Janusz Majewski

Born in 1931 in Lviv. Film director and screenwriter. Graduate of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology (1955) and Directing at the Film School in Łódź (1961). He started his career as art director. In the years 1983-1990, he was the President of Polish Filmmakers Association and in the years 1987-1991 – Member of the Cinematography Committee. Since 2001, the President of the Management Board of the Association of Authors and Composers ZAIKS. Professor of film art. Awarded with the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011). In 2002, on the occasion of the 50 anniversary of the Polish Television, he received the “Star of the Polish Television” statuette for his achievements in film and the Television Theatre.

selected films
1966 The Lodger
1969 The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
1970 The Bear
1973 Jealousy and Medicine
1975 Hotel Pacific
1977 The Gorgon Case
1979 Lesson of the Dead Language
1982 Salty Rose
1982 An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
1985 The Deserters
1998 Deserter’s Gold
2005 Po sezonie
2010 Rite of Passage
2015 The Eccentrics. The Sunny Side of the Street