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• 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....

• pl. Wolności

  To find the spiritual centre of Lodz one must not go to ulica Piotrkowska, but to the bottom of it, namely to pl....

• Jan Karski

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

• Łódź trivia

  Poland’s full of ‘well I never’ facts, and there’s no better way to impress a hot date than by telling them about Europe’s largest desert (close to Katowice), or the street in Warsaw named after Winnie the Poo....

• 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....

• 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....

• Rivers of Łódź

  One question you might ask in a moment of rare contemplation is where the name Łódź came from....

• 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....

• Pola Negri

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

• Eugeniusz Bodo

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

• 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....

• 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....

• Krzysztof Kieślowski

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