Andrzej Seweryn
Andrzej Teodor Seweryn (born April 25, 1946 in Heilbronn ) is a Polish actor.
Life
His parents Zdzisław and Zofia Seweryn were deported to Germany for forced labor at the time of the Second World War and returned to Poland after the birth of their son .
He is the father of three children. Seweryn went to France in the late 1970s and established himself there as an actor. In 1979 he played alongside John Gielgud in Andrzej Wajda's film The Conductor and received the Silver Bear at the 1980 Berlinale for his performance in this film .
Today he plays at the famous Comedie Francaise in Paris and is an acting teacher at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Techniques du Theater in Lyon . Since the 1990s he has been seen more often in Polish film and theater productions, for example in the literary adaptations Pan Tadeusz based on Adam Mickiewicz and Zemsta based on Aleksander Fredro under the direction of Andrzej Wajda or in With Fire and Sword based on Henryk Sienkiewicz Directed by Jerzy Hoffman central roles. At the beginning of the new millennium, he was in talks to take over the management of the renowned Kraków Theater Teatr Stary , but turned it down. In 2006 Seweryn made his debut as a film director with the film Kto nigdy nie żył ... with Michał Żebrowski in the lead role.
2016 won Seweryn for his performance as an eccentric painter Jan P. Matuszyńskis family portrait Ostatnia rodzina the Best Actor Award of the International Film Festival of Locarno .
He has a daughter with the Polish actress Krystyna Janda . Maria Seweryn is now also an actress.
Filmography (selection)
Polish films
- 1974: The Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana) - Director: Andrzej Wajda
- 1975: Nights and Days (Noce i dnie) - Director: Jerzy Antczak
- 1976–1978 and 1987/1988: The Silver Planet (Na srebrnym globie) - Director: Andrzej Żuławski
- 1977: The Marble Man (Człowiek z marmuru) - Director: Andrzej Wajda
- 1978: Without anesthesia (Bez znieczulenia) - Director: Andrzej Wajda
- 1979: The Conductor (Dyrygent) - Director: Andrzej Wajda
- 1981: The Iron Man (Człowiek z żelaza) - directed by Andrzej Wajda
- 1999: With fire and sword (Ogniem i mieczem) - directed by Jerzy Hoffman
- 1999: Pan Tadeusz - Director: Andrzej Wajda
- 2000: Prymas - Director: Teresa Kotlarczyk
- 2002: Zemsta - Director: Andrzej Wajda
- 2010: Różyczka - Director: Jan Kidawa-Błoński
- 2011: Death in a Circle (Uwikłanie) - Director: Jacek Bromski
- 2016: Ostatnia rodzina - Director: Jan P. Matuszyński
International productions
- 1986: The woman of my life (La femme de ma vie) - Director: Régis Wargnier
- 1989: The French Revolution (La Révolution française) - Directed by Robert Enrico , Richard. T. Heffron
- 1991: The Conviction (La condanna) - Director: Marco Bellocchio
- 1992: Indochine - Director: Régis Wargnier
- 1993: Amok - Director: Joël Farges
- 1993: Schindler 's List - directed by Steven Spielberg
- 1995: Total Eclipse - The Rimbaud and Verlaine Affair (Total Eclipse) - Director: Agnieszka Holland
- 1997: Genealogies of a crime (Généalogies d'un crime) - Director: Raúl Ruiz
- 1997: Lucie Aubrac - Director: Claude Berri
- 2004: In the mirror of evil (À ton image) - Director: Aruna Villiers
- 2007: Nightwatching - Director: Peter Greenaway
- 2012: You will still be amazed (Vous n'avez encore rien vu) - Director: Alain Resnais
theatre
- 1972: Don Karlos by Friedrich Schiller at the Ateneum Theater in Warsaw - Director: Maciej Prus
- 1972: The kitchen of Arnold Wesker at the Theater Ateneum - Director: Janusz Warmiński
- 1973: America after Franz Kafka at the Ateneum Theater - director: Jerzy Grzegorzewski
- 1977: The Seagull by Anton P. Chekhov at the Ateneum Theater - director: Janusz Warmiński
Awards
- 1980: Best Actor Award of the Berlin International Film Festival for The Conductor
- 2004: "Atlas Award" at the Polish film festival Camerimage
- 2016: Best Actor Award of the International Film Festival of Locarno for Ostatnia rodzina
Web links
- Andrzej Seweryn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Portrait on filmpolski.pl with photos
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Seweryn, Andrzej |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seweryn, Andrzej Teodor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |