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Lech Wałęsa (commonly rendered Walesa) (Polish: [ˈlɛx vaˈwɛ̃sa] ( listen), English: /ˌlɛk vəˈwɛnsə/ or /wɔːˈlɛnsə/; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland between 1990 and 1995.
Wałęsa was an electrician by trade, with no higher education. Soon after beginning work at the Gdańsk (then, "Lenin") Shipyards, he became a trade-union activist. For this he was persecuted by the Polish communist government, placed under surveillance, fired in 1976, and arrested several times. In August 1980 he was instrumental in negotiations that led to the ground-breaking Gdańsk Agreement between striking workers and the government, and he became a co-founder of the Solidarity trade-union movement. Arrested again after martial law was imposed and Solidarity was outlawed, upon release he continued his activism and was prominent in the establishment of the 1989 Round Table Agreement that led to semi-free parliamentary elections in June 1989 and to a Solidarity-led government.
Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. In 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Morris was born in Hewlett, New York on February 5, 1948. When he was two years old, his father died of a heart attack. His mother, a Juilliard graduate, supported Morris and his brother as a music teacher. Morris attended Hewlett Elementary School in a class with Brent Glass, Tony Kornheiser and former Village Voice editor David Schneiderman.[citation needed]
After being treated for strabismus in childhood, he refused to wear an eye patch. As a consequence, he has limited sight in one eye and lacks normal stereoscopic vision.
In the 10th grade, Morris attended the Putney School, a boarding school in Vermont. He began playing the cello, spending a summer in France studying music under the acclaimed Nadia Boulanger, who also taught Morris' future collaborator Philip Glass. Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he "read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt ("I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him."
Actors: Chuck Norris (actor), Ben Talar (producer), Ben Talar (writer), Ben Talar (director), Jacek Pieniazek (actor), Boguslaw Salnikow (composer), Leszek Blautenberg (actor), Jerzy Lubas (actor), Adam Fabisz (editor), Andrzej Polatynski (editor), Monika Pastuszak (producer), Ryszard Peszko (actor), Wieslaw Ladonski (actor), Rockaway (composer), Eugeniusz Jedrzejczyk (actor),
Plot: Resemblance to Chuck Norris changed the life of Jacek Pieniazek. Ordinary worker has become a local celebrity and an icon of good humor. As an impresario he employs in his agency other look-alikes such as Jerzy Maksymiuk, Lech Walesa, and Elvis Presley. The charms of living the double life of well-known persons is their daily bread. In 2012, Jacek finally meets the real Chuck Norris, whom he doubles in the bank commercial. For 20 years he is living "In the shadow of Chuck Norris."
Keywords: doppelganger, look-alikeActors: Milenia Fiedler (editor), Miroslaw Baka (actor), Andrzej Wajda (director), Andrzej Grabowski (actor), Zbigniew Zamachowski (actor), Robert Wieckiewicz (actor), Maciej Stuhr (actor), Henryk Golebiewski (actor), Michal Kwiecinski (producer), Przemyslaw Bluszcz (actor), Maria Rosaria Omaggio (actress), Iwona Bielska (actress), Adam Woronowicz (actor), Cezary Kosinski (actor), Magdalena Biedrzycka (costume designer),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Pamela Anderson (actress), Michael Jackson (actor), Elizabeth Taylor (actress), Freddie Mercury (actor), Chuck Norris (actor), Cezary Pazura (actor), Angelina Jolie (actress), Elvis Presley (actor), Ben Talar (director), Ben Talar (producer), Ben Talar (writer), Lech Walesa (actor), Klara Landrat (actress), Jacek Pieniazek (actor), Elzbieta Jedrzejewska (actress),
Plot: Jacek Pieniazek is the most famous Polish Chuck Norris look-alike. He runs an agency in Warsaw that hires look-alikes for events such as concerts or private parties. Dealing with their ego problems and using his own understanding of Zen, he plans to organize a national look-alike show in Paris.
Keywords: celebrity, double, look-alike, polish, starActors: Agnieszka Bojanowska (editor), Michal Lorenc (composer), Lech Walesa (actor), Jerzy Sladkowski (director), Zbigniew Brzezinski (actor), Sylwia Wilkos (producer), Roman Gutek (producer), Aleksander Kwasniewski (actor), Klaudiusz Frydrych (producer), Jakub Sladkowski (editor), Agnieszka Burcan (composer), Dan Fried (actor), Konstantin von Eggert (actor), Sophie Miskiewicz-Peters (actress), Janusz Omietanski (actor),
Plot: At the beginning of 1990s growing of NATO with the admission of Eastern European countries was called mission impossible. Documentary "The Real End of the Cold War" tells how mission impossible has been successfully completed.Great politics, interests of superpowers, lobbing, diplomatic games, hard work and strong faith are subjects of Jerzy Sladkowski's film. United by common goal and using the right moment, we made Polish dreams come true. Seen from the Polish perspective, those dreams were passed down from generation to generation. Globally, our accession to NATO meant political victory of the Treaty in the Cold War. Russian interlocutors admit it saying, the West turned out to be smarter than they thought.
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Slawomir Sulej (actor), Annika Rutström (miscellaneous crew), Krzysztof Pyziak (actor), Ryszard Chlebus (actor), Piotr Miazga (actor), Tymek Wiskirski (editor), Per-Anders Ring (director), Björn Paqualin (writer), Kazimierz Mazur (actor), Matylda Paszczenko (actress), Ludwig Palmell (actor), Boguslaw Suszka (actor), Cezary Rybinski (actor), Malwina Wedzikowska (costume designer), Grzegorz Wos (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Short,Actors: Krzysztof Kiersznowski (actor), Katharina Thalbach (actress), Andrzej Grabowski (actor), Wojciech Pszoniak (actor), Volker Schlöndorff (director), Peter Przygodda (editor), Wanda Zeman (editor), Dominique Horwitz (actor), Volker Schlöndorff (actor), Andrzej Chyra (actor), Jean-Michel Jarre (composer), Henryk Golebiewski (actor), Jürgen Haase (producer), Ewa Telega (actress), Maria Maj (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Giacomo Piperno (actor), Claudio Spadaro (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Luis Molteni (actor), Roberto Nobile (actor), Ted Rusoff (actor), James Cromwell (actor), Cyrus Elias (actor), Ben Gazzara (actor), Giulio Base (actor), Giuliano Gemma (actor), Andy Luotto (actor), Cary Elwes (actor), Jon Voight (actor), Jon Voight (actor),
Plot: Following the premature death of his mother, Karol Wojtyla is brought up by his father in the Polish city of Krakow during the first half of the 20th century. An outstanding student with a magnetic personality, he dreams of becoming an actor. When his homeland is invaded by the Nazis in 1939, he and his friends secretly oppose the systematic persecution of their Polish culture. But, with the death of his father and the lacerating solitude which accompanies this loss, Karol's personal "resistance" takes on a new form and he decides to follow a priestly vocation. At the end of the war, Poland falls into the grip of Soviet totalitarianism. The newly ordained Karol is constantly surrounded by young people whom he teaches to safeguard and defend human dignity. He could be considered a serious threat to the regime, but the Communist authorities merely see him as an innocuous intellectual and even encourage his nomination for the position of bishop. Karol Wojtila is the youngest bishop in the history of Poland. When he is appointed Cardinal, Karol is more intransigent in the spiritual guidance of his homeland, becoming a real and proper thorn in the side of the Communist government. And the whole Catholic world begins to wonder who he is. On the death of Pope John Paul I in 1978, the cardinals of the Conclave decide that Woytjla is the right man to lead replace him. Thus Karol leaves his beloved Poland to become Pope John Paul II. His free, unconventional attitude alarms several prelates, but immediately wins the hearts of the people. In a age paralyzed by fear and ideology, the new Pope shows everybody again the overwhelming fascination of Christianity: this is the beginning of a deep change, which will affect the whole world and the Church itself, as a sort of "contagion". He miraculously survives an attempt on his life in 1981, and not even this event curbs his mission. Thanks to his unshakable tenacity , Pope John Paul II helps to change the course of history: the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 decrees the collapse of Communism. But the Pope does not stop being the voice of Christ, even among the injustices of the capitalistic Western world, even among the provocations and challenges of modern times . The Great Jubilee of 2000 is the most moving evidence of his mission: 3 million young people in love with the Pope gather in Rome, bringing with them the whole world's hopes. This world has learned to look to him, now old and shaky, as a ray of light in the heart of darkness.
Keywords: assassination-attempt, bishop, cardinal-the-priest, catholic-church, character-name-in-title, charisma, church, crowd, destiny, fameActors: Miroslaw Zbrojewicz (actor), Witold Pyrkosz (actor), Bogdan Baer (actor), Andrzej Korzynski (composer), Agnieszka Wagner (actress), Jerzy Gruza (director), Jerzy Gruza (actor), Jerzy Gruza (writer), Jerzy Gruza (actor), Jaroslaw Gruda (actor), Maria Wilun (costume designer), Joanna Kurowska (actress), Malgorzata Obloza (costume designer), Piotr Zelt (actor), Beata Scibakówna (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Tom Stoppard (writer), John Bluthal (actor), Tom Wilkinson (actor), Richard Crenna (actor), John Woodvine (actor), Don Henderson (actor), Bernard Hill (actor), Mark Dignam (actor), Alec McCowen (actor), Leon Lissek (actor), Roy Kinnear (actor), Martin Wyldeck (actor), Mike Hodges (director), Roy Budd (composer), Peter Bayliss (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Ian Holm (actor), Zoë Wanamaker (actress), Leslie Woodhead (director), Leslie Woodhead (producer), Robert Glenister (actor), John Abineri (actor), Eamon Boland (actor), Jon Laurimore (actor), Simon Molloy (actor), Paul Butterworth (actor), Ben Howard (actor), Boleslaw Sulik (writer), John Batty (actor),
Genres: Drama,