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The Innocents (2016 Film)
''The Innocents'' (), also known as ''Agnus Dei'', is a 2016 drama film directed by Anne Fontaine, which features Lou de Laâge, Agata Kulesza, Agata Buzek and Vincent Macaigne in its cast. The script is by Sabrina B. Karine, Pascal Bonitzer, Anne Fontaine and Alice Vial, after an original idea by Philippe Maynial. Maynial took inspiration from the experiences of his aunt, Madeleine Pauliac, a French Red Cross doctor who worked in Poland after World War II. Plot In Warsaw, December 1945, a nun known as Sister Teresa approaches a young French female student doctor, Mathilde Beaulieu, serving with an army unit. She says there are sick women in need and is not satisfied with a referral to the Polish Red Cross. Beaulieu decides to go at night to the nun's convent, where one woman has given birth. The Mother Superior tells her that the nun was thrown out by her family and was taken in out of charity. Beaulieu tells the Mother Superior (Abbess) that she works for the French Red Cross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Fontaine
Anne Fontaine (born Anne-Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc; 15 July 1959) is a Luxembourgish film director, screenwriter, and former actress. She lives and works in France. Life and career Born Anne-Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc in Luxembourg, sister of actor Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, she went as a young child to live in Lisbon, where her father, Antoine Sibertin-Blanc, is a music professor and cathedral organist. In adolescence she moved to Paris and trained in dance with Joseph Russillo while continuing her academic education, including philosophy. Her husband is Philippe Carcassonne, the film producer, and they have an adopted son, Tienne, who was born in Cambodia. While still dancing, she was picked by Robert Hossein to play Esmeralda in a 1980 theatrical production of ''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' and around this time started to use the name Anne Fontaine. She continued with acting and became known for her roles in comedies like ''Si ma gueule vous plaît...'' (1981) and ''P.R.O.F. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the List of European countries by area, fifth largest EU country by area, covering . The capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Prehistory and protohistory of Poland, Prehistoric human activity on Polish soil dates to the Lower Paleolithic, with continuous settlement since the end of the Last Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warmia
Warmia ( ; Latin: ''Varmia'', ''Warmia''; ; Warmian subdialect, Warmian: ''Warńija''; Old Prussian language, Old Prussian: ''Wārmi'') is both a historical and an ethnographic region in northern Poland, forming part of historical Prussia (region), Prussia. Its historic capitals were Frombork and Lidzbark Warmiński and the largest city is Olsztyn. Warmia is currently the core of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (province). The region covers an area of around and has approximately 350,000 inhabitants. Important landmarks include the Cathedral Hill, Frombork, Cathedral Hill in Frombork, the bishops' castles at Olsztyn Castle, Olsztyn and Lidzbark Warmiński Castle, Lidzbark, the medieval town of Reszel and the sanctuary in Gietrzwałd, a site of Marian apparitions. Geographically, it is an area of many lakes and lies at the upper Łyna river and on the right bank of Pasłęka, stretching in the northwest to the Vistula Bay. Warmia has a number of architectural monuments ranging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principal Photography
Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production. Personnel Besides the main film personnel, such as the actors, director, cinematographer(s) or sound engineer(s) and their respective assistants ( assistant director, camera assistant, boom operator), the unit production manager plays a decisive role in principal photography. They are responsible for the daily implementation of the shoot, managing the daily call sheet, the location barriers, transportation, and catering. Additional typical roles during filming include the script supervisor to record changes to the script and the still photographer to produce images for advertising and documentation. Several reports are prepared each day to track the progress of a film production, including the daily production report, the daily progress report, and the sound report. Process Prepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Co-production (filmmaking)
A co-production is a joint venture between two or more different production companies for the purpose of film production, television production, video game development, and so on. In the case of an international co-production, production companies from different countries (typically two to three) are working together. Co-production also refers to the way services are produced by their users, in some parts or entirely. History and benefits The journalist Mark Lawson identifies the first use of the term, in the context of radio production, in 1941, although the programme to which he refers, '' Children Calling Home'', "Presented in collaboration between the CBC of Canada, NBC of the U.S.A., and the BBC, and broadcast simultaneously in all three countries", was first broadcast in December 1940. Following the Second World War, US film companies were forbidden by the Marshall Plan to take their film profits in the form of foreign exchange out of European countries. As a result, se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Elso
Pascal Elso is a French actor and director. Career Pascal Elso is an actor, comedian, director. He has taught acting at several cinema schools, and has also worked as a choreographer, clown, and mime artist. Filmography Cinema Television Theater Awards and nominations References External links *''Pascal Elso''at the British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Elso, Pascal French male film actors Living people 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French male stage actors French male television actors Year of birth missing (living people) French male comedians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Próchniak
Anna Próchniak (born 22 December 1988) is a Polish actress. Initially trained as a dancer, she decided to switch to acting, graduating from the National Film School in Łódź. Próchniak's first major international film role was in '' The Innocents'' (Sundance Film Festival 2016) directed by Anne Fontaine. Her credits include Polish ''Warsaw 44'' (2014), Northern Irish '' Bad Day for the Cut'' (Sundance Film Festival 2017), Latvian ''Oleg'' (Directors’ Fortnight section of the Festival de Cannes 2019) and '' Baptiste'' for BBC One (2019). She is a member of the European Film Academy The European Film Academy is a group of European film director, filmmakers who come together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988. Every year, the European Film Academy honors films an ... (EFA). Selected filmography References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Prochniak, Anna 1988 births Living people 21st-century Polish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliza Rycembel
Eliza Rycembel (born 1992) is a Polish actress. She was the winner of the Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 44th Polish Film Festival for the film '' Corpus Christi''. Biography From the age of six, Eliza Rycembel studied ballet at the Hanna Kamińska Dance and Acting Studio at the General Ballet School. Filmography * 2014 ''Obietnica'' as Lila Śliwińska * 2015 ''Carte Blanche'' as Klara * 2016 ''Wszystko gra'' as Zosia / Great-Grandmother * 2018 ''Nina'' as Magda * 2019 '' Piłsudski'' as Wanda Juszczekiczówna, daughter of Maria Piłsudska * 2019 ''Ciemno, prawie noc'' as Ewa At Age 17 * 2019 '' Corpus Christi'' as Marta * 2023 ''Irena's Vow ''Irena's Vow'' is a Broadway play recounting the story of Irena Gut, a Polish nurse who, at the risk of her life, saved twelve Jews during World War II in German-occupied Poland. Production history The play opened at Broadway's Walter Kerr Thea ...'' as Ida * 2024 ''Comme Des Cowboys'' as Stacey Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Coumans
Thomas Coumans (born 16 September 1984) is a Belgian actor. His father Yvefilms was a stage director, and he graduated from the Higher National Institute of Performing Arts (I.N.S.A.S.) in Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit .... accessed 20 January 2023. After his graduation in 2006, he worked on various projects in Belgium, including '' La Marea'' directed by Mariano Pensotti Stories and '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarzyna Dąbrowska
Katarzyna Dąbrowska (born 14 March 1984) is a Polish actress and singer. She graduated from the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy. She won Countrywide French Song Contest. She scored 3rd place in XXVIII Actors Song Review in Wrocław (2007), first place in Student Song Festival in Kraków (2007). She also got II Award of Minister of Culture and National Heritage for her role as Kate in the production "Tańce w Ballybeg" on XXV Festival of Theatre Schools. Nowadays she is an actress in Teatr Współczesny in Warsaw. Filmography * 1997: '' Klan'' as bank worker * 2005: '' Egzamin z życia'' as Zeta's friend * 2006: ''M jak miłość'' as Lidka * 2006: '' Mrok'' as Krycha * 2007: '' Kryminalni'' as Paulina Wysocka * 2008: ''Londyńczycy'' as waitress * 2008–present: ''Na dobre i na złe'' as Wiktoria Manuela Consalida * 2009: '' Teraz albo nigdy!'' as Inka * 2009-2010: ''Czas honoru'' as Graba, guard in jail * 2009: ''Zuzanna Zuzana is a common female given name in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
