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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] |
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 1.86 million residents within a Warsaw metropolitan area, greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 6th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises List of districts and neighbourhoods of Warsaw, 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Alpha 2, alpha global city, a major political, economic and cultural hub, and the country's seat of government. It is also the capital of the Masovian Voivodeship. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Krall
Hanna Krall (born 1935) is a Polish writer with a degree in journalism from the University of Warsaw, specializing among other subjects in the history of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. Personal life Krall is of Jewish origin, the daughter of Salomon Krall and Felicia Jadwiga ''née'' Reichold. She was born in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, but her date of birth is contested between 20 May 1935 and 20 May 1937. She was four (or two) years old, living in Lublin, when World War II began with the Nazi German invasion of Poland. Krall lost most of her close relatives in the Holocaust, including her mother and father, who were murdered in Majdanek concentration camp, Majdanek. She survived deportations to death camps only because she was hidden from the Germans by the Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust, Polish rescuers. After the war, she stayed in her childhood home in Otwock until going to the University of Warsaw for her education from 1951 to 1955. She is married to reporter J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True Law
''True Law'' () is a Polish legal drama television series directed by Maciej Migas and featuring Agnieszka Dygant as the title character, Agata Przybysz. It premiered on TVN on 4 March 2012. The plot is set in Warsaw. Plot The series tells the story of Agata Przybysz ( Agnieszka Dygant), coming from Bydgoszcz an over-thirty director of law section in a big insurance company, who loses her job as effect of some unpleasant events. Now she has to build her career life and private life from the beginning. Her friend, Dorota (Daria Widawska), offers her to launch a set of chambers together. For Agata, it is the brand new experience. The cases, people and their problems, that she faces in her new job, differ from the insurance cases she was used to. Cast * Agnieszka Dygant as Agata Przybysz * Daria Widawska as Dorota, Agata's friend * Tomasz Karolak as Wojciech, Dorota's husband * Leszek Lichota as Dębski * Małgorzata Kożuchowska as prosecutor Maria Okońska * Marian Opania as Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekipa (TV Series)
''Ekipa'' (en. "team", English title: Prime Minister) is a Polish political drama TV series created and directed by Agnieszka Holland, aired from 13 September 2007 until 6 December 2007 (cancelled due to low audience figures) on Polsat. Ekipa is the second Polish political fiction series after the 1980s miniseries ''The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma'' based on Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz's novel of the same name. Creators The series is directed by three directors - Agnieszka Holland, Magdalena Łazarkiewicz and Katarzyna Adamik, and produced by ATM Grupa and Grupa Filmowa. Copyrights are owned by Telewizja Polsat. The script was created by Dominik Wieczorkowski-Rettinger and Wawrzyniec Smoczyński. Plot The action of the series is set in present-day Poland. The story begins when Prime Minister and legendary opposition leader during Communist rule Henryk Nowasz of "Polish Centre Bloc" (''Polski Blok Centrum'') was suspected of being an agent of the former communist security servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kryminalni
''Crime Detectives'' () was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from 18 September 2004 until 24 May 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cop, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara (Basia) Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope (2007 Film)
''Hope'' (; ) is a 2007 German-Polish drama film directed by Stanisław Mucha. It was entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival. Cast * Rafał Fudalej as Franciszek Ratay * Kamilla Baar as Klara * Wojciech Pszoniak as Benedykt Weber * Zbigniew Zapasiewicz as Franciszek's Father * Zbigniew Zamachowski as Sopel * Grzegorz Artman as Michal Ratay * Jerzy Trela as Airclub Worker * Jan Frycz as Gustaw * Lilith Mucha as Melania * Dominika Ostalowska as Matka References External links * 2007 films 2007 drama films Films scored by Max Richter German drama films Polish drama films 2000s Polish-language films Films with screenplays by Krzysztof Kieślowski Films with screenplays by Krzysztof Piesiewicz 2000s German films {{2000s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodzina Zastępcza
''Foster Family'' () is a Polish primetime sitcom broadcast on Polsat from 23 February 1999 to 20 December 2009. In 2004 the title was changed to ''Foster Family Plus'' () and the series got longer episodes, as well as more regular characters and locations. The series told the story of the Kwiatkowski family, Anka and Jacek, their biological children Majka and Filip, as well as three children they adopted: Eliza, Zosia, Romek, later also Dorotka, Wojtek, Piotrek and Pawełek. Cast * Gabriela Kownacka as Anna Kwiatkowska (1999–2008) * Piotr Fronczewski as Jacek Kwiatkowski (1999–2009) * Monika Mrozowska as Maja Kwiatkowska (1999–2009) * Leszek Zduń as Kuba Potulicki (2004–2009) * Sergiusz Żymełka as Filip Kwiatkowski (1999–2009) * Aleksander Ihnatowicz as Romek Latosz (1999–2007) * Aleksandra Szwed as Eliza (1999–2009) * Marcin Korcz as Michał Kercz'' (2008–2009) * Misheel Jargalsajkhan as Zosia (1999–2007) * Wiktoria Gąsiewska as Dorotka (2007–2009) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boża Podszewka
' ("God's Lining") and ' ("God's Lining. Part Two") are Polish TV series based on the novel with the same title by about the life of petty szlachta in the backwaters of the Vilnius Region. The first part was aired in 15 episodes during 1997–1998 and covered the time period 1900-1945. The second part was aired in 16 episodes during 2005-2006 and covered the time period 1945-1948. It was the debut work of Izabella Cywińska as film director. When the airing started, the series caused a considerable controversy across the whole Poland among the people originating from the Kresy Eastern Borderlands (), often simply Borderlands (, ) was a historical region of the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic. The term was coined during the interwar period (1918–1939). Largely agricultural and extensively multi-ethnic with ... region, which the Vilnius Region was part of. They claimed that the series created a distorted, unflattering image of the people from the Vilnius region. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Air So Pure
''An Air So Pure'' or ''Un air si pur...'' is a 1997 French comedy-drama film directed by Yves Angelo. Plot During World War I, a doctor and a lawyer buy a huge house in a mountain to make both nursing home and resort home. Tenants flock, all of different nationalities, sick or healthy. All invent false identities, to appear to others what they aren't, because all dream of a future in which their destiny, tragic or comic, does not allow accomplishment. Cast * Fabrice Luchini as Magnus * André Dussollier as Doctor Boyer * Marie Gillain as Julie d'Espard * Yolande Moreau as Laure Surville * Jacques Boudet as Monsieur Elmer * Jerzy Radziwiłowicz as Daniel * Jean-Pierre Lorit as Florent * Édith Scob as Mademoiselle Sophie * Krystyna Janda as Madame Leduroy * Laura Betti as Madame Ruben * Emmanuelle Laborit as Mathilde * Grażyna Wolszczak as Milady * Nicolas Vaude Nicolas Vaude (born 24 July 1962) is a French actor. Filmography Theater External links * 1962 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Witman Boys
''The Witman Boys'' () is a 1997 Hungarian drama film co-written and directed by János Szász. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. At the 20th Moscow International Film Festival the film won the FIPRESCI Prize and Szász won the Silver St. George for Best Director. The film was selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Cast * Maia Morgenstern - Mrs. Witman * Alpár Fogarasi - János Witman * Szabolcs Gergely - Ernő Witman * Lajos Kovács - Dénes Witman * Dominika Ostalowska - Irén * Péter Andorai - Endre Tálay * István Holl - Mihály Szladek * Juli Sándor - Eszti * Péter Blaskó - Elegant Gentleman * György Barkó - Dissector * Tamás Kalmár - Corpse Carrier * Zsolt Porcza - Zöldi * Ákos Horváth - Physical Instructor * Lajos Szücs - Guest * Sándor Kassay - Person on Duty * Arnold Kilin - Twin Controversy In 1997, the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Of The Innocent (film)
''Blood of the Innocent'' (also released on VHS as ''Beyond Forgiveness'' or in Poland as ''Anioł śmierci'' (The Angel of Death)) is a 1994 American-Polish direct-to-video film directed by Bob Misiorowski and starring Thomas Ian Griffith, John Rhys-Davies, Rutger Hauer, Artur Żmijewski and Bożena Szymańska. The film premiere on Showtime on December 10, 1994. Premise A Chicago cop goes to Poland to get the hoods who killed his brother. He soon discovers that his brother was killed by the Russian mafia, who are killing local peasants and selling their organs on the black market. Cast * Thomas Ian Griffith as Detective Frank Wusharsky * John Rhys-Davies as Captain Shmuda * Rutger Hauer as Dr. Lem * Artur Żmijewski as Detective Marty Wusharsky * Bożena Szymańska as Patty * Aleksander Wysocki as "Scarface" * Jan Prochyra as Zelepukhin * Jerry Flynn as FBI Agent Reed * Marcin Szpil as Sasha * Ilona Kucińska as Sasha's Mother * Dominika Ostałowska Dominika Ostałowska (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
