Graduate of Film and Television Academy (directing) in Warsaw and of School of Social Psychology also in Warsaw. Writer and director of Fanatics, a documentary series about fans of Polish football club Legia and Łossskot a TV cultural program. Author of music videos and television commercials. Love is his full feature debut. Read more about the director and his film on Culture.pl.
Born on June 11, 1983 in Warsaw, Poland. Włodarski debuted in 2004 in Między dniem a nocą. Dybuk at the Jewish Theater in Warsaw. He is a 2010 graduate of the Łódź Film School.
Katarzyna A. Śmiechowicz (also credited as Kasia A. Leconte) is a Polish actress from Łódź, residing in Los Angeles since 2000, where she studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and at the Margie Haber Studio.
Throughout her career, she has appeared in over 30 feature films and television series having worked with such directors as Steven Spielberg, Krzysztof Krauze, Jerzy Gruza, Olaf Lubaszenko and most recently Tomasz Konecki, Andrzej Saramonowicz and Jacek Bromski.
With a home on both continents, but a husband in the U.S., she spends most of her time in Los Angeles, but works both in Europe and the United States. Her early passion for ballet and poetry turned to…
A 2005 graduate of the Warsaw Theater Academy. From 2006 to 2013 Ms. Kijowska worked at Dramatic Theater in Warsaw, since 2013 she has worked at the Ateneum Theater in Warsaw. Her feature debut was in The Offsiders (Boisko bezdomnych) directed by Kasia Adamik in 2008. For the role of Maria in the Loving (Miłość) directed by Sławomir Fabicki, she received the Best Actress Award at the International Film Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece. She also starred in Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness (W ciemnościach), The Mighty Angel (Pod Mocnym Aniołem) and Traffic Department (Drogówka), both by Wojtek Smarzowski. In 2014 she received the Special Annual Award from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
An acting revelation who has hit the scene in the last two seasons as one of the great hopes of Polish theater and cinema, Dawid Ogrodnik only recently left the halls of Kraków’s Academy of Dramatic Arts. He has already scored two major roles in film and collaborated with the acclaimed theater company TR Warszawa.
His interest in the arts began with music, a passion may have been genetic because his older sister played the piano and the younger, the clarinet. From attending music school in Wągrowiec and listening to jazz in his free time, he admits in an interview with Culture.pl that while he strayed into classical music it was “Ravel only. I was attracted…
A one-time physics scholar, Polish-born Krzysztof Zanussi began making amateur movies in the late '50s, after chancing to take a film course at the University of Warsaw. He graduated the Lódź Film School with Death of a Provincial (1966), which won an award at the Venice Film Festival. He emerged as a director/screenwriter in the late '60s and early '70s, primarily working for Polish television, until the '80s, when his association with the Solidarity movement forced him into exile in West German and Swiss productions. One of his films, The Catamount Killing (1974), was shot in English, and his work since the mid-'80s has seen wider international financing and distribution. Zanussi's work is defined by its devotion to ideas at…