
Aleksander Bardini
Oyuncu · 1913 – 1995 · Łódź, Russia [present Poland]
Aleksander Bardini (17 November 1913 – 30 July 1995) was a Polish actor, theatre director, artistic director, and educator.Born in Łódź to a Jewish family, after finishing high school in 1932 he studied violin and performed in the string quartet of the Jewish Music Association as well as in a Jewish cabaret. In 1935 he graduated from the Acting Department of PIST in Warsaw.He worked as an actor at the Municipal Theatre in Wilno (Vilnius) (1935–1936) and at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw (1938). In 1939 he joined the COP Travelling Theatre. For the 1939/40 season he was engaged by the Municipal Theatres in Lwów (Lviv), where he remained until 1941, working as both actor and director.During the German occupation he was initially in the Lviv ghetto, then hid in a private apartment. He returned to the Polish Dramatic Theatre in Lviv in 1944, where he served as a member of the artistic council, director, actor, and head of the acting studio until the company’s evacuation in August 1945.In the 1945/46 season he moved with the Lviv ensemble to the Municipal Theatre in Katowice. He had planned to join the Polish Army Theatre in Łódź for the 1946/47 season, but after the Kielce pogrom in July 1946 he decided to emigrate. Between 1946 and 1950 he lived in the USA, Canada, and West Germany, working manual labour and collaborating with the Jewish theatre in Munich.He returned to Poland in 1950. Until 1957 he worked as a director at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw. His greatest achievement of that period was the first postwar staging of Adam Mickiewicz’s Dziady (Forefathers’ Eve). He also occasionally appeared as an actor.In the 1957/58 season he was artistic consultant and director at the Stefan Jaracz Theatre in Łódź. From 1958 to 1960 he served as director and artistic manager of the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw. Between 1960 and 1964 he was an actor and director at the Contemporary Theatre (Teatr Współczesny) in Warsaw, before returning to the Polish Theatre for the 1964/65 season. Afterwards he worked as a freelance director, staging productions in Poland and abroad.He also directed opera productions (he was a great lover and connoisseur of music). He frequently collaborated with Polish Television, hosting highly popular music programmes featuring amateurs.A talented and very popular educator, from 1950 to 1982 he taught at the Acting, Variety, and Directing Departments of the Warsaw State Theatre School (later also in Łódź). He became associate professor in 1950 and full professor in 1966. He also taught at the Warsaw Academy of Music, co-directed and lectured at summer music courses in Austria and the Netherlands, at the drama department of the University of Georgia (USA), and at the music-drama school in Stockholm.He held many positions in ZASP (Polish Actors’ Association), ZAiKS (authors’ society), and the Jewish Historical Institute (member of the scientific council).He was the father of Maria Bardini, editor and producer of Television Theatre productions.He died in Warsaw and was buried in the catacombs at the Old Powązki Cemetery.
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Film7.4KomediDramGüzel ve seksi eşi, evliliklerinde cinsellik olmadığı gerekçesiyle Karol'dan boşanınca talihsiz adamın yaşamı alt üst olur. Eşiyle birlikte tüm mal varlığını, kuaför salonunu kaybeder, aşağılanır, polis tarafından aranır, sonunda beş parasız ve kimliksiz olarak vatanı Polonyaya geri dönmek zorunda kalır, ancak eşiyle tekrar bir araya gelme ümidini hiç ama hiç yitirmez, bazı planları vardır...
Film7.5DramFantastikVeronika Polonya'da yaşamaktadır, Veronique ise Paris'de. Birbirinden haberleri bile olmayan bu iki insan, bir şekilde birbirlerinin hayatlarını etkileyeceklerdir. Veronika bir müzik okuluna girer ve çok çalışır. Ancak ilk performansını verirken ölür. Veronique'nın hayatı da bu noktadan sonra değişmeye başlar ve aniden şarkıcı olmamaya karar verir. Krzysztof Kieslowsk'nin fantaziyle yoğrulmuş bu muazzam filmi, senaryosunun orjinalliği ve Renk Üçlemesinin son halkası olan Kırmızı'da oynayan İrene Jacob'un iki karakteri de son derece inandırıcı bir şekilde oynamasıyla dikkat çekiyor.
Film7.0DramGenç bir avukatın hayaleti sıkıyönetimden sonra dünyayı gözlemler. Üç motif iç içe geçmiştir. Genç avukatın savunmayı düşündüğü bir işçi, muhalif eylemcilerden olmakla suçlanmaktadır, ancak bu eylemci şimdi bir tür uzlaşmaya razı olmuş yaşlı bir avukat tarafından savunulur. Avukatın dul karısı ancak kocası öldükten sonra onu ne kadar çok sevdiğinin farkına varır ve içinde taşıdığı boşlukla başa çıkmaya çalışır. Filmde metafiziksel öğe de mevcuttur. Artık orada bulunmayan bir adamdan, ardında bıraktıklarına gönderilen işaretler.
Film6.2DramA biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.
Film7.5SavaşDramThis is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
Film5.2GerilimSuçMadrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor.
Film5.5DramSuçIn 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect.
Film8.0KomediDramBerlin, 1990. At the invitation of his actor friends, who have already lived abroad for many years, Max, a Polish theater director, comes to Berlin. They begin to work together. They try to realize their dream: to stage a play, the staging of which was prevented by the imposition of martial law ten years earlier. The way they raise funds (selling pieces of the "historic" wall) and struggle against the heartless machinery of bureaucracy forms the axis of the film. In their efforts, the four protagonists are assisted by Regina, a translator familiar with local customs and practices. The film deals with the problems of artists in the new, commercializing reality.
Obcy musi fruwać
1993 · 1 votes
Film6.9GizemDramA banker troubled by both business and personal problems is transferred to a small town. There he meets and seduces an older woman. Together, they decide to pull off a payroll holdup together.
Film7.8DramTV MovieA father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an unopened letter from her deceased mother, it seems to justify her attraction to Michał, who may not in fact be her father.
Film10.0BelgeselA film meant to show what people were told to believe about the wonderful lives that Polish peasants led in post-war Poland.
Film7.0DramJan weds his mentally ill wife Joanna at her insistence, but her increasing dependence on sedatives, and the clandestine extra pills supplied by Jan, their son Piotr and Jan’s friend Maria, leads to Joanna’s fatal overdose. Accused of murder, Jan endures a trial, psychiatric evaluation and deep depression before the case is dropped; only after reconciling with his children does he finally leave the clinic to return home.
Dotknięci
1989 · 1 votes
Film6.7DramIn what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening.
Film7.1DramTarihThe story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
Korczak
1990 · 33 votes
Film5.0DramHenry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new musical secretary. His loyal wife reluctantly accepts her as his young lover.
The Silent Touch
1992 · 12 votes
Film7.0DramIn the 18th Century, in Bohemia, a government surveyor meet a priest during a lunch and remained intrigued by him. Years later, in a stony valley, the two men meet again and form a deep friendship.
La valle di pietra
1992 · 2 votes
FilmBelgeselA documentary portrait of Aleksander Zelwerowicz, the master of the Polish scene, created on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his artistic career. He played over 800 roles, the directors of the film chose his three masterpieces: a theater one, a film one, and a radio one.
Film7.5DramTV MovieA student who missed his final exam because of illness arrives at his professor's house to beg to be allowed to take it.
Film7.0TarihDramThe first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, and mixing neorealist and expressionist styles, the film follows a Polish Jew and his family from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camps.
Film8.0DramA famous opera singer comes to his hometown in Poland, where he loses his voice.
Baryton
1985 · 1 votes
Film5.5DramRomantikAn Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.
Wherever You Are...
1988 · 5 votes
Film3.8KomediThe mis-adventures of three Polish-Jews on the road to Gdansk is the basis for this German comedy that was filmed in New York, Germany, and Poland. Genovefa and Moshe have been married and living in New York for 30 years. Physically the couple resembles Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat. The two have decided to return to Poland for a visit. They intend to have Moshe's best friend Isaac, an unlucky, depressive German, take care of their house while they are gone. Unfortunately, Isaac loses his job before they go and ends up accompanying them on a Polish freighter. When the ship dies in a German port, the threesome must go overland to Gdansk. They encounter many mishaps along the way.
Film8.0KomediDramThis sarcastic drama is taken from the popular Hungarian novel by Tibor Dery. A terminally ill writer (Jozef Kroner) of national prominence watches as family and friends gather like vultures for his imminent demise. Relli (Alexander Bardini) smiles and pretends to be the writer's friend as he tries to get his hands on an unpublished manuscript. The opening scene is the highlight of the film. While the dead writer is being laid to rest in a national funeral, he emerges from the coffin and walks into his own grave while the mourners flee in terror.
Film6.1DramFilm opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.
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Dizi7.2SuçGizemAfter his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.
Dizi8.3DramDecalogue, Krzysztof Kieślowski'nin yönettiği ve Kieślowski'nin Krzysztof Piesiewicz ile birlikte yazdığı ve Zbigniew Preisner tarafından hazırlanan bir müziği olan 1989 Polonya televizyon tiyatrosu dizisidir. On Emir'in esinlendiği on adet bir saatlik filmden oluşuyor. Her kısa film, modern Polonya'da yaşayan karakterlerin karşılaştığı bir ya da birkaç ahlaki ya da etik sorunu araştırıyor.Serisi Kieślowski'nin en beğeni toplayan eseri olan "şimdiye kadar televizyon için yapılmış en iyi dramatik eser" olarak söyleniyor ve birçok uluslararası ödül kazandı, ancak 1990'ların sonlarına dek Avrupa dışında yaygın bir şekilde yayımlanmadı. Film yapımcısı Stanley Kubrick 1991'de yayınlanan senaryosuna hayranlıkla bir önsöz yazdı.
Dekalog
1989 · 116 votes
Dizi9.4SuçDramCrime series about Hamburg customs investigator Hans Zaluskowski, who joins forces with his colleagues to take on smugglers and fraudsters. In doing so, he not only has to contend with opaque EU customs regulations, but also solve tricky cases with international implications.
Schwarz Rot Gold
1982 · 7 votes
Dizi7.2Savaş ve PolitikaDramAn epic, multi-threaded story about the fate of Poles during World War II. "Czas pogardy" was shown primarily from the perspective of two main characters - Lieutenant Władysław Niwiński and Leon Kuraś - a petty crook, but not without heroic traits. The authors of the series sought to show, in particular, everyday life under Nazi occupation in Poland.
Polskie drogi
1977 · 6 votes
Dizi3.0Bilim Kurgu ve FantastikGizemHorror legend Christopher Lee hosts this anthology in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, each half-hour episode adapting a story from a classic author, with tales by Edgar Allen Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde.
Theatre Macabre
1971 · 3 votes