Andrzej Żuławski
Polish film director
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Andrzej Żuławski was a Polish film director and writer. Żuławski often went against mainstream commercialism in his films, and enjoyed success mostly with European art-house audiences. In the late 1950s, he studied cinema in France. His second feature, The Devil , was banned in communist Poland, and Żuławski went to France. After the success of That Most Important Thing: Love in 1975, he returned to Poland where he spent two years making On the Silver Globe . The work on this film was interrupted and destroyed by the authorities. After that, Żuławski moved to France where he became known for controversial and violent art-house films such as Possession . Żuławski is also known for his work with actresses including Romy Schneider, Isabelle Adjani and Sophie Marceau.
