Lech Majewski

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Lech J. Majewski (pronounced ‘Ma-yev-ski’^[1]) (born 30 August 1953) is a Polish film- and theatre-director, writer, poet, and painter.

Majewski studied at the Kunst-Akademie in Warsaw. In 1973 he was at the National Film School in Łódź where he learned directing. Having closed his studies there from 1977^[2] to 1981, he emigrated to England and shot his films there, and since 1982 also in the United States. Later Italy pulled him in, where he has lived (in Venice) until today, although he visits his Polish homeland regularly.

He is a member fo the American and European film academies and the Polish International PEN.

[edit] Filmography

• Zwiastowanie (1978)
• Rycerz (1980)
• Lot Świerkowej Gęsi (1986)
• Więzień Rio (1988)
• Ewangelia według Harry'ego (1992)
• Basquiat (1996)
• Pokój Saren (1998)
• Wypadek (1998)
• Wojaczek (1999)
• Angelus (2001)
• Ogród rozkoszy ziemskich (2003)
• Glass Lips (2007) (feature film version of the Blood of a Poet installation (2006))

[edit] Sources

The original version of this article was an adaptation of Google’s machine-translation of this version (2007-02-15) of the German Wikipedia article de:Lech Majewski.

1. ^ Film Series: Cigarettes and cinema. The Peak. Retrieved on February 15, 2007.
2. ^ http://www.lechmajewski.art.pl/biografia.php

[edit] External links

• Personal home page
• Lech Majewski at the Internet Movie Database
• Photograph
• another photograph
• biography
• Lech Majewski: Conjuring the Moving Image (Vancouver)
• Lech Majewski: Conjuring the Moving Image (New York)
• International Film Circuit, inc.
• Film Series: Cigarettes and cinema
• ŻAK Gallery - Blood of a Poet installation
• The Reeler May 4 2006
• art.pl
• culture.pl
• filmpolski.pl
• Lech Majewski personal site
• epoznan.pl