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World War I and death Grave, Dębica , Poland 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 ...
- 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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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.
Nov 29, 2017 · During World War I he fought in the Polish Legions and was co-editor of a Legion-run magazine Do Broni (editor’s translation: To Arms).
Jul 19, 2016 · His original intention was to adapt the first novel in a science-fiction trilogy written in 1903 by his great-uncle Jerzy Zuławski. The story involves a group of astronauts from Earth who crash on a distant planet resembling our own; while some are killed, the survivors have children and found a new race of humans.
Thanks to the ham-fisted Polish Communist censors, it is an even more surreal viewing experience. 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.
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