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Krzysztof Kieslowski

The inaugural Polish Film Festival in Dublin, Ireland is just around the corner. It will screen 35 films – mostly new releases – including a program of animation, and an homage to Krzysztof Kieslowski above (Three Colours; Blue, White, Red). On at the Irish Film Institute in TempleBar, Dublin.

The actor Jerzy Stuhr and the director Krzysztof Zanussi will be our guests of honour.

Krzysztof Zanussi director of Persona non grata below

Born in Warsaw in 1939, the year the Nazis invaded Poland, Zanussi studied physics, philosophy, and filmmaking during the high Stalinist 50s and the slightly thawed 60s, then participated in the vital “Cinema of Moral Concern” movement during the 1970s by writing and directing such films as Illumination (1973) and Camouflage ( 1977).

Persona non grata (pic)

Jerzy Stuhr obtained a degree in Polish literature from the Jagiellonian University in 1970.  Stuhr spent the next two years studying acting at the Kraków National Drama School (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna/PWST), with which he retained close ties ever since. From the early 1970s, Stuhr appeared in Polish theatre and screen productions, making his debut with the role of Beelzebub in Adam Mickiewicz’s Dziady. Having met film director Krzysztof Kieślowski in the mid-1970s