James Louis Henry Sobieski 2 November 1667 – 19 December 1737) was a Polish-French nobleman, politician, diplomat, scholar, traveller and the son of John III of Poland by his wife Marie de La Grange d'Arquien.
The Tin Drum is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.
Sara Adéla Lidman was a Swedish writer.
Polish names have two main elements: the given name, and the surname. The usage of personal names in Poland is generally governed by civil law, church law, personal taste and family custom.
Quinceañera is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carla Estrada for Televisa in 1987. Quinceañera was the first telenovela to talk about substance abuse, date rape and gangs, and is considered to be the first telenovela made in Mexico for teenagers.
"The Riddle" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1819. It is of Aarne-Thompson type 851.
Klan is a Polish soap opera that premiered on September 22, 1997 on the public TVP1 channel. With more than 4,000 episodes spanning 25 seasons, the show is the longest-running Polish TV series. It airs from Monday to Friday at 5.50 p.m. on TVP1.
Stawka większa niż życie was a Polish black and white TV series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent in Soviet service, captain Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.
Na Wspólnej is a Polish television soap opera. It has been running since 2003 on the TVN channel as its flagship primetime weekday soap opera. It is loosely based on the German production Unter uns and it follows the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment block in Wspólna Street, Warsaw. Episodes tend to last around 20 minutes. It is a Polish version of the Hungarian Barátok közt. After about 100 episodes production started to create own storylines.
La dama del alba is a Spanish play written by playwright Alejandro Casona in 1944. It is a fantasy-drama in which Death personified is the main character. It takes place in a small village in the Spanish Principality of Asturias. The play consists of four acts, and is very popular in its own country.
Das kleine Hofkonzert is a musical comedy in three acts "from the world of Carl Spitzweg", music by Edmund Nick, libretto by Paul Verhoeven and Toni Impekoven. It premiered on 19 November 1935 at the Munich Kammerspiele.
Na dobre i na złe is a Polish television medical drama series, broadcast on TVP2 since 7 November 1999. It is the longest-running weekly primetime drama on Polish television and one of the longest-running medical dramas in the world. The show revolves around the lives of doctors and patients of a teaching hospital in a fictional town of Leśna Góra near Warsaw.
Frieda Ulricke "Henny" Porten was a German actress and film producer of the silent era, and Germany's first major film star. She appeared in more than 170 films between 1906 and 1955.
That Stranger is a novel by the Polish author Irena Jurgielewiczowa, published in 1961. It is required reading for Year 6 students in Poland. That Stranger has been translated into 23 languages.
Bodil Rosing was a Danish-American film actress in the silent and sound eras.
Dominika Ostałowska is a Polish film, television and theatre actress. She is a two-time winner of Polish Film Awards for Best Actress for her performance in a 2000 film Keep Away from the Window and for Best Supporting Actress for her role in a 2003 film Warsaw.
Bartosz Opania is a Polish film, television and theatre actor.
Agnieszka Krukówna is a Polish film, television and theatre actress. She is a laureate of the Polish Film Award for Best Actress for her role a 1998 film Farba.
Jakub Wesołowski, also known as Kuba Wesołowski, is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as journalist.
Kukačky is a Czech family comedy-drama series developed and produced by Dramedy Productions for Czech Television. It began broadcasting on 8 January 2021 on ČT1. It focuses Jakub and Tomáš, children who got swapped in hospital.
