Poland, on the verge of total defeat, repulsed and defeated the Red Army.Īfter the Polish Kiev offensive, Soviet forces launched a successful counterattack in summer 1920, forcing the Polish army to retreat westward in disarray. The Battle of Warsaw ( Polish: Bitwa Warszawska Russian: Варшавская битва, Varshavskaya bitva), also known as the Miracle on the Vistula ( Polish: Cud nad Wisłą), was a series of battles that resulted in a decisive Polish victory in 1920 during the Polish–Soviet War. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Polish Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 1,388 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.View a machine-translated version of the Polish article.Martinelli is currently working on post-production, with cinematic distribution scheduled for October.Those countries not showing the film in cinemas will be able to screen the production in the format of a five-part television mini-series. Scenes for the production were shot at various Polish locations, including the historic residences of Wilanow, Baranow Sandomierski and Lancut. “In my opinion, I think that this film could change people’s perceptions of Poland, by showing that it had the best cavalry in the world and saved Europe,” Martinelli said in an interview with the Polish edition of Newsweek magazine. Murray Abraham, famed for playing Mozart’s nemesis Salieri in Milos Foreman’s Amadeus, plays the central role of Marco d’Aviano, a Capuchin friar who was an advisor at the court of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I in Vienna. The role of the Polish monarch was taken by director and occasional actor Jerzy Skolimowski (Essential Killing, dir.), who was joined by other Polish thespians including Piotr Adamczyk, Alicja Bachleda-Curus and Daniel Olbrychski.į. Some 10,000 extras and 3000 horses were used in Italian film-maker Renzo Martinelli’s epic about the Siege of Vienna, a turning-point in European history in which Polish King Jan III Sobieski helped repulse the Ottoman army from the gates of Vienna. King Jan Sobieski to conquer screens, The News, June 22, 2012Ī lavish international production portraying a Polish king’s historic victory at Vienna in 1683 will be shown in cinemas in 50 countries across the world, its director has revealed. The emphasis is on Polish pride and history, not the heroic smackdown of invasive Islam. This is the official trailer of the film.Īn English-language publication from Poland cleverly sidestepped the clash-of-civilizations angle by not mentioning that the defeat of the Ottoman army at Vienna prevented a Muslim takeover of Europe - as Charles Martel similarly saved western civilization at the Battle of Tours in 732. In Poland and beyond, there seems to be increasing interest in a new movie, Battle of Vienna, that will open in a few days about King Jan Sobieski’s successful defense of Vienna from the Ottomans in 1683.īelow, an image from the film showing the Polish king leading his cavalry, the winged hussars.
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