Poland in photo riddles - part 2

Well, I've never thought about it as my "fav" street, it's simply the main promenade in the city that everyone here knows - you can't live in Kielce and not know it. I do like it though, so maybe you're right.

@jon357, I'm not entirely sure what it's all about with that "headword", so let's leave it at that, or the mods will probably get angry with us for this off-topic linguistic-artistic stuff :P ;)

Yes, Stanisław Wyspiański, primarily a playwright. He designed that furniture for his friend`s, Boy Zeleński, living room. Once I read those chairs were extremely uncomfortable but the family feared disposing of them to avoid Wyspiański`s wrath.

What can you say about this furniture in the background? And the people?

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An intriguing person.

I have/have had (a few very elderly, now mostly dead) friends who knew him. His acquaintance Korczak too. (I'm boasting a bit here)

His writings deserve better attention and they are worth reading/

Yes, he was an ardent advocate of dealing with the discrimination of women in pre-war Poland.

Yes, he wasn't experienced with designing furniture for normal everyday use (he had more experience with designing scenography for theater plays), so he cared more about the aesthetic side rather than comfort.


I'm afraid all I can say is that the furniture is from PRL times... That radio looks like it could be from the 60's, I guess...


They're actors :)

What exactly?


Who exactly?

Look ! a hardwired telephone.

The man is Daniel Olbrychski. I don't know the woman.

Meblościanka (wall unit)?


As Alien already wrote the actor is Daniel Olbrychski. I recognised the actress, but I didn't know what her name was. However, I googled "historia meblościanki" (the history of wall unit) and this article came up:

morizon.pl/blog/historia-mebloscianki/

So, the actress is Elżbieta Czyżewska and that scene is from a musical comedy "Małżeństwo z rozsądku" (Marriage of Convenience) from 1966/67 directed by Stanisław Bareja:



Nice song :) (Btw, my parents still have such "crystals" lol - they belonged to my grandparents :))

I remember an amusing aphorism of his on one of his male friends:
Dostał takiej dziwnej manii, że chciał tylko od Stefanii.

Yes, the dream furniture unit of millions of Poles in 1960s and 1970s. We still use a unit which my parents bought in 1983 - amazing.


Yes, that song is very funny. The film is a bit less, though.

Even till mid 80s.I remember a friend of my wife who came to the US boasting that her father bought her a flat for 10K USD and that furniture in Mielno.I see that kind of furniture almost in every flat in small cities in Poland still.

Yes, now on second thoughts I admit it.


Coz it is very practical.

Maybe those days,not now with them smart TVs,no DVD & CD players.Most were decorated with prized items to show off.I wonder if its called "wall unit".They made the already small flat look smaller taking so much space,they are also popular in eastern Europe.Not much popular in Poland but Eastern countries was/is hanging carpets on the wall.I would laugh at that but realized its a norm in this part of the world.

But they can perfectly fit their modern gadgets into old communist units!

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I've seen that a few times here.


Yes, and some of them are giant and take up a whole room.

Brown paint, brown furniture, brown curtains and brown carpets are still on sale here, and some still like them.

Plus light fittings that are hanging loose instead of being flush to the ceiling, even new ones. I've never figured that out. Perhaps people like the 'broken' look.

For example me. Brown is the most natural colour for furniture coz it imitates wood even if the unit is made of chipboard. White furniture is crazy to me. But I can be too conservative like most Poles.... :):)

It's more the upholstery and paint in three shades of brown, with beige and taupe highlights.

Mebloscianka takes a lot of space, true, but it can hold shi*loads...

Anybody with furniture riddles?
If not, here `s another one. This poster advertised the anniversary of what event?

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A certain battle.

Not during WWII.

One with a large street named after it...

Yes, the Battle of Warsaw 1920 against bolsheviks.

Yes. A fascinating war to read about, one that divided families.


Or even against capitalism and nationalism, depending on which side of the barricades somebody was.

yes. Who and what?

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The actor on the left looks like Krzysztof Kowalewski to me. I don't recognise the woman... I guess they might be singing or giving voices to some characters... It could be for the radio since Kowalewski was also a radio actor.

yes, you can see him in his greatest radio role. Which one?

Judging by what I've read in a Wikipedia article about him I'm guessing it must be the role of Mr. Sułek in "Kocham pana, panie Sułku"(I love you, Mr. Sułek)... If that's the case then the actress in the photo is Marta Lipińska.

Yes!

Elisa: I love you, Mr Sułek!
Mr Sułek: Silence!

hahaha

The comical effect in this radio series was achieved by featuring a naive woman infatuated with a complete azhole and moron.

lol

OK, another cultural riddle then :):

This mural was painted not in Poland, but abroad and not by a Polish artist, but by an Ukrainian. However, it was created this year to celebrate a famous Polish writer. Which one?

And another part of the riddle: there are some elements/references included by the artist in the mural. Three of them are connected to that Polish writer. Can you find them and say what those references are about?

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I didn't recognize the younger picture but I recognized her as Michałowa from Ranczo in the video clip....