Friday, 17 April 2009

Return of the Saragossa Manuscript

As some of you may know, originally my education and background was in Film, then as if for no reason whilst working for Warner Bros. I got up one morning and decided to throw it all in and move to Poland.

I then spent the next 7 years living in Poland, in a city called Lodz, the most famous film city in Poland with its remarkable film school that produced Wajda, Krzyslowski, and Polanski amongst many others.

Well there is another important film maker, who was not educated in Lodz (in Krakow instead) but who made some of Poland's most important and challenging films before going on to become director of the Lodz Film School for the last 10 years of his life. His name is Wojchiech Has and his greatest master piece is a film called 'The Saragossa Manuscript'.

For that reason you can imagine how happy I was when my company Rec-Ignition was approached to make a fansite for this incredible film by Mr Bongo Films who had just snapped up worldwide rights.

Armed with a keen knowledge of polish film myself and an array of polish academics wishing to write on the subject, soon I had built The Saragossa Manuscript Fansite on this marvelous film.

Check it out, you won't regret it.

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