Andrzej Żuławski , born the November 22nd 1940 with Lvov, is realizer (cinema and theater), scenario writer, writer.

Biographical elements

After having studied with IDHEC of 1957 with 1959, Żuławski returns in Poland to become assistant of Andrzej Wajda (1960-66). He studies meanwhile the Philosophie at the University of Warsaw and political sciences in the Sorbonne. At that time, it publishes texts on the cinema, like its own poems. It begins in 1967 with a medium-length film for television, heading Pieśń triumfującej miłości ( song of the love triumphing ) (for which it received the diploma of honor of Los Angeles Academy off Television Arts and Sciences in 1968), and realizes in 1971 its first feature-length film Trzecia część nocy ( Third part of the night ), which gained many international prizes. The realizer decided to work in France after having encountered problems with the Devil (prohibited by the Polish censure because of the violence and the cruelty of certain scenes).

In 1974, it Co-adapts and there carries out important is to like , drawn from the novel of Christopher Frank the American night . The success of this film - one remembers particularly the roles of Romy Schneider and of Jacques Dutronc) allows him to turn over to Poland. During two years, 1976 and 1977, it makes a science fiction film adapted of the work of its great-uncle, Jerzy Żuławski, the money sphere. The turning of this film is stopped by the Polish authorities nine days before the end. This film was born only in 1987, where the final assembly and the end close to the censure enabled him to leave in some rooms.

Taking again a scenario writes in 1978, it manages to turn, in Berlin, a Franco-German coproduction, Possession , marital crisis between a secret agent and a woman had by a strange force. Presented to Cannes, Possession is rewarded by the Price of female role decreed with Isabelle Adjani.

The turning of the Love directs (a free adaptation of the Idiot of Fedor Dostoïevski) is for particularly important Żuławski: it meets there Sophie Marceau, which will become his wife thereafter and that it directs in My nights are more beautiful than your days, according to the best-seller of Raphaëlle Billetdoux, and later, in fidelity . It will devote at least two books to the description of the rupture with the French actress ( O niej & the Inaccuracy ). In addition to the cinema, Żuławski also works for the theater. In 1996 it is seen naming Chevalier of Ordre of Arts and the Letters

Catalog of films

• 1967 : Song of the love triumphing (TV)
• 1967: Pavoncello (TV)
• 1971: Third part of the night
• 1975: important is to like
• 1981: Possession
• 1984: the public Woman
• 1985: the Love directs
• 1987: money Earth (official exit)
• 1988: the Devil (official exit)
• 1989: My nights are more beautiful than your days
• 1989: Boris Godounov
• 1991: the blue Note
• 1996: Chamanka ( Szamanka )
• 2000: Fidelity

Written works

Żuławski is also writer, his books make play the real events and characters and the fiction, which is often only one to remember deformed.

• It was an orchard , Stock, Paris, 1987

• the Forest fortress , 1991, French transl. at Stock, Paris, 1993
• W oczach tygrysa , BGW, Warszawa, 1993
• Ogród miłości , Philip Wilson, Warszawa, 1993
• Jonasz , Philip Wilson, Warszawa, 1993
• the Inaccuracy , Agnès Pareyre, Paris, 2003
• Like one nothing , Calmann-Levy, Paris, 2004
• O niej ( In connection with it ), Słowo/obraz terytoria, Gdańsk, 2003

… as well as volumes of serials and memories (Editions Twoj Styl); he regularly writes chronicles in the female magazine Twoj Styl .

External bond

• Andrzej Żuławski in Internet Movie DataBase