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He has directed 22 films since 1972.

In 2024, he unveiled a star on the Lódz Walk of Fame on Piotrkowska Street.

In August 1980, he was readmitted to WFD, but during martial law, he was inactive as a documentary producer, although he and his WFD colleagues documented the activities of the underground "Solidarity" movement.

In 2009 received the ZAiKS (Polish organisation and Association of Stage Authors and Composers) Honorary Badge.

He graduated in directing in 1971 and received his diploma in 1976, based on the film Frontal Collision.

In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked for Polish Television , then for Andrzej Wajda's Film Studio "X" and the Warsaw Documentary Film Studio (WFD), from which he was removed in January 1980 by the Minister of Culture when two of his films ( Egzamin dojrzalosci and Próba mikrofonu ) were banned by the censorship.

Marcel Lozinski was a Polish documentary film director was nominated for an Oscar in 1994 for the documentary "89 mm from Europe.

He won a Best European Film Award Short Film - Prix UIP for Poste restante (2008).

He was the father of documentary filmmaker PaweL Lozinski, whose relationship he recounted in the documentary " Father and Son on a Journey " (2013).

The film Anything Can Happen, in particular, was appreciated by critics and the audience, who in an online poll in 2016 chose this work of Lozinski as the best Polish documentary film in history.

He was a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Marcel Lozinski developed his own creative method, which he called "densifying reality." He inserted his own characters into the filmed world to reveal features of the filmed reality that were inaccessible to the camera. Lozinski thus broke with observational documentary cinema; he compared his film world to an aquarium that needed to be shaken to awaken sleeping fish.

His method of recording reality was imitated by, among others, Jacek Blawut.

He also made one of the first widely circulated documentaries about the Katyn massacre ( Katyn Forest ), but also about the Kielce pogrom ( Witnesses ) and the activities of left-wing reformers from outside the Polish United Workers' Party ( PZPR ) ( 1945-1989 ).

In 1965, he graduated from the Faculty of Communications at the Warsaw University of Technology.

In 1967, he began studying directing at the National Film School in Lódz, graduating in 1971.

He received the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis (glory to art) in 2015.

Marcel Lozinski was a lecturer at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.

He was awarded with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2014.

Lozinski's films touched on many sensitive issues both for the communist authorities and for Polish society after the political transformation.