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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.
IMDb profile of Walerian Borowczyk, a Polish-born French director and animator known for his erotic and sensational films. See his birth and death dates, nominated BAFTA award, works, videos, photos, trivia and quotes.
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- Kwilcz, Wielkopolskie, Poland
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- Le Port-Marly, Yvelines, France
- Les Astronautes (1959) The first animated short that Walerian Borowczyk made outside his native Poland remains a delight to this day. A would-be astronaut (complete with top hat, moustache and pipe: no fresh-faced test pilot but a latter-day Heath Robinson) constructs a viable if ramshackle spacecraft on the roof of his house and launches it to the moon, only to be caught up in an interstellar shootout and a rescue mission.
- Les Jeux des anges (1964) If he’d made nothing else, this macabre, 12-minute masterpiece would grant Borowczyk cinematic immortality on its own. His personal experience of life under both Nazi and Soviet occupation has led people to divine allegorical portraits of both the Holocaust and the dehumanising industrial processes of the Stalin era, but its stripped-down, uniquely suggestive approach makes it impossible to pin it down to any specific era.
- Goto, Island of Love (1969) Borowczyk’s stark medieval fable Blanche (1971) is usually singled out from this period in his career, but his first live-action feature Goto is richer and rarer, creating a wholly unique world out of a situation whereby the eponymous island has been shut off from the rest of civilisation since 1887 and has evolved its own distinctively Borowczykian environment and culture: dilapidated rooms, exotic costumes, antique artefacts.
- The Beast (1975) In 1973, Borowczyk showed his short A Private Collection and an early version of Immoral Tales (1974), and for the rest of his life he’d be regarded as “that arty pornographer”.
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 ...
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...
Learn about the life and work of Walerian Borowczyk, a Polish-French filmmaker, painter and author. Discover the activities and goals of Friends of Walerian Borowczyk, a non-profit organization that promotes his legacy.
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,...
