FILM DIRECTOR

Krzysztof Zanussi

1939 - Today

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Krzysztof Pius Zanussi (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is also a professor at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia in Katowice. He is the recipient of the Golden Lion at the 1984 Venice Film Festival for A Year of the Quiet Sun, the Jury Prize at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival for The Constant Factor as well as two Grands Prix at the 1977 and 2000 Gdynia Film Festival for Camouflage and Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease, respectively. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Krzysztof Zanussi is the 322nd most popular film director (down from 308th in 2019), the 367th most popular biography from Poland (down from 352nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Krzysztof Zanussi ranks 322 out of 2,041. Before him are Jeannot Szwarc, Edward Dmytryk, Adrian Lyne, Billy Hayes, Adolph Zukor, and Sam Taylor-Johnson. After him are Germaine Dulac, George Roy Hill, Steve McQueen, Richard Fleischer, Alain Tanner, and John Hughes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Krzysztof Zanussi ranks 115. Before him are Warda Al-Jazairia, Feroz Khan, Kathryn Joosten, George F. R. Ellis, Michael Moorcock, and Velibor Vasović. After him are Ryozo Suzuki, Tarcisio Burgnich, Bernard Kouchner, Seán Brady, Veruschka von Lehndorff, and Ginger Baker.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krzysztof Zanussi ranks 367 out of 1,694. Before him are Andreas Gryphius (1616), Avraham Stern (1907), Ernst Wilimowski (1916), Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700), Stanislav Kosior (1889), and C. L. Gloger (1803). After him are Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Leszek II the Black (1241), Stanisław Koniecpolski (1591), Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838), Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1863), and Krystyna Janda (1952).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Krzysztof Zanussi ranks 12. Before him are Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), and Jerzy Stuhr (1947). After him are Walerian Borowczyk (1923), Paweł Pawlikowski (1957), Jerzy Hoffman (1932), Andrzej Munk (1921), Wojciech Has (1925), and Max Fleischer (1883).

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