Jerzy Stefan Stawiński
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski ( born July 1, 1921 in Zakręt in Warsaw, † June 12, 2010 ) was a Polish writer, screenwriter and film director.
Life
Stawinski began in 1938 at Warsaw University to study law. As on September 1, 1939, the Second World War, he became a soldier and took part in the defense of Warsaw. After the capitulation of the Polish Army, he went underground and joined the Polish Home Army. As an already highly decorated soldier, he took in August / September 1944 part in the Warsaw Uprising. During the uprising, he fell into German captivity and was deported to Germany. After his liberation in May 1945 he went to Italy and joined the 2nd Polish Corps, later he went to England and returned only in 1947 returned to Poland. Back in Warsaw, he took his degree in 1938 begun again and graduated in 1952 from. About literary translations he found in 1949 literature and began to work in a state-owned publishing. In 1952, he was with the narrative light in the fog his literary debut.
To his early story The Mystery of the engine driver Orzechowski he wrote his first screenplay, the film based on the director Andrzej Munk, titled The Man on the rails in 1956. In his second screenplay ( also on one of his short stories based ) he recorded his experiences in the Warsaw Uprising. The film with the title The channel made its world famous film director Andrzej Wajda. He traveled with Wajda and Polish officials in 1957 to the film festival in Cannes, and the film won the Special Jury Prize. Stawinski got by French filmmakers offer to write for them screenplays because they thought his ideas for fiction, however, he had only described what he had actually experienced. He came these offers by never, but remained the Polish cinema as a scriptwriter and later received as a director. He also worked as artistic director until 1981 for a number of Polish film studios.