en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pola_Negri
2 corrections found
Aleksander Hertz
This filmography entry lists the wrong director. Standard Polish film references identify Jan Pawłowski, not Aleksander Hertz, as the director of *Niewolnica zmysłów* (*Slave of the Senses*).
Full reasoning
The article’s filmography row for "Slave of the Senses" gives Aleksander Hertz as director, but major Polish film reference works list Jan Pawłowski as the director.
- FilmPolski.pl, the Polish national film database, lists "Reżyseria: Jan Pawłowski" for Niewolnica zmysłów.
- The 100 Years of Polish Cinema project likewise identifies Niewolnica zmysłów (1914) as directed by Jan Pawłowski.
Hertz was the founder/owner of the Sfinks studio and an important producer in Negri’s early career, which may explain the mix-up, but the directing credit in this row is incorrect.
2 sources
- FilmPolski.pl - NIEWOLNICA ZMYSŁÓW
Reżyseria Jan Pawłowski ... Produkcja Sfinks.
- Niewolnica zmysłów | 100 lat polskiego filmu
Niewolnica zmysłów ... reżyser Jan Pawłowski ... 1914.
where she began appearing in silent films for the Berlin-based UFA studio.
This skips over Negri’s actual first German studio. Her early Berlin film work began with Saturn-Film; UFA came afterward.
Full reasoning
Negri did work for UFA in Germany, but the sentence is inaccurate about where her German screen career began.
- The Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé states that when Negri left Warsaw for Berlin in 1917, she was "invitée par le studio Saturn-Film" (invited by the Saturn-Film studio).
- FilmPolski.pl likewise says that in 1917 she began working with German studios including Saturn-Film and UFA, explicitly naming Saturn-Film first and listing UFA titles from 1918 onward.
So her move to Germany did not begin with UFA alone; her first German film work was with Saturn-Film, and only later did she appear in UFA productions.
2 sources
- Pola Negri - Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé
Pola Negri quitte Varsovie pour Berlin en 1917, invitée par le studio Saturn-Film.
- FilmPolski.pl - Pola Negri
W 1917 r. rozpoczęła także współpracę z niemieckimi wytwórniami filmowymi, m. in. z Saturn-Film ... i UFA ...