Boleslaw Prus

Boleslaw Prus was born on Aug 20, 1847 in Poland]. Boleslaw Prus's big-screen debut came with Pharaoh directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz in 1966. Boleslaw Prus is known for Pharaoh directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Zelnik stars as Ramses XIII and Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz as Nikotris - Ramses XII's Wife. The upcoming new movie Boleslaw Prus plays is Pensja pani Latter which will be released on Sep 05, 1983.

Boleslaw Prus (real name Aleksander Glowacki), 1847-1912, writer and journalist; played critical role in modernizing the Polish novel; co-creator of Polish Realism; humoresques, novellas, short stories: Klopoty babuni (Grandmother's Troubles, 1874), Powracajaca fala (The Returning Wave, 1880), Antek (1881), Kamizelka (The Vest, 1882), novelistic sketches incl. Anielka (1880), the touching tale of a child and poor people wronged by fate or social conditions; novels with a permanent place in Polish literature: Placowka (The Outpost, 1886), the first naturalistic novel, a depiction of agrarian colonization; Lalka (The Doll, 1890), epic panorama of Warsaw life 1878-79; socially engaged Emancypantki (The Emancipationists, 1894); historical-political portrayal of ancient Egypt in Faraon (Pharoah, 1897); wealth of journalism in the Warsaw press: Kroniki (Weekly Chronicles, 1953-70).