Antoni Bohdziewicz

Antoni Bohdziewicz (born September 11, 1906 in Vilnius , Russian Empire , † October 20, 1970 in Warsaw , Poland ) was a Polish film director , screenwriter and university lecturer .

Life

Bohdziewicz studied at the humanistic faculty of Vilnius University , which at the time was called Stephan Bathory University, and then found a job as a speaker and editor at the Vilnius broadcaster, which lasted from 1928 to 1930. In 1931 he went to Paris on a scholarship , where he studied film art at the Ecole Technique de la Photographie et Cinematographie and made a few short films . He returned in 1935 and was part of the censorship authority . He also wrote reviews for a publication called Pion , a socio-literary weekly magazine ideologically linked to the Sanacja regime . In his main occupation as a director, he was active in the film group Polska Agencja Telegraficzna (PAT).

In 1939 he began working on his first feature film, Zazdrość i medycyna ( Jealousy and Medicine ), based on a novel by Michał Choromański . However, the recordings were interrupted by the German invasion and the start of the war . (The film was then made by Janusz Majewski in 1973. ) During the German occupation in World War II , he organized film courses and worked conspiratorially with fellow directors Jerzy Zarzycki. He accompanied the Warsaw Uprising as the leader of a group of cameramen from the national army. After the liberation of Poland in 1945 he founded a film workshop for young people in Kraków and gave instruction courses. From 1948 he worked as a professor at the State Film School in Łódź , which he had co-founded. He produced feature films and headed the Droga film group from 1956 to 1963 and the TOR film studio from 1967 until his death in 1970.

As early as 1947 he was teaching at the Art School in Brussels . From 1956 he was chairman of the Federation of Polish Film Discussion Clubs, from 1963 member of the Secretariat and from 1966 President of the International Federation of Film Clubs (Féderation Internationale des Ciné-Clubs, FICC). For others will follow you, he won one of the first prizes for the new Polish film at the Marienbad Festival in 1949 .

Antoni Bohdziewicz often worked with the actor Ignacy Gogolewski film and television productions together, among others Kalosze szczescia ( Glücksgaloschen ) and Dziewczyna for dobrego domu ( The girl from a good family , too: New Year's Eve ).

Filmography (selection)

1949: Others Will Follow You (episode)
1957: Zemsta
1958: Galoshes of happiness
1961: reality
1962: The girl from a good family (also under the title New Year's Eve )
1964: On the black list

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Joachim Reichow: Film in Poland . With an essay by Stanislaw Janicki. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1979, Bio-Filmographien, p. 91–153 , here p. 93 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Bohdziewicz, Antoni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish film director, screenwriter and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vilnius , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	20th October 1970
Place of death	Warsaw , Poland

[Reichow-1] A ^b ^c Joachim Reichow: Film in Poland . With an essay by Stanislaw Janicki. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1979, Bio-Filmographien, p. 91–153 , here p. 93 .