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Witold Sobociński
Witold Sobociński (; 15 October 1929 – 19 November 2018) was a Polish cinematographer, academic teacher as well as former jazz musician. Sobociński was a graduate of the renowned National Film School in Łódź. While in college, he was a member of the pioneer jazz band Melomani, in which he played the drums. After graduation, he worked with Polish Television and Film Studios Czolowka, as a cameraman. In 1967 he debuted as a cinematographer. Sobociński cooperated with several notable directors, including Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi and Roman Polanski. He was a lecturer at the film school in Łódź from 1980 until his death in 2018. He was known for his forward and uncompromising teaching style, his emphasis on narrative over visual beauty, and his commitment to film education. Sobociński was awarded several prizes; he also co-produced a number of notable movies. Just over a week before his death, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the prestigious Came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film School In Łódź
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The Wedding (1972 Film)
''Wesele (The Wedding)'' is a motion picture made in 1972 in Poland by Andrzej Wajda as an adaptation of a play by the same title written by Stanisław Wyspiański in 1901. Wajda also directed "Wesele" for the theatre. "Wesele" is a defining work of Polish drama written at the turn of the 20th century. It describes the perils of the national drive toward self-determination after the Polish uprisings of November 1830 and January 1863, the result of the Partitions of Poland. It also refers to the Galician slaughter of 1846. The plot is set at the wedding of a member of Kraków intelligentsia (the Bridegroom, played by Daniel Olbrychski), and his peasant Bride (played by Ewa Ziętek). Their class-blurring union follows a fashionable trend among friends of the playwright from the modernist Young Poland movement. The play by Wyspiański was based on a real-life event: the wedding of Lucjan Rydel at the St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków and his wedding reception in the village of Bron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melomani Members
The Melomani, later known as Hot Club Melomani, were a pioneer Polish jazz band. Formed in Łódź in 1951 by Jerzy Matuszkiewicz, they were the first self-styled Polish jazz musical group. Founded during the period of Stalinism, when jazz music, regarded as a synonymous with the "reactionary American culture", was officially banned by the then communist authorities, Melomani were forced to conduct underground activities until 1955. By then, many musicians had contributed to the band, one of them being Krzysztof Komeda, whose concepts inspired the group at one point to split into two different line-ups operating under the same name – a traditional one (playing dixieland) and a modern one (playing bebop). History Following the World War II, new, communist government of People's Republic of Poland banned jazz music, after the initial period of fascination and limited artistic freedom in 1946 and 1947. It was seen as part of the decadent, American culture and as such jazz was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Deaths
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1929 Births
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic Counter-revolutionary, counter-revolution in Mexico. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the ''Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)'' case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created. In Asia, the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Soviet Union engaged in a Sino-Soviet conflict (1929), minor conflict after the Chinese seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway, which ended with a resumption of joint administration. In the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary Joseph S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gateway Of Europe
''The Gateway of Europe'' () is a Polish historical film. It was released in 1999. In 2001, it received Polish Film Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design and Best Production Design. Plot In January 1918, three volunteer nurses came to the field hospital and Polish Corps located in the manor in Ciechinicze (Cichinicze) between Rahačoŭ and Babrujsk. Sophie, one of the nurses, finds her previously missing brother. When the hospital gets into the hands of the Bolsheviks, the sisters must cope not only with patient care, but also the brutality of the enemy soldiers. Cast * Alicja Bachleda-Curuś as Zosia * Kinga Preis as Hala * Henryk Boukołowski as Dr Mroczek * Agata Buzek as Henrietta * Piotr Szwedes as Smagły * Małgorzata Rudzka as Lasiewska * Agnieszka Sitek − Ira * Mariusz Bonaszewski − dr Lesiewski * Piotr Szwedes − Smagły *Piotr Adamczyk Piotr Aleksander Adamczyk (; born March 21, 1972) is a Polish film, television, voice and theatre actor. He is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torrents Of Spring (film)
''Torrents of Spring'' is a 1989 drama film written and directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and starring Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski and Valeria Golino. It is based on the Torrents of Spring, 1872 novel by Ivan Turgenev. It is a British, French, and Italian co-production. Set in 1840, the film follows a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, who is torn between the love of a beautiful German pastry-shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, and a Russian seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna. The film competed for the Palme d'Or, Golden Palm Award at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Timothy Hutton as Dimitri Sanin * Nastassja Kinski as Maria Nikolaevna Polozov * Valeria Golino as Gemma Rosselli * William Forsythe (actor), William Forsythe as Prince Ippolito Polozov * Urbano Barberini as Baron Von Doenhof * Francesca De Sapio as Mrs. Rosselli * Jacques Herlin as Pantaleone * Antonio Cantafora as Richter * Krzysztof Janczar as Klueber (credited as Christopher Janczar) * Christian Dottorini a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frantic (film)
''Frantic'' is a 1988 American-France, French neo-noir Mystery film, mystery thriller film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Harrison Ford and Emmanuelle Seigner. Ennio Morricone composed the film score. Although a commercial failure, the film was a critical success, and has since gone on to become something of a cult film, cult classic, with Morricone's score being hailed as one of his best. Plot Dr. Richard Walker is a surgeon visiting Paris with his wife Sondra for a medical conference. At their hotel, she is unable to unlock her suitcase, and Walker determines that she picked up the wrong one at the airport. While Walker is taking a shower, Sondra receives a phone call that Walker can't hear and she mysteriously disappears from their hotel room. Still jet-lagged, Walker searches for his wife in the hotel with the help of a polite but mostly indifferent staff and then wanders outside to look for her himself. A wino overhears him in a café and says he saw Sondra being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirates (1986 Film)
''Pirates'' is a 1986 adventure comedy film written by Gérard Brach, John Brownjohn and Roman Polanski, and directed by Polanski. It was inspired by Polanski's love of classic pirate films, as well as Disneyland's ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' attraction. Polanski began planning the film in 1976 as a follow-up to ''Chinatown'', but production was delayed several times due to lack of funding and Polanski's fleeing the United States to avoid sentencing for his confessed rape of a minor. It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, and was a box-office bomb, although the costume design was nominated for an Academy Award. Plot In 1659, an infamous English pirate Captain Red and his cabin boy Jean-Baptiste, nicknamed "Frog", are lost on a raft in the ocean without food and supplies. They are picked up by the galleon ''Neptune'' and thrown into the brig, where they meet the ship's cook Boomako. Boomako has been imprisoned after being caught attempting to ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The End Of Civilization
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Promised Land (1975 Film)
''The Promised Land'' () is a 1975 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on the novel of the same name by Władysław Reymont. Set in the industrial city of Łódź, ''The Promised Land'' tells the story of a Pole, a German, and a Jew struggling to build a factory in the raw world of 19th-century capitalism. Wajda presents a shocking image of the city, with its dirty and dangerous factories and ostentatiously opulent residences devoid of taste and culture. The film follows in the footsteps of Charles Dickens, Émile Zola and Maxim Gorky, as well as German expressionists such as Knopf, Meidner and Grosz, who gave testimony of social protest. American filmmaker Martin Scorsese recognized the film as one of the masterpieces of Polish cinema and in 2013 he selected it for screening alongside films such as '' Ashes and Diamonds'', '' Innocent Sorcerers'', '' Knife in the Water'' and ''Man of Iron'' in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom as part of the '' Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hourglass Sanatorium
''The Hourglass Sanatorium'' () is a 1973 Polish surrealist film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, starring Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Mieczysław Voit, Halina Kowalska and Gustaw Holoubek. It is also known as ''The Sandglass'' in English-speaking countries. The story follows a young Jewish man who visits his father in a mystical sanatorium where time does not behave normally. The film is an adaptation of Bruno Schulz's story collection '' Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass''. It won the Jury Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Joseph (Jan Nowicki) travels through a dream-like world, taking a dilapidated train to visit his dying father, Jacob, in a sanatorium. When he arrives at the hospital, he finds the entire facility is going to ruin and no one seems to be in charge or even caring for the patients. Time appears to behave in unpredictable ways, reanimating the past in an elaborate artificial caprice. Though Joseph is always shown as an adult, his behavio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
