Stanisław Roch Różewicz (16 August 1924 – 9 November 2008) was a Polish

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and screenwriter. He directed 26 films between 1947 and 1989. His 1967 film ''

Westerplatte Westerplatte (, , ) is a peninsula in Gdańsk, Poland, located on the Baltic Sea coast mouth of the Dead Vistula (one of the Vistula delta estuaries), in the Gdańsk harbour channel. From 1926 to 1939, it was the location of a Polish Military ...

'' was entered into the

5th Moscow International Film Festival The 5th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 July 1967. The Grand Prix was shared between the Soviet film '' The Journalist'', directed by Sergei Gerasimov and the Hungarian film ''Father'', directed by István Szabó. The f ...

where it won a Silver Prize. His 1985 film '' Woman in a Hat'' was entered into the

14th Moscow International Film Festival The 14th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 28 June to 12 July 1985. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Soviet film '' Come and See'' directed by Elem Klimov, the American film ''A Soldier's Story'' directed by Norman Jewison and ...

where it won the Silver Prize. He was a younger brother of Polish poet, dramatist and writer Tadeusz Różewicz.

Selected filmography

* ''

Warsaw Premiere ''Warsaw Premiere'' (Polish:''Warszawska premiera'') is a 1951 Polish historical film directed by Jan Rybkowski and starring Jan Koecher, Barbara Kostrzewska and Jerzy Duszyński. The film's art direction was by Roman Mann. The film portrays t ...

'' (1951) * ''Free City'' (1958) * ''Birth Certificate'' (1961) * ''

'' (1967) * ''

Passion Passion, the Passion or the Passions may refer to: Emotion * Passion (emotion), a very strong feeling about a person or thing * Passions (philosophy), emotional states as used in philosophical discussions * Stoic passions, various forms of emotio ...

'' (1977) * '' Woman in a Hat'' (1985) * '' Night Guest'' (1989)

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* 1924 births 2008 deaths Polish film directors People from Radomsko 20th-century Polish screenwriters Polish male screenwriters 20th-century Polish male writers Recipients of the Medal of the 40th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland {{Poland-film-director-stub