DIRECTORS

Jan Laskowski

Cinematographer, director and screenwriter. He was born on February 10, 1928, in Piotrowice in the Vilnius region. A graduate of the Department of Cinematography at the Łódź Film School (1955). He started as a cameraman on films such as Człowiek na torze/Man on the Tracks...

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Józef Lejtes

Film director, screenwriter. He was born on November 22, 1901, in Warsaw, died on May 27, 1983, in Los Angeles. During the Polish-Bolshevik War, he volunteered for the army. Having received his music education, he enrolled at Jagiellonian University in 1920 to study...

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Stanisław Lenartowicz

Director and screenwriter. He was born on February 7, 1921, in Dzianowo in the Vilnius region. During the war, he was a soldier of the Home Army, then a prisoner of the Kaluga camp in Russia. Following repatriation in 1946, he settled in Wrocław. He graduated from the Faculty...

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Witold Leszczyński

Director, screenwriter, cinematographer. He was born August 16, 1933, in Łódź. A graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology (1955), followed by the Department of Cinematography (diploma in 1959) and the Directing Department (1962, diploma in 1967) of the Film School in...

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