DIRECTORS

Andrzej Wajda

One of the best-known and most honoured Polish film directors, co-founder of the Polish Film School; also a prominent theatre director, writer and set designer. He was born in Suwałki in 1926. He spent the war in Radom, where he attended clandestine classes and briefly...

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Michał Waszyński

Director and film producer. He was born on September 29, 1904, in Kovel in Volyn and died on February 20, 1965, in Madrid. He came from a Hasidic family, his real name was Mosze Waks. In 1920, he performed in the Kiev Arlekin theatre and then attended acting course at the...

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Leszek Wosiewicz

Film, theatre and television director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, producer and educator. He was born on November 1, 1947, in Radomyśl Wielki. He studied at the Technical University in Gliwice. Graduate of psychology at Jagiellonian University in Krakow (1975) and...

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