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6 unusual facts about Lech Majewski


Lech Majewski

Glass Lips (2007) (feature film version of the Blood of a Poet installation (2006))

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Produced between England and Brazil, a fictionalized story of Ronnie Biggs, mastermind of The Great Train Robbery of 1963.

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That was the initial role that Julian Schnabel had on Basquiat, before Majewski abandoned the project and Schnabel took it over.

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In 2006, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City hosted a complete (until then) retrospective of Majewski's work.

Prisoner of Rio

Prisoner of Rio is a 1988 drama film directed by Lech Majewski and starring Steven Berkoff, Paul Freeman and Peter Firth.

The Mill and the Cross

The Mill and the Cross is a 2011 drama film directed by Lech Majewski and starring Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling and Michael York.



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