One of Poland’s best-known legends, Pan Twardowski is a folk hero often compared to Germany’s Faust. Having signed a pact ...

This documentary film about Ukrainian refugees is an indictment of war, a humble story of loss, fear and the victims of war, ...

This is the first time the Polish reader has had the opportunity to explore the work of a Warsaw-born Jewish poet on such a ...

Without a doubt zapiekanka is Poland’s most iconic fast food item. This long bun with a mushroom and onion filling, melted cheese and ketchup on top, not only is simply delicious and very nostalgic ...

Agnieszka Zwiefka’s documentary story about refugees from the Polish-Belarusian border is stripped of political slogans and ...

The introduction of Christianity to Poland is symbolically linked to the founding of the Polish state, and is also the first firm date in the history of Poland. But while the event enabled Poland to ...

In the 19th century, the Polish city of Łódź grew from a tiny farming town into a bustling textile industry metropolis – at a rate unseen anywhere else in Europe at the time. The cosmopolitan city was ...

In May 2015, the University of Cambridge unveiled a strange white structure shaped like a futuristic Christmas tree. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of the Sierpiński triangle, a type of ...

Polish-born Ganna Walska was an operatic singer so unsuccessful that her failure as a vocalist is near-legendary: it inspired a theme of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and has been described in numerous ...

Almost 52 million cinema tickets were sold in 2006, six million more than a year before. The majority of screenings take ...

Norwid spent his youth studying painting in Warsaw. In 1842 he departed for Germany, subsequently venturing on to Italy, where he continued his studies in the visual arts. In 1846 he found himself in ...

A two-minute piece must last for several minutes or several hours – Filip Lech talks to the composer of film, television and ...