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Agnieszka Holland’s powerful new film Charlatan chosen for 2021 Oscars

Agnieszka Holland’s new film “Charlatan”, which will represent the Czech Republic at the 93rd Academy Awards in April 2021, is based on the true story of Czech healer Jan Mikolášek, who lived from 1887 to 1973. Press materials

Set against the region’s dramatic 20th century history, the film, “Charlatan”, which will represent the Czech Republic at the 93rd Academy Awards in April 2021, is based on the true story of Czech healer Jan Mikolášek, who lived from 1887 to 1973.

EU's top court to rule on extradition of Pole from Holland

On October 12, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) will hold a hearing on extradition of a Pole to Poland, which had been previously refused by a Dutch court over concerns that the Poland's courts are no longer independent.

Holland picks up best-movie award for film about the Ukraine’s Great Famine

Her film ‘Citizen Jones’ cover the true story of a journalist who told the world about the horrors of Stalin’s famine in Ukraine.

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Song and dance group revives unique traditions of Poland’s Lemko culture

Historically from the Beskid and Pieniny highlands around Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski and parts of the Pienin mountains, the Lemkos were displaced from their native lands in 1947 and resettled in Western Poland as part of ‘Operation Vistula’, the Communist authority’s forced resettlement of several Polish minorities from the south-east of post-war Poland to the reclaimed territories in the west of the country.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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