Grzegorz Królikiewicz

Polish film director, born in 1939. Married, three children. He has been getting experience by making documentary films and TV theater of fact, before he made in 1972 his first feature film ''Right through''. By that time he perpetually takes advantages of his talent in many topics and technics. Especially it refers to his feature films and TV theater - works about historical and current events, connected with social and ethical problems. He consider it his duty to get dramatic elements. The critic's opinions about his productions are very different. He is particularly appreciated by those, who are interested in widening means of cinema's expression and those, who appreciate not only subjective problems, but also ability to react on social events. He makes actors engaged in absolute co-operation, what give them a chance to make the best creations just in his films. Apart from his film productions, Grzegorz Krolikiewicz, who graduated State Theatrical and Film Collage in Lodz in 1970, engages in pedagogical work (he carries on authors lessons: "Analysis of a film productions" and "Filmming an actor" with students from different faculties: staging, theatrical art, operators) and in writing theoretical books and lectures based on his discussions with students about the best film art.'s achievements. His literary and film output: documentary films, TV theater spectacles, feature films, performances, theoretical books, lectures, screenplays. Grzegorz Krolikiewicz has been awarded many times for his productions. Awarded 30 times in Poland (Golden Lions in Gdynia) and 16 times abroad (in Mannheim, Chicago, Panama, SanRemo). Compositions revealing on a field of mental values and the language of film, appear consistently from artist's own film theory.