His first non-documentary feature, Personnel (1975), was made for television and won him first prize at the Mannheim Film Festival. Both Personnel and his next feature, The Scar, were works of social realism with large casts: Personnel was about technicians working on a stage production, based on his early college experience, and The Scar showed the upheaval of a small town by a poorly-planned industrial project. These films were shot in a documentary style with many nonprofessional actors; like his earlier films, they portrayed everyday life unde ...

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Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Kieślowski - Early life, Krzysztof Kieślowski - Documentaries, Krzysztof Kieślowski - Polish feature films, Krzysztof Kieślowski - Foreign productions, Krzysztof Kieślowski - Death and legacy, Krzysztof Kieślowski - Filmography, Krzysztof Kieślowski - Documentaries/short subjects, Krzysztof Kieślowski - Features

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1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. 1996 - Events. January 5 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. January 7 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern states, killing more than 100. January 8 - Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital Kinshasa ...

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• 1996 - November
• 1996 - December
• 1996 - Environmental change
• 1996 - Unknown date
• 1996 - Births
• 1996 - Deaths
• 1996 - January-February
• 1996 - March-June
• 1996 - July-December
• 1996 - Nobel Prizes
• 1996 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• 1996 - Templeton Prize
• 1996 - Right Livelihood Award

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Łódź (pronunciation: ˈwudʑ̥), the second-largest city (population 776,297 in 2004) of Poland, lies in the centre of the country. It serves as the capital of the Łódź Voivodship. In Polish, the word also means 'boat'. Łódź - History. Łódź - Agricultural Łódź. Łódź first appears in the written record in a document giving the village of Łodzia to the bishops of Włocławek in 1332. In ...

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• Łódź - World War II
• Łódź - After 1945
• Łódź - Łódź today
• Łódź - Łódź for tourists
• Łódź - The Łódź Film School
• Łódź - Historical population
• Łódź - Famous people from Łódź
• Łódź - Economy
• Łódź - Education
• Łódź - Politics
• Łódź - Łódź constituency
• Łódź - Mayors
• Łódź - Sports

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Warsaw (Polish Warszawa, [varˈʂava](?), in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. It is located on the Vistula river roughly 350 km from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains. Its population as of 2004 was estimated at 1,692,900, with an urban agglomeration of approximately 2,760,000. The city area amounts to 516.9 km², with an urban agglomeration of 6100,43 km² (Warsaw Metrop ...

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• Warsaw - Municipal government
• Warsaw - Politics
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• Warsaw - Mass transit
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• Warsaw - Sports
• Warsaw - Culture
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• Warsaw - Museums and art galleries
• Warsaw - Film
• Warsaw - Education
• Warsaw - Economy
• Warsaw - Business and commerce
• Warsaw - Stock Exchange
• Warsaw - Industry
• Warsaw - Tourist attractions

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Red is a color at the lowest frequencies of light discernible by the human eye. Red light has a wavelength range of roughly 630-760 nm. Lower frequencies are called infrared, or far red. Red is an additive primary color, complementary to cyan. It was once considered to be a subtractive primary color, and is still sometimes described as such in non-scientific literature; however, the colors cyan, magenta and yellow are now known to be closer to the true subtractive primary colors detected by the eye, and are used in moder ...

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A doppelgänger is the ghostly double of a living person, adapted from German Doppelgänger (look-alike). The word comes from doppel meaning "double" and Gänger translated as "goer". The term has, in the vernacular, come to refer to any double of a person, most commonly in reference to a so-called evil twin, or to bilocation: Somewhere, in a parallel universe, your evil twin exists. Identical to you in every physical attribute, its mind is twisted, evil and hell-bent on destruction; it is everything you ...

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• Doppelgänger - Emilie Sagée
• Doppelgänger - The doppelgänger phenomenon in popular culture
• Doppelgänger - Literature
• Doppelgänger - Film
• Doppelgänger - Television
• Doppelgänger - Other media

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The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. The expression of approval is given, along with an Oscar Statuette and a chance for the director to speak, at an annual Academy Awards ceremony. All but twenty of the seventy-seven Oscars for best director (before 2006) were for films that also won the award for best picture. The Academy has selected one director from five nominees each year for the past seven decades ...

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• Academy Award for Directing - 1950s
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• Academy Award for Directing - 1980s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1990s
• Academy Award for Directing - 2000s

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1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1941 - Events. 1941 - January-February. January 6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress. January 19 - British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea. January 21 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya. J ...

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• 1941 - February
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• 1941 - April-May
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• 1941 - September-October
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• 1941 - Fiction
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This is a list of film-related events in 1993. 1992 in film 1993 in film 1994 in film 1992 in home video 1993 in home video 1994 in home video 1992 in television 1993 in television 1994 in television 1993 in film - Events. March 31 - Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow. April 12 - Actress Lisa Bonet f ...

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• 1993 in film - Events
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• 1993 in film - Other movies released

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France has been influential in the development of film as a mass medium and as an art form. Cinema of France - History. Cinema of France - Late 19th century to early 20th century. In the late 19th century, during the early years of cinema, France produced several important pioneers. Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the cinématographe and their screening of L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de la Ciotat in Paris in 1895 is marked by many historians as the official birth of cinema ...

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• Cinema of France - History
• Cinema of France - Late 19th century to early 20th century
• Cinema of France - Post-World War II: 1940s-1970s
• Cinema of France - 1980s
• Cinema of France - 1990s
• Cinema of France - Current situation
• Cinema of France - Notable contemporary French cinema personalities
• Cinema of France - Actors
• Cinema of France - Directors
• Cinema of France - Literature

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This is a list of film-related events in 1994. 1993 in film 1994 in film 1995 in film 1993 in home video 1994 in home video 1995 in home video 1993 in television 1994 in television 1995 in television 1994 in film - Events. November 1 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, ...

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This is a list of film-related events in 1996. 1995 in film 1996 in film 1997 in film 1995 in home video 1996 in home video 1997 in home video 1995 in television 1996 in television 1997 in television 1996 in film - Top grossing films. Independence Day, starring Will Smith Twister, starring Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt Miss ...

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The film is set in the East Berlin of 1989 to 1992. The premise of the film is that Alexander Kerner's mother, Christiane Kerner, an ardent, though more practically-minded than ideological, supporter of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany falls into a coma shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, following a heart attack she suffered when she saw Alex being beaten by police who mistook him for an anti-government demonstrator. After eight months she comes out of the coma, but is very weak both physically and mentally, and doctors say that ...

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Good bye Lenin!, Good bye Lenin! - Story overview, Good bye Lenin! - Cast, Good bye Lenin! - Plot, Good bye Lenin! - Overview, Good bye Lenin! - Soundtrack, Good bye Lenin! - Trivia

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Having obtained a degree in Polish literature from the Jagiellonian University in 1970, Stuhr spent the next two years studying acting at the Kraków National Drama School (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna/PWST), with which he retained close ties ever since. From the early 1970s, Stuhr appeared in Polish theatre and screen productions, making his debut with the role of Beelzebub in Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady. Having met film director Krzysztof Kieślowski in the mid-1970s, he continued to work with him until Kie ...

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Jerzy Stuhr, Jerzy Stuhr - Life and career, Jerzy Stuhr - Filmography, Jerzy Stuhr - Actor, Jerzy Stuhr - Director and Screenplay writer

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List of Poles - Astronomy. Franciszek Armiński. Albert Brudzewski. Tadeusz Banachiewicz. Władysław Dziewulski. Felicjan Kępiński. Mikołaj Kopernik (Nicholas Copernicus) Kazimierz Kordylewski. Marian Albertovich Kowalski. Aleksander Wolszczan. Jan Heweliusz. Bohdan Paczyński. Konrad Rudnicki. Wiesław Wiśniewski. List of Poles - Biology. Joseph Babiński, physicianSee also:

List of Poles, List of Poles - History, List of Poles - Science, List of Poles - Astronomy, List of Poles - Biology, List of Poles - Chemistry, List of Poles - Engineering, List of Poles - Linguists, List of Poles - Mathematics, List of Poles - Physics, List of Poles - Other, List of Poles - Music, List of Poles - Literature, List of Poles - Philosophy, List of Poles - Fine arts, List of Poles - Entertainment, List of Poles - Royalty, List of Poles - Nobility szlachta, List of Poles - Sports, List of Poles - Boxing, List of Poles - Wrestling, List of Poles - Military, List of Poles - Politics and diplomacy, List of Poles - Holocaust resistors, List of Poles - Religion, List of Poles - Other, List of Poles - Criminal persons, List of Poles - Controversial persons, List of Poles - SS Officers of Partial Polish heritage ethnicity or descent, List of Poles - Germans born on current Polish land, List of Poles - Heroes and Freedom fighters, List of Poles - Legendary persons, List of Poles - Fictional characters

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My Name is Ivan was Tarkovsky's first major film (Steamroller and the Violin was his student piece). The director did not restrain his creativity and My Name is Ivan abounds with new, imaginative cinematic techniques and ideas. He inherited the project as the aborted attempt of another director. It was based on a book by Vladimir Bogomolov. Tarkovsky wrote in Sculpting in Time that he did not find the book very good, but stories that were not well written were easier to adapt into films. The film, on its release, receive ...

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My Name is Ivan, My Name is Ivan - History and Cultural Importance, My Name is Ivan - Content, My Name is Ivan - Summary, My Name is Ivan - Symbolism and Impressions

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Province of New Brunswick: Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John - final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley. Province of Quebec: Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont, Sainte-Foy - interred here are politicians Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Jean Lesage and others. Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Montreal – some of the notables buried here include Maurice Richard, George-Étienne Cartier, Doug Harv ...

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List of cemeteries, List of cemeteries - Argentina, List of cemeteries - Australia, List of cemeteries - Austria, List of cemeteries - Belgium, List of cemeteries - Brazil, List of cemeteries - Canada, List of cemeteries - Chile, List of cemeteries - People's Republic of China, List of cemeteries - Hong Kong, List of cemeteries - Czech Republic, List of cemeteries - Denmark, List of cemeteries - Egypt, List of cemeteries - Finland, List of cemeteries - France, List of cemeteries - Germany, List of cemeteries - Greece, List of cemeteries - Hungary, List of cemeteries - Indonesia, List of cemeteries - Iran, List of cemeteries - Iraq, List of cemeteries - Ireland, List of cemeteries - Italy, List of cemeteries - Israel, List of cemeteries - Japan, List of cemeteries - Lithuania, List of cemeteries - Malaysia, List of cemeteries - Mexico, List of cemeteries - Netherlands, List of cemeteries - Poland, List of cemeteries - Romania, List of cemeteries - Russia, List of cemeteries - Slovenia, List of cemeteries - Serbia, List of cemeteries - Spain, List of cemeteries - Sweden, List of cemeteries - Switzerland, List of cemeteries - Taiwan, List of cemeteries - Ukraine, List of cemeteries - United Kingdom, List of cemeteries - United States of America, List of cemeteries - Vietnam

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Province of New Brunswick: Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John - final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley. Province of Quebec: Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont, Sainte-Foy - interred here are politicians Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Jean Lesage and others. Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Montreal – some of the notables buried here include Maurice Richard, George-Étienne Cartier, Doug Harv ...

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List of cemeteries, List of cemeteries - Argentina, List of cemeteries - Australia, List of cemeteries - Austria, List of cemeteries - Belgium, List of cemeteries - Brazil, List of cemeteries - Canada, List of cemeteries - Chile, List of cemeteries - People's Republic of China, List of cemeteries - Hong Kong, List of cemeteries - Czech Republic, List of cemeteries - Denmark, List of cemeteries - Egypt, List of cemeteries - Finland, List of cemeteries - France, List of cemeteries - Germany, List of cemeteries - Greece, List of cemeteries - Hungary, List of cemeteries - Indonesia, List of cemeteries - Iran, List of cemeteries - Iraq, List of cemeteries - Ireland, List of cemeteries - Italy, List of cemeteries - Israel, List of cemeteries - Japan, List of cemeteries - Lithuania, List of cemeteries - Malaysia, List of cemeteries - Mexico, List of cemeteries - Netherlands, List of cemeteries - New Zealand, List of cemeteries - Poland, List of cemeteries - Romania, List of cemeteries - Russia, List of cemeteries - Slovenia, List of cemeteries - Serbia, List of cemeteries - Spain, List of cemeteries - Sweden, List of cemeteries - Switzerland, List of cemeteries - Taiwan, List of cemeteries - Ukraine, List of cemeteries - United Kingdom, List of cemeteries - United States of America, List of cemeteries - Vietnam

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Born in Paris to a movie-director father and an actress mother, at age 15 she was sent to study at a specialized arts high school, after which she attended the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris. At age 18 she obtained a small role in the small independent film Liberty Belle. While trying to build her career over the next five years, she worked as a clerk at a Paris department store and as a painter's model. She was 24 when she received her first big break with a role in Philip Kaufman's film The Unbearab ...

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Juliette Binoche, Juliette Binoche - Biography, Juliette Binoche - Awards, Juliette Binoche - Won, Juliette Binoche - Nominations, Juliette Binoche - Filmography, Juliette Binoche - External link

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Trilogy - Novels. U.S.A., three novels by John dos Passos American Trilogy by Philip Roth including American Pastoral, I Married a Communist and The Human Stain The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake The Salterton, Deptford and Cornish trilogies of Robertson Davies The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis The Condor Trilogy by Jin Yong: The Legend of the Condor Heroes (She Diao Ying Xiong Zhuan), The Return of the Condor Heroes ...

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Trilogy, Trilogy - Famous trilogies, Trilogy - Novels, Trilogy - Plays, Trilogy - Movies, Trilogy - Video games

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