Director Andrzej Zhulavsky died

Today, February 17, in Warsaw at the age of 75, the Polish film director Andrzej Zhulavsky died.

It is reported by gazeta.pl .

Andrzej Zhulavsky was born in 1940 in Lviv, in his youth lived with his family in France, studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Sorbonne, and graduated from the directorial faculty of the Parisian Higher Cinema Institute.

In the 1950s, he returned to Poland, worked as an assistant by Andrzej Vaida on the set of the film “Samson” ( Samson , 1961), the second director on the set of the films “Love of the Twenty-Year” ( Mikin Dwudziestolatków , 1962) and “A ashes, 1965), in the late 1960s), in the late 1960s), in the late 1960s) He shot television series films based on the works of Stefan Zhiromsky and Ivan Turgenev.

The manifesto of the new Polish cinema was the film by Zhulavsky “The Third of the Night” ( Trzecia częasha Nocy , 1971). The painting “On the Silver Planet” ( Na Srebrnym Globie ), the film damping of the “Lunar Trilogy” of the director of the grandfather, fiction writer Hedgehog Khulavsky, was prohibited by the authorities of the Polish People's Republic. The film was finished and released after political changes in the country in the late 1980s.

Andji Zhulavsky made many films in France, in particular, the drama “The main thing is to love” ( L'Important C'est D'est d'Aimer ) with Romi Schneider and Claus Kinski, the horror film “Obsessed” ( Possession , 1981) with Isabelle Adjani, the film “Slaged Love” ( l'amour Braque, the film “L'Amour Braque 1985) According to Dostoevsky’s novel “Idiot”.

The premiere of the last film by Zhulavsky, the noir-triller “Cosmos” ( Cosmos , 2015), took place at the Film Festival in Locarno, where he received a prize for the best directing.