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Seventeenth century Russia, New Jerusalem Monastery. The recently deposed Patriarch Nikon, whose reforms lead to a schism in the Orthodox church, employs a French dramatist to stage the New Testament and hasten the Second Coming of Christ. Jacques de Sertan’s troupe consists of untrained and illiterate peasants. The actors are divided into roles, whole families play different social or ethnic groups...

W Auschwitz tylko jeden dźwięk brzmiał tak jak na wolności. Była to burza oklasków po zwycięskiej walce. Do niemieckich obozów śmierci trafiali także sportowcy, w tym legendy światowego boksu. Jak wszyscy więźniowie skazani byli na powolne umieranie. Jednak niektórzy spośród nich nawet w tak ekstremalnych warunkach potrafili odnaleźć w sobie sportowego ducha. Niczym gladiatorzy stanęli na obozowym...

Emancipated Women (Emancypantki), by the acclaimed Polish author Boleslaw Prus, was first published as a serial in the Daily Courier (Kurier Codzienny) from 1890 to 1893, and as a book in 1894. Leading his readers, in a manner reminiscent of Dickens, from an elegant girls' school in Warsaw to a provincial town-from a magnate's palace to a boarding house for working women and a secret lying-in hospital...

Emancipated Women (Emancypantki), by the acclaimed Polish author Boleslaw Prus, was first published as a serial in the Daily Courier (Kurier Codzienny) from 1890 to 1893, and as a book in 1894. Leading his readers, in a manner reminiscent of Dickens, from an elegant girls' school in Warsaw to a provincial town-from a magnate's palace to a boarding house for working women and a secret lying-in hospital...