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Poles 'ape-shit' over Chopin film
Poles 'ape-shit' over Chopin film
Tony Palmer snubbed by Polish daily in anti-semitism row
Thursday, 04 February 2010
According to award-winning film-maker Tony Palmer, the London Polish Daily newspaper has gone "ape-shit" over the re-release of his dramatised Chopin film, The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka, accusing it of maligning the good name of Chopin/Poland/The Polish Daily. They were planning to interview him tomorrow but cancelled, accusing him of "more or less anything you can think of", Palmer tells me.
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