Olbrychski, DanielOverview
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Daniel Olbrychski
Salt
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10 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 1,480 libraries worldwide As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues.
Die Blechtrommel The tin drum
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7 editions published between 1979 and 2007 in German and held by 833 libraries worldwide "Danzig, 1924. Oskar Matzerath is born with an intellect beyond his infancy. As he witnesses the hypocrisy of adulthood and the irresponsibility of society, Oskar rejects both, and, on his third birthday, refuses to grow. Caught in a baffling state of perpetual childhood, Oskar lashes out at all he surveys with piercing screams and frantic poundings on his tin drum, while the unheeding, chaotic world marches onward to the madness and folly of World War II." -- Container.
Dekalog The Decalogue
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1 edition published in 2003 in Polish and held by 673 libraries worldwide Ten, approximately one-hour films made for Polish television that each feature one of the 10 commandments as a thematic construct.
Rosa Luxemburg
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18 editions published between 1985 and 2009 in German and English and held by 414 libraries worldwide Rosa Luxemburg, a Polish Jew, was born on March 5, 1871. She became German through an unconsummated marriage and at the beginning of the century, she played an important role in the fields of politics and morals. She was at the sides of Bebel, Jaures, and Lenin during all of the major international congresses. She was also an ardent pacifist and spent the greatest part of the war in prison.
Dekalog The Decalogue
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6 editions published between 1988 and 2000 in Polish and English and held by 328 libraries worldwide Presents 10 short films, inspired by the Ten Commandments. Each story corresponds to a commandment and centers on different residents of the same modern Warsaw apartment complex.
Ziemia obiecana The promised land
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8 editions published between 1974 and 2009 in Polish and English and held by 167 libraries worldwide "Three friends hope to build a factory but their plans are quickly jeopardized by local politics and one of the partner's dangerous love affair."--Container.
Krajobraz po bitwie
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8 editions published between 1970 and 2003 in Polish and held by 154 libraries worldwide Two Polish Holocaust survivors, a Gentile political prisoner and a headstrong Jewish girl, begin a romantic relationships in the days after their liberation by the Allies.
Zemsta
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3 editions published in 2003 in Polish and held by 142 libraries worldwide "Two 17th century aristocratic families, due to decline in their ancestral legacies, inhabit separate parts of a crumbling castle and thrive on making each other miserable. The feuding noblemen try to outwit one another for romance and control over their extravagant realm while their family members pursue their selfish interests of greed and lust. Thwarted lovers, mistaken identity, closed-door couplings and long simmering feuds abound in this delightful farce!"--Container.
Potop The deluge
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9 editions published between 1995 and 2003 in Polish and held by 137 libraries worldwide The Swedish army's 17th century invasion of Poland is intertwined with the love story of Andrzej and Oleńka.
Wszystko na sprzedaż
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4 editions published between 1969 and 2003 in Polish and English and held by 131 libraries worldwide "Inspired by the death of Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski, [the film] focuses on the behind-the-scenes lives of a director and his actors when they are disrupted by the mysterious murder of their leading man ... Film fiction mixes with reality as some of the actors play themselves"--Container.
Gebürtig
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3 editions published between 2004 and 2009 in German and Undetermined and held by 116 libraries worldwide The past catches up on two men, a Jewish emigrant composer Hermann Gëburtig and the German journalist Konrad Sachs. Gëburtig testifies against a former concentration camp supervisor, and Sachs faces the reality that his father was an SS-Doctor.
Die Blechtrommel The tin drum
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3 editions published between 1979 and 2001 in German and held by 113 libraries worldwide Feature chronicles Danzig in the 1920s/1930s and the life and times of Oskar Matzerath the son of a local dealer, a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time.
Eine Liebe in Deutschland
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3 editions published between 1985 and 1988 in German and English and held by 100 libraries worldwide The story of a tragic love affair between a German shopkeeper's wife and a Polish prisoner of war, set in a small German village during World War II.
A survivor from Warsaw op. 46
by Arnold Schoenberg
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2 editions published in 1992 in Latin and German and held by 96 libraries worldwide
Panny z Wilka Young girls of Wilko
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 87 libraries worldwide A portrait of Polish life preceding WWII, in which a young man returns to his hometown following the death of a friend. While attempting to recover from his loss, he becomes re-involved with a local family of women- the "young girls of Wilko".
Les uns et les autres Bolero
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2 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in French and held by 69 libraries worldwide Beginning in 1936, the film traces the lives of four families across three continents and five decades through the turbulent years following World War II up to the '80s highlighting the music and dance that is central to the lives of all the characters.
La truite The trout
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1 edition published in 2004 in French and held by 63 libraries worldwide "Frederique is a free-spirited and impish woman who has made an art of using her sexuality to get precisely what she wants from men. On a whim, Frederique leaves her disinterested husband and the family trout farm to travel to Japan with a wealthy businessman. Her enchantment soon gives way to reflection, navigation of the swiftly-changing sexual freedoms and responsibilities of a new era, and the quest for satori, the "world of ecstasy" experienced by her friend. But has Frederique grown up too fast, or not fast enough?"--Container.
Ziemia obiecana
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3 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in Polish and held by 58 libraries worldwide Interpretation of a classic epic depicting the changes in values ushered in by the industrial revolution. Three friends build a factory in Lodz but are sidetracked by local politics and a dangerous love affair.
Pan Tadeusz
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2 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in Polish and held by 58 libraries worldwide A "tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia ... Follows two feuding Polish families [living in the Lithuanian village of Soplicowo] as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with the patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control" -- Container.
Ziemia obiecana
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14 editions published between 1974 and 2008 in Polish and Undetermined and held by 50 libraries worldwide Three industrialists representing different ethnic groups in Poland, build a textile factory in Lodz at the turn of the century, but encounter problems with overworked, underpaid workers. more
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Action and adventure films Actors Aristocracy (Social class) Biography Boys Choice (Psychology) Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra Comedy films Communists Concertos (Percussion) Drama Ethics Feature films Feature films Fiction films Film adaptations Film and video adaptations Films--for the hearing impaired Foreign films Foreign language television programs Friendship Fugitives from justice Germany Grass, Günter,--1927- Historical films History Holocaust survivors Industrialists Intelligence officers Jewish socialists Luxemburg, Rosa,--1871-1919 Malicious accusation Manners and customs Man-woman relationships Monologues with music (Chorus with orchestra) Motion picture producers and directors Poland Romance films Spies Spy films Television mini-series Television programs Ten commandments Thrillers (Motion pictures) United States.--Central Intelligence Agency Video recordings--for people with visual disabilities Video recordings--for the hearing impaired War films Women socialists World War (1939-1945)
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Alternative Names
Ol'bryhskij, Daniel'.
Olʹbrykhskiĭ, Daniėl
Languages
Polish
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German (71) English (22) French (21) Undetermined (9) Russian (7) Multiple languages (5) Latin (5) Spanish (4) Italian (2) Hungarian (1) (1) Miscellaneous languages (1) Covers
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