Kazimierz Kutz
Kazimierz Julian Kutz ( born February 16, 1929 in Katowice- Szopienice ) is a Polish film director and politician. His family name was at the time of the People's Republic of Poland " Kuc '' written .. He is regarded as one of the spiritual fathers of the Upper Silesian Autonomy Movement.
- 3.1 People's Republic of Poland until 1989
- 3.2 Republic of Poland since 1989
Youth
The son of a railway worker who had participated on the part of Polish units in the Silesian uprisings from 1919 to 1921 attended, during the German occupation in the Second World War, a German elementary school. At 14 he was deported to forced labor in the "Old Reich ".
Artistic creation
Film
Under the name " Kuc " he studied from 1949 to 1954 at the Film School in Lodz, the stage direction. In the last academic year, he served as assistant director Andrzej Wajda's film at Pokolenia with ( generations). His own directorial debut, introduced in 1959, the film Krzyż Walecznych ( Cross of Valor ) dar. It was the first of 20 feature films, six of which the history of his native Silesia thematize. His main work and Paciorki applies operations currently located in the twenties and thirties of the 20th century Silesian Trilogy consisting of the films Sól ziemi Czarnej ( Salt of the Black Earth, 1970), Perla w koronie ( 1972 The jewel in the crown ) jednego różańca ( like pearls in the Rosary, 1979). Heroes of three films are Upper Silesian miners who are minded propolnisch. The Germans are shown schematically and rather negative in it.
After the political changes of 1989 he worked in several films critical of the communist past apart. In Śmierć jak kromka chleba (death is like a slice of bread, 1994) he addressed the suppression of a strike in the coal mine " Wujek " at the beginning of martial law in Poland in December 1981. 's Comedy Pulkownik Kwiatkowski ( Colonel Kwiatkowski, 1995) he took the communist- controlled state security service SB targeted.
Theater
Kutz has staged 20 plays, including the Warsaw National Theatre ( Teatr Narodowy ) and in the Old Theatre ( Teatr Stary ) in Krakow. In addition, he has led for the popular in Poland " theater on television " ( Teatr Telewizji ) repeated Director.