DIRECTORS

Aleksander Ford

Film director, screenwriter. He was born on November 24, 1908 in Kiev, Ukraine and died on April 4, 1980 in Naples, Florida. While studying art history at the University of Warsaw, he became interested in cinema. Together with Wanda Jakubowska, Eugeniusz Cękalski, Jerzy...

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Wojciech Jerzy Has

Film director, screenwriter and teacher. He was born on April 1, 1925 in Kraków and died on October 3, 2000 in Łódź. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. After completing the Essential Filmmaking Course in Kraków (1946), he began working at the Warsaw Documentary...

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Jerzy Hoffman

Film, theatre and television director, screenwriter and producer. He was born on March 15, 1932 in Kraków. In 1940, he was deported to Siberia; he returned to Poland after the war. A graduate of the Directing Department of the Moscow VGIK (1955). As a director, he made his...

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Agnieszka Holland

Film director, stage and television writer, actress, translator. She was born on November 28, 1948 in Warsaw. She graduated from the Directing Department at FAMU in Prague (1971). Her diploma film was Grzech Boga/ Jesus Christ's Sin (1970), inspired by the prose of Isaac...

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Wanda Jakubowska

Film director, screenwriter. She was born on October 10, 1907 in Warsaw. She was a graduate of art history at the University of Warsaw. Before the war, she was making documentaries and reportages. In 1930, she was one of the founders of the Association of Art-House Film...

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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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