#Marek Kondrat

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Day of the Wacko (2002)

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No End (Bez końca) (1985) Krzysztof Kieślowski

July 31st 2023

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Not just Borewicz. We also have Commissioner Halski:

This photo is a still from the 1990s TV series Ekstradycja, starring Marek Kondrat as Commissioner Olgierd Halski - and I so happen to have the print, autographed by Marek Kondrat on the reverse as a gift to some former friend of my dad.

I did tell the story of how I turned my hobby of collecting replica firearms into being an armorer/prop master for the local photography group. I might have also mentioned meeting Marek Kondrat and Alyosha Avdeyev, both of whom starred in Ekstradycja. But what I haven't mentioned yet is that my dad had several gigs as a firearms supervisor - I knew about a couple of them, as he took me to the set of Ekstradycja one day, and he kept his set ID for Schindler's List (I shit you not) proudly displayed in the china cabinet, but when I was cleaning his apartment, I found a whole stack of contracts regarding the firearms supervision work, including one of the Jönssonligan films and an unofficial feature film sequel to Ekstradycja, Podróż do Śmierci (thankfully, not starring Steven Seagal, despite the title). Wrapped in the contract for Podróż do Śmierci was the photo above.

It's disappointing that for the last quarter of a century we haven't really had a detective series of our own. After Ekstradycja, we had only the 2004 series Kryminalni - the recent Herkules, about a neurodivergent police academy reject, feels way too much like a Monk knockoff, and that series about female detective with a famous painter's surname is a licensed local version of French series with the same premise, much like Ojciec Mateusz is Don Matteo.

Surprisingly, it was better in the communist era: before the Ewa Wzywa 07 novels that served as the basis for the 07 Zgłoś Się series, we had 1965 series Kapitan Sowa na Tropie (with Wiesław Gołas playing the titular captain), and a long-running comic book Kapitan Żbik, illustrated by the who's-who of Polish comic books, including Grzegorz Rosiński, best known for Thorgal, and the artist for Funky Koval and original Wiedźmin comics, Bogusław Polch.

Funny thing about Kapitan Sowa, though: it was cut short, with only eight episodes of the planned 42 produced, due to creative differences between the writers and the lead Wiesław Gołas, who reportedly found the stories boring and not dynamic enough.

English people have Sherlock Holmes, Belgian people have Hercules Poirot and Polish people have a cyclist Catholic priest solving crimes in southern Poland

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Diho x Kaz Bałagane - Marek Kondrat (prod. Worek) [Offical Video]

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Józef Poniatowski’s depiction in movies

Part I. Films not related to Napoleon-Walewska story

Good day to you all, dear friends, and let me (while I am on vacation) pick as the topic of this week’s post not very serious one. Namely - to show you actors who played prince Poniatowski in movies.

About half of the movies where prince Józef appears are, however, dedicated to Napoleon’s love affair with Maria Walewska - to them I dedicated the next post. Today let us look to another half.

1. The first movie in my list will be a Polish movie from 1937 named „Ułan księcia Józefa” („The Uhlan of Prince Joseph”), also known as “Dziewczyna i ułan” (“The girl and the uhlan”).

Franciszek Brodniewicz as prince Józef in The Uhlan of prince Józef

And, frankly speaking, this is my favorite movie from those where Pepi appears. Why? At least because it’s not about the war, it’s about love (though the girl here chooses the uhlan over prince Józef).

Prince Józef at the ball, with ladies

And also I liked very much how Franciszek Brodniewicz played Pepi. (And can’t understand, at all, how the heroine could give her heart to an uhlan, when Poniatowski was courting her)))

Franciszek Brodniewicz with Jadwiga Smosarska, who played the main heroine, Kasia.

For those who became interested in this film I am giving the link on Youtube (but it is in Polish and doesn’t have any subtitles, sorry).

2. The second from my list of non “Napoleon-Walewska”-related movies will be “Popioły” („The Ashes”) - Andrzej Wajda’s adaptation of Stefan Żeromski’s novel of the the same title. And though prince Józef was a minor of the book he appeared in movie, played by Stanisław Zaczyk.

Prince Józef during the battle of Raszyn

What’s interesting is that 12 years after “The Ashes” were filmed Stanisław Zaczyk played Poniatowski one more time, that time in a docudrama “Raszyn. 1809” devoted to the battle itself. (Alas, I was able neither to watch this movie, nor to find any screen from it.)

Stanisław Zaczyk as prince Józef in “The Ashes”

However, what is also interesting about the movie is that there we can see a “casual” Pepi - receiving visitors in a dressing gown:

Screenshot from The Ashes

And for those, who are interested, there links to this film on TouTube:

Part I, Part II, Part III (in Polish, without subtitles again, sorry…)

3. The next position from my list is more actor’s choice, than the movie. But nevertheless, though the film under the name „Książę Józef Poniatowski” where the actor played Pepi did not survive, there are photos of the actor in make-up, so please meet Józef Węgrzyn as Józef Poniatowski:

(But, I have to admit, I am not sure whether this is a photo from the film, or from the play of the same title which was written and staged in 1917, just a year before the film)

Nor I know the plot of the movie. But, judging by the fact that its director had the same surname as the play’s author (a brother?) is might have been an adaptation of the play.

And this is definitely a photo from the play (because it’s from a book with it):

4. To finish this part I would also like with an actor. Who played… an actor playing prince Józef.

So please meet Marek Kondrat as “actor Marek playing Józef Poniatowski” in Juliusz Machulski’s film “V.I.P.”:

And one more screenshot, showing the “filming scene”:

The whole movie (in Polish) can be watched on YouTube, here (the time is set approximately to the beginning of the scene).

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Diabelska Edukacja aka Devilish Education (1995) Janusz Marian Majewski

Renata Dancewicz & Marek Kondrat in 'Diabelska' (1994/1995)

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Niby mam jakieś obowiązki, a przecież pustka. Jakby nie miało znaczenia, czy zrobię coś, czy nie zrobię.

Dzień świra

12.10

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Nothing Funny (1996)

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Okey, I guess Neverending Story / Die Unendliche Geschichte (1984) doesn't count for being too widely known (even though it was in fact my most favorite childhood movie and one of my lifelong inspiration)

So, let it be:

Historia żółtej ciżemki (1961)

(whole movie's here on YouTube)

I love it for... well, everything actually, but I'll try to give you some more obvious reasons:

Medieval times being shown colourful as a in a fairy tale (justified by the fact the main character is a child and childhood memory is always more joyful and colourful, isn't it?) though still not unrealistic (like main character is a homeless orphan AND he doesn't talk back to his authorities - can you imagine that in a nowadays story?!)

Passionate main character!!! Wawrzek is an orphan who's favorite activity is woodworking. He leaves his village, heading to capital city (Kraków) where he can learn how to carve in wood. He's desperate enough to sleep on the street or work at night only to have the opportunity and finally he manages to get into the workshop of Veit Stoss and his team of sculptors

The way of showing tension in a movie scene in 1960's: Wawrzek walks into the real workshop for the first time - feeling as if he just walked into a cathedral of sort - no talking - showing eyes of the character looking left, looking right - with a music in a background - and you just FEEL what the character is feeling! - enough to make you sit at the edge of your chair!😍 (you know, something like in the final scene of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 1966)

And last but not least: Marek Kondrat being 11. And Gustaw Holoubek. Being 38. These eyes. This voice. Sorry Clint Eastwood's "Man With No Name", I love you, but my heart belongs to young Gustaw Holoubek and his Veit Stoss!❤❤❤

Like for the scene like this one (Veit Stoss walks into the workshop and is surprised to find Wawrzek there, with a wooden rooster that the boy was carving):

Veit Stoss (stern voice): Do you know that all respectable people...

...are asleep at this hour?

Wawrzek (innocent voice): And why aren't you sleeping, sir?

Veit Stoss:

(God I love his face here😆😂🤣)

Ps. I had no idea that english dubbed version of this film exist but apparently it does:

since i just watched a very beloved movie of mine, that i wish more people knew:

reblog and put in the tags a childhood movie you wish was as popular and influential as all those american/english movies everybody always talks about.

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Marek Kondrat

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Polski facet jest też okropnie niesłowny. Gada i nic z tego nie wynika. Spotykam znajomego na ulicy. Woła już z daleka: "O kurczę, fajnie, że cię spotkałem, siądźmy sobie kiedyś na kawie, może jutro, chociaż nie, akurat jutro nie mogę, ale zadzwonię do ciebie". I już się zaczyna kombinacja, bo on oczywiście nie zadzwoni. Po co w ogóle to mówić? Anglik jest bardzo powściągliwy w takich sytuacjach i trudno go namówić na takie: "Aleśmy się dawno nie widzieli". Widocznie była taka potrzeba, żebyśmy się dawno nie widzieli! Nadmierność połączona jest z fałszywością, bo my za wszelką cenę chcemy dobrze wypaść. Za wszelką cenę chcemy się dobrze ustawić wobec tej pozornej wspólnoty, której tak naprawdę nienawidzimy.

Marek Kondrat

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When I was 7, I drank champagne with singer Alyosha Avdeyev and director Wojciech Wójcik, because my dad had to watch over the firearms loaned from the local police for the purposes of filming a scene for the TV series "Ekstradycja".

I went to high school with two future journalists, Dawid Karpiuk (who works for Newsweek Polska these days) and Endy Gęsina-Torres (the author of an award-winning undercover documentary about how the local Border Guard treats illegal immigrants). Dawid was also the editor-in-chief of my high school's newspaper (that I wrote for!) and got chewed out for some truly punk antics related to that.

When I was 20 or so, local author Andrzej Pilipiuk met with me to review the draft of my fantasy novel. You might find a photo of me or two by author Michał Studniarek on my Tumblr as well. This year I also met Marcin Przybyłek, the creator of Gamedec. He's a bellend.

When I was thirty-ish, I loaned a couple of my airsoft replicas for the purpose of filming an independent movie, and actor Modest Ruciński returned them personally.

Lately I make irregular appearances on the livestreams of well-known Polish Twitch streamers, mostly those I met in person (KokosFlyTV, ViAndHerArt and kycu).

This, of course, is nothing compared to my dad, who was also a firearm supervisor on the set of Schindler's List. And I'm not counting just running into actors and musicians in the street (this happened to local screen legend Marek Kondrat, voice actor Jarosław Boberek - twice, and Nergal from Behemoth).

*this isn't written in any specific order, it was just written in the order they occured to me

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Leopold Tyrmand - Zły [audiobook PL]

Książka – legenda. Najpoczytniejszy kryminał napisany w czasach PRL-u. A tak naprawdę niezwykle inteligentnie opis Polski Ludowej, przebrany w strój ni to kryminału, ni to romansu, ni to westernu. Zaczyna się od tajemniczych napadów. Z tym, że wszyscy atakowani – to bandziory. Ludowa milicja staje na głowie, by dostać jedynego sprawiedliwego, szeryfa bez twarzy, który sprawia, że ludzie zaczynają się czuć bezpieczni. Podziemny światek Warszawy rusza na wojnę. Bohater ma tylko jeden znak rozpoznawczy, niezwykłe, świetliste spojrzenie. A dodatkowo w tle historia miłosna, której osią jest Marta Majewska, niechcący wciągnięta w przestępcze życie Warszawy. DANE TECHNICZNE: Wielkość paczki: 490.1 MB Czas trwania: 5h 45m Bitrate: 192 kbps Rodzaj kompresji: zip, 7zip Zawartość uploadu: mp3 Wersja językowa: PL czyta: Marek Kondrat Hasło: Brak KLIKNIJ ABY POBRAĆ

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Segunda edición del “Ciclo de Cine Inmigrante”

Segunda edición del “Ciclo de Cine Inmigrante” #Berisso

Este domingo 30 de julio, a las 17 horas se implementará por segunda vez en la ciudad la iniciativa cultural denominada “Ciclo de Cine Inmigrante”, cuyo objetivo es promover el encuentro e intercambio con las colectividades de la ciudad, a fin de fortalecer el conocimiento y valorar el aporte cultural de cada comunidad extranjera, y de esta forma, difundir aspectos propios.

Del encuentro que se…