Biography

When the shooting of On the Silver Globe (1988) was almost completed, the communist Polish Ministry of Culture ordered to stop the filming and destroy all related materials. The negative was saved, however, and during the liberalization of the political regime in Poland in 1986-1987, Zulawski returned to the country and managed to complete the film from the spared material. Missing scenes were replaced by alternative footage and his new narration. This fragmented version was finally presented in 1988 at the Cannes Film Festival in the 'Un Certain Regard' Section.

Together with actress Sophie Marceau he has a son, Vincent, who was born on July 24, 1995.

Father of Xawery Zulawski.

Studied at L'IDHEC (La FEMIS) in Paris, France.

In 1996 Andrzej Zulawski chaired the Jury of the Camerimage Feature Films Competition in Torun, Poland.

I came from the French cinematic school of real thinking; and I believe that, with few exceptions, acting is a female occupation.

I make the films about what is torturing me, and a woman serves here as a medium.

I only want to film stories which have something excessive about them.

To please the majority is the requirement of the Planet Cinema. As far as I'm concerned, I don't make a concession to viewers, these victims of life, who think that a film is made only for their enjoyment, and who know nothing about their own existence.

Speaking profoundly, I love cinema, so I love to see it when I can, and I still love to do it when I can. But the energies are exactly the same as always. An English journalist told me that my film is an extremely radical film. I was listening with suspicion. I wondered, what does he mean by "radical"? It's chop, chop, chop, straightforward, punching the lines, etc. Maybe it is radical, I don't know. I enjoyed doing it, and I especially enjoyed working with the actors. I think they are all quite, quite fabulous. I also enjoyed fighting with the book by Gombrowicz. He was such a brilliant and highly intelligent and perverse guy. I was making a film that didn't attempt to be in a fight with the book-not destroying the book or pretending to destroy the book-but rather be faithful to the spirit of the book while not just flatly filming the book. Making a real film out of it was my goal. [2015]