Paweł Pawlikowski
Paweł Pawlikowski ( born 1957 in Warsaw ) is a Polish film director who lives and works in England.
Life
Pawlikowski grew up in Warsaw, his mother was a lecturer in English literature. The mid-1970s he moved to the separation of his parents with his mother to Britain. He studied literature and philosophy at Oxford, where he took part in research projects on German literature before turning to film.
From the mid- 1980s he created on behalf of the Community Programs Unit of the BBC ( and later for the series bookmark in the BBC program ) a series of highly acclaimed documentaries. His satirical documentary From Moscow to Pietushki about Erofeev and the Soviet drinking culture was his breakthrough in the early 1990s and has been awarded with several prizes ( Emmy International, Prix Italia, Royal Television Society Award). His documentary Serbian Epics (1992 ) analyzed the motives and traditions of the Serbs in the Bosnian War and was due to scenes in which Radovan Karadzic presented himself as heir to the (not related to him ) namesake and national poet Vuk Karadžić and while he ordered the destruction of Sarajevo reads from her own poems, controversial. For his surreal documentary about a boat trip with Zhirinovsky ( Tripping with Zhirinovski ) won the 1995 Grierson Award for Best British Documentary.
Pawlikowski 's first feature film in Moscow turned The Stringer (1998 ), but was considered a failure. He then returned for the semi-documentary film Twockers over a seventeen year old car thief in West Yorkshire to his roots in the documentary back. It was followed by his second feature film, largely shot in the Russian Last Resort, a halbautobiografischer film about a young Russian mother and her son who are trying to gain a foothold in England. Filmed in Margate 16- mm film was strongly observed at the festivals in Toronto and Sundance and won awards for Best Film at the festivals in Edinburgh, Thessaloniki, Gijon and Motovun. Pawlikowski also was awarded the 2001 BAFTA Award as "Most Promising Newcomer in British Film ".
After Last Resort Pawlikowski was a director for the biographical movie Ted and Sylvia engaged ( about Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes ) with Gwyneth Paltrow in the title role, the production but left in August 2002 due to creative differences. The film was completed under the title of director Christine Jeffs Sylvia.
Pawlikowski 's third feature film My Summer of Love, loosely based on the novel by Helen Cross on the love relationship between two sixteen- year-old girl in West Yorkshire, was celebrated again by the critics; Pawlikowski thus won in 2004 for the second time the top prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival and received the 2005 Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the BAFTA Awards. He was also nominated for Best Film and Best Director at the 2005 European Film Awards.
In 2004, Pawlikowski received a three-year research grant as a Creative Arts Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. He is considered one of the greatest talents of the British film industry.
His next feature film project, The Restraint of Beasts, had Pawlikowski 2006 after half the filming to cancel due to a serious illness of his wife. She died a few months later and the film remained incomplete.
Filmography
Documentaries:
Movies: