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Film archive receives gift from Polish émigrés in London

PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk 04.02.2017 09:00
The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London has donated a collection of films dating from the 1930s and 40s to the Warsaw-based National Film Archive.
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Some of the films have never been shown in Poland since their premieres.

The collection includes movies starring some of the greatest names in Polish pre-war cinema, including Adolf Dymsza, Stefan Jaracz, Helena Grossówna and Eugeniusz Bodo, the showbiz legend whose life was turned into a 13-instalment serial shown on Polish television last year.

During a ceremony in London, the director of the Polish National Film Archive, Anna Sienkiewicz-Rogowska, described the gift as exciting, adding that the institution’s experts will restore and digitize the 16 and 32 mm films so they can be presented to Polish audiences as soon as possible.

The films were in the Polish Consulate in London before World War II. They were transferred to the Sikorski Institute (now the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum) when it became known that Polish diplomatic missions would be taken over by the communist government in Warsaw. (mk/pk)

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