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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
- Jerzy Żuławski, 14 July 1874, Lipowiec
- 9 August 1915 (aged 41), Dębica
- Polish
- University of Bern
Mar 29, 2022 · With all these nationalist references pulsing through his body of work, Jerzy was consistent when World War I began. After all his years of supporting an independent Poland, finally here was a chance for it to happen. He joined the Polish Legions since it was the only logical thing to do.
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Nov 29, 2017 · 14.07.1874 — 9.08.1915. #language & literature. Author: Culture.pl. Share: Jerzy Żuławski was a Polish poet, writer, and playwright. He was born on 14 th July 1874 in Lipowiec, close to Rzeszów, and died during the typhus epidemic in Dębica on 9 th August 1915. Żuławski went to middle school in Bochnia, and finished his primary education in Kraków.
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.
Digitally restored to a clarity probably never really seen before, Zuławski’s mauled and maligned masterwork On the Silver Globe (trailer here) re-releases today at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
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.
The more you see of Zuławski's films, the more it feels like they're a set of interlocking puzzle boxes, each of which contains the means to unlock another, and when you watch this fiercely personal film, you can see how Possession is a comment on it, an expansion, even in some ways a rebuke. It's useful to see how the films parallel. In