- Born
- Died
- Birth nameWojciech Jerzy Has
- Born in Kraków, Poland, in 1925. Feature film director. Graduated in 1946 from Cracow Film Institute, also studied painting. From 1947 to 1957 made a number of documentary shorts and educational films. Feature film debut: _The Noose_ (Petla, 1958, co-scr.). Other films: _Farewells_ (Pozegnania, 1958, co-scr.), awarded in Locarno and London 1959; _Roommates_ ((Wspolny pokoj, 1960, co-scr.); _Parting_ (Rozstanie, 1961); _Gold_ (Zloto, 1962); _How to Be Loved_ (Jak byc kochana, 1962), Polish Film Critics award, also awarded in San Francisco 1963 and beirut 1964; _The Saragossa Manuscript_ (Pamietnik znaleziony w Saragossie, 1964), awarded in San Sebastian and Edinburgh 1965, in Sitges 1966; _Codes_ (Szyfry, 1966), _The Doll_ (Lalka, 1968, co-scr.), awarded in Panama 1969; _The Sandglass_ (Sanatorium pod Klepsydra, 1973), awarded in Cannes 1973, Grand Prix in Trieste 1974.
- IMDb mini biography by: Zbigniew Pasek zbigniew@engin.umich.edu
- SpousesWanda Ziembicka(? - October 3, 2000) (his death)Bronislawa Elzbieta (divorced, 1 child)Jadwiga (divorced)
- Characters looking directly at the camera and addressing the viewers (for e.g. Tadeusz Fijewski in Lalka (1968) or Gustaw Holoubek in One Room Tenants (1960)).
- Director of the Lodz Film School from the mid-1980's.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 414-418. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
- Retrospective at the 10th New Horizons Film Festival (2010).
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