Andrzej ZulawskiFilmography

Born:: November 22, 1940 in Lvov, Ukraine, USSR
Occupation:: First Assistant Director, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Andrzej Zulawski was born on the territory of what was then the U.S.S.R. in a Polish family with remarkable traditions in arts and literature. After World War II, his father's diplomatic career brought the family to France (1945-1949), Czechoslovakia (1949-1952), and finally to Poland. He studied...Read More

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Dangerous Liaisons

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Nastassja Kinski, Leelee Sobieski, Danielle Darrieux

Synopsis: French filmmaker Josée Dayan directs the erotic drama Les Liaisons Dangereuses, based on the 18th century novel by Choderlos de Laclos and updated by screenwriter Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. A co-production of France and Canada, this French-language television miniseries is reimagined with a swinging Read More

2003
La Fidélité

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Canet, Magali Noël, Michel Subor

Synopsis: 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 at a Read More

4/5/00
Szamanka

Crew: Director

Actors: Boguslaw Linda, Iwona Petry, Pawel Delag, Agnieszka Wagner, Alicja Jachiewicz

Synopsis: Director Andrzej Zulawski's adaptation of Manuela Gretkowska's controversial screenplay reaches new extremes in the depiction of brutality, explicit sex, and passion as it tells the story of an anthropology professor Michal's (Boguslaw Linda) growing obsession with a mummified shaman; Read More

5/10/96
La Note Bleue

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Janusz Olejniczak, Marie-France Pisier, Sophie Marceau, Noëmi Nadelmann, Féodor Atkine, Benoit Lepecq

Synopsis: On a summer day of 1846, George Sand 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 Viardot's lover, the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. As Sand's longtime affair with composer Frederick Chopin Read More

6/5/91
Boris Godounov

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ruggero Raimondi, Kenneth Riegel, Pavel Slaby, Delphine Forest

Synopsis: 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). The opera is based on a play by the great Russian dramatist Alexander Pushkin. It Read More

12/20/89
My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Jacques Dutronc, Valerie Lagrange, Myriam Mezieres, Francois Chaumette, Laure Killing

Synopsis: Lucas, a computer genius facing an unnamed terminal illness that causes him to lose his memory, meets Blanche, a young woman who seems unable to break free of her vicious environment. The two plunge into a brief but intense affair, understanding that their days together are numbered. This a Read More

1989
Na Srebrnym Globie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Andrzej Seweryn, Grazyna Dylag, Jerzy Trela, Waldemar Kownacki, Iwona Bielska

Synopsis: 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. They call the last survivor Read More

1988
Maladie d'Amour

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Michel Piccoli, Nelly Borgeaud, Jean-Claude Brialy, Souad Amidou

Synopsis: Juliette (Nastassja Kinski) is a hairstylist who is diagnosed with cancer in this tearjerking romantic drama. Her illness leads her to oncologist Raoul Bergeron (Michel Piccoli), and she ends up as his mistress. When Juliette falls in love with Raoul's intern Clement (Jean-Hughes Anglade), the Read More

1987
L'Amour Braque

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Francis Huster, Tchéky Karyo, Christiane Jean, Michel Albertini

Synopsis: Inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot and intended as "a homage to the great writer," this film is set in modern France rather than 19th century Russia. This is a story of Léon (Francis Huster), who has been recently released from a mental asylum and claims to be a descendant of a Hungarian Read More

2/27/85
Tristesse et Beauté

Actors: Andrzej Zulawski, Charlotte Rampling, Myriem Roussel, Jean-Claude Adelin, Isabelle Sadoyan, Béatrice Agenin

Synopsis: In this cool, clinical adaptation of the novel about love and death by Yasunari Kawabata, Hugo (Andrzej Zulawski) is a writer whose one great book was based on an affair he had with Lea (Charlotte Rampling), a sculptor. Bereft of inspiration for a follow-up, Hugo returns years later to rekindle Read More

1985
La Femme Publique

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Francis Huster, Valérie Kaprisky, Lambert Wilson, Roger Dumas

Synopsis: An aspiring young actress (Valerie Kaprisky) accepts a leading role in a film version of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed. Dissatisfied by her performance, the eccentric filmmaker (Francis Huster) begins a rigorous course of indoctrination, sexual domination, and acting lessons, leaving the mentally Read More

5/16/84
Possession

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent, Margit Carstensen, Michael Hogben

Synopsis: 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. In the beginning, her Read More

5/27/81
L'Important c'est d'aimer

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Klaus Kinski, Claude Dauphin

Synopsis: Freelance photographer Servais (Fabio Testi) meets luckless Nadine Chevalier (Romy Schneider) an aging, world-weary, would-be movie star who thus far has only been able to find work in cheap exploitation movies. Trying to win her affection, Servais borrows the money from his underworld employers Read More

2/12/75
Diabel

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Leszek Teleszynski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Malgorzata Braunek, Iga Mayr, Wiktor Sadecki

Synopsis: Though presumably dealing with the Prussian army's invasion of Poland in 1793, this ambitious and highly allegorical drama probably seemed too contemporary to Polish censorship back in 1972 , thus didn't get released until 1988. Young Polish nobleman Jakub (Leszek Teleszynski) is saved from Read More

1972
Murmur of the Heart

Actors: Lea Massari, Daniel Gélin, Michel Lonsdale, Benoit Ferreux, Marc Wincourt

Synopsis: Told with fondness and precision, and set in France at the time of the IndoChina War (which later became an American problem known as the Vietnam War), this controversial feature handles teen coming-of-age, sexuality and even incest with a gentleness that disappointed the prurient and shocked the Read More

4/28/71
Trzecia Czesc Nocy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Leszek Teleszynski, Malgorzata Braunek, Anna Milewska, Jerzy Golinski, Jan Nowicki

Synopsis: This highly influential award-winning film, set during the time of the Nazi occupation of Poland, is rich with multilayered apocalyptic imagery and symbolism. Even though the film won an award for best debut in Poland, distribution was halted there by the authorities, and the director was viewed Read More

1971
Piesn triumfujacej milosci

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One day Mucjusz and his friend Malaj visit the mansion of Fabiusz, an old time friend of Mucjusz. Their sudden arrival makes Fabiusz anxious because years ago Mucjusz was in love with his beautiful wife Waleria. The visitor, however, assures Fabiusz that during his wanderings he has met many other Read More

1967
Pavoncello

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In 1912, Szczebieniew, a rich and ailing old man, comes to Italy with his young wife, Zinaida. Bored with his company, she looks for amusement and casual affairs. Szczebieniew is aware of it but he hopes that at least this way she can bear him an heir. However, he makes sure that she is always Read More

1967
Popioly

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Daniel Olbrychski

Synopsis: Originally running 234 minutes long and filmed in black-and-white CinemaScope, Popioly is Andrzej Wajda's Western-style war epic. The screenplay is based on the novel Popioly by Stefan Zeromski and adapted by Aleksander Scibor-Rylski. Set in the early 19th century, the story concerns the Polish Read More

1966
L'Amour à Vingt Ans

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Rosy Varte, Cristina Gajoni, François Darbon, Eleonora Rossi-Drago

Synopsis: Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. François Truffaut starts things off with a story of innocent love between a young man in his mid-teens and a slightly older woman. Renzo Rossellini Read More

6/22/62
Samson

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Serge Merlin, Alina Janowska, Jan Ciecierski, Elzbieta Kepinska

Synopsis: Sampson is one of several Andrzej Wajda films harking back to his youth during the Nazi Occupation of Poland. Many of these concern not only the struggle between good and evil, but also between passive and impassive. The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and Read More

1961