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Church of St. Marcin, Sosnowka And how did Hickbotham come from the world of the great film to Sosnówka , after all, a small holiday resort in the Karkonosze Mountains? While filming Proof of Life in Poland , he met Aneta Cebula, who works at Lew Rywin's Heritage Films agency. They became a couple and decided to start a life together in Poland. They looked at several dozen houses, and their choice fell on Sosnówka. In 2002, they bought the completely dilapidated Sonenland villa, designed by Wilhelm Kiehnel at the beginning of the 20th century.
Before the war, the Auras sisters ran a slimming treatments. The couple began to renovate the villa, wanting to restore it to its former glory. Some of the work Ian did himself, reconstructing stone and wood elements. However, this story, although it sounds like a movie, unfortunately photo editor does not have a happy ending ... They did not live happily ever after, as Ian Hickinbotham died of cancer at the age of only 53. He was buried in Sosnówka, in the old cemetery at the Church of St. Martin . Instead of flowers for his grave, the family requested donations for the renovation of the 18th-century altar of St.

Anna Samotrzecia, a class 0 monument that decorates this cemetery church. Steven Spielberg also joined the donors, wanting to honor the memory of a longtime collaborator. The altar was renovated and thanks to this, Ian Hickinbotham will forever be remembered by the inhabitants of Sosnówka. Villas, mansions and palaces in Sosnówka Beautiful mountain views and the construction of a new road connecting Sosnówka with Karpacz made tourism develop in this area. At the very beginning of the 20th century, new villas began to be built in this area.
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