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• Eugeniusz Bodo

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

• 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....

• John Godson

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

• 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....

• Lodz In Your Pocket in iPaper

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• 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....

• Łódź: The top five likes and dislikes of city residents

  During June 2011 Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper invited 21 journalism students from City University London to visit the country’s largest cities to assess whether they were ready to host the upcoming Euro 2012 football tournament....

• 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....

• The industrialists

  ‘Łódź was waking up, the first yelling factory whistle pierced the quiet of the early morning, then in all parts of the city others began to spring up ever more raucously and bawled in hoarse voices like a choir of monstrous roosters crowing their metal throats the call to work....

• Krzysztof Kieślowski

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

• Daniel Libeskind

  
  Whilst most of us abandoned our architectural aspirations the moment the Lego set was mangled by the dog Daniel Libeskind has gone on to become one of the world’s most eminent architects and one of Łódź’s proudest exports....

• Pola Negri

  
  One Polish name is particularly associated with the advent of film and Hollywood glamour, and that name is Pola Negri....

• 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....