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Marek Brodzki
Marek Brodzki (born 25 December 1960) is a Polish film director and television director. He directed the film and series versions of Wiedzmin, ''Wiedźmin'' aka The Hexer (film), ''The Hexer'' and the series ''Miasteczko''. He has worked as First Assistant Director with top Polish directors Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi and has specialized as a Polish First Assistant Director and Second Unit Director on international productions made in Poland notably including Steven Spielberg's ''Schindler's List'' and has a long working relationship with German director Volker Schlöndorff. October 2015 he was awarded the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis, Gloria Artis. He is married to Unit production manager, Production Manager, Casting Director, First Assistant Director Ewa Brodzka. Selected filmography Feature films: * 2010 ''Beyond the Steppes'' – with director Vanja d'Alcantara – Line Producer: Poland/Kazakhstan * 2008 ''A Woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role in choosing the Casting (performing arts), cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking in cooperation with the Film producer, producer. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, Film producer, producers, Film editing, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended film school. Directors use different approaches. Some Outline (list), outline a general plotline and let the actors impro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanja D'Alcantara
Vanja is a given name. It was originally a nickname for Ivan. People with this name include: * Vanja Babić (born 1981), Serbian taekwondo athlete * Vanja Blomberg (born 1929), Swedish gymnast and Olympic champion * Vanja Brodnik (born 1989), Slovenian alpine ski racer * Vanja Bulić (born 1947), Serbian journalist and author * Vanja Drach (1932–2009), Croatian theatre and film actor * Vanja Drkušić (born 1999), Slovenian footballer * Vanja Dukic, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder * Vanja Džaferović (born 1983), Bosnian and Croatian footballer * Vanja Ejdus (born 1976), Serbian actress * Vanja Gesheva-Tsvetkova (born 1960), Bulgarian sprint canoeist * Vanja Grubač (born 1971), Montenegrin footballer * Vanja Guša (born 1966), Serbian basketball coach * Vanja Ilić (handballer) (born 1993), Serbian handball player * Vanja Ilić (swimmer) (1927–2018), Yugoslav swimmer * Vanja Iveša (born 1977), retired Croatian football goalkeeper * Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rider Of The Flames
Rider or Riders may refer to: People and characters * Horserider (equestrianism) * Snowboarder also called rider Persons * Daniel Rider (1938–2008), American mathematician * Fremont Rider (1885–1962), American writer and librarian * George Rider (1890–1979), American college sports coach and administrator * H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), British novelist * Isaiah Rider (born 1971), American former National Basketball Association player * James Rider (1797–1876), New York politician * Jane H. Rider (1889-1981), engineer * Rider Strong (born 1979), American actor, director, producer and screenwriter * Steve Rider (born 1950), English sports presenter and anchorman Fictional characters * Rider (''Fate/Stay Night''), a character in the Japanese series ''Fate/Stay Night'' * Rider (''Fate/Zero''), a character in the Japanese novel ''Fate/Zero'' * Honeychile Rider, a character in the James Bond novel ''Dr. No'' * Alex Rider (character), hero of a series of spy novels by An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Kassovitz
Peter Kassovitz (born 7 January 1938) is a Hungarian-French film director and scriptwriter. Personal life He was born to Jewish parents in Budapest, Hungary. He fled the country at the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He is the father of French film director Mathieu Kassovitz Mathieu Kassovitz () is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has won three César Awards: Most Promising Actor for '' See How They Fall'' (1994), and Best Film and Best Editing for '' La Haine'' (1995). He also re .... Filmography References External links * 1938 births Living people French film directors Hungarian Jews Hungarian emigrants to France {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob The Liar
''Jakob the Liar'' is a 1999 American-made Holocaust film directed by Peter Kassovitz, produced by Steven Haft and Marsha Garces Williams. It is written by Kassovitz and Didier Decoin based on the 1969 German novel '' Jacob the Liar'', by Jewish author Jurek Becker. The film stars Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon and Bob Balaban. The film is set in 1944 in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust and tells the story of a Polish-Jewish shopkeeper named Jakob Heym, who attempts to raise the morale inside the ghetto by sharing encouraging rumors that he claims to have heard on a radio. An earlier film based on the novel is the 1975 East German-Czechoslovak film '' Jakob der Lügner''. The movie was a critical and commercial failure: it grossed only $4 million against a $45 million budget, and received negative reviews by critics, with many comparing it unfavorably to the similarly themed Italian movie '' Life Is Beautiful'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan Tadeusz (film)
''Sir Thaddeus, or the Last Lithuanian Foray'' (), also simply known as ''Sir Thaddeus'' (), is a 1999 film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the 1834 eponymous epic poem by Polish poet, writer and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855). As in the poem, conflict between the Soplica and Horeszko families serves as a backdrop for discussion of issues of Polish national unity and the struggle for independence. Historical background For 400 years, Lithuania and Poland were united in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, until it was partitioned in 1795 by three neighbouring nations: the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Habsburg monarchy (see Partitions of Poland). At that point Poland, a formerly powerful state, simply ceased to exist. Yet one hope remained for the patriots yearning for autonomy – the First French Empire. Napoleon promised to restore the Polish homeland if Poles, in turn, helped him defeat the Russian Empire. Thousands of Poles and Lithua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Polanski
Raymond Roman Thierry Polański (; born 18 August 1933) is a Polish and French filmmaker and actor. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Roman Polanski, numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three British Academy Film Awards, ten César Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Golden Bear and a Palme d'Or. In 1977, Polanski was arrested for Roman Polanski sexual abuse case, drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of Statutory rape, unlawful sex with a minor in exchange for a probation-only sentence. The night before his sentencing hearing in 1978, he learned that the judge would likely reject the proffered plea bargain, so he fled the U.S. to Europe, where he continued his career. He remains a fugitive from the U.S. justice system. Further allegations of abuse have been made by other women. Polanski's parents moved the family from his birthplace in Paris back to Kraków in 1937.Paul Werner, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pianist (2002 Film)
''The Pianist'' is a 2002 biographical film produced and directed by Roman Polanski, with a script by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody. It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist (memoir), ''The Pianist'' (1946), a memoir by the History of the Jews in Poland, Polish-Jewish pianist, composer and The Holocaust, Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman. The film was a co-production by France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Poland. ''The Pianist'' premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival on 24 May 2002, where it won the Palme d'Or, and went into wide release that September; the film received widespread critical acclaim, with critics lauding Polanski's direction, Brody's performance and Harwood's screenplay. At the 75th Academy Awards, the film won for Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director (Polanski), Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay (Harwood), and Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor (Brody), and was nominated for fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Revenge (film)
''The Revenge'' is the English title for ''Zemsta'', a film released in 2002, directed by Andrzej Wajda. This film is an adaptation of a perennially popular stage farce of the same name by the Polish dramatist and poet Aleksander Fredro. Written in a sharp, ironic style, ''The Revenge'' portrays those national characteristics that in time brought on many of Poland's national tragedies. Written for the stage, Wajda has changed very little and transferred practically the entirety of the work to the screen. Plot Raptusiewicz (Janusz Gajos) resides in one half of a castle with the other half inhabited by his hated rival Rejent Milczek (Andrzej Seweryn). Raptusiewicz wishes to marry Podstolina (Katarzyna Figura), the widow of the Lord High Steward, for her money, while Podstolina herself seeks a wealthy match. Regent Milczek's wish, on the other hand, is to bring about the union of his son Wacław ( Rafał Królikowski) with Podstolina. To complicate matters more, Wacław is in lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strike (2006 Film)
''Strike'' is a 2006 Polish-German historical drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. The film covers the formation of Solidarity and centers around work and labor organizing in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Polish People's Republic. The film follows the life of Agnieszka Kowalska (Katharina Thalbach) in about three segments covering first her life as a dedicated worker in communist Poland of the early 1960s (DVD chapters 1-4), then following events leading to the Polish 1970 protests (chapters 5-10), and finally the early 1980s, including the dedication of the Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970, the Gdańsk Agreement, and Martial law in Poland (chapters 11-15). The character of Agnieszka is a composite based loosely based on the lives of two women labour activists, the crane operator Anna Walentynowicz and the diminutive shipyard nurse Alina Pienkowska. Plot Agnieszka Kowalska is a hardworking welder in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk. She is honored as a he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulzhan
''Ulzhan'' is a 2007 drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring Philippe Torreton, Ayanat Ksenbai (formerly credited as Ayana Yesmagambetova) and David Bennent. Plot The Frenchman Charles travels in Kazakhstan and when his car stops working, he is determined to continue his journey by walking until he can get a horse. The young local French teacher Ulzhan decides to accompany and support him. She learns that Charles is heading for the mountain Khan Tengri. Along the way they are joined by New Age shaman Shakuni. They all approach the storied mountain which Shakuni considers holy. Whether they will find there a hidden treasure or salvation is left to the viewer's speculation. Reception In Germany "Ulzhan" received "predominantly positive press reviews". Hans-Bernhard Moeller (associate professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Färberböck
Max Färberböck (born 22 September 1950) is a German film director and writer. He was born in Brannenburg, Bavaria. He began his career at theaters in Buenos Aires and in Italy. He later studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich and worked for Constantin Film and as an assistant for Peter Zadek at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. After producing several plays at theaters in Hamburg, Heidelberg and Cologne, he began to write and direct episodes for the TV series ''Der Fahnder''. Later Färberböck produced several TV films, before making his first feature film, ''Aimée & Jaguar'' (1998). It was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film was also nominated for the Golden Bear at 49th Berlin International Film Festival. He directed '' A Woman in Berlin'' (2008), based on the memoir by the same name. A new edition had been published in Germany in 2003, two years after the author's death. This controversial work dealt wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
