|
Krzysztof Pieczyński
Krzysztof Pieczyński (born 27 March 1957) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1979. Filmography References External links * 1957 births Living people Polish male film actors Polish male television actors Polish male stage actors People from Opole Male actors from Opole Voivodeship {{Poland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opole
Opole (; ; ; ) is a city located in southern Poland on the Oder River and the historical capital of Upper Silesia. With a population of approximately 127,387 as of the 2021 census, it is the capital of Opole Voivodeship (province) and the seat of Opole County. Its metropolitan area was home to 146,522 inhabitants. It is the largest city in its province. Its history dates to the 8th century, and Opole is one of the oldest cities in Poland. An important stronghold in Poland, it became a capital of a Duchy of Opole, duchy within medieval Poland in 1172, and in 1217 it was granted city rights by Duke Casimir I of Opole, the great-grandson of Polish Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth. During the Medieval Period and the Renaissance, the city was known as a centre of commerce; several main trade routes intersected here, which helped to generate steady profits from transit trade. The rapid development of the town was also caused by the establishment of a seat of regency in Opole in 1816. The fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Strong (film)
''Jack Strong'' is a 2014 Polish political thriller film directed by Władysław Pasikowski, starring Marcin Dorociński, Maja Ostaszewska, Dagmara Dominczyk and Patrick Wilson. The film is based on the true story of Ryszard Kukliński, a Polish People's Army colonel who spied for the American Central Intelligence Agency during the height of the Cold War. Cast * Marcin Dorociński as Ryszard Kukliński * Maja Ostaszewska as Hania Kuklińska, Ryszard's wife * Piotr Nerlewski as Bogdan Kukliński, son of Hanna and Ryszard * Józef Pawłowski as Waldemar Kukliński, son of Hanna and Ryszard * Patrick Wilson as David Forden, CIA Operations Officer * Dagmara Domińczyk as Sue, CIA Operative * Oleg Maslennikov as Viktor Kulikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union * Ilja Zmiejew as general Szernienko * Mirosław Baka as major Putek * Krzysztof Globisz as General Florian Siwicki, Polish People's Army * Paweł Małaszyński as Dariusz Ostaszewski * Dimitri Bilov as Sasha Ivanov * Krzyszto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Male Stage Actors
Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwriters * Kevin Polish, an American Paralympian archer Polish may refer to: * Polishing, the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by rubbing or chemical action ** French polishing, polishing wood to a high gloss finish * Nail polish * Shoe polish * Polish (screenwriting), improving a script in smaller ways than in a rewrite See also * * * Polishchuk (surname) * Polonaise (other) A polonaise ()) is a stately dance of Polish origin or a piece of music for this dance. Polonaise may also refer to: * Polonaises (Chopin), compositions by Frédéric Chopin ** Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 (, ''Heroic Polonaise''; ) * Polon ... {{Disambiguation, surname Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricket), dismissed for having handled the ball, in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of ''Macbeth'', is released in Japan. * January 20 ** Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956). * January 26 – The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxim Litvinov
Maxim Maximovich Litvinov (; born Meir Henoch Wallach-Finkelstein; 17 July 1876 – 31 December 1951) was a Russian Empire, Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet Union, Soviet statesman and diplomat who served as Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union), People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs from 1930 to 1939. Litvinov was an advocate for diplomatic agreements leading to disarmament, and was influential in making the Soviet Union a party to the 1928 Kellogg–Briand Pact. He was also responsible for the 1929 Litvinov Protocol, a multilateral agreement to implement the Kellogg-Briand Pact between the Soviet Union and several neighboring states. In 1930, Litvinov was appointed People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, the highest diplomatic position in the USSR. During the 1930s, Litvinov advocated the official Soviet policy of collective security with Western powers against Nazi Germany. Early life and first exile Meir Henoch Wallach was born into a wealthy, Yiddish- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mr Jones (2019 Film)
''Mr. Jones'' (''Mr Jones'' in British release; ; ) is a 2019 thriller biographical film written and co- produced by and directed by Agnieszka Holland. It is based on the true story of the Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who uncovers the truth of the devastating famine ('Holodomor') in which millions died in the Ukrainian Republic, Soviet Union. The film was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot In 1933, Gareth Jones is an ambitious young journalist, who has gained some renown for his interview with Adolf Hitler. The son of an English teacher in the Welsh colony of Hughesovka in Soviet Ukraine, Jones is troubled by the question of how Stalin's Soviet Union can be having a spending spree, as the numbers do not add up. Jones works as a political advisor to David Lloyd George, the former British prime minister, but with funding limited owing to the economic difficulties, and after failing to make his case in a critical mee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sword Of God (film)
''Sword of God'' (also called ''The Mute'') is a 2018 Polish film directed by Bartosz Konopka. Cinematography was done by Jacek Podgorski. The movie tells the story of a bishop named Willibrord (Krzysztof Pieczyński Krzysztof Pieczyński (born 27 March 1957) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1979. Filmography References External links * 1957 births Living people Polish male film actors Polish male television a ...) who is the only survivor of a party that evidently came to Christianize a population. He arrives by boat on an unnamed island where he is found, and nursed back to health, by another survivor of an earlier group, played by Karol Bernacki. They encounter a tribal society belonging to a different religion; Willibrord challenges their shaman to a "trial by fire" (walking across a bed of coals), which Willibrord survives, but the local priest does not. Willibrord is given permission by the chief to build a church, but may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afterimage (film)
''Afterimage'' () is a 2016 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was screened in the Masters section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. It was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. It was the Opening film at Indian Film Festival. It is the final film by Wajda who died in October 2016. Cast *Bogusław Linda – Władysław Strzemiński *Bronislawa Zamachowska – Nika Strzemińska * Zofia Wichłacz – Hania * Andrzej Konopka – personalny *Krzysztof Pieczyński – Julian Przyboś *Szymon Bobrowski – Włodzimierz Sokorski *Mariusz Bonaszewski – Madejski *Anna Majcher – Strzemiński's neighbor * Paulina Gałązka as Wasińska *Aleksander Fabisiak – Rajner *Magdalena Warzecha – museum worker *Irena Melcer – Jadzia *Tomasz Chodorowski – Tomek *Filip Gurłacz – Konrad *Mateusz Rusin – Stefan *Mateusz Rzeźniczak – Mateusz *Adrian Zaremba – Wojtek *Tomasz WŠ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Grain Of Truth
''A Grain of Truth'' (Polish original title: Ziarno prawdy) is a 2015 Polish film directed by Borys Lankosz, film adaptation of the novel of the same title by Zygmunt Miłoszewski. The filming period lasted from April 30 to May 27, 2014. It was shot in Sandomierz, Śmiłów, Wysiadłów (gas station), Chełmno (cathedral), Otwock, Warsaw, and Lublin. The national premiere took place on January 30, 2015, and the world premiere on January 19, 2015. Plot The naked body of a young woman is found under the Sandomierz synagogue. Prosecutor Teodor Szacki begins a murder investigation. It turns out that the corpse of the woman was bled, and the expert says that the murder weapon found on the spot is used during ritual slaughter of animals. Linking to the dark history of ritual murders of children triggers anti-Semitic mood. Aiming to find out the truth, Szacki will find that there is a grain of truth in every story that can trigger a spiral of crime in the right place at the right ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
