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Piotr £azarkiewicz was born in 1954 in
Cieplice ¦l±skie (Silesia). He graduated from the
Department of Polish Studies at the University of Wrocc³aw
(1977) and film and tv direction at the Silesian University
in Katowice (1981).
He has served as assistant to prominent Polish directors
Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Zanussi and Antoni Krauze. In
his own career he has worked in both film and tv. He has
made four feature films: I Love Cinema (1986), In the Middle
of Europe (1990), The Departure (1991, with Magdalena £azarkiewicz)
and Time for Witches (1995). His passionate interest in the
documentaries has resulted in such successful films as
Mantra (1983), Improvisation (1985), Soc... (1989), Great
Flood (1996), as well as a wide range of tv programmes
(reportage on cultural themes including reports from the
'Warsaw Autumn' Festival, video clips, commercials, poetry
programmes, talk shows).
Piotr £azarkiewicz made his debut as a theatre director in
1979. In the last two seasons he directed T. Johnson's The
Graduate in the 'Bagatela Theatre' in Cracow and Srbljanovię's
Family Situations in the Studio Theatre in Warsaw.
For tv he directed an adaptation of texts by Botho Strauss
(Gro§ und Klein, 1998), Marius von Mayenburg (Feuergesicht,
2000 and Parasiten, 2001) and his own play (Zbliæenie,
2000).
Piotr £azarkiewicz's operatic debut was Triad (The Deluge,
Oedipus Rex, Mass) with music by Igor Stravinsky, produced
in the Grand Theatre in £ód¼ (2000).
Since 1992 Piotr £azarkiewicz has been editor of Reżyser
(The Director), a supplement to the monthly Kino (Cinema).
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