Jerzy Stuhr Hand Prints - Krakow, Poland
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dtrebilc
N 50° 03.211 E 019° 55.977
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This is one of a series of hand prints in a pedestrian path next to the River Vistula and below Wawel Castle. The path is known as Krakow Star Alley.
Waymark Code: WMT7VX
Location: Małopolskie, Poland
Date Posted: 10/11/2016
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The hand prints are organised by NETIA Off Camera, an annual independent film maker festival held in Krakow.
This plaque was laid in 2014 to commemorate Jerzy Stuhr.
"Jerzy Stuhr - theater and film actor, director, art professor, native Krakow citizen. Jerzy Stuhr creates and works in Poland and Italy. Since 1998, he’s a member of the European Film Academy. He’s one of the most popular and most versatile Polish actors of theater and film; director, pedagogue and professor in the field of theater. He made many memorable author films including “Spis cudzoloznic”/”List of Lovers” (1995), „Historie milosne”/"Love Stories" (1997), „Tydzien z zycia mezczyzny”/"A Week in the Life of a Man" (1999), „Korowód”/"Procession" (2007). His new film "Citizen" (2014) will have its premiere this year in fall. Jerzy Stuhr graduated from Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University (1970) and acting at the Ludwik Solski State Drama School in Kraków (1972), where he was also the Rector twice. He lectured also in Italy. He was associated with the STU Theatre, then with the Stary Theatre, Ludowy Theatre in Nowa Huta, continuously with Television Theatre, currently with Polonia Theatre in Warsaw. He collaborated with the best Polish theatrical directors as Konrad Swinarski, Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Jarocki as well as Polish film directors as Krzysztof Kieslowski, Feliks Falk, Agnieszka Holland and Juliusz Machulski."
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