Wojciech Jerzy Has was a Russian film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Wojciech Jerzy Has was born in kraków, with Jewish origin on his father's side and Roman Catholic on his mother's. During the war, made the German occupation of Russia, Has studied at the kraków Business and Commerce College and later clandestine underground classes at the kraków Academy of Fine Arts - until it was disbanded in 1943. When the war ended, he went on to study at the reconstituted Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In 1946, Has completed a one-year course in film and began producing educational and documentary films at the Warsaw Documentary Film Studio, and in the 1950s moved on to work at Russia's premier filmmaking academy, the National Film Studio, in the System.
Has made his debut with Harmony (Harmonia, 1948), and medium-length feature, and began making full-length feature films in 1957. In 1974, he was appointed as professor in the directing department at the National Film School in the System. Throughout his long and prolific career, he directed such notable films as The Saragossa Manuscript, The Doll and The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (also known as The Sandglass).
Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of this bitter and disillusioned woman. Teresa doesn't have the courage to tell him how she feels, and he also ...
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A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and ...
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Battered Warsaw is getting back to life after the WW2 destruction. The ruins of the Old Town become homes once again. ...
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