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In the first days of August 1914, as the three entities of partitioned Poland—Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary were entering the First World War, Jerzy Żuławski made the only decision he felt reflected his principles and joined Piłsudski's Legions to fight for the cause of regaining Polish independence.
Mar 29, 2022 · This article is about where Andrzej got the idea for that film, from the same place that would go on to have all sorts of unusual influences and was arguably the real start of all sci-fi east of Paris and London. It was a series of books written at the very start of the 20th century: The Lunar Trilogy by my grandfather Jerzy Żuławski.
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Jerzy Żuławski was a Polish poet, writer, and playwright. He was born on 14th July 1874 in Lipowiec, close to Rzeszów, and died during the typhus epidemic in Dębica on 9th August 1915. Tue, 07/14/1874 - 12:00 - Mon, 08/09/1915 - 12:00
In a twenty-year writing career, from his first book of poems in 1895, at the age of 21, to his final World War I dispatches in 1915, Jerzy Żuławski created an impressive body of work — seven volumes of poetry, three collections of literary criticism, numerous cultural and philosophical essays, ten plays and five novels.
Żuławski's father had been an insurgent in the 1863 January Uprising, and Jerzy himself died in World War I as a soldier of the Polish Legions. The intellectual influence is reflected in his many patriotic poems and a close engagement with Polish Romantic literature.
- Łukasz Wodzyński
- 2018
Dec 30, 2022 · The poster “Poland – First to Fight” refers to the most important events in the country’s history – World War II and the defense against Nazi Germany’s invasion in 1939. Marek Zulawski created the poster around 1940. In the foreground, it shows a battered Polish flag flying in the wind.
Jul 19, 2016 · In On the Silver Globe, one character declares: “It is not us who are lost in contemplation of the world. It is the world that is lost in contemplation of us.” You can’t help thinking that Zuławski’s film is lost in contemplation of us: staring mad-eyed at its viewers, however few, and daring them to stare back.
