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Krzysztof Zanussi, (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter.
He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is also a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice.
Krzysztof Zanussi Biography / Wiki
Name | Krzysztof Zanussi |
Also Know | |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Directing |
Place of Birth | Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland |
Date of Birth | 1939-06-17 |
Age(as in 2022) | 83 |
Deathday |
Krzysztof Zanussi Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Celluloid Man | Self | 2012-06-26 | Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He built… |
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski | Self | 2005-02-27 | Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker’s career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslo… |
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov | Self | 2017-04-06 | August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he … |
Camera Buff | Himself | 1979-11-16 | Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it’s the first camera in town, he’s named official photographer by the local Part… |
Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky | Himself | 2008-10-17 | In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky’s death, student filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky sets out in search of his favorite director’s le… |
Weekend Stories: The Soul Sings | konferansjer | 1997-09-19 | A classical singer who put his career on hold to raise a family gets a big break when a major company hires him for a televised New Year’s Eve concert… |
The Gift | Self | 2019-04-10 | After the release of “Nostalgia”, Andrei Tarkovsky runs out his Soviet authorities permission to work abroad: he has to go back home. But he understan… |
Talking Heads 2021 | Self | 2021-09-23 | The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof KieÅ›lowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocu… |
Solidarność, Solidarność… | Self | 2005-08-31 | … |
Sodankylä Forever | Self | 2010-08-05 | The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded … |
Krzysztof Zanussi Directing Movies
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
A Year of the Quiet Sun | Director | 1984-09-09 | Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both exp… |
And a Warm Heart | Director | 2008-09-26 | … |
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease | Director | 2000-09-08 | The story of a doctor named Tomasz who questions his beliefs, faith and morality as his end is near, so he makes all efforts to find dignity in his im… |
Black Sun | Director | 2007-06-15 | After learning the identity of the man who killed her husband, a young widow struggles with whether to forgive the killer or avenge her husband’s deat… |
Inventory | Director | 1989-10-23 | Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography… |
Illumination | Director | 1973-09-29 | Krzysztof Zanussi’s groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality … |
Pope John Paul II. | Director | 2004-01-01 | … |
From a Far Country | Director | 1981-09-15 | The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtila was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Some y… |
Camouflage | Director | 1977-01-28 | A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is… |
The Structure of Crystal | Director | 1969-10-14 | Two talented physicists used to work together in the frontline of academy in scientific discovery. One of them, Jan, gave everything up and went to a … |
The Silent Touch | Director | 1992-09-30 | Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, wh… |
The Contract | Director | 1980-11-17 | Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an “arranged” ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each othe… |
Imperative | Director | 1982-04-01 | Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982’s Imperative. The story concern… |
Persona non grata | Director | 2005-04-01 | A Polish ambassador (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz) finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife…. |
The Constant Factor | Director | 1980-06-04 | The main character in this effective, convincing drama is Witold (Tadeusz Bradecki) who is high in what later would be termed the “emotional quotient”… |
The Spiral | Director | 1978-06-04 | In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agit… |
Family Life | Director | 1971-09-24 | This intense chamber drama centers on an ambitious young industrial designer who is summoned home to help his father and sister. Both the aristocratic… |
Wherever You Are… | Director | 1988-09-11 | An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II…. |
A Woman’s Decision | Director | 1975-01-21 | The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won’t… |
Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe | Director | 1991-04-01 | The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz…. |
At Full Gallop | Director | 1996-04-01 | Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father’s decisio… |
Revisited | Director | 2009-04-01 | In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel Olbrychski, and J… |
Versuchung | Director | 1982-01-01 | … |
Foreign Body | Director | 2014-10-17 | A dashing young Italian in Poland finds himself caught between two women — a novitiate nun and a ruthless corporate ladder-climber — in this lacer… |
Venice 70: Future Reloaded | Director | 2013-07-31 | Made for the Venice Film Festival’s 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of t… |
Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel | Director | 1992-08-20 | … |
Weekend Stories: A Woman’s Business | Director | 1996-03-19 | A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take… |
The Unapproachable | Director | 1982-08-01 | … |
Nachtdienst | Director | 1975-01-01 | … |
Haus der Frauen | Director | 1978-03-08 | … |
Hipoteza | Director | 1973-10-31 | Short Drama… |
Behind the Wall | Director | 1971-10-19 | Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compas… |
Ways in the Night | Director | 1979-09-09 | Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed in Poland and occupies the estate of Countess Elzbieta… |
Power Of Evil | Director | 1985-08-01 | An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man…. |
The Death of a Provincial | Director | 1966-10-15 | Young and lively artist lives at the monastery while restoring the interiors and pays attention to the very old monk who is going to pass away soon…. |
Examination | Director | 1968-04-01 | A student who missed his final exam because of illness arrives at his professor’s house to beg to be allowed to take it…. |
Face to Face | Director | 1967-04-01 | The film depicts a moral dilemma of a clerk who has to face a choice: whether to save a stranger or to pretend that he hasn’t seen anything, so that h… |
Mountains at Dusk | Director | 1970-04-01 | An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together…. |
The Supplement | Director | 2002-04-01 | An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee. Follow up to “Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease” … |
Blaubart | Director | 1984-10-27 | … |
The Catamount | Director | 1974-12-31 | A banker troubled by both business and personal problems is transferred to a small town. There he meets and seduces an older woman. Together, they dec… |
Pittsville – Ein Safe voll Blut | Director | 1975-11-12 | … |
Krzysztof Penderecki | Director | 1968-06-22 | A biographical documentary about Krzysztof Penderecki… |
A Plane from Budapest | Director | 1961-01-01 | Here we see short scenes from a random day at the airport. We have flying planes, landings, passport checking scenes, passengers waiting for their rel… |
Weekend Stories: Deceptive Charm | Director | 1998-03-24 | An idealistic scientist is encouraged by his wife to use his good looks to get ahead, but his new job carries with it temptations and traps…. |
Weekend Stories: The Last Circle | Director | 1998-03-31 | An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first time to appear in a charity performance, and he immedi… |
Weekend Stories: The Hidden Treasure | Director | 2001-01-26 | Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family. Her family house is now an impoverished home for the … |
Weekend Stories: Little Faith | Director | 1997-03-24 | A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both s… |
Weekend Stories: Dilatory Line | Director | 1998-04-14 | A young TV producer struggles with his conscience when he becomes convinced that his TV program is covering up a lie, but the more he tries to reveal … |
Weekend Stories: Unwritten Law | Director | 1998-04-28 | A handsome young chauffeur hired by a powerful and charismatic businesswoman discovers he has been made an unwitting party to fraud, but his moral out… |
Weekend Stories: The Soul Sings | Director | 1997-09-19 | A classical singer who put his career on hold to raise a family gets a big break when a major company hires him for a televised New Year’s Eve concert… |
Students | Director | 1962-06-01 | This is a short story woven into the scenery of Kraków’s students’ festival. The camera is always at the center of events and is accompanied by the … |
Danish Girls Show Everything | Director | 1996-01-01 | Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-t… |
The Wrong Address | Director | 1995-05-19 | A film by Krzysztof Zanussi inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “The Lady with an Ermineâ€. The director takes us to the Museum Czartoryski … |
Recepta dla Johna | Director | 1960-01-01 | A spy named John learns the importance of sports and health from Nowa Huta citizens… |
Our God’s Brother | Director | 1997-06-08 | In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless…. |
Solidarność, Solidarność… | Director | 2005-08-31 | … |
Ether | Director | 2018-11-30 | At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman –… |
The Perfect Number | Director | 2022-09-14 | The young mathematician David dedicated his whole life to the study of prime numbers. Getting to know his distant cousin, Joachim, causes the man to g… |
Krzysztof Zanussi Production Movies
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
At Full Gallop | Producer | 1996-04-01 | Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father’s decisio… |
Spoor | Producer | 2017-02-24 | A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is … |
Rose | Co-Producer | 2012-02-03 | This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm… |
Ether | Producer | 2018-11-30 | At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman –… |
Our God’s Brother | Producer | 1997-06-08 | In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless…. |
Weiser | Producer | 2001-01-18 | The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It is imbued with nostalgia and the atmosphere of my… |
Close-Ups | Producer | 2014-10-24 | 37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways…. |
Under Electric Clouds | Co-Producer | 2015-02-10 | Russia 2017. The world could be on the verge of a great war. People are anxious that things could fall apart. Evolving around an unfinished building, … |
Writing
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
A Year of the Quiet Sun | Writer | 1984-09-09 | Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both exp… |
Inventory | Writer | 1989-10-23 | Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography… |
Illumination | Writer | 1973-09-29 | Krzysztof Zanussi’s groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality … |
Camouflage | Writer | 1977-01-28 | A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is… |
Behind the Wall | Writer | 1971-10-19 | Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compas… |
Hipoteza | Writer | 1973-10-31 | Short Drama… |
The Spiral | Writer | 1978-06-04 | In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agit… |
From a Far Country | Writer | 1981-09-15 | The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtila was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Some y… |
A Woman’s Decision | Writer | 1975-01-21 | The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won’t… |
The Constant Factor | Writer | 1980-06-04 | The main character in this effective, convincing drama is Witold (Tadeusz Bradecki) who is high in what later would be termed the “emotional quotient”… |
Ways in the Night | Writer | 1979-09-09 | Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed in Poland and occupies the estate of Countess Elzbieta… |
The Contract | Writer | 1980-11-17 | Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an “arranged” ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each othe… |
Versuchung | Writer | 1982-01-01 | … |
Power Of Evil | Writer | 1985-08-01 | An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man…. |
Imperative | Writer | 1982-04-01 | Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982’s Imperative. The story concern… |
And a Warm Heart | Screenplay | 2008-09-26 | … |
The Supplement | Writer | 2002-04-01 | An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee. Follow up to “Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease” … |
At Full Gallop | Writer | 1996-04-01 | Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father’s decisio… |
The Structure of Crystal | Screenplay | 1969-10-14 | Two talented physicists used to work together in the frontline of academy in scientific discovery. One of them, Jan, gave everything up and went to a … |
Persona non grata | Writer | 2005-04-01 | A Polish ambassador (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz) finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife…. |
Black Sun | Screenplay | 2007-06-15 | After learning the identity of the man who killed her husband, a young widow struggles with whether to forgive the killer or avenge her husband’s deat… |
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease | Writer | 2000-09-08 | The story of a doctor named Tomasz who questions his beliefs, faith and morality as his end is near, so he makes all efforts to find dignity in his im… |
Foreign Body | Writer | 2014-10-17 | A dashing young Italian in Poland finds himself caught between two women — a novitiate nun and a ruthless corporate ladder-climber — in this lacer… |
Wherever You Are… | Writer | 1988-09-11 | An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II…. |
Revisited | Screenplay | 2009-04-01 | In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel Olbrychski, and J… |
Pittsville – Ein Safe voll Blut | Writer | 1975-11-12 | … |
Krzysztof Penderecki | Writer | 1968-06-22 | A biographical documentary about Krzysztof Penderecki… |
Family Life | Writer | 1971-09-24 | This intense chamber drama centers on an ambitious young industrial designer who is summoned home to help his father and sister. Both the aristocratic… |
Mountains at Dusk | Writer | 1970-04-01 | An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together…. |
Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe | Writer | 1991-04-01 | The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz…. |
Weekend Stories: The Hidden Treasure | Writer | 2001-01-26 | Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family. Her family house is now an impoverished home for the … |
Weekend Stories: The Last Circle | Writer | 1998-03-31 | An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first time to appear in a charity performance, and he immedi… |
Weekend Stories: Unwritten Law | Writer | 1998-04-28 | A handsome young chauffeur hired by a powerful and charismatic businesswoman discovers he has been made an unwitting party to fraud, but his moral out… |
Weekend Stories: The Soul Sings | Writer | 1997-09-19 | A classical singer who put his career on hold to raise a family gets a big break when a major company hires him for a televised New Year’s Eve concert… |
Weekend Stories: Dilatory Line | Writer | 1998-04-14 | A young TV producer struggles with his conscience when he becomes convinced that his TV program is covering up a lie, but the more he tries to reveal … |
Weekend Stories: Little Faith | Writer | 1997-03-24 | A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both s… |
My Beloved Enemy | Original Story | 2018-10-04 | professor saves the life of an injured hit man who, in return, promises to find and kill an enemy of his. Although the professor says not to have any … |
The Wrong Address | Screenplay | 1995-05-19 | A film by Krzysztof Zanussi inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “The Lady with an Ermineâ€. The director takes us to the Museum Czartoryski … |
Our God’s Brother | Writer | 1997-06-08 | In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless…. |
Solidarność, Solidarność… | Writer | 2005-08-31 | … |
Ether | Writer | 2018-11-30 | At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman –… |
Podróżni jak inni | Writer | 1969-03-27 | … |
Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel | Writer | 1992-08-20 | … |
Weekend Stories: A Woman’s Business | Writer | 1996-03-19 | A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take… |
Nachtdienst | Writer | 1975-01-01 | … |
The Perfect Number | Writer | 2022-09-14 | The young mathematician David dedicated his whole life to the study of prime numbers. Getting to know his distant cousin, Joachim, causes the man to g… |
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