Wieslaw Saniewski
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Wieslaw Saniewski, born 1948, graduated in mathematics at the Wroclaw
University and went on to study screenwriting at the Lodz Film School.
After writing several screenplays, he worked as an assistant for
Andrzej Wajda. In 1971, he graduated with the short film Wielki Swiat
(The Great World), based on Alberto Moravia's "Smells and a Bone". His
first feature film was finished in 1981 : Wolny Strzelec (The Free
Lancer). It was his next film, Nadzor (Custody), made in 1983 that gave
him international renown. The film received several prizes and awards
at various film festivals, among which the FIPRESCI Prize at the
Mannheim Festival and a Gdansk Lion for the best debut, the best
actress and the best cinematography. Saniewski's films brought him into
conflict with the authorities and his films were banned, to be shown in
Poland only after the socialist regime had fallen.
