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The article analyzes the cinematographic adaptation of Polish writer Janusz Wiśniewski’s the most popular novel “Loneliness On The Net”. The director of the interpretation is W. Adamek, the screenwriter is Wiśniewski. Despite this, the film received ambiguous reviews among the audience. The cinematic version of “Loneliness On The Net” is characterized by a fairly free interpretation of the novel’s plot. Although the main theme (loneliness) and heroes are preserved, the final is changed and some accents are shifted in the film. At the same time the director uses rather interesting and unusual techniques for transferring certain details from the language of literature to the language of cinema.
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The article discusses several screen adaptations of the drama Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds  by Szymon An-ski. Written on the basis of an old Jewish legend, An-ski’s play has provided inspiration for many movies. The four analysed works represent different cultural traditions and film genres and come from different decades of the cinema history. Diverse as they are, these four works emphasize different issues. They are: Dybbuk by M. Waszyński – the best Polish movie in Yiddish exploring the Jewish folklore; A Serious Man  by the Coen brothers, with a ‘dybbuk’ prologue that redefines their art towards the Judaic tradition, as well as two other works that are strongly characteristic of the film genres that they represent: The Possession  by O. Bornedal, using the poetics of religious horror, and the Polish thriller The Demon  by M. Wrona, drawing from the tradition of the national drama as defined by Wesele  [The Wedding ] by S. Wyspiański and its screen adaptations and travestations.
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Agatha Christie (1890–1976), less known as lady Mallowan, an outstanding author, mainly of detective novels, published “Murder in Orient Express” in 1933/34. From the very beginning, the book was considered a masterpiece of this genre. The reason for that is not only brilliantly constructed plot with astonishing culminating point, but also the fact that the author of the book referred to an authentic event which evoked great emotions. The event that inspired this novel was kidnapping and murder of the little son of a known and admired American pioneer of intercontinental flights, Charles August Lindbergh, that happened in 1932. The novel was translated into almost all languages. There were also numerous stage adaptations. At least four films were based on this novel which indicates the cultural significance of the work. The subject of the considerations in the present paper is an attempt to search for the answer about the role of the so-called observer in the process of reconstruction, retransmission and assimilation of thematic threads, which can become the reference point not only for the author of the literary work. They may become an element of collective memory and, in this way, the element of culture constituting narration. However, as an object of general knowledge, they are at the same time subjected to common interpretation. The Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, referred to in its basic range in quantum mechanics, indicates the significant role of the subject observing in this process. Heisenberg proved that the presence of an observer is not neutral from the point of view of the quality of the results. Referring to these considerations on the text as a cultural object, let us analyse the ways in which the theme was modified and the significance of these changes. We consider Agatha Christie’s novel and especially its screen adaptations an interesting object of research. The observer, as it turns out, is beside the researcher also the author of the literary text, screenwriter, translator…
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