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Lost Polish film discovered

A substantial chunk of a long-believed-lost Polish silent film from 1913 about the 1794 uprising against Prussia and Russia (a short-lived victory for the Poles before their country vanished as an independent nation between 1795 and 1918) has turned up in a flat in Kraków.

Thenews.pl has the full story – and it looks like being the most important Polish historical film discovery since Małgorzata Hendrykowska and Marek Hendrykowski turned up a copy of the oldest surviving Polish film, Prussian Culture (Pruszka kultura, 1908), in a French archive – it’s now on YouTube.

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