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The Drama of the St. Mary's Church Tower (1913)

The Drama of the St. Mary's Church Tower poster
Directed by
Wiktor Biegański
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Poland
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How it feels

This silent Polish drama follows characters in Kraków and Lviv. It was a director's first film and may never have been widely shown. Only pieces of the movie still exist.

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What happens

The Drama of the St. Mary's Church Tower (Polish: Dramat Wieży Mariackiej) is a 1913 Polish silent drama film directed by Wiktor Biegański and starring Włodzimierz Kosiński, Helena Górska and Władysław Puchalski. The film was Bieganski's debut as a director. It was filmed in Lviv and Kraków, then part of Austria-Hungary. It is likely that the film and Bieganski's next production, The Adventures of Anton, were never put on general release. Elements of the film still survive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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