FILM DIRECTOR

Jerzy Grotowski

1933 - 1999

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Jerzy Marian Grotowski (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈmarjan grɔˈtɔfskʲi]; 11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre director and theorist whose innovative approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today. He is considered one of the most influential theatre practitioners of the 20th century as well as one of the founders of experimental theatre. He was born in Rzeszów, in southeastern Poland, in 1933 and studied acting and directing at the Ludwik Solski Academy of Dramatic Arts in Kraków and Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow. He debuted as a director in 1957 in Kraków with Eugène Ionesco's play Chairs (co-directed with Aleksandra Mianowska) and shortly afterward founded a small laboratory theatre in 1959 in the town of Opole in Poland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jerzy Grotowski is the 134th most popular film director (down from 117th in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Poland (down from 150th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Film Director.

Jerzy Grotowski is most famous for his work in theater, which he called "poor theater." He believed that theater should be an experience for the audience and not just a spectacle for the audience.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jerzy Grotowski ranks 134 out of 2,041. Before him are James Gunn, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, David Fincher, Jesús Franco, Michael Cimino, and Jean-Pierre Melville. After him are George A. Romero, Peter Greenaway, Terrence Malick, Jonathan Demme, Jiří Menzel, and Michael Powell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Jerzy Grotowski ranks 55. Before him are Gian Maria Volonté, Gene Wilder, Lee Radziwill, Charles K. Kao, Antonio Negri, and John Barry. After him are Jayne Mansfield, Ali Shariati, Stanley Milgram, Sylva Koscina, Richard Rogers, and C. Odumegwu Ojukwu. Among people deceased in 1999, Jerzy Grotowski ranks 30. Before him are Joe DiMaggio, Trygve Haavelmo, Oliver Reed, Gerhard Herzberg, Julius Nyerere, and Iris Murdoch. After him are Daniel Nathans, Akio Morita, Mary Ainsworth, George C. Scott, Sarah Knauss, and Henry Way Kendall.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jerzy Grotowski ranks 176 out of 1,694. Before him are Maxim Litvinov (1876), Solomon Asch (1907), Georg Michaelis (1857), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), and Erich Mendelsohn (1887). After him are Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884), Günther Anders (1902), John I Albert (1459), Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030), Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860), and Alice Miller (1923).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Jerzy Grotowski ranks 6. Before him are Billy Wilder (1906), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Andrzej Wajda (1926), Dziga Vertov (1896), and Fred Zinnemann (1907). After him are Agnieszka Holland (1948), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), and Krzysztof Zanussi (1939).

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