OPIS
Ta uznana adaptacja klasycznej opowieści Victora Hugo opiera się na życiu Jeana Valjeana, byłego skazanego, który został uwięziony za kradzież chleba dla rodziny jego siostry. Po latach w więzieniu Valjean stara się dostosować do życia jako wolny człowiek, lecz wielu nie wybacza jego przeszłości, a zwłaszcza prześladujący go inspektor Javert. Chaotyczne życie Valjeana odmienia mała biedna dziewczynka o imieniu Cosette.
RYSZARD BOLESŁAWSKI
Born in 1889 in Dębowa Góra, Poland. Died in 1937 in Hollywood, USA. Theatre and film director, actor and teacher. He graduated from the Tver Cavalry Officers School. He trained as an actor at the First Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre under Konstantin Stanislavski and his assistant Leopold Sulerzhitsky. During World War I, Boleslawski fought as a cavalry lieutenant on the tsarist Russian side until the fall of the Russian Empire. He left Russia after the October Revolution of 1917 for his native Poland, where he directed his first movies. As his birth name (Bolesław Ryszard Srzednicki) was difficult to pronounce, he took the name Ryszard Bolesławski.
His “Miracle at the Vistula” was a semi-documentary about the miraculous victory of the Poles at the Vistula River over the superior Soviet Russian forces during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921. In 1922, he acted in Die Gezeichneten, a German silent film directed by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. In the 1920s, he made his way to New York City, where, now known as “Richard Boleslavsky” (the English spelling of his name), he began to teach Stanislavski’s ‘system’ (which, in the US, developed into Method acting) with fellow émigré Maria Ouspenskaya. In 1923, he founded the American Laboratory Theatre in New York. Among his students were Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Harold Clurman, who were all founding members of the Group Theatre (1931–1940), the first American acting ensemble to utilize Stanislavski’s techniques.
Offered a contract to direct Hollywood films, Boleslavsky made several significant films with some of the major stars of the day, until his death a few weeks short of his 48th birthday, on January 17, 1937. He is interred in the Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Boleslavsky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
FILMOGRAPHY
1937 The Last of Mrs Cheyney (Koniec pani Cheyney)
1936 Three Godfathers
1936 Theodora Goes Wild (Teodora robi karierę)
1936 The Garden of Allah (Ogród Allaha)
1935 O’Shaughnessy’s Boy
1935 Metropolitan
1935 Les Miserables (Nędznicy)
1935 Clive of India (Clive z Indii)
1934 The Painted Veil (Malowana zasłona)
1934 Operator 13 (Szpieg nr 13)
1934 Men in White (Ludzie w bieli)
1934 Hollywood Party
1934 Fugitive Lovers (Uciekinierzy)
1933 Storm at Daybreak
1933 Beauty for Sale
1932 Rasputin and the Empress (Ostatnia cesarzowa)
1931 Woman Pursued
1931 The Gay Diplomat
1930 Treasure Girl
1930 The Last of the Lone Wolf
1929 The Grand Parade
1921 The Miracle at the Wistula (Cud nad Wisłą)
1920 Bohaterstwo polskiego skauta
1918 The Bread (Chleb)
1918 Tri Vstrechi (Tri Wstreczi)
POKAZY
GALLERY THEATRE
(1112 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL)
NIEDZIELA, 12/11/2017 19:00 pm.
1935, 108 min, USA
w jezyku angielskim
Direction/Reżyseria
RYSZARD BOLESŁAWSKI
Script/Scenariusz
WP LIPSCOMB
Cinematography/Zdjęcia
GREGG TOLAND
Art Direction/Scenografia
RICHARD DAY
Music/Muzyka
ALFRED NEWMAN
Editing/Montaż
BARBARA McLEAN
Produced by/Produkcja
20TH CENTURY PICTURES
Producer/Producent
DARRYL F. ZANUCK
Cast/Obsada:
Fredric March (Jean Valjean), Charles Laughton
(Inspector Javert), Cedric Hardwicke (Cosette)
