Knights of the Teutonic Order (Polish: Krzyżacy) is a 1960

1960 in film

The year 1960 in film involved some significant events, with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho the top-grossing release in the U.S.-Events:* April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I...

 Polish film

Cinema of Poland

The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as history of cinematography, and it has universal achievements, even though Polish movies tend to be less commercially available than movies from several other European nations....

 directed by Aleksander Ford

Aleksander Ford

Aleksander Ford born Mosze Lifszyc was a Polish film director; and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union. Ford became director of the nationalized "Film Polski" company at the end of World War II...

 based on the novel of the same name by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. A Polish szlachcic of the Oszyk coat of arms, he was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his...

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The plot is situated in the late-14th century and early-15th century Poland and centers around the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War and the final Battle of Grunwald

Battle of Grunwald

The Battle of Grunwald or 1st Battle of Tannenberg was fought on 15 July 1410, during the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War. The alliance of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led respectively by King Jogaila and Grand Duke Vytautas , decisively defeated the Teutonic Knights, led...

. The film attracted to cinema masses of viewers and remains one of the most attended films in Polish history. It was a Polish submission to the 33rd Academy Awards

33rd Academy Awards

The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960, were held on April 17, 1961 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California...

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It was released on 15 July 1960 on the 550th anniversary of the battle of Grunwald.

Cast

• Grażyna Staniszewska – Danusia Jurandówna
• Urszula Modrzyńska
  Urszula Modrzynska
  Urszula Modrzyńska was a Polish stage and film actress.Modrzyńska began her career on stage in 1949 in Wilam Horzyca Theater in Toruń. In the 1950s and 1960 she played several memorable parts in movies by Polish directors, namely by Andrzej Wajda ) and Aleksander Ford .In the 1970s she played only...
  
   – Jagienka ze Zgorzelic
• Mieczysław Kalenik – Zbyszko z Bogdańca
• Aleksander Fogiel – Maćko z Bogdańca
• Andrzej Szalawski – Jurand ze Spychowa
• Leon Niemczyk
  Leon Niemczyk
  Leon Stanisław Niemczyk was a Polish actor.Niemczyk appeared in over 500 films and television shows over the course of his very long career...
  
   – Fulko de Lorche
• Henryk Borowski
  Henryk Borowski
  Henryk Borowski was a Polish theater, radio and film actor.- Filmography :* 1954: Domek z kart – as editor* 1959: Kamienne niebo – as professor* 1960: Krzyżacy – as Zygfryd de Löwe...
  
   – Zygfryd de Löwe
• Mieczysław Voit – Kuno von Lichtenstein
• Tadeusz Białoszczyński – Duke Janusz I of Warsaw
• Stanisław Jasiukiewicz – Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Ulrich von Jungingen
  Ulrich von Jungingen
  Ulrich von Jungingen was the 26th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1407 to 1410. His policy of confrontation with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland sparked the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War and led to disaster for the Order in the Battle of Grunwald.- Life...
  
  
• Emil Karewicz
  Emil Karewicz
  Emil Karewicz is a Polish television and cinema actor.-External links:...
  
   – King Władysław Jagiełło
• Józef Kostecki – Lithuanian duke Witold
  Vytautas the Great
  Vytautas ; styled "the Great" from the 15th century onwards; c. 1350 October 27, 1430) was one of the most famous rulers of medieval Lithuania. Vytautas was the ruler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania which chiefly encompassed the Lithuanians and Ruthenians...
  
  
• Janusz Strachocki – Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Konrad von Jungingen
  Konrad von Jungingen
  Konrad von Jungingen was the 25th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1393 to 1407...
  
  
• Lucyna Winnicka
  Lucyna Winnicka
  Lucyna Winnicka is a Polish actress. She appeared in 21 films between 1954 and 1978. She played the lead role in the film Mother Joan of the Angels, which won the Special Jury Prize at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival....
  
   – Duchess Anna Danuta
  Danute of Lithuania
  Danutė of Lithuania was a Lithuanian princess, daughter of Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania. She was married to Janusz I of Warsaw, one of the dukes of Masovia. Very little reliable information is known about her life.The date of her marriage is confused in many sources...
  
  , wife of Janusz I of Warsaw
• Cezary Julski – Zawisza Czarny
• Jerzy Kozakiewicz – Cztan z Rogowa
• Janusz Paluszkiewicz – royal marshall

External links

• Krzyżacy at FilmPolski.pl