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- Actress
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Agata Kulesza is a Polish actress who works in theater and cinema. She graduated with distinction from the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw. She has been part of the artistic team at the Ateneum Theater in Warsaw since 2011. Kulesza's role in Rose (2011) earned her the Best Actress award from the Polish Film Awards. She gained international recognition for her role in the movie Ida (2013), for which she received the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress and her second Polish Film Awards for Best Actress.- Ellen Schwiers was born on 11 June 1930 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Arms and the Man (1958), 1900 (1976) and Doktor Martin (2007). She was married to Peter Jacob. She died on 26 April 2019 in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany.
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- Producer
- Director
Heinrich George was born on 9 October 1893 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor and producer, known for Metropolis (1927), Burning Hearts (1945) and Die Degenhardts (1944). He was married to Berta Drews. He died on 25 September 1946 in Soviet Special Camp No. 7, Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
Radek Ladczuk was born on 2 June 1976 in Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland. He is a cinematographer and director, known for The Nightingale (2018), The Babadook (2014) and Suicide Room (2011).- Anna Cieslak was born on 17 September 1980 in Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Masz na imie Justine (2005), War of Love (2010) and Pixels (2010). She has been married to Edward Miszczak since 21 August 2021.
- Hans Heinrich von Twardowski was born on 5 May 1898 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Hangmen Also Die! (1943) and The Scarlet Empress (1934). He died on 19 November 1958 in New York City, New York, USA.
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- Producer
Burkhard Driest was born on 28 April 1939 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for Querelle (1982), Annas Mutter (1984) and Cross of Iron (1977). He was married to Bettina and ???. He died on 27 February 2020 in Berlin, Germany.- Dita Parlo was born on 4 September 1906 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for The Grand Illusion (1937), L'Atalante (1934) and Melody of the Heart (1929). She was married to Frank Guetal. She died on 12 December 1971 in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Dominika Juillet was born on 4 May 1975 in Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland. She is an actress and writer, known for Art History (2003), Vanquisher (2011) and Dracano (2013).- Hilde Weissner was born on 3 July 1909 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Something for Everyone (1970), Die Nibelungen, Teil 1 - Siegfried (1966) and Die Nibelungen 2. Teil - Kriemhilds Rache (1967). She was married to Gerd Ribatis and Peter Holm. She died on 30 May 1987 in Salzburg, Austria.
- She graduated from the National Theatre School in Krakow in 1998. In years 2002 to 2011 was an actress in Teatr Wspolczesny in Warszawa. She is know from her role as Lucy Wilska in "Ranczo" and has played her so far. In 2004 she married an actor and director Jacek Borcuch, but divorced him in 2012. They have one daughter, born in 2006.
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Polish cinematographer known for Lokatorka(2021)Golden Lions (nominee) Best Film, Mardaani(2014)Film Fare Awards(nominee)Best Cinematography and Best Cinematography winner for Zblizenie(2017)Berlin Sci-fi Filmfest and a blockbuster Sultan(2016). He started his adventure with cinematography when Lars von Trier came to his family town Chojna (near Szczecin) for few days shoot of his film Europa(1991). That was when young Zurawski made his first stills on the film set. Couple of years later, he started his professional film career as assistant director/animator in multi techniques short film Piet Mondrian(1995). After that he studied in Polish National Film School in Lodz (1996-2000). His credits include international fictions, documentaries, shorts, television series and commercials. He conducted creative workshops for young cinematographers in Poland, Mongolia and South Korea. A member of the Polish Society of Cinematographers and the Polish Filmmakers Association. Speaks Polish, English and Russian.- Director
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Krzysztof Lukaszewicz was born on 29 February 1976 in Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland. He is a director and producer, known for Orleta. Grodno '39 (2022), Viva Belarus! (2013) and Lincz (2010).- Editor
- Producer
- Director
Born in Szczecin, Poland, in 1975.
Michal Kosakowski is the director, writer, producer, director of photography and editor of numerous short and experimental films, documentaries, video installations and 2 feature films. His work includes more than 100 films, many of which have been shown in international festivals and exhibitions, and have received numerous awards.
Polish director Michal Kosakowski started making films when he was 10. By the age of 18 he had already directed and produced more than 20 shorts and developed his unique and controversial visual language with his first film production company Dark Productions.
After graduating from the Academy of Commerce in Vienna in 1995, he studied film production at the Vienna Film Academy.
From 1997 to 2000 he attended the artists' workshop Fabrica, the Benetton Communication Research Centre near Venice, Italy. This allowed him to develop his own film ideas in collaboration with the Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani. He also experimented with new ways of visual communication for several cultural, social and political institutions, such as the United Nations and The International Criminal Court. In 1998, he worked in North Africa as cinematographer for Mohammed Soudani's feature-length documentary film Les diseurs d'histoires (1998) and directed his film Holy War (1999), which explores the crossovers between Christmas and war.
In 2000 Michal Kosakowski returned to Vienna where he continued his creative work in the commercial area as concept developer and film editor in the renowned agency DMC - Design for Media and Communication.
In 2003 he founded the film production company nosugar added, focusing on documentaries, artist portraits, music films, commercials and experimental films, such as the award-winning Sleepers (2002) and Gipsy Express (2002). He also directed the short film Wait a Minute (2004) and the documentary The Heart of It (2004/2010) in collaboration with the Serbian writer Goran Mimica and the French writer Joseph Denize.
In 2006 Kosakowski moved to Munich, Germany where he intensified his artistic collaboration with the Austrian artist and curator Uli Aigner. Their film projects, such as Ghostakademie (2005), Just Like the Movies (2006), Fortynine (1999-2007), The Inquisitive Museum (2010) and Ephemera - Uli Aigner by Michal Kosakowski (2018), were hosted by venues as renowned as the Kunsthalle Wien, Centre Pompidou Paris, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Kunstwerke Berlin, Städtische Kunsthalle München Lothringer13, C/O Berlin - International Forum For Visual Dialogues, The Rotterdam Film Festival, Kunstfilmbiennale Cologne, ZKM - Zentrum Für Kunst Und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Museo National Centro De Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, Pierogi Gallery New York, Soho Centre Beijing, Museo da Arte Garrillo Gil Mexico City, Multiplicidade Rio De Janeiro or The Clair-Obscur Filmfestival Basel.
Kosakowski's passion for music has triggered several music film productions with and about the MKO (Munich Chamber Orchestra), the violinist KP Werani and his string trio TrioCoriolis, the Dutch musician and musicologist Francis Kuipers, the Berlin drummer Steven Garling, the Viennese violinist Mosa Sisic and the New York electronic music artist Ray Sweeten.
Since 2004 Kosakowski has been working with the Italian composer Paolo Marzocchi. For their experimental film Just Like the Movies (2006) about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Michal Kosakowski was given the award for best film and Paolo Marzocchi received the best original score prize by the international film festivals of Milan, Amsterdam, Santiago de Chile and Forli, Italy. The film was also acquired for the collections of the Library of the University of Amsterdam and the Danish Film Institute and is regularly shown at international symposia and film seminars. Just Like the Movies is also used as an instructional film by universities and academies worldwide.
From 2008 to 2011, Michal Kosakowski was active as a lecturer, teaching experimental film and theory of film-making at the MD.H (Media Design Hochschule) in Munich, Germany. In 2011, he was Jury Member of the International Feature Film Competition at the Milano Film Festival, Italy. He also curated the film program for the concert event series TrioCoriolis - Hörblicke 21 in Munich. In 2015 he was a Jury Member at the Soundtrack_Cologne 12 - German Festival of Music and Sound in Film and Media, Cologne.
Between 1996 and 2007 Michal Kosakowski created the video-installation Fortynine with more than 160 participants from 28 countries on the subject of murder fantasies. This resulted in Zero Killed in 2011 - his first feature-length film that received awards at numerous international film festivals.
In 2015 his production company Kosakowski Films produced the anthology feature film German Angst, in which he directed his episode Make a Wish alongside legendary Berlin underground director Jörg Buttgereit and the Giallo expert Andreas Marschall. The film was sold in over 10 countries and shown at over 40 international film festivals such as the Rotterdam Film Festival and Sitges Film Festival.
Since 2014 he has been creating art films, books and websites for the global art project One Million in which the artist and Michal Kosakowski's wife Uli Aigner is attempting to make a million numbered porcelain dishes before she dies. Kosakowski is continuously documenting this life-time project with his photographs.
Since 2016 Kosakowski has been producing art films for artists, art collectors and art foundations such as the Kienzle Art Foundation in Berlin. For the German patron, scientist and benefactor Prof. Dr. Jörg Thiede Kosakowski digitized his comprehensive archive and created an artistic documentation of his Berlin Secession art collection in the form of photography, art film and interactive media.
Kosakowski is also working on his film-exhibition-installation project Dark Tourism in which he examines the modern forms of commemoration of WWII and the Holocaust using 5 experimental and documentary films, several photo collage works/prints, room installations and book publications.
Michal Kosakowski lives and works together with Austrian artist Uli Aigner and their 4 children in Berlin.- Joanna is an actor fluent in English, Polish and Hindi. Her most notable work includes hosting the new season of Comedy Circus on Sony TV in Hindi and starring opposite Vir Das in his Netflix show 'Hasmukh' produced by Nikhil Advani. Joanna is a part of Season 2 of Karenjit Kaur - the Untold Story of Sunny Leone shot in South Africa. She has experience in short films working with Alt Balaji and Thought Process Films, in both of which she is seen portraying prominent roles (International and Indian).
- Marta Stalmierska is a Polish actress known for her work in both theater and movies. She completed her acting studies at the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz in 2022. She made her theater debut in 2001, lending her voice at the Pleciuga Puppet Theater and also performed at the Studio Theater in Lodz. She received an award at the Polish Film Festival in 2022 for her acting debut.
- George Sherwood was born on 18 April 1892 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Welcome Children (1921), Flying Disc Man from Mars (1950) and Emergency Landing (1941). He was married to Pauline Starke. He died on 26 February 1983 in Northridge, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Karolina Pisarek was born on 16 August 1997 in Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for 365 Days: This Day (2022), The Next 365 Days (2022) and Feel More Girls.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actress
Paulina Marciniak was born on 17 January 1988 in Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland. She is an assistant director and actress, known for Pierwsza milosc (2004), Chemo (2015) and Asymetria (2020).- Actor
- Soundtrack
Bartek Kasprzykowski was born on 19 May 1977 in Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Crossing Lines (2013), Milosc nad rozlewiskiem (2010) and Syzyfowe prace (2000).- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
Jerzy Zielinski was born on 8 January 1950 in Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland. He is a cinematographer, known for Bubble Boy (2001), Powder (1995) and Galaxy Quest (1999).- Actor
- Additional Crew
Mogens von Gadow was born on 12 May 1930 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Dieser Platonow... (1967), Something for Everyone (1970) and Tatort (1970).- Jan Jurewicz was born on 20 October 1954 in Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Schindler's List (1993), Na dobre i na zle (1999) and Day of the Wacko (2002).
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Dominik W. Rettinger was born on 8 November 1953 in Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland. He is a writer and director, known for Gra w slepca (1986), Ekipa (2007) and Milion dolarów (2011).- Actress
- Camera and Electrical Department
Karolina Sawka was born on 15 December 1991 in Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for W pustyni i w puszczy (2001), In Desert and Wilderness (2002) and M jak milosc (2000).