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• 1905 Revolution

  Mix a working class culture with a hatred for Imperial Russia and you get an volatile mix – and so it proved in 1905, when the people of Łódź rose in rebellion against their Russkie rulers....

• In pursuit of Jacob Bronowski

  
  Best known as the presenter of the BBC’s genuinely groundbreaking 1973 documentary series The Ascent of Man (and the best-selling book which accompanied the series), Jacob Bronowski’s central belief was that the pursuit of knowledge, the production of art for art’s sake were what fundamentally made human beings human....

• Jan Karski

  ‘Every government and church says, “We tried to help the Jews,” because they are ashamed, they want to keep their reputations....

• David Lynch

  
  The iconic film director David Lynch, whose surrealist works range from Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks, has completed work on his latest project, Inland Empire - currently in post-production....

• Parks

  On first sight Lodz looks frighteningly similar to the upturned contents of a rubbish bin. Her aesthetic glories are not obvious, however, they’re certainly there to anyone daring enough to look under her skirt....

• Eugeniusz Bodo

  One chap you’re unlikely to have heard of is Eugeniusz Bodo, the veteran of thirty films, and director of two....

• Krzysztof Kieślowski

  
  The late Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941- 1996) is known and respected the world over as a maker of great feature films....

• Marcel Szytenchelm

  While much of Łódź looks like it’s ready to keel over the  main drag, Piotrkowska, is something of a feast for the eyes; scrubbed, beveled and back to its best this art nouveau masterpiece is, for many, the whole reason for visiting....

• John Godson

  
  A Lodz success story can be found in local resident John Godson, Poland’s first black member of Parliament....

• The Man

  “Life is very, very confusing, and so films should be allowed to be, too”. David LynchBorn in 1946 in Missoula, Montana, iconi c film director David Lynch was raised in backwater America, hopping from state to state hanging onto the coat tails of his scientist father....

• Karl Dominik

  Lodz, as you’ll learn rattling through this guide, is a city of the cinema, a star of the silver screen....

• Rickshaws

  
  A relatively recent phenomena, rickshaws were first introduced to Łódź in 1993 and today you’ll find over a hundred pedaling breathlessly up and down ulica Piotrkowska....

• Jerzy Kosiński

  
  Born in Łódź, 1933, Jerzy Kosiński stands out as one of the 20th centuries great literary talents, with a life story every bit as sinister and dramatic as his books....

• Roman Polański

  
  Born in Paris, 1933, to Polish parents, Roman Polanski and his family returned to Kraków, Poland two years before the outbreak of war....