Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak was a Polish film and theatre actor as well as theatre director and pedagogue. He received international recognition for portraying Moritz Welt in Andrzej Wajda's drama film The Promised Land. In 2016, he won the Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Andrzej Teodor Seweryn is a Polish actor and director. Regarded as 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. In 2017, he received the Polish Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of painter Zdzisław Beksiński in the biographical film The Last Family. In 2023, he was honoured with the Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in drama film Śubuk.
The House of Zamoyski is an important Polish noble (szlachta) family belonging to the category of Polish magnates. They used the Jelita coat of arms. The surname "Zamoyski" literally means "of/from Zamość" and reflects the fact that the family originally were lords of Zamość, according to a tradition of surnames of Polish nobility. The family was influential in Polish politics for several centuries, and its members held various official titles, including those of Count and Countess.
Franciszek Fiszer was a Polish metaphysician and alchemist, a friend of the most notable writers and philosophers of contemporary Warsaw and one of Warsaw's semi-legendary people. Described as an erudite bon vivant and gourmand, he is remembered for a large number of anecdotes, jokes and sayings coined by him and about him.
Jan Piotr Sapieha was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, general, politician, diplomat, governor of Uświat county, member of the Parliament and a skilled commander of the Polish troops stationing in the Moscow Kremlin.
A Short Film About Killing is a 1988 drama film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Mirosław Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, and Jan Tesarz. Written by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, the film was expanded from Dekalog: Five of the Polish television series Dekalog. Set in Warsaw, Poland, the film compares the senseless, violent murder of an individual to the cold, calculated execution by the state. A Short Film About Killing won both the Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, as well as the European Film Award for Best Film.
TSA is a Polish hard rock and heavy metal band.
Leon Stanisław Niemczyk was a Polish actor.
Professor Ambroży Kleks, commonly referred to as Pan Kleks, is a fictional character in the Pan Kleks series, a trilogy of books written by Polish author Jan Brzechwa. He is depicted as the founder and headmaster of a magical academy for wizards that is attended by boys whose names begin with the letter "A". Kleks is depicted as a tall and eccentric man with a bushy beard, who wears a velvet frock coat over a waistcoat with numerous pockets. Among his magical abilities is his ability to change his size.
How I Unleashed World War II is a 1970 Polish comedy film directed by Tadeusz Chmielewski and based on Kazimierz Sławiński's novel "Przygody kanoniera Dolasa". It was shot in Sochi, Baku, Poświętne and Łódź, among other places.
Andrzej Grzegorczyk was a Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher and ethicist. He was noted for his work in computability, mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics.
Studio Sonica is a Polish dubbing studio that was founded in 1993. The studio not only commissions dubbed versions of content for its clients, but also lectured versions.
Start International Polska is a Polish dubbing and voice-over translation studio based in Warsaw.
Wiesław Michnikowski was a Polish stage, cabaret, and film actor.
Pan Kleks w kosmosie, also known as Mr. Blob in the Universe, is a 1988 fantasy film directed by Krzysztof Gradowski. It is the third film based on the Pan Kleks book series by Jan Brzechwa, following Akademia pana Kleksa (1983) and Podróże pana Kleksa (1985), both of which were also directed by Gradowski.
Akademia pana Kleksa is a 1983 fantasy film directed by Krzysztof Gradowski. An international co-production of Poland and the Soviet Union, the film is based on the 1946 children's novel of the same name by Jan Brzechwa, and is divided into two parts: Przygoda księcia Mateusza and Tajemnica Golarza Filipa.
Podróże pana Kleksa is a 1986 fantasy adventure film directed by Krzysztof Gradowski. It is the second film based on the Pan Kleks book series by Jan Brzechwa, following Akademia pana Kleksa (1983), and stars Piotr Fronczewski reprising his role as the titular professor, Ambroży Kleks. An international co-production of Poland and the Soviet Union, Podróże pana Kleksa is divided into two parts: Wysłannicy Bajdocji and Wyspa Wynalazców.
Akademia Pana Kleksa is a children's fantasy novel by Polish author Jan Brzechwa. First published in 1946, the book is the first in a trilogy of works by Brzechwa featuring the fictional character Professor Ambroży Kleks —commonly referred to as Pan Kleks, —the headmaster of a magical academy for wizards.
