Spis treści: Foreword ( Jarosław Wenta) / 7 Siegrid Schmidt The Middle Ages in film and on television / 9 Waldemar Chorążyczewski The historical film as a discourse about the past / 29 Bogdan Hojdis The Middle Ages as a theme in Polish fictional films / 39 Teodora Artimon ‘Face-lifting’ national myths through historical film. Stephen the Great as a Romanian case study / 59 Adam Bednarczyk Elegant courtiers and brave warriors: between passion, devotion and passing. Japanese Middle Ages on the silver screen / 73 Mariusz Guzek The Medieval Ages on television. The unification of Polish lands of 1308–1331 in the film ideology of the Polish People’s Republic / 95 Iwona Kolasińska-Pasterczyk The Benedictine abbey as the centre of medieval universe. The mystery of struggle against the world, body and Satan in The Name of the Rose (1986) by Jean-Jacques Annaud / 107 Sylwia Kołos Kenneth Branagh vs Laurence Olivier. Two interpretations of the Middle Ages in film adaptations of Henry V by William Shakespeare / 123 Jarosław Nikodem ‘One thought, one faith, one hand’ – Gniazdo by Jan Rybkowski in the eyes of a medievalist / 135 Martyna Olszowska Postmodern manly melange. The knight figure in contemporary cinema. A Knight’s Tale, Kingdom of Heaven and Arn – The Knight Templar / 147