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_ , awarded in Cannes 1973, Grand Prix in Trieste 1974.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 414-418. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
Director of the Lodz Film School from the mid-1980s.
Retrospective at the 10th New Horizons Film Festival.
