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Letters To Santa (film)
''Letters to Santa'' ( pl, Listy do M.), alternatively known as ''Letters to St. Nicholas'', is a 2011 Polish-language romantic comedy film, directed by Mitja Okorn. The action takes place during one single Christmas Eve, when a few adults find the loves of their lives. The film's plot refers to the 2003 romantic comedy ''Love Actually'', though events of the movie differ from the ones in the 2003 film. It was shot in Warsaw, Poland from 27 January to March 2011. The movie has 4 sequels, '' Letters to Santa 2'' released in 2015, '' Letters to Santa 3'' in 2017, ''Letters to Santa 4'' in 2021, and '' Letters to Santa 5'' in 2022. Plot The film ''Letters to Santa'' portrays lost characters who discover that what happened to them is love. On this special day of the year, five women and five men are finding out that there is no escape from love and Christmas. * Doris - A female around 30 years or age. What is most important to her is a loving family. She is not yet married and often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitja Okorn
Mitja Okorn (born 26 January 1981) is a Slovenian film director and screenwriter. Most known as director of ''Letters to Santa'', ''Planet Single'' and his Hollywood debut ''Life in a Year''. Early life He was born on 26 January 1981 in Kranj. He graduated at high school of economics and studied at School of Economics and Business in University of Ljubljana, then he quit the college in the third year. He never studied at Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) in Ljubljana, the main Slovenian film school institution, as he accused them of stagnating for decades. He is also very critical to Slovenian culture and film industry being total amateurs for ignoring him and not investing any money in his film projects. Career 2005: First feature film In 2000 he started his career with two short documentaries ''Not sponsored 1'' and ''Not sponsored 2''; and awarded for short film ''Be Flexible'' at Motovun Film Festival in 2002. His career started to bloom in 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letters To Santa 2
''Letters to Santa 2'' ( pl, Listy do M. 2), is a 2015 Polish-language romantic comedy film, directed by Maciej Dejczer, that is a sequel to 2011 ''Letters to Santa'' film by Mitja Okorn. The action takes place during a Christmas Eve, and follows the lives of characters from the first film, focusing on various aspects of love as shown through separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown to be interlinked as the tales progress. As same as in the first film, its plot refers to the 2003 romantic comedy ''Love Actually'', though the events of differ in those films. The movie was produced by TVN, and distributed by Kino Świat. It was filmed in Warsaw, Poland, and premiered on 13 November 2015. Cast * Maciej Stuhr as Mikołaj Konieczny * Roma Gąsiorowska as Doris * Tomasz Karolak as Melchior "Mel Gibson", Kazik's father * Agnieszka Dygant as Karina Lisiecka, Szczepan's ex-wife * Piotr Adamczyk as Szczepan Lisiecki, Karina's ex-husband * Agnieszka Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules, and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box-office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onet
Onet.pl is one of the largest Polish web portals. It is owned by the Kraków-based Grupa Onet.pl S.A. It was founded in 1996 by Optimus company. According to Alexa rankings, as of October 2017, it was the 45th most popular website worldwide and the 3rd most popular site in Poland. As of December 2016, it is the 6th most visited website in Poland, 311th in the UK, and 375th worldwide. Ringier Axel Springer Media AG holds the majority of Onet since 2012. Services Among its services is a Polish online encyclopedia, the WIEM Encyklopedia. It also has a licence for Rebtel service (marketed in Poland as OnetRebtel) and Skype service (marketed in Poland as OnetSkype). Its other services include email, web hosting, Usenet Usenet () is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was ... acces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wirtualna Polska
Wirtualna Polska (WP ) is a group of companies operating in the media and e-commerce sectors. The WP Group owns the Wirtualna Polska horizontal portal. It operates various specialized websites and e-commerce websites like AutoCentrum.pl S.A., Nocowanie.pl and Domodi.pl. According to the Gemius/PBI surveys around 21 million Poles are using WP's internet products every month. Wirtualna Polska was founded in 1995 and is known as the first existing internet portal in Poland. History Wirtualna Polska was created by Leszek Bogdanowicz, Damian Woźniak, Marek Borzestowski anJacek Kawalecat Politechnika Gdańska in Gdańsk, who met each other via the Internet. The early forum of ideas turned in March 1995 into a service using the name Wirtualna Polska. Initially, it was available on www.wp.cnt.pl (CNT = Centrum Nowych Technologii, Centre of New Technologies). In 1998, it was moved to www.wp.pl, which is its current address. In the beginning, Wirtualna Polska functioned as a catalogu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lech Ordon
Lech Ordon (24 November 1928, Poznań – 21 October 2017, Warsaw) was a Polish actor. In 1948, he graduated from The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, at the time located in Łódź. He was known for his roles in ''Letters to Santa'', ', and in ''Mister Blot's Academy''. In December 2008, on the occasion of 90th anniversary of the Polish Union of Stage Actors, he was awarded the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. Death Ordon died on 21 October 2017 at the age of 88. Filmography * A Matter to Settle (1953) * Warsaw Premiere ''Warsaw Premiere'' (Polish:''Warszawska premiera'') is a 1951 Polish historical film directed by Jan Rybkowski and starring Jan Koecher, Barbara Kostrzewska and Jerzy Duszyński. The film's art direction was by Roman Mann. The film portrays th ... (1961) References External links * 1928 births 2017 deaths Actors from Poznań Recipients of the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Pietraszak
Leonard Pietraszak (6 November 1936 – 1 February 2023) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 70 films and television shows since 1957. Life and career Pietraszak was best known for playing Gustaw Kramer in popular comedy ''Vabank'' and its sequel. Pietraszak died on 1 February 2023, at the age of 86. Selected filmography * '''' (1967) * '' How I Unleashed World War II'' (197 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beata Tyszkiewicz
Beata Maria Helena Tyszkiewicz (born 14 August 1938) is a retired Polish actress and TV personality. Career Beata Tyszkiewicz has worked mostly on the big screen but acted in several French TV movies, becoming famous through her portrayal of distinguished ladies in costume dramas like '' The Doll'' by Wojciech Has and ''The Ashes'' by Andrzej Wajda. She has worked with leading directors such as Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Zanussi, André Delvaux and former husband Andrzej Wajda. Tyszkiewicz has appeared in more than a hundred films. Her debut was in '' Zemsta'' in 1956. In 1968 she was cast in '' The Doll'', directed by Wojciech Has. ''The Doll'' was adapted from the Polish novel, ''Lalka'' by Boleslaw Prus. In 1971 she was a member of the jury at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1995 she was awarded with an Honorable Diploma at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1997 she was a member of the jury at the 20th Moscow International Film Festival. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarzyna Bujakiewicz
Katarzyna Bujakiewicz (; born 28 September 1972 in Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint Joh ...) is a Polish actress. In 2003 she starred in the film '' An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God'' under Jerzy Hoffman. References 1972 births Actors from Poznań Polish film actresses Polish stage actresses Living people 21st-century Polish actresses Polish television actresses {{Poland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Malajkat
Wojciech () is a Polish name, equivalent to Czech Vojtěch , Slovak Vojtech, and German Woitke. The name is formed from two components in archaic Polish: * ''wój'' (Slavic: ''voj''), a root pertaining to war. It also forms words like ''wojownik'' ("warrior") and ''wojna'' ("war"). * ''ciech'' (from an earlier form, ''tech''), meaning "joy". The resulting combination means "he who enjoys war" or "joyous warrior". Its Polish diminutive forms include ''Wojtek'' , ''Wojtuś'' , ''Wojtas'', ''Wojcio'', ''Wojteczek'', ''Wojcieszek'', ''Wojtaszka'', ''Wojtaszek'', ''Wojan'' (noted already in 1136), ''Wojko'', and variants noted as early as 1400, including ''Woytko'', ''Woythko'', and ''Voytko''. The feminine form is Wojciecha (). Related names in South Slavic languages include ''Vojko'', ''Vojislav'', and ''Vojteh''. The name has been rendered into German in several different variations, including: ''Woitke'', ''Witke'', ''Voitke'', ''Voytke'', ''Woytke'', ''Vogtke'', ''Woytegk'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnieszka Wagner
Agnieszka Wagner (born 17 December 1970) is a Polish actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films since 1989. Selected filmography References External links * 1970 births Living people Polish film actresses Polish people of German descent {{Poland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is preceded by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many countries, is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season organized around it. The traditional Christmas narrative recounted in the New Testament, known as the Nativity of Jesus, says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in accordance with messianic prophecies. When Joseph and Mary arrived in the city, the inn had no room and so they were offered a stable where the Christ Child was soon born, with angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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