Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Jerzy Kawalerowicz, born in 1922 in Gwoździec, a small town where Ukrainians, Jews and a few Poles mingled, into a family of Armenian origin on his father's side, was first an assistant director and made his first film in 1951. A figure of the Polish school, he headed the Kadr production group from 1955, where Wajda and Konwicki worked, and took it over again in 1972. A member of the United Workers' Party from 1954 until its dissolution and a deputy from 1985 to 1989, he died in Warsaw on 27 December 2007.

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• CinemaMother Joan of the AngelsMatka Joanna od AniołówJerzy Kawalerowicz · 1961Cinema