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Krzysztof Zanussi
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Krzysztof Zanussi is one of the few Polish directors who are truely international. He completes the triumvirate of the most important names in Polish film history, along with Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Kieślowski. The pioneer of the famous cinema of moral concern, Zanussi debuted with The Structure of Crystals in 1969. The film explored the subject of soul-searching by two young scientists who are trying to find a place for themselves in Communist Poland. The theme of constant search reappears in most of Zanussi’s films making him still an active practitioner of cinema of moral concern movement. The LFA Masterclass opens with Zanussi’s most recent film Persona Non Grata (2005), which will be followed by a unique opportunity to get an insight in to his working methods.
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Krzysztof Zanussi is Professor of Cinematographic and Television Stage Production in the Higher Academy of Cinematographic and Television Arts in Lodz, Poland. He is popular around the world Polish film and drama director. He lectures at the National film Academy of Great Britain, the Film Institute in Belgrade, the Film Institute in Budapest, etc. His films are awarded with prestigious international and national awards - the special awards in Cannes and Venice, the Award of the film festival in Moscow, the Italian awards "Lumier" and "Vitorio de Sica", etc.
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Although Krzysztof Zanussi is hardly a household name in the English-speaking world, he is a distinguished Polish director with a long list of films to his credit. Born in 1939, he directed his first film in 1969. In 1981, he made a biography of John Paul II, Man from a Far Country. In 1982, he won the Golden Lion Prize in Venice for The Year of the Quiet Sun, a romance about an American soldier and a Polish refugee at the end of World War II.
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Krzysztof Zanussi gave some direction lectures. He is known as a great expert of cinema who shot over 30 documentary and feature films. For the film "Constanta" ("Constancy") he received a prize at the Cannes festival in 1980. One of his most famous films - "Life as a sexually transmitted fatal illness" was honoured with the Grand Prix of the Moscow XXII international film festival. In 1998 Krzysztof Zanussi became an honoured doctor of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography. Now the maestro is 66 years old.
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One of Zanussi's best known films is his striking debut, Struktura kryształu (The Structure of Crystals, 1969). From the first shot, the film is bleak: in its use of black and white; its setting of a snowy, frozen wasteland; the austerity of the lives of Jan and Anna; a stark soundtrack; and what appears to be a deliberate underexposure of the film—an effect highlighted by a clip from a film the characters see as part of the action which is clearer and brighter than the rest of the film.
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Zanussi, who studied physics and philosophy before starting out as a filmmaker, draws deeply on his intellectual background in his films. He is ... very sensitive about the effects of politics on human life.
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