developed a 35-page screenplay with the dialogue to be improvisation, improvised. A casting (performing arts), casting call advertisement on ''Backstage (magazine), Backstage'' magazine was prepared by the directors; Donahue, Williams, and Leonard were cast. The film entered production in October 1997, with the principal photography lasting eight days. Most of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Leonard
Joshua Granville Leonard (born June 17, 1975) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director, known for his role in ''The Blair Witch Project'' (1999). He has since starred in films such as '' Madhouse'' (2004), '' The Shaggy Dog'' (2006), '' Higher Ground'' (2011), '' The Motel Life'' (2012), '' Snake and Mongoose'' (2013), '' If I Stay'' (2014), '' The Town That Dreaded Sundown'' (2014), '' 6 Years'' (2015), and '' Unsane'' (2018). Early life Leonard was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Joann, an author, and Robert Leonard, a theater professor at Pennsylvania State University. He was raised in State College, Pennsylvania. Leonard obtained his GED and at age 16 travelled to Chiapas, Mexico, where he taught at an elementary school and volunteered at an anthropological institute. Leonard then spent time in Seattle and London, where he developed an interest in photography, before settling in New York City at age 19. Career In 1997, Leonard auditioned for and landed one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnieszka Grochowska
Agnieszka Grochowska (, born 31 December 1979) is a Polish film and theatre actress. She is a two-time recipient of Polish Film Awards having won the Polish Academy Award for Best Actress in 2013 and the Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2024. Life She was born on 31 December 1979 in Warsaw. She graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw in 2002. In 2003, she started working at the Studio Theatre in Warsaw. She is the recipient of the 2007 Shooting Stars Award. For her role in '' Shameless'' (2012), she received the Polish Academy Award for Best Actress, while her performances in '' The Welts'' (2004), '' In Darkness'' (2011) and '' Walesa. Man of Hope'' (2013) earned her three additional nominations. Grochowska was also recognised as the Best Actress for her role in the Norwegian comedy film '' Upperdog'' (2009) at the Amanda Awards, and received Polish Film Festival Awards for ''Trzy minuty. 21:37'' (2011) and ''Obce niebo'' (2015). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
