Paweł Pawlikowski

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Paweł Pawlikowski (2015)

Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski (born September 15, 1957 in Warsaw ) is a Polish film director who lives and works in London and Paris .

Life

Pawlikowski is of Israeli origin on his father's side. He grew up in Warsaw, his mother was a lecturer in English literature. After his parents separated, he left his homeland with his mother at the age of 14 and initially lived in Germany and Italy, and since 1977 in Great Britain . He studied literature and philosophy at Oxford , where he took part in research projects on German literature before turning to film.

From the mid-1980s he created on behalf of the Programs Unit Community of the BBC (and later for the series bookmark on the BBC's) highly acclaimed documentaries a number. His satirical documentary From Moscow to Pietushki over Yerofeyev and the Soviet drinking culture was at the beginning of 1990 his breakthrough and won several awards ( Emmy International , Prix Italia , Royal Television Society Award ). His documentary Serbian Epics (1992) analyzed the motives and traditions of the Serbs in the Bosnian War and was based on scenes in which Radovan Karadžić presented himself as the heir of the (unrelated) namesake and national poet Vuk Karadžić and during the destruction he ordered Reading Sarajevo from his own poems, controversial discussion. For his surreal documentary about a boat trip with Schirinovsky ( Tripping with Zhirinovski ) he received the 1995 Grierson Award for the best British documentary film.

Pawlikowski's first feature film, The Stringer (1998), shot in Moscow , was seen as a failure. He then returned to his documentary roots for the semi-documentary Twockers about a seventeen year old car thief in West Yorkshire . This was followed by his second feature film, Last Resort , largely shot in Russian , a semi-autobiographical film about a young Russian mother and her son trying to gain a foothold in England. Filmed in Margate, the 16mm film received strong acclaim at the Toronto and Sundance festivals and won awards for Best Film at the Edinburgh , Thessaloniki , Gijón and Motovun festivals . Pawlikowski also received the BAFTA Award for “ Most Promising Newcomer in British Film ” in 2001 and was now considered one of the greatest talents in the British film industry.

After Last Resort , Pawlikowski was hired to direct the biographical film Ted and Sylvia (about Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes ) with Gwyneth Paltrow in the lead role, but left the production in August 2002 due to creative differences. The film was completed under the title Sylvia by director Christine Jeffs .

Pawlikowski's third feature film, My Summer of Love , based loosely on a Helen Cross novel about the love affair between two sixteen-year-old girls in West Yorkshire, was again critically acclaimed; Pawlikowski won the main prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival for the second time in 2004 and received the Alexander Korda Award for best British film at the BAFTA Awards in 2005 . It was also nominated for best film and for best director at the 2005 European Film Awards.

In 2004 Pawlikowski received a three-year research grant as a Creative Arts Fellow at Oxford Brookes University .

His next feature film project, The Restraint of Beasts based on the novel by Magnus Mills , Pawlikowski had to stop halfway through filming in 2006 due to a serious illness in his wife. She died a few months later and the film (starring Rhys Ifans , Ben Whishaw and Eddie Marsan , among others ) remained unfinished. Pawlikowski spent the next few years in Oxford , writing screenplays, teaching at the film school and looking after his two children. Only in the spring of 2010 he made Paris his next film, the thriller The Mysterious Stranger (The Woman in the Fifth) from the novel by Douglas Kennedy .

This was followed by his first feature film, Ida , shot in his Polish homage, a formal homage to the Polish films of the 1960s inspired by the French Nouvelle Vague . The film won top prizes at the Gdynia Film Festival , the Warsaw International Film Festival and the London Film Festival , was awarded for best film as well as for best director, best screenplay and best camera at the 2014 European Film Awards, received the BAFTA and finally the Academy Award for the best foreign language film, making it the first film from Poland to win an Oscar in this category.

Pawlikowski's script Epic was filmed by Ben Hopkins and completed in spring 2014 under the title Welcome to Karastan . In 2015, Pawlikowski was appointed to the jury of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival .

In 2018 the romantic, musical film drama Cold War - The Latitude of Love (original title Zimna wojna ) was released as part of the Cannes International Film Festival . The film and Pawlikowski's work were received positively by the critics and were awarded the European Film Prize for best film and best director. The film was also nominated for an Oscar for best director .

In 2019, Pawlikowski was appointed to the competition jury of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival .

Awards

Filmography

Documentaries:

  • 1987: Lucifer over Lancashire (documentary about a priest who wants to erect a giant crucifix on Pendle Hill in Lancashire )
  • 1988: Extraordinary Adventures (short film)
  • 1989: Vaclav Havel (documentary)
  • 1989/91: From Moscow to Pietushki / Moscow Circles: Yerofeyev (BBC documentary about the prose poem Москва - Петушки by Wenedikt Erofejew )
  • 1991/92: Dostoevsky's Travels (BBC documentary about the great-grandson of Fyodor Dostoyevsky , a tram driver from Saint Petersburg who travels through Germany in search of an inexpensive Mercedes )
  • 1992: Serbian Epics (BBC documentary about the Bosnian War )
  • 1994: Tripping with Zhirinovsky (BBC documentary about Vladimir Zhirinovsky )
  • 1998: Charlie Chaplin and the Cossack Gold

Feature films:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CNN interview with Pawlikowski (October 4, 2006)
  2. ↑ CNN short portrait of Pawlikowski (October 4, 2006)
  3. ↑ a b c d London Film Academy Film Season: Pawel Pawlikowski at Riverside Studios on Sunday 6 February 2005 ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.britfilms.com
  4. ↑ a b c Scenes from the Wasteland: The Cinema of Pawel Pawlikowski ( Memento from June 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (11th Bradford Film Festival 2005)
  5. ↑ a b c Pole position (Interview with Pawlikowski in the Guardian , October 8, 2004)
  6. ↑ Stephen Holden : Review / Film; At Festival, a Portrait of Serbs (New York Times, May 7, 1993)
  7. ^ Meet me in Margate ( Guardian , March 9, 2001)
  8. ↑ In 2003 the Guardian included him in its list of the 40 best directors in the world .
  9. ^ IMDb News, August 16, 2002
  10. ↑ Adam Dawtrey: Pawel Pawlikowski takes on Stalin . Variety, September 20, 2007
  11. ↑ David Gritten: Pawel Pawlikowski on The Woman in the Fifth . The Telegraph , February 18, 2012
  12. ↑ Film Festival Cologne starts tomorrow . Article dated October 4, 2018, accessed October 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Pawlikowski, Paweł
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw