Waldemar Krzystek
Waldemar Krzystek ( born November 23, 1953 in Swobnica ) is a Polish film director and screenwriter.
Krzystek grew up in Legnica, where he made the High School. He studied Polish Philology at the University of Breslau, and then completed a film directing course at the Silesian University in Katowice on. The diploma for his directing course he received in 1981.
Main theme of his film work is the history of his hometown Legnica. His most famous films are Krystyna Janda and W zawieszeniu with Jerzy Radziwilowicz from 1987 and Mała Moskwa from the year 2008. Zawieszeniu W The film deals with Legnica in the years after the Second World War. Mała Moskwa told as a melodrama, the love story of a Soviet wife of an officer who falls in love with a young Polish officer in Legnica. This story takes place in the summer of 1968, shortly before the Soviet Union intervenes in Czechoslovakia against the Prague Spring. For Mała Moskwa he received in 2008 at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia the grand prize. The film was also awarded five Polish Film Awards.