POLISH FILM ACADEMY

Janusz Nasfeter

Film director, screenwriter, teacher and writer. Born on August 15, 1920, in Warsaw, died on April 1, 1998, in Warsaw. A graduate of the Directing Department of the State Film School in Łódź (1950, diploma in 1951). In the years 1950-1956, he worked at the Łódź Educational...

Ryszard Ordyński

Real name: Dawid Blumenfeld. Director, screenwriter, actor, theatre critic. He was born on October 5, 1878, in Maków Podhalański. Student of the Faculty of Philosophy of Jagiellonian University, where he graduated from in 1901. Initially, he worked as a teacher. He was...

Władysław Pasikowski

Film director, screenwriter. He was born June 14, 1959, in Łódź. Graduate of Cultural Studies at the University of Łódź and Directing Department of the State School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź (1988).

He made his debut in 1991 with Kroll (award in Gdynia), a...

Czesław Petelski

Film director, screenwriter. He was born on November 5, 1922, in Białystok, died on September 19, 1996, in Warsaw. At first, he studied at the State Institute of Theatrical Arts in Warsaw, then moved to the Department of Directing at the State Film School in Łódź, where he...

Radosław Piowowarski

Director, writer. He was born on February 20, 1948, in Olszówka Dolna (now a district of Bielsko-Biała). A graduate of the Film School in Łódź (1971). After graduation, he made a series of documentaries (including Chruśniak 1972 Stójka/Flaps (1975, award at the festival in...

Marek Piwowski

Film, theatre and television director, screenwriter and actor. Born on October 24, 1935, in Warsaw. A graduate of journalism at the University of Warsaw (1963) and the Directing Department of the State School of Theatre and Film in Łódź (1967). In the mid-1960s, he worked for...

Roman Polański

Film and theatre director, screenwriter, actor, producer. He was born on August 18, 1933, in Paris. When he was four years old, his family moved to Krakow. He spent most of the war in Wysoka near Wadowice, where he was hiding under the name of Roman Wilk. His artistic career...

Stanisław Różewicz

Director, writer. He was born on August 16, 1924, in Radomsko. He started in 1947 as an assistant to director Jerzy Zarzycki. In the same year, together with Wojciech Has, he made Ulica Brzozowa/The Birch Street – a film about the reconstruction of Warsaw after the war, which...

Jan Rybkowski

Director, screenwriter, set designer. He was born on April 4, 1912, in Ostrowiec. He graduated from the Department of Interior Design at the School of Decorative Arts in Poznan in 1930, in 1939 from the Department of Set Design at the Faculty of Directing Arts in Warsaw, and...

Wiesław Saniewski

Director, writer. He was born on October 29, 1948, in Wrocław. Graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry of the University of Wrocław, where he received a diploma in 1971 with a degree in mathematics. He studied at the Łódź Film School (graduated in...

Barbara Sass

Director, screenwriter. She was born on October 14, 1936, in Łódź. She studied in her hometown at the Directing Department of the State Film School (1958, diploma in 1975). For several years, she worked as an assistant to renowned directors, including Wojciech Has (Pamiętnik...

Jerzy Skolimowski

Film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, painter, poet. He was born on May 5, 1938, in Łódź. Graduate of ethnography at Warsaw University (1959) and the Directing Department of the State School of Theatre and Film in Łódź (1963). As a poet, he made his debut in 1957 in...

Jerzy Stuhr

Actor, director and screenwriter. He was born on April 18, 1947, in Krakow. Graduate of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University (1970) and the Acting Department of the Krakow Drama School (graduated 1972). For many years, he was associated with the Stary Theatre in Krakow...

Henryk Szaro

Real name – Henryk Szapiro. director, writer, artist of the pre-war cinema. Born in 1900 in Warsaw. He studied at the Institute of Engineers of Communication (communication engineering degree) in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), and the local school at the National Theatre. He...

Piotr Szulkin

Film, theatre and television director, writer, designer, actor, teacher, writer. He was born on April 26, 1950, in Gdansk. A graduate of the Directing Department of the State School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź (1975). After graduation, he made several extremely...