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Krzysztof Zanussi
Krzysztof Zanussi in 2020
Born (1939-06-17) 17 June 1939 (age 85)
Warsaw, Poland
EducationNational Film School in Łódź
Occupation(s)Film director, producer and professor

Krzysztof Zanussi (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. 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 Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia in Katowice.

Biography

He was born in a family of Italian ancestry, as an only child of Jerzy and Wanda Zanussi.

Zanussi studied physics at Warsaw University (Uniwersytet Warszawski) and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński) in Kraków. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź (1967).[2]

He is a 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 a book of memoirs The Time to Die (1997). He appeared as himself in Camera Buff (1979), a film about an amateur film maker, directed by his friend Krzysztof Kieślowski. His film The Constant Factor (1980) (Template:Lang-pl) received the Jury Prize at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.[3] During the 1980s, he spent much of his time in the West.

Among the films that he made during this time was a film entitled From A Far Country: Pope John Paul II (1981) about the life of Karol Wojtyła in the context of the complicated history of modern Poland.[4] His 1989 film Inventory was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival.[5] His 2000 film Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease won the Golden St. George at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival.[6]

His 2002 film The Supplement was entered into the 24th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Special Mention.[7]

Zanussi (1984)

Zanussi has described his 1996 film, At Full Gallop, as his most autobiographical work. It follows the director through several years of his boyhood in Poland under post-World War II Communism. Zanussi served at the head of TOR Film Studio in the eighties. When asked about his experience as a producer he said, "Despite the work of the censors the zespół [state-owned film company] system assured a partial autonomy to our cineastes during the Communist era".[8]

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.[9]

He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award on 20 November 2012 at the 43rd International Film Festival of India held in Goa.[10]

He is the honorary president of Italian People and Religions – Terni Film Festival and he promoted the constitution of a web inter-religious European festivals costining of Terni Film Festival in Italy, Sacrofilm festival of Zamosc in Poland and Journées Cinema et Réconciliation of Notre Dame de La Salette in France.

Selected filmography

See also

References

  1. ^ Krzysztof Zanussi Archived 27 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine Faculty Website at the European Graduate School. Includes biography and filmography.
  2. ^ Krzysztof Zanussi Culture.pl (in English)
  3. ^ Jury Prize in 1980 at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980
  4. ^ Krzysztof Zanussi, Culture.pl; accessed 24 November 2015.
  5. ^ "16th Moscow International Film Festival (1989)". MIFF. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  6. ^ "22nd Moscow International Film Festival (2000)". MIFF. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  7. ^ "24th Moscow International Film Festival (2002)". MIFF. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  8. ^ "The Zespol System assured a partial autonomy to our cineastes', An Interview with Krzysztof Zanussi". Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  9. ^ "Zanussi był zarejestrowany przez SB". Tvn24.pl. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  10. ^ "Life of Pi premiere kicks off 11-day International Film Festival of India in Goa". India Today. Mail Today Bureau. 21 November 2012.
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