Krzysztof Zanussi

Krzysztof Zanussi
Krzysztof Zanussi in 2007
Born	1939 Warsaw, Poland
Education	Warsaw University
Occupation	Film producer and director

Krzysztof Zanussi, (born 17 June 1939 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish producer and film director.

He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is also a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice.

Zanussi studied physics at Warsaw University (Uniwersytet Warszawski) and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński) in Kraków. He is the director of the Polish Film Studio TOR and has received several prizes and awards, including the David di Donatello Prize of the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, the Cavalier's Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order, and the Cavalier de L'Ordre des Sciences et Lettres.

Krzysztof Zanussi has written On editing an amateur film (1968), Discourse on an amateur film (1978) and the memoirs, memoirs Time to Die (1999). He appeared as himself in Camera Buff (1979), a film about an amateur film maker, directed by his friend Krzysztof Kieślowski .

He is currently planning on directing an international production about the life and contributions of St. Hedwig of Poland, as well as a Polish-Ukrainian comedy.

According to the records of Institute of National Remembrance since 1962 to 1964 Zanussi was registered as a secret collaborator of communist Służba Bezpieczeństwa codename "Aktor". He had several conversations with communist secret service officers, however he never began to act as a secret collaborator. In 1962 Zanussi was used by SB as a "kontakt obywatelski" (non-formal collaborator) during World Youth Festival in Helsinki. According to Gazeta Polska Zanussi informed on people after his stay in England. ^[1] Zanussi talks openly about his contacts with SB but denies any wrongdoing.^[2][3]

Filmography

• The Structure of Crystals (1969)
• Życie rodzinne (Family Life)
• Behind the Wall
• The Illumination (1972)
• The Contract
• A Woman's Decision (1975)
• Camouflage (1976)
• Spirala (1978)
• The Constant Factor (1980)
• From a Far Country (1981)
• Imperative (1982)
• The Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
• Wherever You Are (1988)
• Life for a Life
• The Silent Touch
• Weekend Stories
• At Full Gallop (1996)
• Our God's Brother (1997)
• Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
• Suplement (2001)
• Sesja Kastingowa (2002)
• Persona non Grata (2004)
• Black Sun (2007)
• And a Warm Heart (2008)

External links

• Krzysztof Zanussi Faculty Website European Graduate School
• Krzysztof Zanussi at the Internet Movie Database
• Krzysztof Zanussi at the Internetowa Baza Filmu Polskiego (pl)

1. ^ Gazeta Polska, nr 11 (816), 18 March 2009, p. 16-17.
2. ^ http://www.tvn24.pl/0,1591023,0,1,zanussi-byl-zarejestrowany-przez-sb,wiadomosc.html
3. ^ http://www.tvp.info/news.html?news=891506&directory=17099