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Kazimierz Kutz is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Assistant Director and Art Department Manager Polonais born on 16 february 1929

Kazimierz Kutz

Kazimierz Kutz
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Nationality Pologne
Birth 16 february 1929
Death 18 december 2018 (at 89 years)
Awards Medal for Merit to Culture

Kazimierz Julian Kutz (born 1929) is a Polish film director, author, journalist and politician, one of the representatives of the Polish Film School and a deputy speaker of the Senate of Poland.

Biography

Kazimierz Kutz was born February 16, 1929, in Szopienice, since 1960 district of Katowice, to a railway worker and a former partisan of the Silesian Uprisings. After the World War II Kutz graduated from gymnasium in Mysłowice and in 1949 was admitted to the Łódź Film School. After finishing his studies in 1954 he started working as an assistant to Andrzej Wajda.

His film debut was Krzyż Walecznych (1959). Since then he finished more than 20 pictures, including six about his home region - Silesia. He is also famous for directing theatre plays on some of the most prominent scenes of Poland, including the Teatr Stary in Kraków and National Theatre in Warsaw, as well as several plays for the Polish television. In 1972, he founded the Silesia Film Company in Katowice and, until 1978, was its Artistic Director.

In the 1970s he became the main director of the Polish Television branch in Katowice. He was also working for several branch and cultural organisations. After the Martial Law had been imposed in Poland in 1981 Kutz was interned by the communist authorities, but was released soon afterwards. Between 1981 and 1983, lectured in the Radio and Television Faculty at Silesian University in Katowice, and, between 1985 and 1991, taught directing at the Higher Theatre School in Kraków. Since 1987, was Principal Director in the Polish Television Centre in Katowice and, between 1990 and 1991, headed the Centre. After the peaceful transition to democracy in 1989 Kutz became the head of the Polish TV branch in Kraków (until 1991).

For his involvement in the matters of Silesia, and for his films depicting the traditions and problems of that part of Poland, he is considered by some the spokesman of all Silesians. In a plebiscite organised by Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper he was chosen the third most famous Silesian ever and the first among the living people. In 1997 he was awarded with the title of doctor honoris causa by the University of Opole. He is currently a promotor and patron of several Silesia-based cultural feasts and societies, including the Festiwal Filmów Kultowych, Festiwal Sztuki Reżyserskiej, Cultural Congress of the Upper Silesia, Council of Culture of the Silesian Voivodship, Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice ([1]) and Committee for the Construction of Silesian Museum. He is also one of the supporters of development of the Silesian language.

His 1995 film Reverted was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival.

In 1997 Kutz took part in the elections to the Senate of Poland (from the list of Freedom Union party, Katowice constituency) and was supported by approximately 500,000 Silesians. In 2001 he was elected for his second term as a non-partisan candidate, and in 2005 re-elected for the third term. Currently he is the deputy speaker of the Senate of Poland. For his social involvements he was awarded with many of the highest Polish awards.

Kazimierz Kutz is married to Iwona and has two sons (Gabriel and Tymek) and two daughters (Wiktoria and Kamila).

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Filmography of Kazimierz Kutz (10 films)

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Actor

Kanal
Kanal (1957)
, 1h35
Directed by Janusz Morgenstern, Andrzej Wajda
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Tadeusz Janczar, Wieńczysław Gliński, Vladek Sheybal, Stanisław Mikulski, Emil Karewicz, Jan Englert
Roles Resistance Member in a Sewer (uncredited)
Rating78% 3.9464653.9464653.9464653.9464653.946465
It is 25 September 1944, during the last days of the Warsaw Uprising. Lieutenant Zadra leads a unit of 43 soldiers and civilians to a new position amidst the ruins of the now isolated southern Mokotów district of Warsaw.
A Generation, 1h23
Directed by Janusz Morgenstern, Andrzej Wajda
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Tadeusz Łomnicki, Roman Polanski, Tadeusz Janczar, Ludwik Benoit, Tadeusz Fijewski, Kazimierz Wichniarz
Roles GL Member (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.544763.544763.544763.544763.54476
A Generation is set in Wola, a working-class section of Warsaw, in 1942 and tells the stories of two young men at odds with the Germans occupation of Poland. The young protagonist, Stach (Tadeusz Łomnicki), is living in squalor on the outskirts of the city and carrying out wayward acts of theft and rebellion. After a friend is killed attempting to heist coal from a German supply train, he finds work as an apprentice at a furniture workshop, where he becomes involved in an underground communist resistance cell guided first by a friendly journeyman there who in turn introduces Stach to the beautiful Dorota (Urszula Modrzyńska). An outsider, Jasio Krone (Tadeusz Janczar), the temperamental son of an elderly veteran, is initially reluctant to join the struggle but finally commits himself, running relief operations in the Jewish ghetto during the uprising there.

Director

The Taste of the Black Earth, 1h39
Directed by Kazimierz Kutz
Genres Drama, War
Actors Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Jan Englert, Jerzy Bińczycki, Daniel Olbrychski
Rating69% 3.4776953.4776953.4776953.4776953.477695
There are seven Basista brothers. Their father summons them all and tells them all to enlist and fight for Poland, threatening to kill any that betray the cause. They all swear to fight for Poland and free Silesia from the Germans. All civilians are warned beforehand to go for safety, and then they begin the uprising, attacking the town hall. One of the brothers, Cyryl, is killed. Eventually the German soldiers surrender, and the town is taken by the rebels. The populace come out and parade in the town square celebrating liberation.
Silence
Silence (1963)
, 1h40
Directed by Kazimierz Kutz
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama
Actors Elżbieta Czyżewska, Czesław Piaskowski
Rating66% 3.3053253.3053253.3053253.3053253.305325
Pologne, 1945. Le jeune orphelin Stach a perdu la vue dans l'explosion d'un obus. Les villageois chuchotent qu'il s'agit là d'un châtiment divin. Car il se dit aussi que Stach voulait attenter à la vie du curé avec l'obus même qui l'a blessé. On questionne le prêtre pour savoir ce qui s'est réellement passé mais ce dernier ne veut rien dire. Pour les paroissiens, le prélat couvre Stach et, ce qui confirme donc leurs soupçons et les autorise à rejeter sans appel le misérable orphelin.

Scriptwriter

The Taste of the Black Earth, 1h39
Directed by Kazimierz Kutz
Genres Drama, War
Actors Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Jan Englert, Jerzy Bińczycki, Daniel Olbrychski
Roles Writer
Rating69% 3.4776953.4776953.4776953.4776953.477695
There are seven Basista brothers. Their father summons them all and tells them all to enlist and fight for Poland, threatening to kill any that betray the cause. They all swear to fight for Poland and free Silesia from the Germans. All civilians are warned beforehand to go for safety, and then they begin the uprising, attacking the town hall. One of the brothers, Cyryl, is killed. Eventually the German soldiers surrender, and the town is taken by the rebels. The populace come out and parade in the town square celebrating liberation.
Silence
Silence (1963)
, 1h40
Directed by Kazimierz Kutz
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama
Actors Elżbieta Czyżewska, Czesław Piaskowski
Roles Ecrivain
Rating66% 3.3053253.3053253.3053253.3053253.305325
Pologne, 1945. Le jeune orphelin Stach a perdu la vue dans l'explosion d'un obus. Les villageois chuchotent qu'il s'agit là d'un châtiment divin. Car il se dit aussi que Stach voulait attenter à la vie du curé avec l'obus même qui l'a blessé. On questionne le prêtre pour savoir ce qui s'est réellement passé mais ce dernier ne veut rien dire. Pour les paroissiens, le prélat couvre Stach et, ce qui confirme donc leurs soupçons et les autorise à rejeter sans appel le misérable orphelin.

Director

Kanal
Kanal (1957)
, 1h35
Directed by Janusz Morgenstern, Andrzej Wajda
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Tadeusz Janczar, Wieńczysław Gliński, Vladek Sheybal, Stanisław Mikulski, Emil Karewicz, Jan Englert
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating78% 3.9464653.9464653.9464653.9464653.946465
It is 25 September 1944, during the last days of the Warsaw Uprising. Lieutenant Zadra leads a unit of 43 soldiers and civilians to a new position amidst the ruins of the now isolated southern Mokotów district of Warsaw.
Shadow
Shadow (1956)
, 1h38
Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, War, Action, Crime
Actors Zygmunt Kęstowicz, Emil Karewicz, Bohdan Ejmont, Wiesław Gołas, Stanisław Mikulski, Roman Kłosowski
Roles Assistant Director
Rating67% 3.3711553.3711553.3711553.3711553.371155
The plot involves a Rashōmon-like investigation into the life of a man who has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland. In each account, the victim seems to have been a mysterious, ambiguous presence, of shifting loyalties and suspicious connections, who set himself against the powers that be.