Waldemar Krzystek (born 23 November 1953) is a Polish

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. His film '' Ostatni prom'' was screened in the

Un Certain Regard (, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The section presents 20 films ...

section at the

1990 Cannes Film Festival The 43rd Cannes Film Festival was held from 10 to 21 May 1990. The Palme d'Or went to '' Wild at Heart'' by David Lynch. The festival opened with '' Dreams'', directed by Akira Kurosawa and closed with ''The Comfort of Strangers'', directed by P ...

. His 2008 cold war romance ''

Little Moscow Little Moscow was a term for towns and villages in capitalist societies whose population appeared to hold extreme left-wing political values or communist views. The places so named were typically in working class areas, normally with strong trade ...

'' (''Mała Moskwa''), won him a Golden Lion at the XXXIII annual

Polish Film Festival The Gdynia Film Festival (until 2011: Polish Film Festival, Polish: ''Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych w Gdyni'') is an annual film festival first held in Gdańsk (1974–1986), now held in Gdynia, Poland. It has taken place every year sinc ...

. His 2011 film '' 80 Million'' was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the

85th Academy Awards The 85th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2012 and took place on February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p. ...

, but it did not make the final shortlist.

Filmography

* '' Powinowactwo'' (1984) * '' W zawieszeniu'' (1987) * '' Ostatni prom'' (1989) * '' Zwolnieni z zycia'' (1992) * '' Polska smierc'' (1995) * '' Nie ma zmiluj'' (2000) * '' Mała Moskwa'' (2008) * '' 80 Million'' (2011) * '' Fotograf '' (2014)

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* 1953 births Living people Polish film directors Polish screenwriters People from Gryfino County {{Poland-film-director-stub