1. Krzysztof Pius Zanussi was born on 17 June 1939 and is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter.
14 Facts About Krzysztof Zanussi
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Krzysztof Zanussi is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop.
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Krzysztof Zanussi is a professor at the Krzysztof Kieslowski Film School of the University of Silesia in Katowice.
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Krzysztof Zanussi's father was of Italian ancestry and worked as a structural engineer.
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Krzysztof Zanussi studied physics at Warsaw University and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
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Krzysztof Zanussi is a director of the Polish Film Studio TOR and has received several prizes and awards, including the David di Donatello Prize of the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, the Cavalier's Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order, and the Cavalier de L'Ordre des Sciences et Lettres.
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Krzysztof Zanussi has written On editing an amateur film, Discourse on an amateur film and a book of memoirs The Time to Die.
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Krzysztof Zanussi appeared as himself in Camera Buff, a film about an amateur film maker, directed by his friend Krzysztof Kieslowski.
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Krzysztof Zanussi has described his 1996 film, At Full Gallop, as his most autobiographical work.
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Krzysztof Zanussi served at the head of TOR Film Studio in the eighties.
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Krzysztof Zanussi had several conversations with Communist secret service officers, however he never began to act as a secret collaborator.
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Krzysztof Zanussi was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award on 20 November 2012 at the 43rd International Film Festival of India held in Goa.
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Subsequently, Krzysztof Zanussi left the academy not agreeing with its development as an elitarian club.
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Krzysztof Zanussi remarked the potential leading role of the academy for the European intercultural cinematographic productions, especially for those realized in non-English languages on the model of the successful experiences of the 1960s.