Komornik prepares to run the race
Komornik [+see also:
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The film premiered in Gdynia's Polish Film Festival's, where Komornik proved to be a Polish masterpiece, winning no less than 5 awards (see news 19/09): the 2005 Golden Lyon Grand Prize, for best script (Grzegorz Łoszewski), best photography (Bartek Prokopowicz), best secondary actress (Kinga Preis), best main actor (Andrzej Chyra). No one questions the fact that this pre-nomination will help the film's premier in Poland, on Friday, October 7th..
It was The man of Iron, Andrzej Wajda's film (read interview of the week) the last Polish film to be nominated in 1982 for best Foreign Language Film. Although, the nomination was removed by the then Polish communist regime. Wajda finally received the Oscar in 2000 for his entire work. Worth mentioning is, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek who was awarded a trophy for musical piece in Marc Foster's Finding Neverland.
(Translated from French)
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