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Wojciech Smarzowski (born 18 January 1963 in Korczyna near Krosno) is a Polish screenwriter and director. He studied filmmaking at the Jagiellonian University and the National Film School in Łódź (1990). His 2004 film, The Wedding (not to be confused with the Andrzej Wajda film of the same title) earned special jury mention at the Karlovy ...
Hatred (Wołyń) is a Polish war drama film directed by Wojciech Smarzowski.It is set in the 1939–1943 during the massacres of Poles in Volhynia by Ukrainians.. Despite adding the love drama to the plot, centering on the life of Zosia Głowacka a young Polish girl, it manages to focus very well on the historical events of each year, from the September Campaign to the Operation Barbarossa.
Artists & Works Index. Multimedia. A film set along the former Polish-Prussian border, it shows history and identity through the prism of the emotional tie developing between a Tadeusz and Rose.
Synopsis. This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plundering Poles who found themselves in desperate straits.
Wojciech Smarzowski with the Polish Academy Award for Best Film, 2012. Variety has called the movie "almost unbearably brutal yet hauntingly romantic" and commended "Genre-savvy helmer Smarzowski's gritty mise-en-scene augments the force of the narrative, putting into visual terms its themes of ill-fated love and a nation doomed by nationalism ...
Wojciech Smarzowski continued working for television, directing TV dramas and series. In 2004 he made a spectacular entree into the world of feature film with his The Wedding (Wesele). Since than he won Polish Film Award “Orly” for Best Director for The Weding , The Dark House , R ose and Hatred.
Feb 3, 2012 · Rose: Directed by Wojciech Smarzowski. With Marcin Dorocinski, Agata Kulesza, Malwina Buss, Kinga Preis. Rose, a German widow, hides from Russian soldiers who like to rape women and fights off Polish refugees who will steal everything she has.
