Diretores poloneses
by mcottoni-2 | created - 18 Apr 2015 | updated - 28 Apr 2015 | Public
1. Andrzej Wajda
Director | Katyn
Andrzej Wajda is an Academy Award-winning director. He is the most prominent filmmaker in Poland known for The Promised Land (1975), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyn (2007).
He was Born on March 6, 1926, in Suwalki, Poland. His mother, Aniela Wajda, was a teacher at a Ukrainian school. His father, ...
2. Roman Polanski
Director | Chinatown
Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.
His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years ...
Nascido na França
3. Jerzy Skolimowski
Actor | The Avengers
Born in Lódz, Poland, in 1938. Director, playwright, scriptwriter, and actor. Graduated in ethnology, literature and history from Warsaw University in 1959. Graduated from Lódz Film Academy in directing in 1962. Feature debut: _Identification Marks - None_ (Rysopis, 1964, scr., dir, act.), awarded ...
4. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer | Trois couleurs: Bleu
Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie podziemne (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personnel (...
5. Agnieszka Holland
Director | Pokot
Having graduated from FAMU in Prague film (1971), Agnieszka Holland returned to Poland and began her film career working with Krzysztof Zanussi as assistant director, and Andrzej Wajda as her mentor. Her first feature film was PROVINCIAL ACTORS (1978), one of the flagship pictures of the "cinema of...
6. Dorota Kedzierzawska
Director | Nic
Dorota Kedzierzawska was born on June 1, 1957 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland. She is a director and writer, known for Nothing (1998), Time to Die (2007) and Crows (1994).
7. Tadeusz Konwicki
Writer | Lawa. Opowiesc o 'Dziadach' Adama Mickiewicza
Tadeusz Konwicki was born on June 22, 1926 in Nowa Wilejka, Wilenskie, Poland [now Naujoji Vilnia, Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a writer and director, known for Lawa. Opowiesc o 'Dziadach' Adama Mickiewicza (1989), Dolina Issy (1982) and The Last Day of Summer (1958). He was married to Danuta ...
Nascido na Lituânia
8. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Director | Pociag
Jerzy Kawalerowicz was born on January 19, 1922 in Gwozdziec, Stanislawowskie, Poland [now Hvizdets, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Night Train (1959), Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) and Death of a President (1977). He was married to Lucyna Winnicka, Maria Güntner and ...
Nascido na Ucrânia
9. Wojciech Has
Director | Pozegnania
Born in Kraków, Poland, in 1925. Feature film director. Graduated in 1946 from Cracow Film Institute, also studied painting. From 1947 to 1957 made a number of documentary shorts and educational films. Feature film debut: _The Noose_ (Petla, 1958, co-scr.). Other films: _Farewells_ (Pozegnania, ...
10. Andrzej Zulawski
Writer | Possession
Born in Lvov, Ukraine; then he moved with his father Miroslaw Zulawski to Czechoslovakia and later to Poland. In the late 1950s, he studied cinema in France. In the 1960s, he was an assistant of the famous Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. His feature debut The Third Part of the Night (1971) was ...
11. Krzysztof Zanussi
Director | Struktura krysztalu
Born in 1939 in Warsaw, Poland. Documentary and feature film director. Studied physics at Warsaw University and philosophy at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Graduated from Lodz Film Academy in 1966. Amateur film maker. His school diploma film 'Death of a Provincial' (Smierc prowincjala (1968)) ...
12. Marek Koterski
Director | Dzien swira
Marek Koterski was born on June 3, 1942 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. He is a director and writer, known for Day of the Wacko (2002), 7 uczuc (2018) and Wszyscy jestesmy Chrystusami (2006). He is married to Malgorzata Bogdanska. He was previously married to Iwona Ciesielska.
13. Pawel Pawlikowski
Director | Zimna wojna
A literature and philosophy graduate, with extensive post-graduate work at Oxford on German literature, Polish-born Pawel Pawlikowski started as a documentary filmmaker in British television.
His second feature, Last Resort (2000), earned him international critical acclaim at numerous festivals, ...
14. Katarzyna Roslaniec
Director | Bejbi blues
Katarzyna Roslaniec was born on November 23, 1980 in Malbork, Pomorskie, Poland. Katarzyna is an assistant director and director, known for Baby Blues (2012), Satan Said Dance (2017) and Galerianki (2009).
15. Pawel Borowski
Director | Zero
Pawel Borowski graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Faculties of Painting and Animation Movies) summa cum laude in 1997. After graduation, he has had several individual exhibitions e.g. in the Centre for Contemporary Art and Zacheta National Gallery of Art. He also started making ...
16. Jan Jakub Kolski
Director | Wenecja
Jan Jakub Kolski was born on January 29, 1956 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. He is a director and writer, known for Venice (2010), Jancio Wodnik (1993) and To Kill a Beaver (2012).
17. Lech Majewski
Writer | Mlyn i krzyz
Lech Majewski was born on August 30, 1953 in Katowice, Slaskie, Poland. He is a writer and director, known for The Mill and the Cross (2011), Valley of the Gods (2019) and Wojaczek (1999).
18. Jan Komasa
Director | Sala samobójców
Jan Komasa was born on October 28, 1981 in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He is a director and writer, known for Suicide Room (2011), The Hater (2020) and Warsaw '44 (2014).
19. Wojciech Smarzowski
Writer | Dom zly
Wojciech Smarzowski is a famous Polish screenwriter and director. He studied filmmaking at the Jagiellonian University and the National Film School in Lódz. He started his film career as a video camera operator. He received Polish Academy Award for Best Director for 4 times (2004, 2009, 2011, 2017)....
20. Waldemar Krzystek
Director | Mala Moskwa
Waldemar Krzystek was born on November 23, 1953 in Swobnica, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland. He is a director and writer, known for Mala Moskwa (2008), The Photographer (2014) and 80 Millions (2011).
21. Malgorzata Szumowska
Director | W imie...
One of the most prominent Polish directors of today, Malgorzata Szumowska was born in Kraków in 1973. She's been directing, writing and producing feature and documentary films and has received numerous awards at international and Polish film festivals. After two noticed shorts, her first feature ...
22. Filip Marczewski
Director | Melodramat
Filip Marczewski was born on November 2, 1974 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland. He is a director and producer, known for Melodrama (2005), Shameless (2012) and Cyrano (2004).
23. Marcin Krzysztalowicz
Director | Oblawa
Marcin Krzysztalowicz was born on April 19, 1969 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. Marcin is a director and writer, known for Oblawa (2012), All About My Parents (2014) and Mister T. (2019).
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