Wladyslaw Ślesicki

Władysław Ślesicki (born January 5, 1927 in Warsaw ; † December 9, 2008 ibid) was a Polish documentary and feature film director and screenwriter.

Ślesicki took part in the Warsaw Uprising during the German occupation of Poland , was a commander in the Szare Szeregi and a soldier in the Polish Home Army . After the war he studied art history at the University of Warsaw and from 1955 to 1959 directing at the State Film School in Łódź.

After completing his studies, he worked in the Warsaw documentary film studio, but his real importance also remained as a documentary filmmaker. His first feature film, Ruchome piaski ( Shifting Dunes ), was not made until 1969 . He became known for the film adaptation of Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel W pustyni iw puszczy ( Through the desert and the jungle ), which had more than 30 million viewers in Poland alone. This was followed by Droga daleka przed nami ... (1980) and Spiewy po rosie (death in the net, 1983). Ślesicki wrote the scripts for his feature films himself. In 1976 he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta , and in 2007 the Prize of the Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich for his outstanding artistic achievements.

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SURNAME	Ślesicki, Władysław
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH	December 9, 2008
Place of death	Warsaw