Jerzy Stuhr

18.04.1947, Kraków, Poland

 

Director
Stuhr is a film and theatre actor, director and screenwriter. He was a rector at the Academy of Drama Arts in Kraków from 1990 to 1996. He graduated from Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Drama Arts in Kraków. He began his career as a theatre actor in Ludowy theatre in Nowa Huta, where he also later directed his first plays. He acted in films by Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Jarocki, Feliks Falk, Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieslowski who very much influenced Stuhr’s later career. He won an award at the Polish Film Festival for his role in Kieslowski’s Amateur (Amator, 1979). He directed Spis cudzoloznic (List of Lovers, 1995), Historie milosne (Love Stories, 1997) which won the Golden Lion at the Polish Film Festival in 1997, Tydzien z zycia mezczyzny (A Week in the Life of a Man, 1999), Duze zwierze (Big Animal, 2000), based on Kieslowski’s screenplay and Pogoda na jutro (Tomorrow\'s Weather, 2003).

Filmography


Films by this director

Big Animal

(Duze zwierze, 2000)

Directed by: Jerzy Stuhr
PHOTOGRAPHY: Paweł Edelman
Synopsis:

The idyllic atmosphere of a small town is distracted by a camel on the street. An esteemed bank clerk, Mr. Sawicki, has a new pet, a camel, which upsets his neighbors. Some of them want to get rid of the camel and some to make money from it. Everybody is interested in the camel and Mr. and Mrs. Sawicki...

b/w, 75 min
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