On Friday, Hollywood blockbuster Salt starring Angelina Jolie and featuring Polish actors playing Russians, will be released in Poland.
The film stars Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer accused of being a Russian spy.
Polish actor Daniel Olbrychski appears in one of the leading roles in Salt, playing a Russian agent who warns the CIA that the President of Russia will be assassinated during his forthcoming visit to New York by Evelyn Salt, played by Jolie, who has to prove that she is not a mole or a double agent.
“There are three important male roles in the film, I play one of them, that of a Russian spy, a patriot, former USSR hero who still misses the Soviet Union,” says Olbrychski.
Olbrychski, who has appeared in over one hundred films, including major roles in features by Wajda, Lelouch, Michalkov and Schlondorff, is not the only Polish “twist” in the film.
Salt’s director Philip Noyce, whose filmography includes Sliver, The Saint, Clear and Present Danger and The Bone Collector, was a student of Prof. Jerzy Toeplitz, co-founder of the Polish Film School Lodz, which educated Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Munk and Roman Polanski.
Later, Toeplitz immigrated to Australia where he set up the Film and TV School.
One of his students was Philip Noyce. “Noyce knew Adndrzej Wajda’s films well so I was not an anonymous person for him. When he needed an actor to play a Russian spy, he contacted me. Besides, I was recommended by Russian director Andrey Konchalovskiy who is my friend and who directed Runaway Train with John Voight, Angelina Jolie’s father,” said Olbrychski.
Another Polish-born actor Olek Krupa, who made appearances in Behind Enemy Lines, Burn After Reading also stars in Salt as Russian President Matveyev. (mg)
Source: PAP
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