POLISH FILM CLUB 'OKO'

Film host:  Tatyana Tsyrlina-Spady , PhD,  Adjunct Professor at the School of Education, Seattle Pacific University. Tatyana is a member of many international organizations including the Association for  Moral Education; Comparative International Education Society; Janusz  Korczak Association of the United States, and formerly, Korczak Association of Russia.   Thank you Tatyana!  KORCZAK   •    Unrated | 1h 58min | Biography, Drama | 6 May 1990 (Poland) Director: Andrzej Wajda, Writer: Agnieszka Holland.  Stars: Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska  In Polish with English subtitles, at Polish Home upstairs, Friday, June 15, 7:30 pm The film is an account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, known also as Janusz Korczak, is a man of high princip...

Solaris is a 2002 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Soderbergh, produced by James Cameron and Jon Landau, and starring George Clooney and Natascha McElhone. It is based on the 1961 science fiction novel of the same name by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. About Stanislaw Lem here .... From wikipedia :  While admitting that he had not seen the film, Lem referred to Soderbergh's adaptation as a "remake of the Tarkovsky movie" and criticized what he had heard as departing far from his original intentions by focusing almost exclusively on the psychological relationship between the two main characters, while reducing the vast and alien ocean to a mere "mirror" of humanity: “...to my best knowledge, the book was not dedicated to erotic problems of people in outer space... As Solaris' author I shall allow myself to repeat that I only wanted to create a vision of a human encounter with something that ce...