Post by Jaga on Dec 29, 2007 20:31:19 GMT -7
WARSAW (AFP) — Oscar-nominated Polish film director Jerzy Kawalerowicz died aged 85 in the Polish capital Warsaw late Thursday after suffering a hemorrhage, Poland's Association of Cinematographers confirmed Friday.
Among the fathers of the 1950's "Polish school" of cinematography, Kawalerowicz directed 17 feature films during his life-time.
He was best-known for his Oscar-nominated 1965 costume-drama "The Pharaoh" and the 1961 "Mother Joanne of the Angels" for which he won a jury special prize at the Cannes Festival.
The 2001 screen production of "Quo Vadis", a novel by Poland's 19th century Nobel-prize winning author Henryk Sienkiewicz, was his most recent work.
In 1978, Kawalerowicz received a Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear for life-time achievement at the Berlin Film Festival. He was also awarded honorary doctorates by France's Sorbonne University and Poland's renowned Lodz Film School.
He was born January 19, 1922 in what was then the Polish town of Gwozdziec, now in Ukraine.
here is his picture:
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iziorTIaxKsi0oZvjLIYKe7gTmPg
Among the fathers of the 1950's "Polish school" of cinematography, Kawalerowicz directed 17 feature films during his life-time.
He was best-known for his Oscar-nominated 1965 costume-drama "The Pharaoh" and the 1961 "Mother Joanne of the Angels" for which he won a jury special prize at the Cannes Festival.
The 2001 screen production of "Quo Vadis", a novel by Poland's 19th century Nobel-prize winning author Henryk Sienkiewicz, was his most recent work.
In 1978, Kawalerowicz received a Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear for life-time achievement at the Berlin Film Festival. He was also awarded honorary doctorates by France's Sorbonne University and Poland's renowned Lodz Film School.
He was born January 19, 1922 in what was then the Polish town of Gwozdziec, now in Ukraine.
here is his picture:
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iziorTIaxKsi0oZvjLIYKe7gTmPg