Agnieszka Holland talks to Eva Stachniak at the Toronto International Film Festival
The director of In Darkness speaks about films, music, identity, and the challenge of making a complex story simple, but not simplistic.
Interviews
2011 Vol. 3 No. 4 — Winter / Films / Interviews
2011 Vol. 3 No. 4 — Winter / Interviews
Chatting with Chicago WTTW’s Dan Soles
Are we ready to celebrate Polish-American Heritage Month? Chicago’s PBS station WTTW is. Justine Jablonska speaks to station Chief Television Content Officer Dan Soles and reports on what we can contribute.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Films / Interviews
Children in Exile: Recollections of Children Deported to the Soviet Gulag
Chicago-based filmmaker Chris Swider discusses his award-winning documentary, and why he chose to focus on the youngest “enemies of the State.”
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Interviews
CR Talks To… Doug Jacobson, Author of The Katyń Order
Maureen Mroczek Morris talks to to the author of The Katyń Order about the use of fiction to tell a historical tale.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Interviews
Poetry in Motion: Interview with Mixed Martial Arts Fighter Krzysztof Soszynski
When someone does MMA with proper technique, it borders on the beautiful. CR meets Polish-Canadian MMA fighter Soszysnki, who is as tough in the ring as he is gentle in life.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Interviews
American Education Initiatives in Poland
It’s not just Poland looking to the United States, but the other way around too. There are more & more American students coming to study in Poland, which wasn’t the case 15 years ago.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Films / Interviews
The Officer’s Wife: A Conversation with Director Piotr Uzarowicz
Piotr Uzarowicz’s grandfather was one the officers murdered at Katyń. His moving film examines how a political conspiracy of silence left bare his family’s wounds of war.
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Interviews / Music
Catching up with … Jan Lisiecki, pianist extraordinaire
Jan Lisiecki on being a citizen of the world and on why he prefers music to math.
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Features / Interviews
Recovering a Stolen Childhood
Wesley Adamczyk survived deportation to Siberia and exile to chronicle that journey in When God Looked the Other Way, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004. His father, Jan Adamczyk, was one of tens of thousands of Polish officers killed in the Katyń massacre.
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Films / Interviews
Peter Raina: Love, Politics, Betrayal
When a historian from Kashmir fell in love with Poland and a Polish woman, both love affairs ended tragically.
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Interviews
When an American Dream Turns into an American Tragedy… Jan Lewan strives for redemption
The rise and fall of a polka king turned pauper.
2009 — Winter / Interviews
Conversations with … Joanna Czechowska
CR gleaned some background information about Joanna Czechowska, the author of The Black Madonna of Derby, from published interviews. We knew she was born in England to a Polish airman father and an English mother, and that in her early childhood she was not only raised by her Polish grandmother but spend the first ten years of her life in a community with postwar Polish refugees in the UK.
2009 — Winter / Interviews
A Few Questions for… Prof. Marek Suszko
As we reflect on the 20 years since the fall of communism in Europe and ponder what the future may hold, CR recently had a chance to ask a few questions of Professor Marek Suszko, who teaches at the Department of History at Loyola University in Chicago. He shared some insight about the positive developments that have taken place in Poland since 1989, the country’s role in the EU and its relationship with the United States.
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