Tadeusz Jaworski (director)

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Tadeusz Jaworski (born February 20, 1926 in Chortkiv ; † July 11, 2017 in Toronto ) was a Polish film director , screenwriter and producer, mainly of documentaries . From 1969 he lived in Canada .

Life

Jaworski first grew up in his native town of Chortkiv. After the Second World War he moved to Łódź . There he studied for two semesters at the University of Łódź and then switched to the local film school , specializing in film directing. In 1951 he was one of the first to graduate from the school.

Subsequently, Jaworski took a position at the documentary film studio Wytwórnia Filmów Documentalnych (WFD) in Warsaw , which he soon lost again. Instead, he worked for the film studio Wytwórnia Filmów Oświatowych in Łódź, which mainly produced educational films. Jaworksi directed documentary films such as Jan Sebastian Bach - toccata i fuga in D minor (1956) about organs in the Oliva Cathedral , Warszawskie Łazienki (1959), in which he reproduced impressions from Łazienki-Park and Grunwald (1959) about the Battle of Tannenberg (1410) .

Jaworski later worked again with WFD as a production company. In 1962, for example, he shot the short documentary Źródło (also The Source ), which deals with a dispute over a water source in the village of Rzepin in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship . For this he won prizes at the Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy and the DOK Leipzig (Bronze Taube). His short documentary Ich war Kapo (1963) was also broadcast in Germany. It portrays a former Kapo of the Auschwitz concentration camp , who is in custody because of his involvement in murders in the concentration camp.

In the 1950s and 1960s Jaworski made several films for the World Health Organization about health problems in developing countries. In particular, he dealt with the situation in Africa , also beyond the health issue. He also made films about Africa and Asia for WFD , including 24 short films and three long documentaries. In Biały człowiek z Yakou (1960), for example, he showed the work of a Polish doctor in the African jungle. Other locations were Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

In addition to his documentaries, Jaworski was also active as a theater director and recorded plays for television (e.g. Chłopcy by Stanisław Grochowiak and Krzyk w próżni świata by Jerzy Zawieyski).

In 1967, Jaworski, divorced at the time, married the textile artist Tamara Jaworska (1918–2015). The following year they emigrated from Poland via Rome to Canada as a result of a state-organized campaign against Jews . They lived briefly in Montreal in 1969 until they finally settled in Toronto .

In Canada, Jaworski worked as a director and producer for the CBC and TV Ontario. Among other things, a twelve-part series about Canadian artists and the controversial six-part TV mini-series The Jesus Trial were created . In 1983 Jaworski founded his own company, Co-Producers Fund of Canada Limited, Film and Television Productions, with which he produced other mini-series such as Modern Country and The Challenge of Karl Marx . Jaworski taught film at Humber College and was a member of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Jaworski's most successful film was Selling Out (1972). The short documentary is about an auction on Prince Edward Island , at which a house is being auctioned that has been in the family for a very long time and shows what its previous owner - an old man - feels about it. Jaworski won the Canadian Film Prize (Etrog) for best documentary for this. At the Oscar ceremony in 1973 , he was also a Oscar in the category Best Short Documentary nominated, with but ultimately Deze wereld little of Charles Huguenot van der Linden prevailed.

Jaworski was awarded the Gloria Artis Medal for Cultural Merit in Silver in 2008 . In 2012 the director Grzegorz Królikiewicz shot a documentary about Jaworski ( Wieczny tułacz ). This was shown as part of a retrospective of Jaworski's work in the Film Museum in Łódź. In 2012 Jaworski was awarded the Bene Merito by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Jaworski died in 2017 at the age of 91 after a long illness in Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. He left a sister and a son.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1956: Jan Sebastian Bach - toccata i fuga in D minor
  • 1958: Nasz malarz Orłowski
  • 1959: Zamek w Łańcucie
  • 1959: Warszawskie Łazienki
  • 1959: Grunwald - rok 1410. Zakon Krzyżacki napada na Polskę
  • 1960: Biały człowiek z Yakou
  • 1962: The Source ( Źródło , documentary short film)
  • 1963: I was Kapo ( Byłem kapo , short documentary film)
  • 1966: Teatr telewizji (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1966: Chłopcy
  • 1967: Krzyk w próżni świata
  • 1972: Selling Out (documentary short film)
  • 1975: Tamara's Tapestry World
  • 1978: The Jesus Trial (TV miniseries)
  • 1989: The Island

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joanna Sokołowska-Gwizdka: Dostrzec piękno człowieka. Tadeusz Jaworski (1926-2017). In: Gazeta. October 2, 2017. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  2. ^ Kerstin Mauersberger, Fred Gehler: White dove on dark ground: 40 years of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89487-280-2 . P. 217.
  3. ^ Susan Ferrier MacKay: Tamara Jaworska: Tapestry weaver was a Canadian cultural treasure. In: The Globe and Mail . November 22, 2015. Accessed January 9, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Tad (Tadeusz) Jaworski. In: The Globe and Mail . July 15, 2017 ( online at legacy.com ).
  5. ^ The 45th Academy Awards 1973 oscars.org. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  6. ↑ Odznaki Honorowi “Bene Merito” malmo.msz.gov.pl. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Złote ostrogi" Tadeusza Jaworskiego sfp.org.pl. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Jaworski, Tadeusz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaworski, Tad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Chortkiv
DATE OF DEATH 11th July 2017
Place of death Toronto