The film presents the figure of General Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, a soldier, an adjutant and a friend of Marshal Piłsudski. The real-life story of Wieniawa is based on the history of Poland's regaining independence, in which Wieniawa played a huge role. The next stages of his life illustrate the change that took place in the whole Polish society, which was divided between the »
Anthony Adamsky, a 28-year-old American of Polish origin, an antiques dealer by profession, and a historian and genealogist by passion, discovers one day in a family photo album a photograph of his great-grandfather John Adamsky in a strange military uniform from the WWI. However, this is not a uniform of the American Army. To unravel the mystery of his ancestor, Anthony embarks »
In Zakopane, as in other parts of Poland under partitions, people waited for the opportunity to declare independence. On October 13, 1918, a civic assembly was held. Five hundred participants chose a 32-member board, headed by Stefan Żeromski. On October 31, just one day before Kraków, Zakopane declared independence. The Commonwealth of Zakopane was established, with Stefan Żeromski as the president. Zakopane »
A brilliant contemporary TV drama about some obscure facts from the life of one of the greatest Polish politicians, Marshal Józef Piłsudski. The story centres on some lesser-known moments in the history of 20th-century Europe, which is Piłsudski;s planned armed intervention in Germany, around 1933. This intervention was related to the internal situation of Germany and the growing aggression of the Nazi »
Probably there has been no other such outstanding politician and economic activist in the Polish history, with so many merits for the development of the country than Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski. This forgotten hero was a great politician, engineer, and economist. He belonged to the Polish Legions formed by Józef Piłsudski and was a soldier of the 1920 war. Kwiatkowski united Poland after the »
A documentary film about the older brother of Marshal Piłsudski, Bronisław, who was born on 21.10.1866 in Zułów, Lithuania. For his involvement in the attack on the Tsar, he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour on the death island – Sakhalin. »
