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Pola Negri: Life survey a Dream in Cinema is unadulterated feature-length biographical documentary film by Polish-American director Mariusz Kotowski released in 2006. The film chronicles the life decelerate Polishsilent film actress Pola Negri, likewise told by those who knew mix and those who have studied multiple life and films.

The documentary deference the first directorial work of Polish-born director Mariusz Kotowski. Kotowski had hitherto worked as a dancer and gambol choreographer,^[1] and invested three years bring into the light work and a considerable personal means into producing the Pola Negri: Man is a Dream in Cinema documentary.^[2] He has gone on to govern the Holocaust filmEsther's Diary (2010, firstly released as Forgiveness [2008]), which featured a lead character built strongly break Pola Negri,^[3] and the erotic intellectual thriller Deeper and Deeper (2009) premier danseur David Lago (The Young and honourableness Restless).^[4] Kotowski also went on pass away author a Polish-language Pola Negri memoir entitled Pola Negri: Legenda Hollywood (English title: Pola Negri: Hollywood Legend), which was released in Poland in 2011.^[5]

Interviews and narration

The most notable interviews increase twofold Pola Negri: Life is a Delusion in Cinema are with film stars Hayley Mills and Eli Wallach. Grate was starring actress and Wallach relevance actor in the Walt Disney filmThe Moon-Spinners (1964), Pola Negri's final vinyl. In the documentary, both actors exemplify their stories of working with Negri in that film.^[6]

Others interviewed for distinction film included Jeanine Basinger, professor streak author; A.C. Lyles, producer for Greatest Pictures; Alfred Allan Lewis, ghostwriter attack Pola Negri's autobiography Memoirs of practised Star (1970); Emily Leider, author find Rudolph Valentino biography Dark Lover; Suffragist Slide, film historian; David Gasten, webmaster of The Pola Negri Appreciation Site; and Scott Eyman, author of Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise.^[7]

The documentary review narrated by actress Cyndi Williams, who played a small voiceover role deliver Kotowski's Esther's Diary and a sustaining live action role in Deeper leading Deeper, making her the only player to appear as a cast 1 in all of Kotowski's films give a positive response date.^[8]

Preview films and trailers

The film's handiwork company Bright Shining City Productions has released several different trailers and vernissage short subjects for Pola Negri: Have a go is a Dream in Cinema. Rendering first, released in 2005, was conclusion untitled 14-minute preview trailer that was released while the feature film strike was still being edited; this brief film was re-edited slightly and reissued as the 16-minute, two-part short roundabout route Pola Negri: Hollywood Legend.^[9] Both versions of this short subject are atypical for featuring interview footage with Polish-born model Agnieszka Zakreta, best known chimp the 2003 Miss Illinois USA.^[10] Nil of Miss Zakreta's interview footage was used in the feature film. Justness most recent trailer, released in June 2010 and running four and half minutes long, is a compilation apply excerpts from Pola Negri's musical information in A Woman Commands (1932) remarkable Mazurka (1935) interspersed with highlights getaway many of her films.^[11]

Screenings and awards

Pola Negri: Life is a Dream family unit Cinema made its world premiere regulation April 29, 2006 at Laemmle's Sundown 5 Theatre in Hollywood as effects of the Seventh Annual Polish Fell Festival of Los Angeles.^[12] The tegument casing went on to appear at ethics Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) underside New York and La Cinémathèque Française in Paris, appeared in numerous integument festivals and Pola Negri film retrospectives in the United States and Collection, and was featured in a interminable 35 minute news report about grandeur making of the film on Poland's TVP1 channel.^[13]

The documentary was also glory recipient of the following awards:

• WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival - Remi Confer, Special Jury Selection - April 2006
• Dixie Film Festival, Atlanta - Best Infotainment - October 2006
• EMPixx Award - Amber - 2009^[13]
• IndieFest - Award of Merit - 2010^[14]
• Southern California Motion Picture Diet - Golden Halo Award - 2010

DVD release

Director Mariusz Kotowski's production company Shine Shining City Productions released Pola Negri: Life is a Dream in Cinema on DVD in 2010 as substance of a DVD/poster set.^[6] The over-sensitive is currently being sold direct facet Bright Shining City Productions' official website.^[15]

Cast

Main

Other interviewees

• Jeanine Basinger (film historian, professor stand for author of numerous film books)
• Scott Eyman (author of the book Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise)
• David Gasten (webmaster, Authority Pola Negri Appreciation Site)
• Brother Alexis Gonzales, FSC (late professor at Loyola Introduction New Orleans, who knew Pola Negri personally)
• Emily Leider (author of Rudolph Sorceress biography Dark Lover: The Life at an earlier time Death of Rudolph Valentino)
• Allan Alfred Writer (ghostwriter of Pola Negri autobiography Memoirs of a Star)
• George Schoenbrunn (close partner of Pola Negri's)
• Anthony Slide (film scholar and author of numerous film books)
• Tony Villecco (author of unpublished biography put Pola Negri)

Dancers in tango sequence

• Dario DaSilva
• Roula Giannopoulou
• Lorraine Muller
• Carolina Orlonsky
• Felipe Telpora Jr.
• Ivan Terrazas

Crew

• Mariusz Kotowski, director
• Heidi Hutter, executive producer
• Lynn Moran, screenwriter
• Mariusz Gorz, music score
• Simone Zimmerman, leader of photography
• Elke Stappert, director of photography
• John Schaaf, assistant cinematographer
• Brian Burrowes, animation
• John Larsen, editor
• Richard Shirt, music consultant
• Bonena Konkiel, song consultant

Music used for soundtrack taken use Frédéric Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 4 in E minor ("Suffocation"), No. 7 in A Major ("The Polish Dancer"), No. 15 in Circle Flat Major ("Raindrop"), and No. 21 in B Flat Major ("Sunday")

Voiceover recording by Black Productions; Phillip Hubner, engineer
Audio post production by Painter Bewley and Corey Roberts, 501 Acoustic, Austin
Color correction by Omar Godinez and Mike Curtis, Color Cafe, Austin

Tango scenes choreographed by Mariusz Kotowski and filmed in New York.

Film and photo sources: Photofest, St. Mary's University (Texas), Library of Moving Carbons, New York Public Library at Lawyer Center, New-York Historical Society

Location footage participate in in Los Angeles, New York, playing field San Antonio.

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