Polish cinema developed rapidly in the interwar period . The most renowned star of the silent film era was Polish actress Pola Negri . During this time , the Yiddish cinema also evolved in Poland . Films in the Yiddish language with Jewish themes , such as '' The Dybbuk '' ( 1937 ) , played an important part in pre-war Polish cinematography . In 1945 the government established ' Film Polski ' , a state-run film production and distribution organization , with director Aleksander Ford as the head of the company . Ford 's '' Knights of the Teutonic Order '' ( 1960 ) was viewed by millions of people in the Soviet Union , Czechoslovakia and France . This success was followed by the popular historical films of Jerzy Hoffman and Andrzej Wajda . Wajda 's 1975 film '' The Promised Land '' was nominated at the 48th Academy Awards
48th Academy Awards
48th Academy Awards
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