Vampires of Warsaw

Vampires of Warsaw (Polish:Wampiry Warszawy) is a 1925 Polish silent crime film directed by Wiktor Biegański and starring Oktawian Kaczanowski, Halina Labedzka and Maria Balcerkiewiczówna. It was Biegański's most popular film, and displayed the influence of Soviet cinema on his work.[2] The film is considered lost, so it's difficult to describe the plot in detail, but the film appears to have been a murder mystery whodunit and did not actually feature any vampires of the supernatural variety.

Vampires of Warsaw
A scene from the film.
Directed byWiktor Biegański
Written byWiktor Biegański (based on his own stage play)
StarringOktawian Kaczanowski
Halina Labedzka
Maria Balcerkiewiczówna
Igo Sym
CinematographyFerdynand Vlassak
Antoni Wawrzyniak
Production
company
Merkurfilm
Release date
28 October 1925
Running time
36 minutes[1]
CountryPoland
LanguageSilent
Polish intertitles

Actor Igo Sym, who later shared billing in films with top name stars like Marlene Dietrich, became a Nazi informant in WWII and turned in a number of fellow Polish actors and theater owners who were aligned with the Resistance forces in Poland. In 1941, some Polish freedom fighters assassinated Sym, and the Nazis retaliated by executing 21 hostages and sending dozens of others to Auschwitz.[3]

Cast
  • Oktawian Kaczanowski as Pradowski
  • Halina Łabędzka as Urszula Pradowska
  • Maria Balcerkiewiczówna as Countess Tamarska
  • Igo Sym as Tadeusz Wyzewicz, lawyer
  • Lech Owron as Baron Kamiłow
  • Marian Kiernicki as Antoni, lokaj
  • Wiera Pogorzanka as Tonia
  • Katarzyna Dworkowska as Przelozona klasztoru
  • Piotr Hryniewicz as Prosecutor
  • K. Marczewski as Lichwiarz

References
  1. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p.294. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  2. Haltof p.14
  3. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 295. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.

Bibliography
  • Haltof, Marek. Polish National Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2002.
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