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- Composer
- Music Department
- Producer
Jan A. P. Kaczmarek is a composer with a tremendous international reputation that continues to grow. As a successful recording artist and touring musician, Jan turned to composing film scores as his primary occupation. Jan's first success in the United States came in theater. After composing striking scores for productions at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, Jan won an Obie and a Drama Desk Award for his music for the New York Shakespeare Festival's 1992 production of John Ford's "Tis Pity She's A Whore," directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, starring Val Kilmer and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Newsday wrote that Jan's score "undulates with hypnotic force that gets under your skin," while Frank Rich of the New York Times found it worthy of the films of Bernardo Bertolucci and Luchino Visconti. Educated as a lawyer, he abandoned his planned career as a diplomat, for political reasons, to write music in order to finally gain freedom of expression. First he composed for the highly politicized underground theater, and then for a mini-orchestra of his own creation, "The Orchestra of the Eighth Day". The major turning point in his life, he says, was a period of intense study with avant-garde theater director, Jerzy Grotowski. "Playing and composing was like a religion for me," Kaczmarek explains, "and then it became a profession." "The Orchestra of the Eighth Day" began touring Europe in the late 1970's and to date, has completed eighteen major tours. They appeared at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the VPRO Radio International Contemporary Music Festival in Amsterdam,the Venice Biennale, and the International Music Festival in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, where Jan won the Golden Spring Prize for the Best Composition. He is a five-time winner in Jazz Forum's Jazz Top Poll. At the end of the Orchestra's first American tour in 1982, Kaczmarek recorded his debut album, Music for the End, for the Chicago-based major independent Flying Fish Records. Jan returned to America in 1989 to find a label for his latest composition for the Orchestra. Jan stayed in the United States where he expanded his horizons by composing for theater as he had already done in Poland with great success, capped by two prestigious New York theater awards in 1992. Having also composed music for films in Poland, he focused his attention to that medium, achieving recognition as a film composer with scores to such films as "Total Eclipse", "Bliss", "Washington Square", "Aimée & Jaguar", "The Third Miracle", "Lost Souls", "Edges of the Lord", "Quo Vadis" and Adrian Lyne's "Unfaithful."
February 2005, Jan won his first Oscar for Best Original Score on Marc Forster's highly acclaimed film, "Finding Neverland."
Jan also won The National Review Board's award for Best Score of the Year, and was nominated for both a Golden Globe and BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music.In addition to his work in films, Jan is also setting up an Institute inspired by the Sundance Institute, in his home country of Poland, as a European center for development of new work in the areas of film, theatre, music and new media. The Institute website (currently under construction) is: www.rozbitek.org. It is anticipated that Rozbitek will begin accepting students in 2006.- Szymon Bobrowski was born on 16 May 1972 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Krew z krwi (2012), Twarza w twarz (2007) and Na dobre i na zle (1999).
- Born Greta Jawelska in Konin, Poland on January 27, 1983, Greta Jawel was raised mostly in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her family moved to Seattle, Washington in 1986 and then again to Reno, Nevada before finally settling in Las Vegas in 1990. She started acting in high school only to drop the subject by her junior year. She later tried again by taking theater and acting in college at UNLV, only to dropout after a semester. One day, while doing some photo stills on an Indie film, the director asked if she would be interested in playing a part in the film, which he later rewrote into a larger part for her. After that Greta started to pick up on the local Las Vegas theater scene, doing work with Stark theater and other local Indie films until she landed the role of playing herself on the E! series Paradise City.
- Janusz Lagodzinski was born on 23 September 1953 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Katyn (2007), Strazacy (2015) and The Mire (2018).
- Music Department
- Actress
- Composer
Reni Jusis was born on 29 March 1974 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland. She is an actress and composer, known for Reni Jusis: Delta (2016), Reni Jusis: Bejbi Siter (2016) and Reni Jusis: A moglo byc tak pieknie (2009). She has been married to Tomasz Makowiecki since 8 August 2008. They have two children.- Actor
- Sound Department
Daniel Zawadzki was born on 24 August 1974 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Klan (1997), M jak milosc (2000) and Solidarity, Solidarity (2005).- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Adam Guzinski was born on 22 December 1970 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He is a director and writer, known for Antychryst (2002), Chlopiec na galopujacym koniu (2006) and Jakub (1998).- Mateusz Weber was born on 2 June 1990 in Konin, Poland. He is an actor, known for Krew z krwi (2012), Leave No Traces (2021) and Na dobre i na zle (1999).
- Anna Wojnarowska was born on 12 May 1985 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for M jak milosc (2000), Television Theater (1953) and Pierwsza milosc (2004).
- Camera and Electrical Department
Witold Kuznowicz was born on 11 August 1930 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland. Witold is known for Goodbye, See You Tomorrow (1960).- Andrzej Kowalczyk was born on 20 December 1952 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Na strazy swej stac bede (1984), The White Mazurka (1979) and Skazany na bluesa (2005). He died on 18 March 2021.
- Krzysztof Zakrzewski was born on 4 February 1949 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Smolensk (2016), Na Wspólnej (2003) and 07 zglos sie (1976). He died on 18 June 2021.
- Katarzyna Zurawik was born on 20 June 1991 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland.
- Józef Grodnicki was born on 19 March 1899 in Konin, Poland, Russian Empire [now Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Dziesieciu z Pawiaka (1931), Story of a Sin (1933) and Carat i jego slugi (1917). He died on 31 March 1961 in Olsztyn, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland.
- Additional Crew
David Chertok was born on 10 November 1921 in Konin, Poland. He is known for Millhouse (1971), a.k.a. Cassius Clay (1970) and No Maps on My Taps (1979). He was married to Corinne ?. He died on 21 July 1988 in New York, New York, USA.- Actor
- Cinematographer
Jacek Katarzynski was born on 2 September 1966 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He is an actor and cinematographer, known for Dzien, w którym umre (2004), Louder Than Bombs (2001) and Ze zycie ma sens (2001).- Actor, activist of NSZZ "Solidarity". In the years 1965-66 he performed at the Teatr Ziemi Krakowskiej in Tarnów, in the years 1966-67 at the Teatr im. Mickiewicza in Czestochowa, in the years 1967-69 and 1970-73 at the Teatr im. Boguslawski in Kalisz, in 1969-70 at the Polish Theater in Bydgoszcz, in 1973 at the Teatrze Ziemi Gdanskiej in Gdynia, in 1979-80 at the Old Theater in Krakow. In 1974-79 and 1980-81, he was an actor of the Dramatic Theater in Gdynia. In August 1980, a member of the Inter-Enterprise Strike Committee, then an activist of the "Solidarity" Trade Union. Interned during martial law, then active in the underground "Solidarity". In 1989 co-organizer of the Citizens' Committee in Gdansk, chairman of the Culture Office of the National Committee of "Solidarity" Trade Union. In 1990-94, vice-chairman of the Gdynia City Council.
- Paul Tarnecki was born on 10 October 1978 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Night Walk (2018).
- Marek Dabrowski was born on 17 August 1937 in Goslawice, Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Dwie brygady (1950), The Spiral (1978) and Autobus odjezdza 6.20 (1954).
- Julitta Sekiewicz-Kisiel was born on 19 February 1953 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for The Poison Tasters (1995), Zapowiedz ciszy (1980) and Syzyfowe prace (2000).