DIRECTORS

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...

More

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 –...

More

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...

More

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...

More

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...

More

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...

More

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...

More

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...

More

Magdalena Łazarkiewicz

Film and theatre director, screenwriter. She was born June 6, 1954, in Warsaw. An alumna of Cultural Studies at the University of Wroclaw (specialising in theatre studies), from which she graduated in 1976, and Directing Department at the Faculty of Radio and Television of...

More

Juliusz Machulski

Film, theatre and television director, screenwriter, actor, producer, writer. He was born on March 10, 1955, in Olsztyn. In the years 1973-1974, he studied Polish at the University of Warsaw. A graduate of the Directing Department of the State School of Film, Television and...

More

Janusz Majewski

Film, theatre and television director, writer, designer, actor, writer, teacher. He was born August 5, 1931, in Lviv. Graduate of architecture at the Technical University of Krakow (1955) and the Directing Department of the State School of Theatre and Film in Łódź (1960, ...

More

Lech Majewski

Film, theatre, opera and television director, screenwriter, cinematographer, composer, designer, producer, poet, writer, painter, sculptor, poster designer, photographer. He was born on August 30, 1953, in Katowice. He studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. A graduate of...

More

Wojciech Marczewski

Film, theatre and television director, writer and educator. He was born February 28, 1944, in Łódź. A graduate of the Directing Department of the State Film School in Łódź (1969, diploma in 1998). In the years 1964-1968, he worked as an assistant at the Studio of Small Film...

More

Janusz Morgenstern

Film, theatre and television director, screenwriter, producer and educator. He was born on November 16, 1922, in Mikulińce near Ternopil, died on September 6, 2011, in Warsaw. A graduate of the Directing Department of the State Film School in Łódź (1954, diploma in 1969). In...

More

Andrzej Munk

Director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was born on October 16, 1921, in Krakow. In June 1939, he graduated from Krakow’s 8th National Secondary School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. During the September campaign, he fought in Silesia. In March 1940, he moved to...

More

Recommended video

  • Polish Cinema 1919-1929, prof. Tadeusz Lubelski
  • Polish Cinema 1955-1961, prof. Tadeusz Lubelski
  • Polish Cinema 1962-1969, prof. Tadeusz Lubelski
YouTube channel