Janusz Morgenstern
Janusz Morgenstern (born November 16, 1922 in Mikulince near Tarnopol , Poland , today's Ukraine , † September 6, 2011 in Warsaw ) was a Polish film director and film producer .
Life
Janusz "Kuba" Morgenstern was the son of Dawid Morgenstern and Estera Druks, both Jews from Galicia . He studied directing at the Łódź Film School in the early 1950s and graduated in 1954. At the beginning of his career he was assistant director to Wanda Jakubowska and Andrzej Wajda . He assisted Wajda in his legendary films The Canal and Ashes and Diamond . He made his debut with a full-length feature film in 1960 with Auf Wiedersehen bis Morgen . In the 1960s and 1970s he created some popular Polish television series such as Stawka większa niż życie and Columbowie . For many years he was the artistic director of the Perspektywa film studio and began working as a film producer after the political change in 1989.
Filmography
Director
- 1960: Goodbye until tomorrow (Do widzenia, do jutra)
- 1962: Tomorrow: Premiere (Jutro Premiera)
- 1964: Dwa Żebra Adama
- 1965: Life Again (Życie raz jeszcze)
- 1966: Potem nastąpi cisza
- 1967: Jowita
- 1972: This love has to be killed (Trzeba zabić tę miłość)
- 1979: Godzina W
- 1981: Mniejsze niebo
- 1987: Guardian of the Dragon (Biały smok)
- 2009: Mniejsze zło
producer
- 1990: Korczak - Director: Andrzej Wajda
- 1990: Hitler Youth Salomon - Director: Agnieszka Holland
- 1993: Kolos - directed by Witold Leszczyński
- 1996: Miss Nobody (Panna Komornik) - Director: Andrzej Wajda
- 1998: Złoto dezerterów - Director: Janusz Majewski
- 1998: Ciemna strona Wenus - Director: Radosław Piwowarski
- 2000: The Big Beast (Duże zwierzę) - Director and lead role: Jerzy Stuhr
- 2001: Poranek kojota - director: Olaf Lubaszenko
- 2002: Zemsta - Director: Andrzej Wajda
- 2005: The bailiff (Komornik) - directed by Feliks Falk
Web links
- Janusz Morgenstern in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Portrait on filmpolski.pl
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. lhrtimes.com ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morgenstern, Janusz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish film director and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mikulince , Poland , present-day Ukraine |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 2011 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |