Andrzej Żuławski

Żuławski was born in Lviv. His father, Mirosław Żuławski, was a Polish civil servant (and later diplomat) who had studied and worked in that city while it was part of the Second Polish Republic and prior to its annexation by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1939. Żuławski was an assistant of the filmmaker Andrzej Wajda. He studied at the prestigious Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris and in the Department of Philosophy at the Sorbonne. When his second film The Devil was banned in Poland, he decided to move to France, where he made That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) with Romy Schneider. After returning to Poland he worked for two years on a film which the authorities did not allow him to finish (On the Silver Globe), based on a book by his great-uncle Jerzy Żuławski. Since then he lived and worked mostly in France, making art films. Being described as a maverick who always defied mainstream commercialism, Żuławski enjoyed success mostly with the European art-house audiences. His wild, imaginative, and controversial pictures have received awards at various international film festivals. He also wrote the novels Il était Un Verger, Lity Bór (a.k.a. La Forêt Forteresse), W Oczach Tygrysa, and Ogród Miłości. Żuławski worked many times with composer Andrzej Korzyński, beginning in The Third Part of the Night (1971). Their last collaboration was for Cosmos (2015), which was also Żuławski's last film. On 17 February 2016, Żuławski died at a hospital in Warsaw from cancer. == Personal life ==

, 1988 Żuławski's first wife was Barbara Baranowska, a member of the Polish School of Posters. She created the French poster for Żuławski's Possession. Her first husband, Adolf Rudnicki, inspired the character Abe in the film. He was in a relationship with French actress Sophie Marceau for sixteen years, with whom he made four films over a 15-year period (''L'Amour braque, My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days, La Note bleue, Fidelity''). They had a son named Vincent together. They broke up in 2001. From 2007 to 2008, Żuławski dated Weronika Rosati, daughter of Polish politician Dariusz Rosati. In 2010, Żuławski released a book titled Nocnik, which included a character allegedly based on Rosati named Esther. Rosati sued Żuławski and the book's publisher for violating her right to privacy and dignity as a woman as the book included intimate details about her. Żuławski lost the case in 2015. == Filmography ==

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