Nina Niovilla

Antonina Elżbieta Petrykiewicz (born 1874, died 1966), better known as Nina Niovilla, was a Polish film director, screenwriter, actress, translator and a teacher.

[2][4] She debuted in 1918 in Berlin, where she directed the movie Die Heiratsannonce, under a pseudonym Nina von Petry.

[2] With its use of the Battle of Lemberg as the background of the plot, Tamara had a patriotic theme, which was a popular motif in Polish filmmaking at the time.

[1][2] Her second Polish film was the melodrama Czaty – an adaptation of a ballad by Adam Mickiewicz[2] about a jealous husband, which premiered on 20 November 1920.

[2][7] In 1926 the press informed that Niovilla was set to direct the film W szponach szakali based on a script by Kazimierz Krzyżanowski.

[11] At the end of the 1920s she appeared in films and theatre plays directed by Danny Kaden (Niebezpieczny pocałunek), Edward Puchalski (Ludzie dzisiejsi), as well as Adam Augustynowicz and Ryszard Biske (9.25.

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