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ADAMEK, MACIEJ
Born in 1968 in Gdansk, graduated from the Polish Language Department of the University of Gdańsk. Graduate of the Directing Department of the Polish Film School in Lódź.
BAGIŃSKI, TOMASZ
Director of animated films and author of digital special effects for films and computer games, also a draughtsman and painter. Born in 1976 in Białystok.
BAJON, FILIP
Film director, script writer, prose writer. Born in 1947 in Poznań.
BARAŃSKI, ANDRZEJ
Film director, screenwriter. Born in 1941 in Pińczów.
BŁASZCZYK, ANNA
Born in 1981 in Lódź. Graduate of the Animation Department of the Polish Film School in Lódź. Apart from animations, she makes illustrations and graphic art.
BOLESŁAWSKI, RYSZARD
Film and theatre actor and director who worked in Russia, Poland and the United States, among other countries. Probably born 4 February 1889 in Dębowa Góra near Płock; died 17 January 1937 in Los Angeles
BORCUCH, JACEK
Actor, director, screenwriter, musician endowed with a warm baritone voice, born on April 17, 1970 in Kwidzyn...
BOROWCZYK, WALERIAN
Visual artist, script writer, stage designer, director of animated and feature films, writer. Born in 1923 in Kwilicz near Poznań. Lived in France from 1959. Died on 3 February 2006.
BOROWSKI, PAWEŁ
Born in 1973 in Warsaw. Graduated with honours from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts departments of painting and animation.
BUGAJSKI, RYSZARD
Film and television director, script writer, prose writer, translator. Born in 1943 in Warsaw.
CELIŃSKA, STANISŁAWA
Theatre and film actress, born in 1947.
CHYRA, ANDRZEJ
Born in 1964. He is a theatrical and film actor. He studied at the National Academy of Theatre in Warsaw at the Faculty of Acting and the Faculty of Direction.
CIELECKA, MAGDALENA
Film and theatre actress. Born February 20, 1972 in Myszków.
CUSKE, MACIEJ
Born in 1972 in Bydgoszcz. Director and author of documentaries, videos, and TV reports.
CYWIŃSKA, IZABELLA
Stage and film director. Born on 25 March 1935 in Kamień Puławski.
CZEKAŁA, RYSZARD
Director and screenwriter of animated and feature films. Born in Bydgoszcz in 1941.
CZYŻEWSKA, ELŻBIETA
Actress. Born May 14, 1938 in Warsaw, died June 17, 2010 in New York City.
DAWID, LESZEK
Born in 1971 in Kluczbork. Director and screenwriter.
DRYGAS, MACIEJ
Born in 1956 in Lódź. Director of documentaries and radio dramas.
DUMAŁA, PIOTR
Animated film director and screenwriter, feature film set designer, writer, born 1956 in Warsaw. He graduated from the Faculty of Works of Art Conservation at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and presently he teaches animation in Lódź.
EDELMAN, PAWEŁ
Cinematographer. Born in 1958 in Łódź.
ENGLERT, JAN
Born in Warsaw in 1943. He made his film debut at age 14, when he played the liaison officer Zefirek in "Kanał" / "Canal" (1957), the well-known film directed by Andrzej Wajda.
FALK, FELIKS
Film and theatre director, writer of film scripts, stage plays, television plays, and radio dramas; also a painter and graphic artist. Born in 1941 in Stanisławów.
FELDMAN, KRYSTYNA
Actress. Born 1st March 1920 in Lvov, died 24th January 2007 in Poznań. Home Army messenger during World War II.
GAJEWSKI, DARIUSZ
Feature and documentary film director, theatre director, screenwriter, born 3rd December 1964 in Częstochowa.
GAJOS, JANUSZ
Janusz Gajos was born in 1939 in Dąbrowa Górnicza. While he was working at the Puppet Theatre in Bedzin, under its famous director Jan Dorman, he applied to acting school four times. He graduated from the Theatre and Film Academy in Łódź in 1965 as one of its best students.
GLIŃSKI, ROBERT
Film (including documentaries) and theatre director, scriptwriter, holds a postdoctoral degree in film art, born in Warsaw on 17 April 1952.
GODFREJÓW, BOGUMIŁ
Born in 1976 in Krakow. Graduate of the Cinematography Department of the Polish Film School in Łódź. Cinematographer and director.
GOGOLEWSKI, IGNACY
Ignacy Gogolewski, actor and director, was born in 1931 in Ciechanów. In 1953, he graduated from the acting department of the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Warsaw.
GOSIENIECKI, ANDRZEJ
Born in 1973 in Poznań. Graduated with honours from the Studio of Animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań.
GRUSZKA, KAROLINA
Film and theatre actress. Born on 13 July 1980 in Warsaw.
GRZEGORZEK, MARIUSZ
Born in 1933, learned composition from Bolesław Szabelski in Katowice and in 1960 he was awarded the 1st Prize at the Youth Competition of the Association of Polish Composers.
HAS, WOJCIECH JERZY
Film director and screenwriter. Born in 1925 in Krakow; died in the year 2000 in the city of Łódź.
HOLLAND, AGNIESZKA
Film director and scriptwriter, born in Warsaw in 1948.
HOLOUBEK, GUSTAW
Exceptional theatre and film actor and stage director; born on April 21, 1923, in Krakow. Died in Warsaw on March 6, 2008.
IDZIAK, SŁAWOMIR
Cinematographer and director, born 25th January 1945 in Katowice...
JABŁOŃSKI, DARIUSZ
Born in 1961 in Warsaw. Director of documentaries and film producer.
JAKIMOWSKI, ANDRZEJ
Feature and documentary film director, writer and producer, born 17 August 1963 in Warsaw...
JANDA, KRYSTYNA
One of Poland's most popular theatre and film actresses. Also a director of theatre productions and films. Born on December 19, 1952, in Starachowice.
JASIŃSKA, JOANNA
Born 1980 in Łódź. Graduate of the Animation Department of the Polish Film School in Łódź.
KAMIŃSKI, JANUSZ
American cinematographer and film director born 1959 in Ziębice near Wrocław, Poland.
KARABSZ, KAZIMIERZ
Maker of documentaries, a classic of post-World War II Polish documentary film; born in Bydgoszcz in 1930.
KARWAS, PIOTR
Born in 1974. Graduate of the Animation Department of the Polish Film School in Łódź and of the Animation Department at the Baden - Wuerttemberg Filmakademie in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
KASPERSKI, WOJCIECH
Born in 1981 in Kartuzy (Pomerania). Student at the Directing Department of the Polish Film School in Łódź.
KAWALEROWICZ, JERZY
Film director and screenwriter. Born on 19 January 1922 in Gwoździec (now Gvozdets in Ukraine); died on 27 December 2007 in Warsaw.
KĘDZIERZAWSKA, DOROTA
Film director and writer, born 1957 in Łódź. Kędzierzawska's first big success was the nomination of her school etude "Jajko" / "The Egg" for the Student Oscar in Los Angeles in 1983.
KIELAR, PIOTR
Born in 1968 in Warsaw. Graduate of the Theatre Studies Department of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw and of the Directing Department of the Polish Film School in Łódź.
KIEŚLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF
Director of documentary and feature films, screenwriter. Born in 1941 in Warsaw; passed away there in 1996.
KŁOSIŃSKI, EDWARD
Cinematographer. Born in 1943 in Warsaw, died 5 January 2008 in Milanówek near Warsaw.
KOLSKI, JAN JAKUB
Film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and prose writer; born in the city of Wrocław in 1956.
KOMOROWSKA, MAJA
An outstanding theatre, film and television actress, was born in 1937. She graduated from the Faculty of Puppetry of the National Academy of Theatre of Krakow.
KONOPKA, BARTOSZ (BARTEK)
Screenwriter, feature and documentary film director, born on September 8, 1972 in Myślenice...
KONWICKI, TADEUSZ
Author of twenty novels, film director and screenwriter, the founder of the "Polish cinema des auteurs". Born in Lithuania in 1926. Konwicki is the conscience of Polish society and the crazed mirror in which it is reflected. He is one of the writers who have left the most lasting impression on post-war Polish literature and culture. He is regarded as a spokesman for the yearnings, attitudes, hopes and rage of several generations... This article contains a biographical note, Konwicki's profile as a writer and his profile as a film maker...
KOSZAŁKA, MARCIN
Born in 1970 in Krakow. Cinematographer of numerous dokumentarzysta, television dramas and feature films, screenwriter and director of documentaries.
KOTERSKI, MAREK
Film director (also of documentaries) and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright. He was born in Krakow on 3 June 1942.
KRAUZE, KRZYSZTOF
Krzysztof Krauze, film director and scriptwriter, born in Warsaw in 1953.
KRZYSTEK, WALDEMAR
Film director and screenwriter, also theatre director. Born in 1953 in Swobnica near Gryfino.
KUCZOK, WOJCIECH
Writer, poet, film critic, screenwriter and spelunker. Born 1972.
KUTZ, KAZIMIERZ
Exceptional film and theatre director, screenwriter. Born February 16, 1929, in Szopienice in the region of Silesia.
LANKOSZ, BORYS
Born in 1973 in Krakow. Creator of documentaries and short features.
LENICA, JAN
Graphic artist, film director, set and theatre costume designer, children book illustrator, post-stamp designer. A major artist of the Polish poster school, experimental animator, and art critic. Born 2nd January 1928 in Poznań, died 5th October 2001 in Berlin.
ŁOMNICKI, TADEUSZ
Exceptional theatre actor, film actor, and stage director. A genius according to many, Lomnicki was an extremely hard worker and legend of the Polish theatre. He was born on July 18, 1927, in the town of Podhajce (near Lvov) and passed away in Poznan on February 22, 1992.
ŁOZIŃSKI, MARCEL
Documentary filmmaker and feature film director. Born 1940 in Paris.
ŁOZIŃSKI, PAWEŁ
Born in 1965 in Warsaw. Graduated from the Directing Department of the Polish Film School in Lodz.
ŁUKASZEWICZ, OLGIERD
Olgierd Lukaszewicz was born in Chorzów in 1946. He graduated from the Theatrical Academy in Krakow in 1968, and two years after his debut in Krakow's Teatr Rozmaitosci moved to Warsaw.
MAJEWSKI, JANUSZ
Director, film writer, set designer, born 5th August 1931 in Lvov (now Ukraine)...
MAJEWSKI, MACIEJ
Born in 1977 in Rybnik. Screenwriter, animation director and photographer.
MALEC, MARIUSZ
Born in 1968 in Kielce. Director of documentaries, television films, theatrical plays and videos.
MALESZKA, ANDRZEJ
Television and theatre director, children's film writer, born 3rd March 1955 in Poznań.
MARCZEWSKI, FILIP
Born in 1974 in Lodz. About to graduate from the Directing Department of the Polish Film School in Lodz. Worked as television reporter for a few years.
MARCZEWSKI, WOJCIECH
Born February 28th, 1944, in Łódź. Film director, screenplay writer. He graduated from the Faculty of Film Directing in Łódź, gave lectures at several Film Academies, among others in Berlin, Copenhagen and Łódź and was the Dean of the Faculty of Film Directing of the National Film Academy in London.
MATYSIK, ANNA
Born in 1977 in Cracow. Graduate of the Animation Department of the Polish Film School in Lodz.
MIKOŁAJSKA, HALINA
Exceptional theatre actress, stage director, democratic opposition activist from the 1970s, member of the Komitet Obrony Robotników [Workers Defense Committee]. Born 22 March 1925 in Krakow; died 21 June 1989 in Warsaw
MUNK, ANDRZEJ
Film director, also script writer and cameraman. Born in 1921 (or, according to some sources, 1920) in Krakow. Died tragically in 1961.
OLSZÓWKA, EDYTA
Born in 1971, Edyta Olszowka graduated from the acting department at the State Film, Television and Theatre Academy in lodz in 1994. She is considered to be one of the most talented young actresses today, and appears in her home theatre, Warsaw's Teatr Powszechny, as well as in cinema and Television Playhouse (Teatr Telewizji). A natural blonde with a distinctive husky voice, she most often plays modern young women.
OPANIA, BARTOSZ
Bartosz Opania, son of the outstanding actor Marian Opania, was born in 1970. In 1994, he graduated from the acting department of the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Warsaw.
OSTAŁOWSKA, DOMINIKA
Born in 1971. She graduated from the Faculty of Acting of the National Academy of Theatre of Warsaw, she is collaborating with the Ateneum Theatre.
OSTASZEWSKA, MAJA
Born in 1972. Maja Ostaszewska comes from a family of artists, and grew up in Krakow, a city well-known for its cultural life. Her grandmother was an actress, her grandfather was a sculptor and scenographer, and her father was a musician and the founder of the avant-garde group "Osjan".
PACEK, GRZEGORZ
Born in 1965 in Pulawy. Graduated from the Directing Department of the Polish Film School in Lodz in 1996.
PASIKOWSKI, WŁADYSŁAW
Film director, screenwriter, writer, born 14th June 1959 in Łódź...
PETRYCKI, JACEK
Cinematographer specializing in feature films, documentaries, TV theatre, born 1948 in Poznań.
PIECZYŃSKI, KRZYSZTOF
Film and theatre actor. Born on 27 March 1957 in Opole...
POLAŃSKI, ROMAN
Roman Polanski, the film and theatre director, script writer, actor and producer, was born in Paris in 1933...
PREISNER, ZBIGNIEW
Film music composer; born 20 May 1955 in Bielsko-Biala.
PTAK, KRZYSZTOF
Cinematographer, computer graphic artist, born in 1954 in Sulejow.
RADZIWIŁOWICZ, JERZY
Born in 1950. He is a theatrical, television and film actor, a professor at the National Academy of Theatre in Krakow and a translator.
REINHART, ARTUR
Cinematographer and film producer, born 1965 in Kluczbork.
RYBCZYŃSKI, ZBIGNIEW
Author, director, operator, script writer and set designer of experimental animated films, born in Lodz in 1949.
SANIEWSKI, WIESŁAW
Film director, screenwriter. Born on 29 October 1948 in Wrocław.
SEWERYN, ANDRZEJ
Born 1946., actor; made his debut in the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw where he acted until 1980, next he performed on stages of French theatres like Odeon and Chaillot, TNP in Lyon; since 1993 he has performed in Comédie Française in Paris; in the years 1984-1988 he worked with Peter Brook's International Centre for Theatrical Creation; A.Seweryn is Professor at the Higher School of Theatrical Art and Techniques (Paris and Lyon).
SIWIŃSKI, TOMASZ
Born in 1982 in Koszalin. Student at the Animated Film Studio of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (2007).
SKOLIMOWSKI, JERZY
Film director, script writer, actor. Also a poet and painter. A boxer in his youth. Born in 1938.
SKROBECKI, MAREK
Born in 1951 in Kalisz. He makes drawing and puppet animations, and works as a director and screenwriter.
SKRZYNECKI, PIOTR
Head and emcee of the "Piwnica pod Baranami" cabaret, actor and organiser of artistic events. Legendary leader of Polish cultural and social life. Born 1930 in Warsaw, died 1997 in Krakow.
SOBOCIŃSKI, WITOLD
Cinematographer, academic teacher. A jazz musician in his youth. Born in 1929 in Ozorkow near Lodz.
STAROŃ, WOJCIECH
Born in 1973 in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. Cinematographer of many documentaries, feature films and TV shows. He is also professionally occupied with photography and has had a number of individual exhibitions.
STASIK, PIOTR
Born in 1976. Graduate of the Department of Social Sciences at Warsaw University. He completed a documentary course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.
STENKA, DANUTA
Theatre and film actress. Born in Gowidlino in the Kashubia region on 10 October 1961...
STUHR, JERZY
Actor and theatre and film director. Teacher. One of the most popular and most versatile Polish actors. Born on 18 April 1947 in Krakow.
SWINARSKI, KONRAD
Born in 1929, died in a plane crash in 1975. He directed for theatre, television, opera and film. He was also a stage designer and one of the most outstanding Polish theatrical artists of the 20th century.
SZAFLARSKA, DANUTA
Theatre and film actress, born in 1915 in Kosarzyska.
SZCZECHURA, DANIEL
Writer and director of animated films, scenery designer; born in 1930 in Wilczogęby.
SZCZEPAŃSKI, PIOTR
Born in 1975 in Lodz. Film director and cameraman in a number of feature films, author of commercials.
SZUMOWSKA, MAŁGORZATA
Film director, graduated from the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź in 1998. Member of the European Film Academy since 2001. Born in 1973 in Kraków...
ŚLĄSKA, ALEKSANDRA
Exceptional theatre and film actress, educator; born 4 November 1925 in Katowice; died 18 September 1989 in Warsaw
ŚWIDERSKI, JAN
Exceptional theatre and film actor, stage director. Born 14 January 1916 in Chmieliniec; died 18 October 1988 in Warsaw
ŚWIECIŃSKA, EWA
Born in 1970 in Lodz. Director and documentary screenwriter.
TRELIŃSKI, MARIUSZ
Film, opera and theatre director; born in 1961 in Warsaw.
WAJDA, ANDRZEJ
Born 1926, film and theatre director, screen-writer and set designer, founder of the Polish film school. In 1997 he became a member of the French Academy of Fine Arts in place of the deceased Federico Fellini, and in 2000 he won the Oscar for his entire artistic work.
WAWSZCZYK, WOJCIECH
Born in 1977 in Sosnowiec. Animator, author of commercials and promotion videos.
WĘGRZYN, JÓZEF
One of the most famous dramatic actors in the history of Polish theatre, stage director. Born 13 March 1884 in Warsaw; died 4 September 1952 in Kościan
WOJCIESZEK, PRZEMYSŁAW
Playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director. Born 1974.
WOSIEWICZ, LESZEK
Film director and scriptwriter. Born in Radomyśl Wielki in 1947.
WÓJCIK, JERZY
Cinematographer and film director, academic teacher, born in 1930 in Nowy Sacz.
ZANUSSI, KRZYSZTOF
Born 1939, film, theatre and opera director, studied physics at Warsaw University and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University; director of Film Studio TOR; honoured with many prizes and awards, among others "David di Donatello" Prize, Cavalier's Cross of Polonia Restituta Order, Cavalier de L'Ordre ete Sciences et Lettres.
ZAPASIEWICZ, ZBIGNIEW
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz was born in 1934. He is an actor, a director and the head of a theatre. He graduated from the Faculty of Acting of the National Academy of Theatre in Warsaw.
ZDORT, WIESŁAW
Cinematographer, academic teacher, born in 1931 in Warsaw.
ZMARZ-KOCZANOWICZ, MARIA
Visual artist and film director; born in 1954.
ŻUŁAWSKI, XAWERY
Director, screenwriter, also actor and cameraman, born on 22 December 1971 in Warsaw.
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