The Polish director Andrzej Zulawski , one of the most famous filmmakers in Poland with Krzystof Kieslowski and Roman Polanski , died today in Warsaw at age 76 victim of a cancer.
Zulawski achieved worldwide fame with his film adaptation of the novel “Day for night” by Christopher Frank, the Polish director titled “limportant c’est d’aimer” (1975) with Romy Schneider and Klaus Kinski.
Another of his major successes was the film “Possession” (1981), with a brilliant performance by Isabelle Adjani which earned him the award for best actress at the 1981 Cannes festival .
“Cosmos” was the last film by Andrzej Zulawski, a feature film based on the novel by another Polish Witold Gombrowicz, and in August 2015 he received the award for best director at the Festival of Locarno.
early in his film career, Zulawski worked as an attendee of Polish director Andrzej Wajda on the sets of his films “Samson” (1961), “L’amour à vingt ans” (1962) and “Ashes” (1965).
Zulawski was always considered a controversial director who liked to surprise and provoke the viewer, and he defined himself as “a recalcitrant individual” who made films about what tortured him.
The director was born in 1940 in Lviv (then Poland, today Ukraine), during the Nazi occupation, although few years later left his country to settle with his family in Paris, where he studied at the Sorbonne.
the filmmaker had three sons, one with his former partner, French actress Sophie Marceau, which separated in 2001 after 17 years of relationship.
in 2002 he received the French order of the Legion of Honor.
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