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Stawka Większa Niż życie
''Stawka większa niż życie'' (''More Than Life at Stake'', ''Stakes Larger Than Life'' or ''Playing for High Stakes'') was a Polish black and white TV series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent in Soviet service, captain Hans Kloss (real name Stanisław Kolicki, codename J-23), who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland. Its precursor was a television play of the same name, broadcast live in 1965 by Telewizja Polska. 14 episodes of the play were made, with the two main characters, the protagonist, Abwehr Hauptmann Hans Kloss, and his key antagonist, SS-Obersturmführer Hermann Brunner, portrayed respectively by actors Stanisław Mikulski and Emil Karewicz. The popularity of the play led to the creation of the TV series; Mikulski and Karewicz returned to portray Kloss and Brunner. The series was filmed from March 1967 to October 1968. There were 18 episodes, 9 of which were directed by Janusz Morgenstern and the other 9 by And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Morgenstern
Janusz "Kuba" Morgenstern (16 November 1922 – 6 September 2011) was a Polish film director and producer. Janusz Morgenstern was born in 1922 to a Jewish family in the town of Mikulińce, Poland (now Mykulyntsi, Ukraine), to Dawid Morgenstern and Estera (née Druks). He debuted as a director with the film ''Goodbye, See You Tomorrow'' (1960). His other films include ''Jowita'' (1967), ''We Have to Kill this Love'' (1972), ''W-Hour'' (1979), ''Lesser of Two Evils'' (2009). TV series directed by Morgenstern included: ''Stake Larger than Life'' (1967–1968), ''Columbuses'' (1970) and ''Polish Roads'' (1976). He died in Warsaw, Poland. Selected filmography *''Potem nastąpi cisza ''Potem nastąpi cisza'' is a 1965 Polish drama film directed by Janusz Morgenstern. Cast * Tadeusz Łomnicki as Major Swietowiec * Marek Perepeczko as Lieutenant Kolski * Daniel Olbrychski as Olewicz * Barbara Brylska as Ewa * Barbara Sołty ...'' (1965) References 1922 births 2011 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protagonist
A protagonist () is the main character of a story. The protagonist makes key decisions that affect the plot, primarily influencing the story and propelling it forward, and is often the character who faces the most significant obstacles. If a story contains a subplot, or is a narrative made up of several stories, then each subplot may have its own protagonist. The protagonist is the character whose fate is most closely followed by the reader or audience, and who is opposed by the antagonist. The antagonist provides obstacles and complications and creates conflicts that test the protagonist, revealing the strengths and weaknesses of the protagonist's character, and having the protagonist develop as a result. Etymology The term ''protagonist'' comes , combined of (, 'first') and (, 'actor, competitor'), which stems from (, 'contest') via (, 'I contend for a prize'). Ancient Greece The earliest known examples of a protagonist are found in Ancient Greece. At first, dramatic p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janina Borońska
Janina Borońska-Łągwa (born 16 June 1943, Łódź) is a Polish film and theatre actress, and the mother of the composer and vocalist Jacek Łągwa. Borońska debuted in theater in 1966. In 1967, she graduated from the National Film School in Łódź. She obtained a master's degree in 1969. In 1985 and 2000, she was awarded the Cross of Merit (in silver and gold, respectively). Selected filmography * 1965: ''Return of doctor von Kniprode'' – girl at Klausen's (episode 2) * 1967: '' More Than Life at Stake'' – radio-telegraphist Irena (episode 1) * 1969: ''How I Unleashed World War II'' – Elżbieta * 1970: ''Doctor Eve'' – Nina, Ewa's intern friend * 1974: ''Seven sides of the world'' – mother of Lucek * 1981: ''The Quack'' – a daughter of Prokop * 1986: ''Cryptonym „Tourists”'' – Masne's colleague (episode 1) * 1989: ''Janna Janna (Kannada : ಮಹಾಕವಿ ಜನ್ನ) was one of the well-known Kannada poets of the early 13th century who a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seweryn Butrym
Seweryn may refer to: * Seweryn Berson (1858–1917), Polish lawyer and composer * Seweryn Bialer (born 1926), emeritus professor of political science at Columbia University, expert on the Communist parties of the Soviet Union and Poland * Seweryn Bieszczad (1852–1923), Polish painter * Seweryn Chajtman (1919–2012), Polish scientist, engineer, teacher, pioneered Computer Science in Poland * Seweryn Chomet (1930–2009), was a physicist, author, journalist, historian, publisher, translator of Russian scientific journals * Seweryn Franciszek Czetwertyński-Światopełk (1873–1945), Polish landowner and politician * Seweryn Gancarczyk (born 1981), professional Polish football player * Seweryn Goszczyński (1801–1876), Polish Romantic prose writer and poet * Seweryn Kiełpin (born 1987), Polish footballer * Seweryn Klosowski (1865–1903), Polish serial killer known as the Borough Poisoner * Seweryn Krajewski (born 1947), Polish singer and songwriter * Seweryn Kulesza (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Brunner
Schutzstaffel, SS-Sturmbannführer Herman Brunner is a recurrent supporting character from the Polish people, Polish popular TV series ''Stawka większa niż życie, More Than Life at Stake'' (''Stawka większa niż życie''). He is played by Emil Karewicz. Biography A Sicherheitsdienst (sometimes incorrectly linked to Gestapo) officer in General Government, occupied Poland during World War II, Brunner is a ruthless Nazi official, who sometimes works with main character, Lieutenant (later Captain (land and air), Captain) Hans Kloss (fictional character), Hans Kloss of Abwehr, who is really Major (rank), Major Stanislaw Kolicki of Polish intelligence. Brunner looks after his own interests and is not a fanatic. (Near end of the war he tries to kidnap a renowned German professor, a specialist in rocket technology, in order to sell him to the western allies in exchange for his own safety and other benefits). Nothing is known about his background. Although he appeared in just 5 of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Kuznetsov (spy)
Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov (russian: Николай Иванович Кузнецов; 27 July 1911 – 9 March 1944) was a Soviet intelligence agent and partisan who operated in Nazi-occupied Ukraine (Reichskommissariat Ukraine) during World War II and who personally killed six high-ranking German officials. His file is still not fully disclosed and will be held until 2025 in the FSB archives. It was not until 1990 that Kuznetsov was officially recognized as a NKVD agent. He used several pseudonyms during his intelligence operations: e.g. Rudolf Schmidt, Nikolai Vasilevitsh Grachev (Николай Васильевич Грачёв) and Oberleutnant Paul Siebert. Kuznetsov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Biography Kuznetsov was born into a peasant family of Russian ethnicity in the Yekaterinburgsky Uyezd of the Perm Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia). He studied forestry in a technical school and, after d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventeen Moments Of Spring
''Seventeen Moments of Spring'' (russian: Семнадцать мгновений весны, Semnadtsat' mgnoveniy vesny) is a 1973 Soviet twelve-part television series, directed by Tatyana Lioznova and based on the novel of the same title by Yulian Semyonov. The series portrays the exploits of Maxim Isaev, a Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany under the name Max Otto von Stierlitz, portrayed by Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Stierlitz is planted in 1927, well before the Nazi takeover of pre-war Germany. He then enlists in the NSDAP and rises through the ranks, becoming an important Nazi counterintelligence officer. He recruits several agents from among dissident German intellectuals and persecuted clergy. Stierlitz discovers, and later schemes to disrupt, the secret negotiations between Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles taking place in Switzerland, aimed at forging a separate peace between Germany and the western Allies. Meanwhile, the Gestapo under Heinrich Müller searches for the uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stierlitz
Max Otto von Stierlitz (russian: Макс О́тто фон Шти́рлиц, ) is the lead character in a Russian book series written in the 1960s by Yulian Semyonov, and of the television adaptation '' Seventeen Moments of Spring'' (starring Vyacheslav Tikhonov) as well as in feature films (produced in the Soviet era), and in a number of sequels and prequels. Other actors portrayed Stierlitz in several other films. Stierlitz has become a stereotypical spy in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, similar to James Bond in Western culture. American historian Erik Jens has described Stierlitz as the "most popular and venerable hero of Russian spy fiction". Character origins The culture of Imperial Russia was very strongly influenced by that of France, and accordingly the Russian writers shared the disdain traditionally held by French writers towards spy novels, which was seen as a very lowly type of literature. In the Soviet Union, espionage was depicted before 1961 as something comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 = , s1 = Czech Republic , flag_s1 = Flag of the Czech Republic.svg , s2 = Slovakia , flag_s2 = Flag of Slovakia.svg , image_flag = Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg , flag = Flag of Czechoslovakia , flag_type = Flag(1920–1992) , flag_border = Flag of Czechoslovakia , image_coat = Middle coat of arms of Czechoslovakia.svg , symbol_type = Middle coat of arms(1918–1938 and 1945–1961) , image_map = Czechoslovakia location map.svg , image_map_caption = Czechoslovakia during the interwar period and the Cold War , national_motto = , anthems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija; sk, Juhoslávia; ro, Iugoslavia; cs, Jugoslávie; it, Iugoslavia; tr, Yugoslavya; bg, Югославия, Yugoslaviya ) was a country in Southeast Europe and Central Europe for most of the 20th century. It came into existence after World War I in 1918 under the name of the '' Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes'' by the merger of the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (which was formed from territories of the former Austria-Hungary) with the Kingdom of Serbia, and constituted the first union of the South Slavic people as a sovereign state, following centuries in which the region had been part of the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. Peter I of Serbia was its first sovereign. The kingdom gained international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrzej Konic
Andrzej is the Polish form of the given name Andrew. Notable individuals with the given name Andrzej * Andrzej Bartkowiak (born 1950), Polish film director and cinematographer * Andrzej Bobola, S.J. (1591–1657), Polish saint, missionary and martyr * Andrzej Chyra (born 1964), Polish actor * Andrzej Czarniak (1931–1985), Polish alpine skier * Andrzej Duda (born 1972), Polish 6th president * Andrzej Jajszczyk, Polish scientist * Andrzej Kmicic, fictional protagonist of Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel ''The Deluge'' * Andrzej Kokowski (born 1953), Polish archaeologist * Andrzej Krauze (born 1947), Polish-British cartoonist and illustrator * Andrzej Leder (born 1960), Polish philosopher and psychotherapist * Andrzej Mazurczak (born 1993), Polish basketball player * Andrzej Mleczko (born 1949), Polish illustrator * Andrzej Nowacki (born 1953), Polish artist * Andrzej Paczkowski (born 1938), Polish historian * Sir Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991), Polish composer * Andrzej Person, Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
