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Chopin, Chopin!
''Chopin, a Sonata in Paris'' () is an upcoming Polish period biographical drama film directed by Michał Kwieciński. Starring Eryk Kulm as Frédéric Chopin, it follows the life of Chopin in the 1830s. It will receive a theatrical release in Poland on 10 October 2025. Cast * Eryk Kulm as Frédéric Chopin * Lambert Wilson as Louis Philippe I * Joséphine de La Baume as George Sand * as Franz Liszt * Maja Ostaszewska as Tekla Justyna Chopin * Karolina Gruszka as Delfina Potocka * Michał Pawlik as Jan Matuszyński * Kamil Szeptycki as Julian Fontana * Martyna Byczkowska as Maria Wodzińska * Dominika Ostałowska as Madame Wodzińska Production Development The film was announced in March 2024. Director Michał Kwieciński had previously worked with Eryk Kulm on his 2022 film, ''Filip''. When Kulm expressed that Frédéric Chopin was his dream role, Kwieciński began researching the composer. He was inspired by Joachim Trier's 2021 film '' The Worst Person in the World'' in de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michał Kwieciński
Michał Kwieciński (born 1 May 1951) is a Polish producer, director, and screenwriter. He founded the production company Akson Studio. Early life Kwieciński earned a doctorate in organic chemistry from the Polish Academy of Sciences before later deciding to pursue film, graduating from the Faculty of Directing and Drama at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art, National Academy of Dramatic Art. Career In 1992, he founded the production company Akson Studio. In 2006, he directed his feature directorial debut, ', which won a Special Jury Prize at the Gdynia Film Festival. For his 2022 film ''Filip (film), Filip'', Kwieciński won the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Gdynia Film Festival. Filmography Film Television References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kwiecinski, Michal 1951 births Living people Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw alumni Film people from Warsaw Polish film directors Polish film producers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karolina Gruszka
Karolina Gruszka (born 13 July 1980) is a Polish actress. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1996. She was nominated for an award as Best Actress for her role in ''Kochankowie z Marony'' at the 2007 Polish Film Awards. In 2019, she appeared in the Icelandic movie ''Gullregn'' (English: Goldrain), directed by Ragnar Bragason. Although she previously did not know the language, she had to perform all her lines in Icelandic. Selected filmography * '' Keep Away from the Window'' (2000) * '' The Captain's Daughter'' (2000) * '' In August of 1944'' (2001) * '' Inland Empire'' (2006) * '' 3 sezóny v pekle'' (3 Seasons in Hell) (2009) * '' Ivan syn Amira'' (2013) * '' All About My Parents'' (2014) * ''Salvation'' (Spasene) (2015) * '' Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge'' (2016) * '' Gullregn'' (2020) * '' Too Old for Fairy Tales'' (2022) * '' Joika'' (2023) * '' Chopin, Chopin!'' (TBA) References External links * * 1980 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Worst Person In The World (film)
''The Worst Person in the World'' () is a 2021 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Joachim Trier, who co-wrote the screenplay with Eskil Vogt. It is the third film in the director's Oslo trilogy, following ''Reprise'' (2006) and '' Oslo, August 31st'' (2011). The film premiered in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival to widespread critical acclaim, with Renate Reinsve winning the award for Best Actress for her performance in the film. At the 94th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay. Plot Julie, a medical student in Oslo, transitions from medicine to psychology and then photography. In her late 20s, she begins a relationship with Aksel Willman, a comic artist 15 years her senior. Now exploring writing, she spends a weekend with Aksel at his parents' house. Aksel suggests starting a family, but Julie is uncertain. While walking home from a publishing event for Aksel, Julie crashes a wedding recep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Trier
Joachim Trier () (born 1 March 1974) is a Danish-born Norwegian filmmaker. His films have been described as "Melancholia, melancholy meditations concerned with existential questions of love, ambition, memory, and identity (social science), identity." He has received numerous accolades, including the Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival), Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Cesar Awards. He is best known for his Oslo trilogy which comprises the films ''Reprise (film), Reprise'' (2006), ''Oslo, August 31st'' (2011), and ''The Worst Person in the World (film), The Worst Person in the World'' (2021). For the last film, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay at the 94th Academy Awards, with the film also nominated for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best International Feature. He is also known for directing Louder Than Bombs (film), ''Louder Than Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Press Agency
The Polish Press Agency (, PAP) is Poland's national news agency, producing and distributing political, economic, social, and cultural news as well as events information. It was founded in 1918 as Polish Telegraphic Agency (PAT). PAP serves print media, online, radio and TV, as well as government offices and private businesses. It has 14 news desks in its headquarters in Warsaw and 24 regional bureaux. As of 2013, the agency had nearly 500 employees and associates, including 300 journalists in Warsaw, 70 regional correspondents, 50 photojournalists and 30 foreign correspondents (among others in Berlin, Brussels, Kyiv, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rome, Sofia, Stockholm, Washington and Vilnius). In 2019 PAP announced plans to extend its foreign correspondent network to additional countries in Europe, Caucasus, Latin America and Southeast Asia in order to expand its presence in Central European and global markets. According to the company's website, its content rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazeta Wyborcza
(; ''The Electoral Gazette'' in English) is a Polish nationwide daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It was launched on 8 May 1989 on the basis of the Polish Round Table Agreement and as a press organ of the Solidarity (Polish trade union), trade union "Solidarity" in the election campaign before the Contract Sejm. Initially created to cover Poland's first partially free parliamentary elections, it rapidly grew into a major publication, reaching a circulation of over 500,000 copies at its peak in the 1990s. It is published by Agora (company), Agora, with its original editor-in-chief Adam Michnik, appointed by Lech Wałęsa, is one of Poland's newspaper of record, newspapers of record, covering the gamut of political, international and general news from a Leftism, left-Liberalism, liberal perspective. ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' also publishes thematic supplements addressing topics such as economy, law, education, and health, including ''Duży Format'', ''Co Jest Grane 24'', and ''Wys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip (film)
''Filip'' is a 2023 Polish war drama film, directed by Michał Kwieciński. It is based on the semi-biographical novel of the same name by Leopold Tyrmand (''Filip'', 1961). Plot In 1943, Filip, a young Polish Jew, escapes the massacre of the Warsaw Ghetto. Disguised as a French Gentile, Filip works as a waiter in a restaurant in Frankfurt am Main, in an exclusive hotel, and carelessly enjoys all the charms of life surrounded by luxury, beautiful women, and friends from all over Europe. However, as the war begins to take a bloody toll on those closest to him, the intricately built world that surrounds him crumbles like a house of cards. Cast * Eryk Kulm Jr. as Filip * Victor Meutelet as Pierre * as Lisa * Zoë Straub as Blanka * Sandra Drzymalska as Marlena * Maja Szopa as Sara * as Baumuller * Bohdan Graczyk as Eissler * Werner Biermeier as Brutsch * Ondrej Kraus as Bohumil * Joseph Altamura as Francesco * Tom van Kessel as Lucas * Mateusz Rzeźniczak as Laszlo * Karo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interia
Interia, formerly Interia.pl, is a large Polish web portal and online news platform launched in 2000 in Kraków, Poland. It is the 4th largest online news source in the country. The list of its 130 services includes the national and international news in the Polish language followed by business news, sports, motorization and new technologies, as well as online games, blogs, chat rooms, internet forums and a shopping arcade, not to mention the streaming radio and Internet television channels. It also offers, among others: new email accounts, free web hosting, and domain name registration. Interia hosts one of Polish online encyclopedias, the '' Encyklopedia Internautica'' and the thematic catalogue of websites. It features also the weather info, astrology, virtual greeting cards popular locally, and hundreds of online chats (''czaterie'') with the "KidProtect" option. History Creation and ownership The portal was established by the ComArch Management IT corporation (listed o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominika Ostałowska
Dominika Ostałowska (born 18 February 1971, Warsaw) is a Polish film, television and theatre actress. She is a two-time winner of Polish Film Awards for Best Actress for her performance in a 2000 film '' Keep Away from the Window'' and for Best Supporting Actress for her role in a 2003 film ''Warsaw.'' Life and career She was born on 21 February 1971 in Warsaw to father Ryszard Ostałowski and mother Irena. She graduated from the Adam Mickiewicz High School No. 4 in Warsaw. In 1994, she graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. Between 1994–2000, she worked at the Warsaw's Ateneum Theatre and between 2000–2012 at the Powszechny Theatre. Since 2012, she has been working at the Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz Studio Theatre. Her most critically acclaimed roles come from Mariusz Treliński's 1995 film ''Łagodna'' based on a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Jerzy Stuhr's 1997 film '' Love Stories'', Lech Majewski's 1999 biopic '' Wojaczek'' and Jan Jakub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Wodzińska
Maria Wodzińska, ''primo voto'' Skarbkowa, ''secundo voto'' Orpiszewska (7 January 1819 – 7 December 1896), was a Polish artist who was a former fiancée to composer Frédéric Chopin. Life Maria Wodzińska was a daughter of Count Wincenty Wodziński and Countess Teresa Wodzińska, of the Jastrzębiec coat of arms. She had three brothers, Antoni, Feliks, and Kazimierz, and a sister, Józefa. The family moved to Geneva in 1832, where Maria was "the brilliant star of the household... striking in every sense". She studied piano with composer John Field and art at the Geneva Academy. Prince Louis-Napoleon (later Napoleon III) was reportedly among those in love with her, as was poet Juliusz Słowacki, who wrote a poem about her. She was described as having "a touch of the Mediterranean about her": olive-toned skin and dark hair and eyes. She was one of the recipients of Chopin's so-called Farewell Waltz in 1835. She also painted the composer, creating what Tad Szulc called " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martyna Byczkowska
Martyna Byczkowska (born 26 November 1995) is a Polish actress. Biography Byczkowska was born in Gdynia and grew up in Gdańsk and Kartuzy. She was a swimmer in her youth. At the age of 18, she moved to 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 ... to attend the National Academy of Dramatic Art, and graduated in 2019. After graduating, she began acting at the in Warsaw. She was featured on the cover of '' Elle Polska'' in April 2024. Filmography Film Television References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Byczkowska, Martyna 1995 births Living people 21st-century Polish actresses Actresses from Gdańsk Actresses from Pomeranian Voivodeship Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw alumni Polish film actresses Polish stage actres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Fontana
Julian (or Jules) Fontana (31 July 1810 — 23 December 1869) was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of Polish people, Polish composer Frédéric Chopin. Life Born in Warsaw to a family of Italian origin, Fontana studied law at the University of Warsaw and music under Józef Elsner at the conservatory, where he met Chopin. Fontana left Warsaw in 1831, after the November Uprising and settled in Hamburg, before becoming a pianist and teacher in Paris in 1832.Dziębowska (2007) In 1835 in London he participated in a concert with music played by 6 pianists, the others including Ignaz Moscheles, Johann Baptist Cramer and Charles-Valentin Alkan. From 1836 to 1838 he lived together with Chopin in his apartment on Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, Chaussée-d'Antin no. 38. In 1840, Chopin dedicated his 2 Polonaises, Op. 40 (Chopin), Polonaises, Op. 40, to Fontana. These included the "Military Polon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
