Andrzej Żuławski

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Andrzej Żuławski (Polish: [ˈandʐɛj ʐuˈwafskʲi]; 22 November 1940 – 17 February 2016) was a Polish filmmaker. His films, characterized by extreme emotional and physical intensity, largely rejected mainstream commercialism, polarized critics, and found their primary audience among European art-house viewers. Internationally, he is best known for his 1981 psychological horror film Possession. Born in Lwów under Soviet occupation, Żuławski was the son of writer and diplomat Mirosław Żuławski and a great-nephew of pioneering science-fiction author Jerzy Żuławski. He studied film in Paris, France during the late 1950s. Returning to Poland, he began his career as an assistant and second-unit director to Andrzej Wajda on films including Samson (1961), a segment of Love at Twenty (1962), and The Ashes (1965). After directing short television films, he made his feature debut with The Third Part of the Night (1971), co-written with his father and a hallucinatory, sensationalized retelling of their...

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