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Polish Director Andrzej Zulawski is dead

Andrzej Zulawski belonged to the avant-garde of the Polish Independent cinema. His most famous films include “Nachtblende” with Romy Schneider and “the Loyalty of The women” with Sophie Marceau. Now he has died.

The Polish Director Andrzej Zulawski is according to media reports, on the night of Wednesday (17.02.2016) in Warsaw, died. He succumbed to cancer. Zulawski was 75 years old. Was born Zulawski 1940 in Eastern Poland, he grew up in Paris, as his father was a Diplomat in the Polish Embassy was. Initially worked Zulawsk as a Journalist. For the Film, he came on the Polish Film and theater Director Andrzej Vajda, whose assistant he in the 1960s.

Known to a wide public was Zulawski through his Film “Nachtblende” (1975) with Romy Schneider in the lead role. At that time, the Film was about a love triangle in the Mafia Milieu plays a scandal. Other well-known works of Polish filmmaker, “My nights are more beautiful than your days (1989) and “the Loyalty of The women” (2000). In the latter Film, playing the French actress Sophie Marceau in the lead role, since the mid-1980s, his partner was to him in the year 2001 left.

Romy Schneider and Klaus Kinski in the movie “Nachtblende”

Locarno, 2015: award as best Director

A few years later, made by Andrzej Zulawski in Poland through its engagement with the more than forty years younger actress Weronika Rosati headlines. Shortly thereafter followed the separation, when both sides publicly accused. In the past year, he managed to eventually reconnect with his performance as a Director, in the press. When 68. The international film festival in Locarno in the summer of 2015 Zulawski of the Jury surprisingly as best Director awards. His Film “Cosmos” is about two young men in search of himself and refers in many Places to the work of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz.

Avant-garde artist with a penchant for provocation

He was an original artist, have been always controversial, but always honest to yourself, said the President of the Polish Association of filmmakers (SFP), Jacek Bromski, after Zulawskis death on Polish television. His death was a great loss for the Polish and international cinema, said the film critic Janusz Wroblewski compared to the AFP news Agency. He was a provocative avant-garde artists have been and have with many Polish stereotypes broken.

rey/suc (dpa, AFPE)