Directing
Andrzej Żuławski
- Born
- Nov 22, 1940 · Aged 75
- Died
- Feb 17, 2016
- Place of birth
- Lwów, Lwów Voivodeship, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine]
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 11
- TV credits
- 4
- Directing credits
- 17
Also known as (1)
- Andrei Miroslavovich Żuławski
Biography
Andrzej Żuławski (22 November 1940 – 17 February 2016) was a Polish film director. He was born in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). Żuławski often went against mainstream commercialism in his films, and enjoyed success mostly with European art-house audiences. In the late 1950s, he studied cinema in France. His second feature The Devil (1972) was banned in Poland, and Żuławski went to France. After the success of That Most Important Thing: Love in 1975, he returned to Poland where he spent two years in making The Silver Globe (1988). The work on this film was interrupted by the Polish…
