Films by piotr rosolowski

Germany, Polen 2017, 82 min
by Elwira Niewiera, piotr rosolowski

The son of a poor Jewish blacksmith from Ukraine, died in Italy as Prince Michael Waszynski, Hollywood producer and exiled Polish aristocrat. he made more than 50 films including cinema hits with Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale. However only one film was his true obsession - "The Dybbuk" - based on an old Jewish legend, the most important and mystical Yiddish film ever made, directed by Waszynski shortly before the outbreak of the WWII.To the American magazine "Variety", Waszynski once claimed to be fascinated with the downfall of great nations. The related imagery of pogroms and migration are the sights and images that Waszynski had so often witnessed in his life. It seems he had achieved almost everything he could possibly have wished, but something seemed to be stalking him, leaving him in permanently restless. Waszynski kept searching for the lost print of his film "Dybbuk" which held his early memories of the Jewish shtetl and his first love. What secrets did he keep hidden in this old masterpiece of Yiddish cinema?Original language: English, Italian, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Polish, German, Spanish

Germany 2016, 27 min
by Corinna Belz

Until her early death at the age of 31 in 1907, Paula Modersohn-Becker had two great loves: the art and the city of Paris. With great pleasure and determination, she explored both.Between 1900 and 1906, she visited Paris four times, spending a total of two years in the French capital. Like a sponge, the young German sucks up the Belle Epoque. She discovers Cézanne, meets Rodin, attends courses in private academies, draws daily in the Louvre. With excerpts from Paula Modersohn-Beckers' graphic and humorous letters, we expolore a unique city in dialogue with a young woman. A film about love for Paris and about the courage and self-esteem of a young artist who continues to develop herself and her work and thus became a pioneer of modernity.

2016, 89 min
by Corinna Belz

A film about words and about a luminary of modern literature: about Peter Handke, with Peter HandkeIn her new documentary, filmmaker Corinna Belz explores the enigma that is Peter Handke. His book titles read like the tunes on a jukebox, like the watchwords of several successive generations of readers: ‘Offending the Audience’, ‘The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty’, ‘A Sorrow Beyond Dreams’, ‘Short Letter, Long Farewell’, and ‘The Weight of the World’. In the ‘60s, Peter Handke showed how to walk the walk of the author-cum-popstar. Yet the moment he made the bestseller lists, he turned his back on all that. He went traveling, taking his readers along with him, into the rhythm and precision of his language, the long, pulsating sentences, the invention and examination of reality. The film shows Mr. Handke as a young man and in his daily life today, always devoted to language, posing the burning questions: Where are we now? And, to quote one of his early films: How to live?

Germany 2009, 87 min
by Marian Kiss

They were heroes of a special kind. They came from the steppes, the sons of farmers, of factory floor women. Salt-of-the-earth, strapping young men, model husbands, who believed in communism with all their hearts. Bright futures lay ahead of them. In the name of the Intercosmos Programme they were about to conquer space. One perfect specimen of manhood from every communist nation. First the Czechoslovakian, followed by a Pole, an East-German, a Bulgarian, a Hungarian, a Vietnamese, a Rumanian, a Cuban, a Mongolian, and an Afghan cosmonaut. The second they touched down, they were treated like pop stars and worshipped as heroes. And today? What do the heroes of socialism do without socialism?