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Silent movie festival in Warsaw

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Paweł Kononczuk 19.04.2018 14:55
A Silent Movie Festival starts on Thursday evening at Warsaw’s Iluzjon cinema, with the focus on Pola Negri, the Polish-born actress who became a Hollywood star.
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During the four days of the festival, audiences will be able to see motion pictures from the silent film era accompanied by jazz, classical, club, and experimental music performed live by internationally acclaimed artists including Włodek Pawlik.

The festival will open with a screening of the film that launched Negri’s career—the 1917 production The Polish Dancer.

Pola Negri was born Apolonia Chałupiec in 1897 in Lipno, central Poland, into a poor family. In her teens she was accepted to the Imperial Ballet in Warsaw but her dancing career was soon interrupted by illness and she enrolled at the Academy of Dramatic Arts to become an actress.

In 1913, she made her stage debut and a year later appeared in her first film. Soon she was a top star in Poland, prompting director Max Reinhardt to invite her to act in Berlin theatres as well as in films.

Flooded with contract offers from Hollywood, she moved to America in 1923. She died in 1987.

The Silent Movie Festival is now in its 15th year.

(pk/gs)

Source: IAR/www.swietoniemegokina.pl

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