Duchess of Łowicz (Polish: Księżna Łowicka), also known as November Night (Polish: Noc Listapodowa), is a Polish-language historical film directed by Mieczysław Krawicz and Janusz Warnecki, and written by Witold Brumer. It was based on a 1908 book Księżna Łowicka by Wacław Gąsiorowski. It was the first high-budget Polish-language film, and one of the first Polish-language non-silent feature films.[1]
Duchess of Łowicz | |
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Directed by | |
Written by | Witold Brumer |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Zbigniew Gniazdowski |
Music by | Feliks Rybicki |
Distributed by | Jan Bratkowski |
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Country | Poland |
Language | Polish |
Cast
edit- Stefan Jaracz - Grand Duke Constantine Pawlowicz
- Jadwiga Smosarska - Joanna Grudzinska
- Józef Węgrzyn - Major Walerian Lukasinski
- Stanislaw Gruszczynski - Alojzy Szczygiel, poet
- Amelia Rotter-Jarninska - Joanna's Mother
- Artur Socha - Lieutenant Piotr Wysocki
- Aleksander Zelwerowicz - Joanna's Father, Broniec
- Loda Niemirzanka - Chambermaid
- Jan Szymański - General Koruta
- Lucjan Zurowski - General Gendze
- Juliusz Luszczewski - Makrot, a spy
- Waclaw Pawlowski - Professor Szkaradowski
- Wanda Jarszewska - Honoratka
- Henryk Rzętkowski - Wartownik
References
edit- ^ Charles Ford, Robert Hammond: Polish Film: A Twentieth Century History, McFarland & Company, 2015, p. 246. ISBN 978-1-4766-0803-7
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