Od Powstania Warszawskiego do Czarnych Panter. Jak Edward Laudański stał się Edouardem de Laurotem
From Warsaw Uprising to Black Panthers: How Edward Laudański Became Edouard de Laurot

Summary/Abstract: The article introduces an almost entirely forgotten (especially in Polish film studies) film figure who had a significant impact on the history of cinema between the 1950s and the 1970s: Edward Laudański, known in the West as Edouard (or Yves) de Laurot. Laudański appears in Polish literature mainly within the historiography of the Warsaw Uprising (1944), in which he actively participated. Based on research in libraries and selected archives, the author attempts to outline the trajectory of Laudański’s life, from his participation in the Warsaw Uprising, through collaborations with Orson Welles and Federico Fellini and co-founding Film Culture with the Mekas brothers, to endorsing the leftist cinéma engagé movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Finally, the purpose of the text is to show that the film theory developed by Laudański can still be inspiring and to answer the question why, while Jonas Mekas became a cinema legend, his former co-worker and friend has been forgotten.

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