Krzysztof Kieślowski

Total secrecy surrounded the movie before its release, and this led to a lot of speculation as to the significance of the number "2046". Many thought the title referenced the year in which the movie would be set, and that it would be a science fiction film. It also became an in-joke that the title would actually refer to the year of release. The film took a whole four years in making, and the production suffered a good deal of bad luck. For example, the production was shut down because of the SARS epidemic in March 2003. It finally pr ...

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List of directors - Ba-Bi. Biju Viswanath Hector Babenco Lloyd Bacon John Badham King Baggot Maya Bankovic Boris Barnet Tom Barman Steve Barron Charles T. Barton Evgenij Bauer Michael Bay Warren Beatty Bahram Beizaii Marco Bellocchio William Bemister László Benedek Shyam Benegal Roberto Benigni Robert Benton Bruce Beresford ...

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The style and personality of Polish life has been shaped over a thousand years. The national culture developed at the crossroads of the Latinate and Byzantine worlds, in continual dialogue with the many ethnic groups in Poland. The people of Poland have always been hospitable to artists from abroad, and eager to follow what was happening in other countries. In the 19th and 20th centuries Poles' concentration on cultural advancement often took the place of political and economic activity. These factors have contributed to the versatile character ...

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Until 1958 the school existed as two completely different schools: one for actors and the other for film makers. Since Warsaw was completely destroyed in the effect of World War II, the schools and the Polish cinema industry were moved to the nearby city of Łódź. This move was initially seen as a temporary measure, thus the name of the actors' school was National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw with seat in Łódź. It's creator and the first rector was a renown Polish actor Leon Schiller, current name-sake of the school. In 1949 it was divided onto two branches: one actually moved to Warsaw and the one left in ...

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Doppelgänger - Literature. Bram Stoker's novel Dracula Heine's poem Der Doppelgänger famously adapted to music by Franz Schubert Poe's short story William Wilson Nabokov's novel Lolita Robert Louis Stevenson's novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Oscar Wilde's novella Dorian Gray Dostoyevsky's The Double Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of SandSee also:

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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 1423 King Władysław Jagiełło granted city rights to the village of Łódź. From then until the 18th century the town remained a small settlement on a trade route between Masovia and Silesia. In the 16th century the town had fewer than 800 inhabitants, mostly ...

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Preisner studied history and philosophy in Kraków, never having received formal music lessons. He taught himself by listening and writing down parts from records. Preisner is best known for his work on Kieślowski's movies. Some of these movies make reference to a fictitious eighteenth-century Dutch composer, Van den Budenmayer, nonetheless Preisner writes the music, which in the plot of the movie is said to be by Budenmayer. After working with fellow Pole Agnieszka Holland on Kieślowski's Three Colors: Blue, Preisner was hired by producer Francis Ford Coppola to write the score ...

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The first fortified settlements on the site of today's Warsaw were Bródno (9th/10th century) and Jazdów (12th/13th century). After Jazdów was raided in 1281 by Boleslaus II, the Duke of Płock, a new similar settlement was lodged on the grounds of a small fishing village called Warszowa. In the beginning of the 14th century it became one of the seats of the Dukes of Masovia, in 1413 becoming the capital of Masovia. Upon the extinction of the local ducal line, the duchy was reincorporated into the Polish Crown in 1526. In 1529 Warsaw for t ...

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The first fortified settlements on the site of today's Warsaw were Bródno (9th/10th century) and Jazdów (12th/13th century). After Jazdów was raided in 1281 by Boleslaus II, the Duke of Płock, a new similar settlement was lodged on the grounds of a small fishing village called Warszowa. In the beginning of the 14th century it became one of the seats of the Dukes of Masovia, in 1413 becoming the capital of Masovia. Upon the extinction of the local ducal line, the duchy was reincorporated into the Polish Crown in 1526. In 1529 Warsaw for t ...

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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. January 22 - World War II: British troops capture Tobruk from the Italians. January 23 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Cong ...

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Lola's boyfriend, Manni, is involved in a smuggling operation. Manni's final task in a particular job is to transport 100 000 marks to his boss Ronnie. Lola is supposed to drive Manni to the meeting, but her moped has been stolen. Manni resorts to public transportation when Lola doesn't appear, but he accidentally leaves the money on a subway train, where it is found by a bum. He places a frantic phone call to Lola and explains the situation: if he doesn't have the money when he meets Ronnie at noon, Manni will be killed. Lola vows to find t ...

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Cinema of France - Actors. Isabelle Adjani Renée Adorée Anouk Aimée Mathieu Amalric Fanny Ardant Jean-Pierre Aumont Daniel Auteuil Charles Aznavour Emmanuelle Béart Monica Bellucci Juliette Binoche — Academy Award winner for her role in The English Patient Bernard Blier Bourvil Charles Boyer Capucine Leslie Caron Vincent Cassel Aurore Clément< ...

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1996 - January. 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 - 350 dead. January 9 - Assassination of Eric Hebborn, art forger, in Rome, Italy. January 14 - Jorge Sampaio is elected president of Portugal. Janua ...

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Warsaw - Business and commerce. Warsaw, especially its downtown (Śródmieście), is home not only to many national institutions and government agencies, but also to many domestic and international companies. In 2003, 268,307 companies were registered in the city. Warsaw is seen as the heart of Poland by foreign investors, whose financial participation in the city's development was estimated in 2002 at over 650 million euro. Warsaw produces more than 15% of Poland's national income. At the same time the unemployment rate is one of the lowest in Poland, not exceeding 6.5%, ...

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Although Warsaw is a reasonably new city, it has a lot of tourist attractions. Apart from the Old Town quarter, carefully reconstructed after World War II, each of the borrough has something to offer. Among the most notable landmarks of the Old Town are the Royal Castle, King Zygmunt's Column, and the barbican. Further south is the so-called Royal Road, with lots of notable classicist palace ...

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The main line of the movie takes place in Hong Kong, in the "Oriental Hotel", between 1966 and 1969. Some flashbacks show the main character (Tony Leung) in Singapore. Some parts of the movie show pieces of the 2047 science fiction story that Tony Leung is writing. A herald of Wong's respect for his imagination, as well as a summary of his previous films, 2046 is a ground-breaking film in Wong's career, much like La Dolce Vita to Federico Fellini. As Chow Mo-Wan uses his personal experience to imagine "2047", he m ...

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List of directors - Sa-Sj. Steve Sanguedolce Gus Van Sant Claude Sautet Geoffrey Sax John Sayles Ettore Scola Ridley Scott Tony Scott Franklin Schaffner Frank Scheffer Fred Schepisi John Schlesinger Volker Schlöndorff Joel Schumacher Reinhold Schünzel Martin Scorsese George Seaton Peter Segal David O. Selznick Mack Sennett Sohra ...

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Warsaw is one of the most important education centers of Poland. It is home to four major universities and over 62 smaller schools of higher education. The most important are: University of Warsaw (Uniwersytet Warszawski) Warsaw University of Technology (Politechnika Warszawska) Warsaw School of Economics (Szkoła Główna Handlowa) Warsaw Agricultural University (Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego) Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (Uniwersytet Kardyna ...

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Warsaw - Theatre. Warsaw is home to over 30 major theatres that are spread throughout the city, including the National Theatre (founded in 1765) and the Grand Theatre in Warsaw ([2]) (established 1778). Warsaw also attracts many young and off-stream directors and performers who add to the city's theatre culture. Their productions may be viewed mostly in smaller theatres and Houses of Culture (Dom Kultury), mostly outside Śródmieście (downtown Warsaw). One of the most notable stages in Poland is TR Warszawa (formerly Teatr Rozmaitości). Warsaw hosts the ...

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Original music: Shigeru Umebayashi: "2046 Main Theme", "The Christmas Song" (Fast Version), "Interlude I", "Polonaise", "2046 Main Theme" (Rumba Version), "Lost", "Long Journey", "Interlude II", "2046 Main Theme" (With Percussion, Train Remix) Peer Raben: "Dark Chariot", "Sisyphos At Work" Non-original music: Xavier Cugat: "Siboney" – Instrumental, "Perfidia" Dean Martin: "Sway" Georges Delerue: "Julien et Barbara" (originally from the soundtrack of François Truffaut's ...

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Warsaw - Administrative division. Warsaw is a municipal powiat (county) and is further divided into 18 boroughs, each one known as a dzielnica (map), each one with its own administrative body. Each of the boroughs is divided into neighborhoods which are not officially recognized by the city but known by most Varsovians. The best known neighborhoods are Stare Miasto an ...

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