- published: 10 Mar 2016
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The Polish diaspora refers to people of Polish origin who live outside Poland. The Polish diaspora is also known in modern Polish language as Polonia, which is the name for Poland in Latin and in many other Romance languages.
There are roughly 15 to 20 million people of Polish ancestry living outside Poland, making the Polish diaspora one of the largest in the world. Reasons for this displacement vary from border shifts, to forced resettlement, to political or economic emigration. Major populations of Polish ancestry can be found in Germany, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, France, United Kingdom, Sweden, Ireland and many other European countries, the United States, Canada, Brazil and elsewhere in the Americas. Many Poles can also be found in most Asian, African and Australasian countries. There have also been some Poles in Antarctica, though these journeys have been expeditionary in nature.
A large proportion of the Polish citizens who migrated in the early 20th century were Polish Jews, and these also make up part of the Jewish diaspora. Poland was home to the world's largest Jewish population as late as 1938, a decade before the establishment of Israel. Over three million Polish Jews were killed in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany during World War II. Most survivors subsequently emigrated, since Poland was the only Eastern Bloc country to allow free Jewish aliyah to Israel upon its creation. Many remaining Jews, including Stalinist hardliners and members of security apparatus, left Poland during 1968 political crisis when the Polish communist party, pressured by Brezhnev, joined the Soviet "anti-Zionist" campaign triggered by the Six Day War. In 1998, Poland's Jewish population was estimated at about 10,000–30,000.
Actors: William Shakespeare (writer), Parvez Zabier (miscellaneous crew), Parvez Zabier (producer), Jason Wing (actor), Simon Nader (actor), Lydia Piechowiak (actress), Alexander Fodor (actor), Keaton Makki (actor), Alexander Fodor (director), Hanne Steen (actress), Alexander Fodor (writer), Patrick Monckeberg (actor), Tallulah Sheffield (actress), James Frail (actor), Thomas Matthews (actor),
Plot: Set in a surrealistic, nightmarish, Kafkaesque no man's land, this version of the famous Shakespeare play centres on the ghostly, supernatural aspects of the play. The text is the original Shakepearean, but the characters' personalities are changed, so for example, Polonius (originally a doddering old man) becomes Polonia a scheming femme fatale, who is plotting to get her younger sister Ophelia (who she controls through the use of addictive drugs) married into the royal family. It's dramatically shot, and is not so much a modern version (there are no references or images of the modern world at all) as a lateral concept.
Keywords: based-on-play, beach, betrayal, british, character-name-in-title, drug-addiction, fratricide, grave-digger, land-mine, london-englandActors: Kevin J. Lindenmuth (producer), Sewell Whitney (actor), Ron Ford (actor), Kevin J. Lindenmuth (director), Kevin J. Lindenmuth (editor), Kevin J. Lindenmuth (writer), Rick Poli (actor), Mick McCleery (actor), Sasha Graham (actress), Nick Stagliano (actor), Gary Theroux (actor), Brett Heniss (actor), Renee Nocito (actress), Laura McLauchlin (actress), Debbie Troche (actress),
Plot: Joel Winter is just your average Midwest kid until he meets a vampire in the forest. Over the years, Joel and the vampire Rachel become friends and he helps her feel by violently stabbing her and doing other nasty things. Rachel eventually leaves Joel and he must continue getting the fix of violence that he's used to. He also runs into his share of vampires along the way.
Keywords: b-movie, cult-film, independent-film, vampireActors: Carmen Sevilla (actress), Jorge Barreiro (actor), Carlos Lozano Dana (writer), Gerardo Romano (actor), Lucrecia Capello (actress), Katja Alemán (actress), Eduardo Blanco (actor), Héctor Calori (actor), Pablo Brichta (actor), Germán Palacios (actor), Henny Trayles (actress), Juan David Elicetche (director), César Escola (actor), Horacio Erman (actor), Carlos Mena (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Karl-Ernst Sasse (composer), Werner Bergemann (costume designer), Gudrun Ritter (actress), Arno Wyzniewski (actor), Jürgen Holtz (actor), Elisa Montés (actress), Harald Warmbrunn (actor), Victor Deiß (actor), Kurt Böwe (actor), Peter Pauli (actor), Hermann Beyer (actor), Hans-Uwe Bauer (actor), Manfred Möck (actor), Ute Lubosch (actress), Friedo Solter (actor),
Plot: Stannebein is "an inventor of air ships for the benefit of mankind," or so he sees himself and his place in world history. In order to secure financing for his fancy, he adopts to the rhetoric of the time and, unwittingly, ends up building an air base for the Nazi German Legion Condor in Spain. His protest to the Nazi authorities is, of course, in vain. In 1945, his family starts to inquire about him, surmising that his past and his patents might be valuable. However, Stannebein's last residence, the insane asylum, stands empty...
Genres: ,Actors: Domingo Soler (actor), Narciso Busquets (actor), Ernesto Alonso (actor), Joaquín Coss (actor), Edmundo Espino (actor), Miguel Ángel Ferriz (actor), Roberto Cañedo (actor), José Baviera (actor), Paco Martínez (actor), Jorge Negrete (actor), Jorge Negrete (actor), Salvador Quiroz (actor), Humberto Rodríguez (actor), Andrés Soler (actor), Arturo Soto Rangel (actor),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Lenore J. Coffee (writer), J. Frank Glendon (actor), Bertram Grassby (actor), Edward Kimball (actor), Eugenie Besserer (actress), Charles E. Whittaker (writer), Clara Kimball Young (actress), Dorothy Yost (writer), Harry Garson (miscellaneous crew), Harry Garson (director), Juan de la Cruz (actor), Ruth King (actress), Maude Emory (actress), Helene Sullivan (actress), Marah Ellis Ryan (writer),
Genres: Drama,