DIRECTORS

Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki

Director, writer. He was born on June 23, 1933, in Lviv. Graduate of the University of Krakow (1958) and the Directing Department of the Film School in Łódź (diploma in 1964). At first, he made documentaries, using different styles (reportage, staged and classical...

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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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Krzysztof Zanussi

Director, writer, producer. He was born on June 17, 1939, in Warsaw. He studied physics at the University of Warsaw (1955-1959) and philosophy at Jagiellonian University (1959-1962).

In 1966, he graduated from the Directing Department of the State Film School in Łódź. At the...

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Janusz Zaorski

Film, theatre and television director, screenwriter, actor, producer. He was born on September 19,, 1947, in Warsaw. The son of Tadeusz Zaorski, deputy minister of culture and art in 1957-1970, the brother of actor Andrzej Zaorski. graduate of the Directing Department of the...

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Jerzy Zarzycki

Director, writer. He was born on January 11, 1911, in Łódź. He studied art history at the University of Warsaw and the violin at the Warsaw Conservatory. Graduate of the Directing Department at the Theatre Institute in Warsaw (1938).

In his twenties, he started making...

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Tomasz Zygadło

Director, writer. He was born on December 23, 1947, in Warsaw. He studied sociology at the University of Warsaw. Graduate of the Film School in Łódź (1970, diploma in 1976). One of his first films was Szkoła podstawowa/Elementary School (1971), awarded the Grand Prix at the...

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Edward Żebrowski

Real name: Edward Bernstein. Director, writer. He was born on July 26, 1935 in Warsaw. Graduate of the Directing Department at the Łódź Film School (1965). His student film Szkoła uczuć/School of Love (1965) won an award at the Student Film Festival in Warsaw. Initially, he...

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Andrzej Żuławski

Film director, screenwriter, actor, writer, and poet. He was born on November 22, 1940 in Lviv. After graduating from high school in France, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. Graduate of the Directing Department at the IDHEC in Paris (1965). After returning to Poland, he...

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