Andrzej Żuławski

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Andrzej Żuławski (left) with the former Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski in 2001

Andrzej Żuławski (born November 22, 1940 in Lwów , today Ukraine , † February 17, 2016 in Warsaw ) was a Polish film director , writer , screenwriter , actor and journalist .

life and work

Andrzej Żuławski was the son of the Polish writer and diplomat Mirosław Żuławski . As a child he lived with his family in occupied Poland. Żuławski's younger sister died of starvation at the time. He later grew up with his brother Mateusz in France when his father worked at the Polish Embassy in Paris and at UNESCO . Żuławski studied at the University of Paris (Philosophical Faculty) and IDHEC . He later worked as a journalist for the Polish magazine Film . He started his career as an assistant to Andrzej Wajda in the films: Samson (1961), Love at Twenty (1962) and Legionnaires (1965). His first two films were commissioned by television: Pavoncello (1967) and Pieśń triumfującej miłości (1969). For his first feature film, The Third Part of the Night , he wrote the script together with his father, on whose war memories this film is based.

After his second film, Diabeł, was banned by Polish censors , he emigrated to France , where he shot the film Nachtblende in 1974 with Romy Schneider in the main role and Klaus Kinski in a supporting role. The film is based on the novel La nuit americaine by Christopher Frank, although Żuławski's film is very different from its original.

After this success, Żuławski returned to Poland in 1975 and in the same year began working on the film adaptation of his great-uncle Jerzy Żuławski's "Moon Trilogy" under the title Na Srebrnym Globie , German: The Silver Planet . Only two years later, the shooting was interrupted again by the authorities, with parts of the film material even being destroyed. Żuławski then left Poland again and has since lived mostly in France. All subsequent films - except for Szamanka - he shot outside of Poland. From 1997 to 2006 he was a feature writer for the Twój Styl magazine .

Andrzej Żuławski was married to the Polish actress Małgorzata Braunek . His first son Xawery Żuławski , who is also a film director today, comes from this marriage . He had a son, Ignacy (* 1978), from his relationship with the Polish painter Hanna Wolska, and a son Vincent (* 1995) with the French actress Sophie Marceau , who, just 18 years old, was the partner of the then 44- Yearlings was. In 2002 she left him.

In 2007/2008, Żuławski's connection with the 43-year-old actress Weronika Rosati , daughter of the former Foreign Minister Dariusz Rosati , and above all the separation of the two caused a sensation in Poland , with both sides spreading accusations in the press and television. Rosati sued the publication of Żuławski's 2010 novel “Nocnik” (The Chamber Pot) because she saw herself portrayed in the female main character in a discriminatory way. A court then banned the distribution of the book, it was the first such case in Poland since the fall of 1989. Żuławski admitted to the press that he had “true feelings” for Rosati.

In 2015 Żuławski returned after a fifteen-year hiatus as a director and directed the Franco-Portuguese co-production Cosmos . The film was shown at the Locarno International Film Festival and the Berlin Criticism Week .

Żuławski succumbed to on 17 February 2016 of cancer . At the burial of his urn on February 22nd, 2016, Sophie Marceau, Daniel Olbrychski and Andrzej Seweryn were present in addition to his children and his brother . Żuławski was buried in his parents' grave.

Filmography

Director

script

  • 1967: Pavoncello
  • 1969: Pieśń triumfującej miłości
  • 1971: The third part of the night
  • 1972: Diabeł
  • 1974: night shield
  • 1977: The Silver Planet
  • 1981: Possession
  • 1984: The public woman
  • 1985: love and violence
  • 1987: Sick of Love ( Maladie d'amour )
  • 1989: My nights are more beautiful than your days
  • 1989: Boris Godunov
  • 1991: Blue Note
  • 2000: The loyalty of women
  • 2015: Cosmos

actor

Assistant director

Novels

  • 1991: Lity bór
  • 1992: Był sad; Woczach tygrysa
  • 1993: Jonasz
  • 1994: Juki podróżne; Moliwoda; Piekielnicy
  • 1996: Listy do domu
  • 1997: Kikimora; W niebie miecz mój jest pijany
  • 1998: Małpa o krwawiącym sercu
  • 1999: Perseidy
  • 2000: Zaułek Pokory
  • 2002: Jako nic; We dwoje
  • 2003: Pan śmiertelny; Oh no
  • 2004: Bilet miesięczny
  • 2005: Cnota; Zapach księżyca
  • 2007: Bóg; Te panie
  • 2010: Nocnik

literature

  • Michael Althen: Children of Wrath. Memories of the films by Andrzej Zulawski, in: Steadycam, No. 14, 4th quarter 1989, pp. 42–47
  • Thomas Schweer: Don't be afraid to die. The films of Andrzej Zulawski, in: Splatting Image, number 4, August 1990, pp. 11-14 and part 2, in: Splatting Image, no. 5, December 1990, pp. 29-32
  • Marcus Stiglegger: The language of despair. Andrzej Zulawski's cinema. In: Marcus Stiglegger: Splinters in the tissue. Filmmaker between auteur films and mainstream cinema, Mainz 2000, ISBN 978-3-9806528-2-7 , pp. 125-139

Web links

Commons : Andrzej Żuławski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Polish director Andrzej Zulawski has died
  2. ↑ Jörg Thomann, Paris: Where are all the boys' letters? In: FAZ.net . December 19, 2010, accessed December 12, 2014 .
  3. ↑ wyborcza.pl
  4. ^ Rzeczpospolita, 18./19. August 2012, S.P11.
  5. ↑ Andrzej Żuławski nie żyje. Reżyser miał 75 lat. In: film.wp.pl. February 17, 2016, Retrieved February 17, 2016 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Żuławski, Andrzej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish film director, writer, screenwriter, actor and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Eastern Poland
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 2016
Place of death Warsaw , Poland