Czarna Seria (Black Series) - Polish School of Documentary Movies (2-DVD) "Czarna Seria" 2-DVD set from the series "Polish School of Documentary Movies" consists of social issues oriented documentaries from directors like Roman Polanski, Jerzy Hoffman, Edward Skórzewski, Kazimierz Karabasz, Władyslaw Slesicki, Włodzimierz Borowik, Jerzy Ziarnik, Jerzy Bossak, Jarosław Brzozowski, Maksymilian Wroclawski, Jerzy Dmowski, Bohdan Kosiński, Andrzej Brzozowski, and Bohdan Poreba.
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DANIEL SZCZECHURA - Polish Animation (2-DVD) Double DVD set "Polish Animation: Daniel Szczechura" inaugurates a new monographic series issued by the National Audiovisual Institute, designed to present works of themost outstanding Polish animation artists. Edition contains seventeen most famous animated shorts by Szczechura, as well as an unique documentary movie about master Polish poster designer Henryk Tomaszewski. The set is enhanced by special booklet containing a conversation with the artist and essay about the artist written by Kazimierz Zorawski.
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Ferdydurke (30 Door Key) Based on Witold Gombrowicz's cult novel and a masterpiece of European modernism, the movie focus on an existential problems of a young writer (Crispin Glover) in 1930s Warsaw on the brink of World War II.
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Gryczelowska/Halladin/Kamienska - Polish School of Documentary Movies (3-DVD) Without the films of these three filmmakers, we cannot really talk about the Polish School of Documentary, thanks to which we have a deep and movingly real image of Poland in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Mikolaj Jazdon analyses it in an interesting way in the guide attached to the carefully prepared films' presentation, the films which today are legend.
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Jacek Blawut - Polish School of Documentary Movies (2-DVD) Jacek Blawut (November 3, 1950 in Zagorze Slaskie) - Polish cinematographer and film director, lecturer in film schools. Graduated as cameraman for the Film School in Lodz (1982). He has taught at film schools in Berlin, Hannover, Torun (Camerimage Film School) and Warsaw and in the Master School of Film by Andrzej Wajda.
Król Roger (King Roger) by Karol Szymanowski (DVD PAL, Region 0) This DVD is a record of first-night performances of "King Roger", an opera by Karol Szymanowski to the libretto by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, staged at the Wroclaw Opera by Ewa Michnik (musical management), of Mariusz Trelinski (direction) and of Boris Kudlička (set design).
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KRONOS QUARTET - Polish Quartets Four masterly and extremely different string quartets by Polish composers: from the cornerstones of the sixties by Witold Lutoslawski and Krzysztof Penderecki to the recent Kronos Quartet commissions - works by Henryk Mikolaj Górecki and Pawel Mykietyn - in a visionary performance by the Kronos Quartet.
KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI - Persona non grata In 2005, Wiktor's wife, Helena (Halina Golanko), has just died suddenly of a stroke in Poland. Wiktor (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz), the Polish ambassador to Uruguay, arrives to see her too late. An old Russian friend, Oleg (Nikita Mikhalkov), shows up briefly at the funeral for Helena...
Krzysztof Zanussi - Serce na dloni (And a Warm Heart) A godless Polish capitalist has his blood pump in the wrong place in "And a Warm Heart," a labored comedy-drama in which a cardiac transplant is a medical and symbolic necessity.
Marek Piwowski - Polish School of Documentary Movies (2-DVD) Marek Piwowski is a director, journalist and screenwriter. He studied navigation at the Moscow Marine School, journalism at the University of Wroclaw, and film directing at the Lodz Film School. Piwowski has been a miner, farm laborer, journalist at the “Nowa Kultura” Magazine, and a lecturer at the New York University in New York, NY. He has acted in films made by such directors as Skolimowski, Zanussi, Morgenstern, Zygadlo, and even his own films. He is a member of the American Film Institute.
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Mis (Teddy Bear), Collector edition Stanislaw Bareja's hilarious comedy of errors that spoofs the ups and downs of everyday life in Poland during the last years of communism.
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NADA - dir. Claude Chabrol (DVD, 1974) French terrorists kidnap the American ambassador, leaving dead and wounded in their wake. Soon they begin quarreling as to his fate, while the police purge suspects in an attempt to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the State and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.
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Panny w Wilka (Young Girls from Wilko) A man returns to the place where he spent happy holidays in his youth only to find that the past is gone. Five women who once loved him still remain, but the man's one true love has passed. Set in the 1920s, this Polish drama is one of many collaborations between director Andrzej Wajda and actor Daniel Olbrychski. Nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, 1980.
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Pawel Lozinski - Polish School of Documentary Movies (2-DVD) Pawel Lozinski's 2-DVD set is the next volume of NInA Publishing's series Polish School of Documentary Movies. Each volume of he series, which is edited by Tadeusz Sobolewski, is devoted to different Polish documentary filmmaker and contains selected documentaries from his/her artistic output. Series includes the presentations from the body of woks of recognized film directors, as well as from some of the forgotten masters and debutante directors. Pawel Lozinski (born 1965) is a son of the famous Polish documentary director Marcel Lozinski.
