Word: krystyna
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Like Kane, the picture concerns a film maker (Krystyna Janda) who seeks to penetrate the past of a heroic-or, anyway, well-publicized-figure who has fallen from grace. Edgy, abrasive, in secure, she is in her own right a fascinating figure of the moment as she fights her way through a state bureaucracy that would prefer she found an other subject. Her Mr. Deeds is a brick layer named Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz). Earnest and innocent, he pioneered a faster method of doing his job in the Stalinist '50s. But one man's technological breakthrough...
...weddings, duels and state councils, Radziwills and Potockis, two of Poland's oldest, richest families, have faced each other for centuries. When, in the 18th Century, Charles Radziwill owned scores of towns and 600 villages. Felix Potocki had 130,000 peasants and 600,000 acres. Krystyna Radziwill had a play written in honor of her marriage, and Joseph Potocki's funeral was attended by ten bishops and 1,275 priests; 20 pieces of cannon used up 65,000 pounds of gunpowder in a wake that lasted six days...