Rapsodia Bałtyku (English: ''Baltic Rhapsody'') is a Polish

melodrama film In film studies and criticism, melodrama may variously refer to a genre, mode, style or sensibility characterized by its emphasis on intense and exaggerated emotions and heightened dramatic situations. There is no fixed definition of the term an ...

from 1935 directed by

Leonard Buczkowski Leonard Buczkowski (5 August 1900 – 19 February 1967) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed 23 films between 1928 and 1966. His 1959 film ''The Eagle (1959 film), The Eagle'' was entered into the 1st Moscow International ...

. It is the story about two friends, Adam and Zygmunt, serving in the floatplanes escadrille of the Polish Navy. It is notable for an appearance of Polish destroyer ORP ''Wicher'' (actually the first modern warship ever built for the Polish Navy) and

Lublin R-XIII The Lublin R-XIII was the Polish army cooperation plane (observation and liaison plane), designed in the early-1930s in the Plage i Laśkiewicz factory in Lublin. It was the main army cooperation plane in the Invasion of Poland. Its variant Lu ...

floatplanes. * Screenplay –

Konrad Tom Konrad Tom (9 April 1887 – 9 August 1957), born Konrad Runowiecki, a Polish Jewish actor, writer, singer and director, born in Warsaw. Wrote song lyrics in Polish and in Yiddish for stage, film and cabaret, including '' szmonces''. His wife was ...

* Dialogs – * Scenography –

Jacek Rotmil Jacek Rotmil (1888–1944) was a Russian-born art director and production designer who worked on 100 films during his career Following the First World War, Rotmil entered the booming German film industry and worked prolifically until 1933. Follow ...

, Stefan Norris * Music – * Text of the songs –

Jerzy Jurandot Jerzy Jurandot, born ''Jerzy Glejgewicht'' (19 March 1911 – 16 August 1979), was a popular Polish poet of Jewish ancestry, dramatist, satirist and songwriter. History Jurandot was born and died in Warsaw. He first became successful at th ...

Cast

* Maria Bogda – Janka Zatorska * – Ewa Zatorska * Adam Brodzisz – Adam Halny * Mieczysław Cybulski – Zygmunt Zatorski, Ewa's husband * Jerzy Marr – Jerzy Jedyński * – Jędruś Zatorski *

Stanisław Sielański Stanisław Sielański (8 August 1899 – 28 April 1955) was a Polish film and cabaret actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1929 and 1943. Selected filmography * '' Uwiedziona'' (1931) * '' Bezimienni bohaterowie'' (1932) * '' Z ...

– Przędza * Paweł Owerłło – commander Zieliński * Maria Kaupe – singer * – Franciszka

External links

* 1930s Polish-language films 1935 drama films 1935 films Polish black-and-white films Polish drama films 1930s melodrama films Films set in Pomeranian Voivodeship Polish-language drama films {{1930s-drama-film-stub