Morze
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Morze |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 1933 |
| length | 9 minutes |
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| Director |
Wanda Jakubowska , Stanislaw Wohl , Jerzy Zarzycki |
| production | Edmund Byczynski |
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Morze (Polish for sea ) is a documentary short film made in 1933 by the three young Polish directors Wanda Jakubowska , Stanislaw Wohl and Jerzy Zarzycki .
action
background
The film was the second short film by Wanda Jakubowska, a former student of art history at the University of Warsaw , who worked as a director, but also as a screenwriter, camerawoman, film editor and assistant director well into old age. In 1948 she was the first female director to win the crystal globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival .
For the co-director Stanislaw Wohl, who later also worked as a cameraman, screenwriter and producer and received a special mention at the Venice International Film Festival in 1937 , it was the first directorial work. The third director Jerzy Zarzycki had already made several films and short films, also later worked as a cameraman and screenwriter and in 1951 received a special mention at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
The narrator in the English version, Gayne Whitman, was an actor who starred in well over 200 films between 1904 and 1957, and who appeared under numerous pseudonyms during the silent film era . Due to his distinctive voice, he was not only a well-known moderator of radio plays, but also a sought-after narrator in numerous short documentary films from the early 1930s to the late 1940s.
Awards
In its English-language version with Gayne Whitman as the narrator, the film, which was released on May 7, 1933 in the United States, was nominated for the Oscar for best short film ( Novelty ) at the Academy Awards in 1934 . The film was subject to the short film Krakatoa directed by Joe Rock .
Web links
- Morze in the Internet Movie Database (English)