Wojciech Smarzowski

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Wojciech Smarzowski with the Orzeł (audience award) won in 2012 .

Wojciech "Wojtek" Smarzowski (born January 18, 1963 in Korczyna near Krosno ) is a Polish film director.

Life

Smarzowski is a graduate of the Camera Department at the Łódź Film School . He also studied film at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków . At the beginning of his career he made documentaries, commercials and music videos. In 1998 he was awarded the most important Polish music prize, Fryderyk , for his music video for the song To nie był film by the Polish rock band Myslovitz .

His first feature film work was made in 1999 for Polish television. In 2004 he made his cinema debut A Wedding and Other Curiosities , which premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival . At the subsequent Polish Film Festival Gdynia , Smarzowski received a special jury award and the critics award. In 2005 the film was awarded the Polish Film Prize several times . Smarzowski received the award for best director and best screenplay. The film also received an award in the Best Film category.

In 2009 a second feature film, Dom zły, was released with a similarly great success as the first film. Dom zły was awarded the prize for the best director, the best screenplay and the best editing at the Polish Gdynia Film Festival 2009. At the Polish Film Awards ceremony, the film received the awards for best director and best camera ( Krzysztof Ptak ). In addition, the editing received an award and the film received the audience award.

In 2011 Smarzowski's feature film Róża (Rose) won both the Warsaw Grand Prix and the Audience Award as the most popular feature film at the Warsaw International Film Festival .

Wołyń (German title Summer 1943: The End of Innocence ), Smarzowski's feature film about the massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia , was awarded the Polish Film Prize ( Orzeł ) in eight categories in 2017 ; in another six he was nominated, which is a record. Most of the time the film was received very positively; Despite the controversial and historically difficult subject, Smarzowski received praise both from conservative circles close to the ruling party (including from Jacek Kurski , the head of state television) and in the media critical of the government. The film was rated as an important step in the identity-historical dialogue between Poland and Ukraine.

In 2004 Wojciech Smarzowski was awarded the Paszport Polityki Culture Prize.

Since Dom zły he has been working closely with the Polish avant-garde jazz musician Mikołaj Trzaska , who also wrote and recorded the soundtracks for Róża , Drogówka , Pod Mocnym Aniołem and Wołyń .

Smarzowski lives in Gdansk .

Filmography

Director

  • 1998: Małżowina
  • since 2003: Na Wspólnej (TV series, episodes: 26–30, 47–51, 67–71, 82–86, 97–101, 162–166, 192–196, 212–216, 237–241, 252– 256, 277–281, 311–315, 336–340, 361–365, 391–395, 441–445, 466–470, 706–710, 791–795, 811–815, 856–860, 876–880, 911-915, 931-935, 976-980)
  • 2004: A wedding and other curiosities (Wesele)
  • 2008: BrzydUla (TV series; episodes: 1–20, 61–65)
  • 2009: Londyńczycy 2 (TV series; episodes: 9-16)
  • 2009: Dom zły
  • 2011: Róża
  • 2012: Drogówka
  • 2013: Pod Mocnym Aniołem
  • 2016: Summer 1943 - The End of Innocence (Wołyń)
  • 2018: Clergy

script

  • 1998: Małżowina
  • 2000: Sezon na leszcza
  • 2004: Wesele
  • 2009: Dom zły
  • 2012: Drogówka

Camera work

  • 1996: Psy totalitaryzmu

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festiwal w Gdyni. Jacek Kurski dał własną nagrodę 'Wołyniowi'. Reżyser filmu jej never przyjął. Gazeta Wyborcza , September 24, 2016, accessed April 17, 2017 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Simon Lewis: Wołyń: towards memory dialogue between Poland and Ukraine. Open Democracy, October 27, 2016, accessed April 17, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Smarzowski, Wojciech
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smarzowski, Wojtek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Korczyna near Krosno , Poland