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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)) won an awards in Venice, Mannheim, Valladolid and Moscow in 1967. Other early films made for TV include: 'Next Door' (_Za sciana (1971)_), Grand Prix in San Remo; 'Hypothesis' (Hipoteza (1973)). 

Scriptwriter or co-writer of all of his TV and cinema films. Other early feature films: 'Structure of a Crystal' (The Structure of Crystal (1969)), which won in Mar del Plata 1970; 'Family Life' (Zycie rodzinne (1971)), which won in Chicago 1971, Valladolid 1972 and Colombo 1973; 'Illumination' (The Illumination (1973)), Grand Prix in Locarno 1973, award in Gdansk 1974; 'Quarterly Balance' (A Woman's Decision (1975)); 'Camouflage' (Camouflage (1977)), Spiral (The Spiral (1978)).

Member of the &#39;Official Competition&#39; jury at the 38th Venice International Film Festival in 1981.

Member of the &#39;Dramatic&#39; jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1986.

President of the jury at the first Polish Film Festival of Perpignan, France, in 2007.

He is fluent in Polish, Italian, English, Russian, German and French.

Retrospective at the 9th New Horizons Film Festival 2009 in Wroclaw, Poland.

Retrospective at the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2019.

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Krzysztof Zanussi

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