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| | Berlin Film Festival 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | After 30 years Polish director Jerzy Hoffman is about to complete his trilogy based on the work of Nobel Laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz, shooting Ogniem i mieczem (With Fire and Sword), on a $8 million budget - 15 times the costs of an average Polish feature. |
 | | Filming the first part in 1968, Hoffman continued with Potop (The Deluge), which still holds the all-time Polish box-office record with 25 million admissions, before winning an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Feature. |
 | | Hoffman and producer Jerzy R Michaluk have set up the film as a Zodiak Jerzy Hoffman production, in collaboration with, among others, Polish TV, Kredyt Bank, Okocim Breweries and Universal SA. |
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