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Walerian Borowczyk (21 October 1923 – 3 February 2006) was a Polish film director described by film critics as a "genius who also happened to be a pornographer". He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988.
Walerian Borowczyk. Director: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne. Born in Kwilcz, Poland, Walerian Borowczyk trained as a painter and lithographer, winning Poland's National Prize in 1953.
May 6, 2014 · Championed by Terry Gilliam and Angela Carter, the cinema of Walerian Borowczyk takes in animation and live action, eroticism and horror, fairytale worlds and flights of out-there surrealism. We pick out five must-see titles.
Mar 6, 2006 · Walerian Borowczyk, an internationally known Surrealist filmmaker described variously by critics as a genius, a pornographer and a genius who also happened to be a pornographer, died Feb. 3 in...
Walerian Borowczyk jest twórcą artystycznego kina erotycznego, a także współtwórcą polskiej szkoły plakatu, polskiej szkoły animacji i pionierem surrealistycznego kina absurdu. Laureat nagród za twórczość plastyczną i filmową, a także honorowych odznaczeń m.in. Złotego Medalu Prezydenta Włoch i nagrody Maxa Ernsta za ...
Feb 23, 2006 · Whether as the creator of extraordinary animated films, weird wood and paper sculptures, surreal paintings and lithographs, or as director of erotic fairy tales, the oeuvre of Walerian Borowczyk,...
Walerian Borowczyk was born in Kwilcz, a village in Western Poland, on October 21, 1923. Between 1946 and 1951, he studied painting and sculpture at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. During the early 1950s, Borowczyk moved to Warsaw where he established himself as a designer of film posters.
