This feature drama directed by Andrzej Wajda was made in early 1981 on the basis of a script by Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski, as a continuation of the celebrated and outstanding Man of Marble (1976). To this day, it is the most famous feature film telling the story of the strikes of August 1980 and the birth…
When Czesław Milosz arrived in Warsaw in 1981, fresh from winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, one of the visits he made, was to a private apartment, to meet with the people responsible for bringing his poems to Polish readers. From 1951, when Milosz had refused to return to Stalinist Poland, a ban had been…
On Sunday, 21 March 2021, the great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski passed away. In his poetic heyday, he would write poems critics called ‘classicising’, showing the world’s hidden beauty as well as emphasising the mysteriousness and uniqueness of human fate. And still, for a poet who defended the categories of beauty, mindfulness and detail, he…
On 27 March 1981, “Solidarity” organized a protest in response to the beating of union members by the militia. Their strike, with at least 2 and a half million participants, is also remembered as their largest protest. by Tomasz Kozłowski In February 1981, General Wojciech Jaruzelski became Poland’s prime minister. For over a decade,…
On April 7, 2022, Ludwik Dorn, a longtime Member of the Polish Parliament, former Speaker of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, passed away. Ludwik Dorn was born on June 5, 1954 in Warsaw. He attended the renowned Tadeusz Reytan Secondary School. At that time, he joined the scout team…
