Andrzej Witold Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "Polish Film School". He was known especially for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation (1955), Kanał (1957) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958).
Andrzej Munk was a Polish film director, screen writer and documentalist. He was one of the most influential artists of the post-Stalinist period in the People's Republic of Poland. His feature films Man on the Tracks, Eroica, Bad Luck, and Passenger, are considered classics of the Polish Film School developed in mid-1950s. He died as a result of a car crash in Kompina in a head-on collision with a truck.
Polish Film School refers to an informal group of Polish film directors and screenplay writers active between 1956 and approximately 1963. Among the most prominent representatives of the school are Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Munk and Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
Andrzej Teodor Seweryn is a Polish actor and director. One of the most successful Polish theatre actors, he starred in over 50 films, mostly in Poland, France, and Germany. He is also one of only three non-French actors to have been hired by the Paris-based Comédie-Française.
The House of Zamoyski is the name of an important Polish noble (szlachta) family, which used the Jelita coat of arms. It is the Polish term for "de Zamość", the name they originally held as lords of Zamość. The family was influential in Polish politics for several centuries, and its members held various official titles, including those of Count and Countess.
The Leon Schiller Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź, commonly known as Łódź Film School is a Polish academy for future actors, directors, photographers, camera operators and television staff. It was founded on 8 March 1948 in Łódź (Lodz).
Józef Szajna was a Polish set designer, director, playwright, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist.
Andrzej Mariusz Trautman is a Polish mathematical physicist who has made contributions to classical gravitation in general and to general relativity in particular.
Marek Perepeczko was a popular Polish movie and theatrical actor.
Andrzej Krystyn Wróblewski was a Polish figurative painter who died in a mountaineering accident in 1957 when he was only 29. He is recognized by many as one of Poland's most prominent artists in the early post World War II era, creating a distinctly individualistic approach to representational art.
Polish Theatre in Warsaw is a theatre in Warsaw, Poland. It is located at ul. Karasia 2. The current artistic director is Andrzej Seweryn.
The University of Warsaw is a public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well as 100 specializations in humanities, technical, and the natural sciences.
The Chopin University of Music is a musical conservatorium and academy located in central Warsaw, Poland. It is the oldest and largest music school in Poland, and one of the largest in Europe.
Robakowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stolno, within Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies 12 kilometres (7 mi) east of Stolno, 17 km (11 mi) east of Chełmno, and 36 km (22 mi) north of Toruń. It is located in Chełmno Land within the historic region of Pomerania.
Rokocin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Starogard Gdański, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-west of Starogard Gdański and 48 km (30 mi) south of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.
The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw is a public higher education institution in Warsaw, Poland. Its focus is on the theatre arts. It is headquartered in the Collegium Nobilium, an eighteenth-century building which formerly housed an elite boarding secondary school run by Piarist monks.
Imagine is a 2012 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Jakimowski.
Andrzej Krasicki was a Polish film and theatre actor and theatre director.
Andrzej Halicki is a Polish politician of the Civic Platform (PO) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 elections.
Formizm was a Polish avant-garde literary and art movement active in the years 1917 to 1922. It drew inspirations from Cubism, Expressionism and Futurism as well as Polish folk art. Together with Unism, started by Władysław Strzemiński in the early 1920s, Formizm was one of the two independently Polish avant-garde movements.
