There are many haunting scenes in Quo Vadis, Aida?, the awards contender directed by Jasmila Zbanic. But one lingers more than any other, despite being seemingly unobtrusive: a burning cake, left in ...

Polish filmmakers recently have been making new versions of their country’s beloved 19th century novels, none more cherished than those by Henryk Sienkiewicz. The veteran Jerzy Kawalerowicz, who turns ...

Bosnian producer Damir Ibrahimović, who is best known as the producer of Jasmila Žbanić ’s 2020 Oscar-nominated Srebrenica ...

UPDATE: Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? was the big winner at the 34th European Film Awards tonight. The story of a woman’s fight to save her family during the true events of the 1995 Bosnian War ...

This Polish remake of "Quo Vadis" looks and plays very much like a '50s-style Hollywood epic. Bright, glossy, grandly scaled and dramatically stolid, 79-year-old writer-director Jerzy Kawalerowicz's ...

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During the height of literary translation into Irish in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, I can only think of two Polish books that were translated into Irish. One of these is Henryk Sienkiewicz’s famous Quo ...

Quo Vadis is a super-spectacle in all its meaning. That there are shortcomings [in this fourth version of the tale] even Metro must have recognized and ignored in consideration of the project's scope.