Krzysztof Krauze
Krzysztof Krauze ( born April 2, 1953 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director.
Krauze is the son of Polish actress Krystyna Karkowska. He studied at the Film School in Lodz in 1978 and turned the camera directing, first as director in the 1980s short films. Since 1988, he made four feature films to date, all of which were awarded national and international prizes. His biggest success was winning the Grand Prize at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary in 2005 for his film My Nikifor.
Much attention in Poland found his film The Debt, which includes the true story of a murder of two young business men at a blackmailer. The two young men were sentenced to life imprisonment and his film ensured that a broad discussion on their amnesty in Poland was performed. Because of this dedicated film, he received the important cultural award Paszport Polityki of the weekly political magazine Polityka. The film also won all the major film awards in the years 1999 and 2000, including the Golden Lion at the Polish Film Festival Gdynia and the Polish Film Awards in the categories of Best Director and Best Screenplay.
After My Nikifor (2004) with Krystyna Feldman in the title role of the eponymous painter ( 1895-1968 ) presented Krauze 2006, together with his wife Joanna Kos - Krauze the film Plac Zbawiciela finished playing on the homonymous square in Warsaw. The drama is a middle-class family in the center of Warsaw, which breaks on the unemployment of the husband and the resulting financial and interpersonal problems. The film was praised by critics, psychologists and sociologists as empathetic portrait of society and brought Krauze again the Golden Lion of Gdynia, the Polish Film Award a.