Krzysztof Zanussi

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Krzysztof Zanussi

Krzysztof Zanussi in 2010
Born (1939-06-17) June 17, 1939
Warsaw, Poland
Education Warsaw University
Occupation Film producer and director

Krzysztof Zanussi, (born 17 June 1939) 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 a book of memoirs The 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. His 1989 film Inventory was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival.[2] His 2000 film Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease won the Golden St. George at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival.[3] His 2002 film The Supplement was entered into the 24th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Special Mention.[4]

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.

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.[5][6] The archives of IPN confirm his words.

He has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement award on 20 November 2012 at the 43rd International Film Festival of India held in Goa.

In April 2013, he began shooting a film The Foreign Body[7] starring e.g. Riccardo Leonelli, Agata Buzek, Agnieszka Grochowska and Weronika Rosati. The script to Foreign Body was written by Krzysztof Zanussi, the cinematography is performed by Piotr Niemyjski who worked on Bartek Konopka's Fear of Falling. Coproduced by Italian Revolver by Paolo Spina with Polish Tor Film and Russian Fora Film, the film's premiere is scheduled for 2014.[8]

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ Krzysztof Zanussi Faculty Website at the European Graduate School. Includes biography and filmography.
  2. ↑ "16th Moscow International Film Festival (1989)". MIFF. Retrieved 2013-02-24. 
  3. ↑ "22nd Moscow International Film Festival (2000)". MIFF. Retrieved 2013-03-27. 
  4. ↑ "24th Moscow International Film Festival (2002)". MIFF. Retrieved 2013-03-31. 
  5. ↑ "Zanussi był zarejestrowany przez SB". Tvn24.pl. 2009-03-16. Retrieved 2013-06-04. 
  6. ↑
  7. ↑ "PRODUCTION: Zanussi Begins Shooting The Foreign Body". 
  8. ↑ "Filming for Zanussi’s Foreign Body Underway". 

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