Art & Culture
January 21, 2021 The new documentary reconstructs Halik’s remarkable and unique life story over half a decade using archival materials, including hitherto unpublished films shot by Halik from his multitude of journeys around the globe. Janusz Uklejewski/PAP
The life and work of Tony Halik, a charismatic Polish adventurer and filmmaker who reached some of the most distant corners of the globe and shot with Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Nixon and Fidel Castro amongst others, is being remembered with an online screening of a documentary about his life.
Halik, who was born Mieczysław Sędzimir Antoni Halik in 1921 in Toruń was known for his indefatigable passion for travelling, his imagination and sense of humour and was a colourful public personality, known to many Poles for over 300 popular travel programmes which ran from the late 1970s on Polish televis