Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922–2007) was a Polish director and screenwriter, one of the central figures of postwar Polish cinema and a longtime artistic director of the Kadr film studio. A graduate of the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts and the Łódź Film School, he produced a body of work that ranged across the morally serious Polish School features of the 1950s and 60s, large-scale historical adaptations, and intimate psychological dramas. His acclaimed films include Cellulose, Night Train, Mother Joan of the Angels, Pharaoh, The Game, Death of a President, and Quo Vadis.