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17 unusual facts about National Film School in Łódź


Agnieszka Lukasiak

She graduated from the directing department of the Polish National Film School in Łódź in 2002.

Andy Heathcote

He has attended the Northern Film School and the Polish National Film School in Łódź.

Arthur Reinhart

He first studied directing at Łódź Film School but after a year he changed a course to learn cinematography.

Ewa Gawryluk

A popular European film and theater actress, and widely known by her Ewa Hoffer ("Eve Hoffer") TV persona from Na Wspólnej ("The Common Folk"), Gawryluk graduated from Łódź National Higher School of Theatre and Film in 1991.

Jerzy Domaradzki

Following his 1974 graduation from the National Film School in Łódź, Domaradzki got his start working as an assistant and second unit director.

Julia Kolberger

In 2009 she graduated from the Faculty of Directing at National Film School in Łódź).

Le Gros et le maigre

Polanski shot this short film just after graduating from The National Film School in Łódź in 1959; it was made in France and was Polanski's last film before the international breakthrough of his 1962 debut feature, Knife in the Water.

Łukasz Karwowski

In 1985-1986, he studied Polish literature at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, but subsequently gave it up, and studied first at the National Film and Television School in London, and then at the National Film School in Łódź.

Maciej Drygas

Drygas is currently director of the radio drama section at the Reportage Laboratory at Warsaw University and also teaches regularly at the Łódź Film School.

Marek Skrobecki

In 1990 he finished at the Faculty of Film Animation at National Film School in Łódź.

Morderstwo

This was Polanski's first completed student short at the State Film School in Łódź, Poland.

National Film School in Łódź

For instance, two of the students of the university (Jerzy Matuszkiewicz and Witold Sobociński) became the first jazz musicians in Poland after WWII to be allowed by the authorities to organize a concert.

Niko von Glasow

Following his studies at the National Film School in Łódź, Poland, von Glasow made his first feature film, "Wedding Guests", which won the German Critics Prize at the Berlin Film Festival.

The founder and Artistic Director of Palladio Film, von Glasow began his training with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and then worked for a number of film directors including Georg Stefan Troller, Hellmuth Costard, Alexander Kluge, Peter Zadek and Jean-Jacques Annaud before going on to study film at New York University and at the National Film School in Łódź, Poland.

Ryszard Wasko

But instead of making his childhood dream come true, he made up his mind and went to Lodz, where he studied cinematography at the Film School between 1970 and 1975.

Tomasz Konieczny

He commenced his studies as an actor at the Film, TV and Theatre Academy in Łódź.

Witold Sobociński

Sobocinski is a graduate of the renowned National Film School in Łódź, while in college, he was a member of the pioneer jazz band Melomani, in which he played the drums.