Jerzy Wójcik (12 September 1930 – 3 April 2019) was a Polish cinematographer, author of screenplays and film and television director.
Jerzy Wójcik graduated from the cinematography department of the Åódź Film School in 1955. He started working in film in 1956 as an assistant to cameraman Jerzy Lipman. He was a camera operator for Andrzej Wajda’s KanaÅ‚ and Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Prawdziwy Koniec Wielkiej Wojny / Real End of the Great War. Jerzy Wójcik’s name is linked to the films of ‘Polish school’ directors Andrzej Wajda and Andrzej Munk. His full-length feature debut as a cameraman was Munk’s Eroica in 1957. Two years later he was the cinematographer for Wajda’s Popiól i Diament / Ashes and Diamonds. Wójcik was also the cinematographer for several other films by Andrzej Wajda as well as films by Kazimierz Kutz, Stanislaw Różewicz, and Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
In 1981 to 1982, Jerzy Wójcik taught cinematography at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Since 1982 he taught at Åódź Film School. He has also worked as a film director, with projects such as Lament in 1991 and Wrota Europy / The Gateway of Europe in 1999 to his credit. Jerzy Wójcik also wrote a book, Labirynt ÅšwiatÅ‚a / Labyrinth of Light, describing his professional experiences and presenting his philosophical reflections.
Jerzy Wójcik has received some prestigious film industry awards, including the ‘Golden Camera 300’ for his lifetime achievement as a cinematographer at the International Cinematographers’ Film Festival in Bitola, Macedonia (1999), and the ‘Vitae Valor’ award for lifetime achievement at the third ‘Vitae Valor’ Film Festival in Tarnów. Jerzy Wójcik’s star in the Avenue of the Stars in Piotrkowska Street in Åódź was unveiled in 2002.
Jerzy Wójcik Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jerzy Wójcik |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Camera |
| Place of Birth | Nowy SÄ…cz, Poland |
| Date of Birth | 1930-09-12 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 88 |
| Deathday | 2019-04-03 |
Jerzy Wójcik Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Wrota Europy | Director | 1999-01-01 | War drama directed by Jerzy Wojcik…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Koniec nocy | Writer | 1957-12-21 | A group of young Lódz hoodlums spends their time shoplifting, partying and drinking heavily, until they are faced with serious consequences of their … |
| Elegia | Writer | 1979-11-29 | Story of Podgaje massacre in January 1945 in which SS troop murdered captured Polish soldiers…. |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Ashes and Diamonds | Director of Photography | 1958-10-03 | It’s May 1945, and Nazi Germany has just surrendered. The war is over, but not in Poland. As the German soldiers vacate, the remaining Russian forces … |
| Pharaoh | Director of Photography | 1966-03-10 | Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt’s clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious p… |
| The Lynx | Director of Photography | 1982-03-15 | Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed N… |
| Eroica | Director of Photography | 1958-01-04 | Two sketches covering episodes from the World War II. In the first novel, “Scherzo alla polacca”, a shrewd son, trying to preserve his skin, ultimatel… |
| Kanal | Camera Operator | 1957-04-20 | During the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising following World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the… |
| The Deluge | Director of Photography | 1974-09-02 | A dashing warrior fights for the heart of a young gentlewoman as war rages across 17th century Poland in an adaptation of the second part of Henryk Si… |
| Nobody’s Calling | Director of Photography | 1960-10-31 | “In 1960 Kazimierz Kutz’ second film NIKT NIE WOLA / NOBODY’S CALLING, based on a Jozef Hen novel that was never published in Poland, described the fa… |
| Samson | Director of Photography | 1961-09-11 | Sampson is one of several Andrzej Wajda films harking back to his youth during the Nazi Occupation of Poland. Many of these concern not only the strug… |
| Przy torze kolejowym | Director of Photography | 1963-01-01 | … |
| Man on the Tracks | Director of Photography | 1957-01-17 | In 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. An inquiry immediately follows. Testimony t… |
| Mój stary | Director of Photography | 1962-09-05 | A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet…. |
| DiabeÅ‚ | Director of Photography | 1988-06-06 | The hard-working son of a dying country woman hires a stranger to take care of his mother…. |
| Time Past | Director of Photography | 1961-04-11 | Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. On… |
| Zacne grzechy | Director of Photography | 1963-11-22 | … |
| Mother Joan of the Angels | Director of Photography | 1961-02-09 | Set in the 17th century. A convent in a small town is being visited by high-ranking Catholic official trying to exorcise the nun supposedly possessed … |
| The Deluge Redivivus | Director of Photography | 2014-11-03 | The Deluge Redivivus is a new remastered cut of the original Polish “The Deluge†from 1974 that was released for the film’s 40th anniversary in 20… |
| Cross of Valor | Director of Photography | 1959-03-27 | Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he fi… |
| Woman in a Hat | Director of Photography | 1985-09-02 | A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in JasieÅ„ski’s ‘The Ball of… |
| Pensja pani Latter | Camera Department Manager | 1983-09-05 | The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls’ school – Mrs. Emma Latter. Ms La… |
| Westerplatte Resists | Cinematography | 1967-08-31 | Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdansk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City… |
| Angel in the Wardrobe | Cinematography | 1988-02-08 | About a sound designer for films who years ago, while in bed with his mistress, failed to respond to calls for help outside his door. Now during the r… |
| The Leaves Have Fallen | Cinematography | 1975-11-17 | Young former partisan recalls his war experience during a trip to the sea…. |
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