Krzysztof Zanussi
Krzysztof Zanussi | |
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 Krzysztof Zanussi in 2010 | |
| Born | July 17, 1939 |
| Education | Warsaw University |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer and director |
Krzysztof Zanussi, (born 17 July 1939 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish producer and film director.
He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop.[1] He is also a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice.
Biography
Zanussi studied physics at Warsaw University (Uniwersytet Warszawski) and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński) in Kraków. He is the director of the Polish Film Studio TOR and has received several prizes and awards, including the David di Donatello Prize of the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, the Cavalier's Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order, and the Cavalier de L'Ordre des Sciences et Lettres.
Krzysztof Zanussi has written On editing an amateur film (1968), Discourse on an amateur film (1978) and the memoirs, memoirs Time to Die (1999). He appeared as himself in Camera Buff (1979), a film about an amateur film maker, directed by his friend Krzysztof Kieślowski.
He is currently planning on directing an international production about the life and contributions of St. Hedwig of Poland, as well as a Polish-Ukrainian comedy.
According to the records of Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) since 1962 to 1964 Zanussi was registered without his consent as a secret collaborator of communist Służba Bezpieczeństwa codename "Aktor". He had several conversations with communist secret service officers, however he never began to act as a secret collaborator. Zanussi talks openly about his contacts with SB but denies any wrongdoing.[2][3] The archives of IPN confirm his words.
Filmography
- The Structure of Crystals (1969)
- Życie rodzinne (Family Life) (1970)
- Behind the Wall (1971)
- The Illumination (1972)
- A Woman's Decision (1975)
- Camouflage (1976)
- Spirala (1978)
- Wege in der Nacht (Ways in the Night) (TV) (1979)
- The Contract (1980)
- The Constant Factor (1980)
- From a Far Country (1981)
- Die Unerreichbare (The Unapproachable) (TV) (1982)
- Imperative (1982)
- A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
- Wherever You Are (1988)
- Life for a Life (1990)
- The Silent Touch (1992)
- Weekend Stories (1996)
- At Full Gallop (1996)
- Our God's Brother (1997)
- Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
- Suplement (2001)
- Sesja Kastingowa (2002)
- Persona non Grata (2004)
- Black Sun (Il Sole Nero) (2007)
- And a Warm Heart (2008)
- Revisited (2009)
References
- ^ Krzysztof Zanussi Faculty Website at the European Graduate School. Includes biography and filmography.
- ^ http://www.tvn24.pl/0,1591023,0,1,zanussi-byl-zarejestrowany-przez-sb,wiadomosc.html
- ^ http://www.tvp.info/news.html?news=891506&directory=17099
External links
- Krzysztof Zanussi Faculty Website @ European Graduate School. Biography and filmography.
- Krzysztof Zanussi at IMDb
- Krzysztof Zanussi at the Internetowa Baza Filmu Polskiego (pl)