Bolesław Sulik

Bolesław Sulik (born April 8, 1929 in Toruń ; † May 22, 2012 in Warsaw ) was a Polish-British journalist, screenwriter and director.

The son of the Polish general Nikodem Sulik followed his father, who stayed in the West after the Second World War, to London and began studying economics at Cambridge University from 1949-50 , which he broke off. In the 1950s he worked as a journalist, essayist and critic for the magazine Tribune, among others, and joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament .

As a British citizen, he has been visiting Poland regularly since the 1960s and worked there with the directors Andrzej Wajda ( Die Schattenlinie , 1976), Kazimierz Kutz and Jerzy Skolimowski ( Deep End , 1970). After his own documentary Three Days in Szczecin (1976) about the dock workers strike in Szczecin, he was banned from entering Poland, so that he could not visit the country during the political crisis in 1981.

During this time he supported the Obrony Robotników Comitet , worked with Jerzy Giedroyc and the group around the exile magazine Kultura and directed three parts of the film series The Struggles For Poland (1987). After the fall of the socialist government, he returned to Poland. There he shot In Solidarity in 1991, a critical film about Lech Wałęsa , the chairman of the Solidarność union, and in 1992 an interview with General Wojciech Jaruzelski ( Generał ). In 1993 he became a member and in 1995 a board member of the National Broadcasting Council ( Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji ). His last film Powrót do Casablanki was made in 2009 and premiered at the Krakow Film Festival in 2010.

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SURNAME	Sulik, Boleslaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish-British journalist, screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH	April 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toruń
DATE OF DEATH	May 22, 2012
Place of death	Warsaw