Andrzej uawski

Andrzej uawski (Polish: [andj uwafski]; born 22 International Film Festival.[5]

November 1940)[1] is a Polish lm director and writer.
He was born in Lww, Poland (now Ukraine). uawski
has often gone against mainstream commercialism in his 2 On the Silver Globe
lms, and has enjoyed success mostly with European arthouse audiences.
Andrzej uawski had always wanted to lm his grandunIn the late 1950s, he studied cinema in France. His sec- cles masterwork and saw the oer as a unique opporond feature The Devil (1972) was banned in Poland, and tunity to achieve that aim. uawski devoted over two
uawski went to France. After the success of That Most years to the task of adapting the rst two volumes to the
Important Thing: Love in 1975, he returned to Poland screen. Between 1975 and 1977, he wrote the screenplay
where he spent two years making The Silver Globe (1988). and lensed the lm on various locations around Poland,
The work on this lm was interrupted by the Polish au- as well as Crimea, the Caucasus Mountains and even the
thorities. After that, uawski moved to France where Gobi Desert.
he became known for controversial and violent art-house
In spring 1977, however, the project came to a sudden halt
lms. uawski is also known for his work with certain
with the appointment of the hardline ideologue Janusz
specic actresses including Romy Schneider, Isabelle AdWilhelmi as the Vice-Minister of Culture. Perceiving the
jani and Sophie Marceau.
Selenites battle against the Szerns as a thinly-veiled alleHis lms have received 16 awards at various international gory of the Polish peoples struggle with totalitarianism,
lm festivals. uawski has also written several novels, Wilhelmi shut down the lming, which was 80% comfor example: Il tait Un Verger, Lity Br (a.k.a. La Fort plete and ordered all materials destroyed.
Forteresse), W Oczach Tygrysa, and Ogrd Mioci.
uawski went back to France to nd that the reels of
unnished lm were preserved, along with costumes and
props, by the Polish lm studio and archives and by members of the lms cast and crew. A passage of another
1 Career
eight years was required, as glasnost and perestroika began to thaw the Cold War-dominated Eastern Europe, for
[2]
uawski was an assistant of Andrzej Wajda. When his
uawski to be able to return again to Poland and edit
[3]
second lm Diabe was banned in Poland he decided to
the still-unnished remnants into a 166-minute rough apmove to France, where he made L'Important c'est d'aimer
proximation of what the nished lm might have been.
[4]
(1975) with Romy Schneider.
On the Silver Globe premiered at the Cannes Film FestiAfter returning to Poland he worked for two years on a val in May 1988, with some critics proclaiming it a ruined
lm which the authorities did not allow him to nish (On masterpiece.
the Silver Globe), based on a book by his great-uncle Jerzy
uawski.[1] Since then he has lived and worked mostly in
France, making art lms.
3 Filmography (selected)
Being a maverick who always deed mainstream commercialism, uawski enjoyed success mostly with the
European art-house audiences. His wild, imaginative,
and controversial pictures have received 16 awards at various international lm festivals. He also wrote the novels
Il tait Un Verger, Lity Br (a.k.a. La Fort Forteresse),
W Oczach Tygrysa, and Ogrd Mioci.[1]

The Third Part of the Night (1971)

The Devil (1972)
The Important Thing Is To Love (1975)
Possession (1981)

He was in a relationship for fteen years with the French

actress Sophie Marceau, with whom he made four lms
over a 15-year period (L'Amour braque, Mes nuits sont
plus belles que vos jours, La Note bleue, La Fidelit). They
broke up in 2001.[3]

The Public Woman (1984)

In 2006 he was the Head of the Jury at the 28th Moscow

On the Silver Globe (1988)

Mad Love (1985)

Maladie d'amour (1987), writer

5
My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days
(1989)
Boris Godunov (1989)
The Blue Note (1991)
Szamanka (1996)
Fidelity (2000)[1]
Cosmos (2015)

References

[1] Culture.pl
[2] Mira Liehm; Antonn J. Liehm (1980). The Most Important Art Soviet and Eastern European Film After 1945.
University of California Press. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-52004128-8.
[3] Atkinson, Michael (2008). Exile Cinema Filmmakers at
Work beyond Hollywood. SUNY Press. p. 79. ISBN
978-0-7914-7861-5.
[4] Mara Luisa Amador; Jorge Ayala Blanco (2006).
Cartelera cinematogrca, 1980-1989. UNAM. p. 425.
ISBN 978-970-32-3605-3.
[5] 28th Moscow International Film Festival (2006)". MIFF.
Retrieved 2013-04-14.

External links
Andrzej uawski at the Internet Movie Database
Andrzej uawski atCulture.pl

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