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ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI

Born: Nov 22, 1940 - Lvov, USSR (now Ukraine)

Andrzej Zulawski was born on the territory of then the USSR just before the World War II. After all the horrors that his family had witnessed during the war, he and his father moved to France, then to Czechoslovakia and eventually to Poland. He studied film direction at IDHEC in Paris (1957-1959) and philosophy at both Warsaw University (1961) and Université de Paris (1962-1964).

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2000.........La Fidélité ........aka Fidelity......Maverick auteur Andrzej Zulawski directs this flamboyant adaptation of classic French novel La Princesse de Cleves, complete with dirt bike races, hot sex, and naked hockey players. Talented Canadian photographer Clelia (Sophie Marceau) lands a financially lucrative job in Paris

1996..........Szamanka ..........aka Chamanka (French title).......aka The Shaman........Director Andrzej Zulawski's take on Manuela Gretkowska's controversial bestseller reaches new extremes in the depiction of brutality, explicit sex and passion

1991..........La Note Bleue ..........aka The Blue Note.......On a summer day of 1846, George Sand (Marie-France Pisier) hosts a large party at her country house in Nohant. Among the celebrities present are the painter Eugene Delacroix, the opera singer Pauline Viardot, and her lover, the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. .......AVAILABLE

1989.........Mes Nuits Sont Plus Belles Que Vos Jours .........aka My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days.....Lucas, a computer genius facing an unnamed terminal illness that causes him to lose his memory, meets Blanche (Sophie Marceau)....AVAILABLE

1989..........Boris Godounov.........This is a highly adapted cinematic rendition of the great Russian opera Boris Godunov (1874), originally composed by Modest Mussorgsky (and later modified by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Dmitri Shostakovich and others).

1988..........Na Srebrnym Globie .....aka At the Silver Globe.....aka Sur le globe d'argent (French title).......The labyrinthine plot deals with a group of space researchers who left the Earth to find freedom. Their spaceship crashes and they land on the dark side of the Moon. They all die except one and leave a lot of children who eventually turn to shamanism and fire worship.

1987.........Maladie d'Amour ..........aka Malady Of Love....Juliette (Nastassja Kinski) is a hairstylist who is diagnosed with cancer in this tearjerking romantic drama

1985..........L'Amour Braque ..........aka Mad Love................Inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot .......AVAILABLE

1985..........Tristesse et Beauté ......aka Sadness and Beauty........Actor ........In this cool, clinical adaptation of the novel about love and death by Yasunara Kawabata, Hugo (Andrzej Zulawski) is a writer whose one great book was based on an affair he had with Lea (Charlotte Rampling), a sculptor........AVAILABLE

1984..........La Femme Publique .....aka The Public Woman.......An aspiring young actress (Valerie Kaprisky) accepts a leading role in a film version of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed........AVAILABLE

1981.........Possession ....Usually misattributed to the horror genre, this challenging and highly unusual drama stars Isabelle Adjani as a young woman who forsakes her husband (Sam Neill) and her lover (Heinz Bennent) for a bizarre tentacled creature that she keeps in a run-down Berlin apartment........AVAILABLE

1975........L'Important c'est d'aimer........aka That Most Important Thing...Love.......One of the more enduring efforts from iconoclastic director Andrzej Zulawski, this hallucinatory psychological romance helped establish the moods, themes, and techniques that would inform the director's work through the 1980s and 1990s........AVAILABLE

1972.........Diabel .........aka The Devil.....Though presumably dealing with the Prussian army's invasion to Poland in 1793, this ambitious and highly allegorical drama probably seemed too contemporary to Polish censorship back in 1972 and didn't get released until 1988.

1971.........Trzecia Czesc Nocy .......aka The Third Part of the Night

1971..........Le Souffle au Coeur .........aka Murmur of the Heart

1967..........Pavoncello

1967..........Piesn triumfujacej milosci

1966.........Popioly.........aka Ashes......aka The Lost Army.....First Assistant Director

1962.........L'Amour à Vingt Ans.........aka Love is 20 Years Old.....First Assistant Director

1961..........Samson.........First Assistant Director