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Poland’s anti-communist icon Walesa, at last the movie
Protesters mass in the streets of Poland’s Baltic port city of Gdansk, hurling Molotov cocktails at security forces as a tank advances — and the cameras roll.
Looking on is celebrated Polish director Andrzej Wajda, 85, whose latest film is a biopic about Lech Walesa, the communist-era Solidarity opposition leader who left an indelible mark on world history by helping bring down the Iron Curtain. Continue reading
Andrzej Wajda film will shine new light on Lech Walesa
Oscar-winning Polish film-maker says he will tell the story of how an uneducated worker triggered the collapse of communism
Poland has had a complicated relationship with Lech Walesa. The love-hate of past years, however, is danger of fading into indifference and neglect. Poles are often surprised when foreigners ask after him, as if he is a half-forgotten uncle. Continue reading
Robert Wieckiewicz to Play Lech Walesa in Andrzej Wajda-Directed Biopic
Wieckiewicz most recently stared in Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness, in which he plays a Polish sewer worker who saves a group of Jews from the Nazis. The film, which premiered in Telluride and Toronto, is Poland’s official entry for the 2012 foreign language Oscars. Sony Pictures Classics has picked up In Darknessfor release stateside. Continue reading
Old Foes See Reasons to Get Along
President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia awarded the Order of Friendship this week to Andrzej Wajda, the celebrated Polish film director, an event few Poles or Russians could have imagined taking place. Continue reading
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How I Write My Historical Novels
Canadian-Polish author Eva Stachniak is revealing how she worked on her bestselling novel "The Winter Palace". Więcej
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Johanna Kern’s fantasy world (LISTEN to our interview with Johanna Kern)
Johanna Kern, a Canadian of Polish descent, first began her career as a professional actress in Europe, and moved to…
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Newsfeed from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
We are pleased to offer an official newsfeed from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland: Ministry of…
