Andrzej Żuławski

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1940-11-22 (76 years old)

Deathday

2016-02-17

Place of Birth

Lwów, Lwów Voivodeship, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine]

Andrzej Żuławski

Biography

Andrzej Żuławski (November 22, 1940 – February 17, 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 authorities. After that, Zulawski moved to France where ...

Acting

2021

Escape to the Silver Globe

as Self (archive footage)

1965

The Ashes

as (uncredited)

1985

Sadness and Beauty

as Hugo Pierjoyre

1989

On the Silver Globe

as Himself (uncredited)

1961

Samson

as Killed Student (uncredited)

Production

1981

Possession

as Adaptation

1989

1989

2000

Fidelity

as Director

2000

Fidelity

as Writer

1984

The Public Woman

as Director

1996

Szamanka

as Director

1991

The Blue Note

as Director

1988

The Devil

as Director

1985

Mad Love

as Director

1989

Boris Godounov

as Director

1961

Samson

as Assistant Director

1965

The Ashes

as First Assistant Director

1967

Pavoncello

as Director

2015

Cosmos

as Director

2015

Cosmos

as Writer

1967

Pavoncello

as Screenplay

1988

The Devil

as Writer

1989

Boris Godounov

as Scenario Writer

1985

Mad Love

as Writer

1984

1987

1991

The Blue Note

as Writer

1981

Possession

as Screenplay

1981

Possession

as Director

1967

The Night of the Generals

as Assistant Director

-

Possession

as Original Film Writer

2019

Bird Talk

as Screenplay

1962

Love at Twenty

as Second Unit Director

1958

La Sorcière

as Director

1958

La Sorcière

as Writer

2024

Possession: Kerasukan

as Original Film Writer

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