Fortune is rolling, that is, Italian films on Polish screens after 1945 Cover Image
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Ruota della fortuna: i film italiani sugli schermi polacchi dopo il 1945. Fortuna kołem się toczy, czyli włoskie filmy na polskich ekranach po 1945 roku
Fortune is rolling, that is, Italian films on Polish screens after 1945

Author(s): Anna Osmólska-Mętrak
Contributor(s): Barbara Rejmak (Translator)
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Polish-Italian diplomatic relations; Italian film; Italian literature; Fiat; Polish-Italian relations
Summary/Abstract: Bilingual volume published in cooperation with the Embassy of Italy in Poland and with the Italian Institute of Culture to celebrate the centenary of the Italian-Polish diplomatic relations (1919–2019).Texts by the renowned Italian and Polish authors (translated from Italian to Polish or vice versa) are divided into two parts: “Diplomacy, economy, history” and “Art, film, literature, theatre”. Such division allows to follow the Polish-Italian bonds in different fields, from translation and performance of the Italian tragedies on the Polish stages, to cooperation with the FIAT company. There is also reflection on the Polish-Italian relations in the difficult interwar period and during the Second World War. In this context one text has exceptional significance - that of Vincenzo Mario Palmieri, Italian anatomic pathologist and a member of the international commission that examined the Katyń massacre in 1943.The volume not only for the Italophiles but also for all those interested in the history of the 20th century and in the issues of the international relations.