Toruń – city of film

One of the oldest in Poland, a gothic pearl, enscribed on UNESCO World Relics List. A town, in which people who moved the Earth from its basics were born: Nicolaus Copernicus – astronomer who discovered that Earth revolves round the Sun; Thomas Soemmering – a scientist who built the predecessor of SMS, the first telegraph in the world; Fryderyk Skarbek – economist and artist who discovered that the skeletons of woman and man differ; Samuel Bogumił Linde – a man who wrote the first dictionary of Polish language, or Bogusław Linda – actor, who revolutionized Polish cinema, becoming the first tough guy of our screens.

Indeed – the film! We have huge film traditions, for In Toruń there were made the films by Oscar-nominee Jerzy Hoffman (The Law and the Fist) or European cinema star Andrzej Seweryn (Who Never Lived). Also here, numerous Polish films and TV-series were made – among them, the first scenes of cult Polish film The Cruise/Rejs by Marek Piwowski.

Well-known Polish actors come from here – already mentioned Bogusław Linda, the Dame of Polish screen Grażyna Szapołowska, or the popular television and theatre actress Małgorzata Kożuchowska. And – of course – TOFIFEST was born here.