DIRECTORS

Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Film director. In the years 1945-1948, he studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts. At the same time, he attended the Essential Filmmaking Course. His started working on film sets as an assistant to Leonard Buczkowski and Wanda Jakubowska. He made his debut in 1951, with...

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Dorota Kędzierzawska

Film director, screenwriter, editor. She was born on June 1, 1957 in Łódź. In the years 1976-1978, she studied at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Łódź. Later, she studied at the Directing Department of Moscow VGIK, and then at the State School of Film, ...

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Krzysztof Kieślowski

Film, theatre and television director, writer and educator. Born on June 27 1941 in Warsaw, died on 13 March 1996 in Warsaw. In the years 1957-1962, he attended the High School for Theatre Technology, and then worked as a dresser at the Współczesny Theatre in Warsaw. He...

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Janusz Kijowski

Reżyser filmowy, teatralny, operowy i telewizyjny, scenarzysta, operator, aktor, pedagog, publicysta. Urodził się 14 grudnia 1948 roku w Szczecinie. Absolwent Wydziału Historycznego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (1972) i Wydziału Reżyserii Państwowej Wyższej Szkoły Filmowej...

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Henryk Kluba

Film, theatre and television director, writer, actor and teacher. He was born on January 9, 1931 in Przystajnia near Częstochowa and died on June 11, 2005, in Konin. He graduated from the Theatre School at the Adam Mickiewicz Theatre in Częstochowa (1951). He studied...

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Jan Jakub Kolski

Film, theatre and television director, screenwriter, cinematographer, educator, writer. He was born on January 29, 1956 in Wrocław. A graduate of the Cinematography Department of the State School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź (1985). In the years 1977-1981 he worked...

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Andrzej Kondratiuk

Film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, production designer, editor, composer, actor and producer. He was born on July 20, 1936, in Pinsk (now Belarus). A graduate of the Cinematography Department of the State School of Theatre and Film in Łódź (1963). In the years...

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Tadeusz Konwicki

Born June 22, 1926, in Nowa Wilejka. Writer, screenwriter and film director. In 1938, he enrolled in the Sigismund Augustus School in Vilnius, attending clandestine classes during the occupation. In 1945, he enrolled for Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He...

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Marek Koterski

Director, screenwriter, playwright. He was born on June 3, 1942, in Krakow. Graduate of Polish Studies at the University of Wrocław, where he also studied art history and participated in student theatre. As a postgraduate student at the Department of Theory of Literature, he...

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Antoni Krauze

Film and documentary director. He was born on January 4, 1940, in Warsaw. He studied painting at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and was also associated with the Student Satirical Theatre STS (1958-1961), where he performed as an actor. A graduate of the Directing Department...

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Krzysztof Krauze

Film director, screenwriter, cinematographer. He was born on April 2, 1953, in Warsaw. A graduate of the Cinematography Department of the State Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź (1976, diploma in 1978). After graduation, he became involved with the Łódź...

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Mieczysław Krawicz

Film director, screenwriter, set designer, production manager. He was born on January 1, 1893, in Warsaw, died in September 1944 in Warsaw. A graduate of the Higher School of Business. He became involved in the film industry in 1912 as an assistant to Aleksander Hertz –...

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Grzegorz Królikiewicz

Film, theatre and television director, writer, designer, editor, producer, theorist and educator. He was born on June 5, 1939, in Aleksandrów Kujawski. A graduate of law at the University of Łódź (1962) and the Directing Department of the State School of Theatre and Film in...

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Kazimierz Kutz

Film, theatre and television director, writer, journalist and educator. He was born on February 16, 1929, in Szopienice. A graduate of the State Film School in Łódź (1955). After the first year, he started working as an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Literature under...

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