Edward Kłosiński was a renowned Polish cinematographer, collaborating with outstanding Polish and foreign directors. Plus Camerimage 2008 posthumously honors him with the Award for the Contribution to the Art of Cinematograpy. His filmography includes about 70 films, and some of them will be screened during the retrospective.


MAIDS FROM WILKO, THE (Panny z Wilka)
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cinematographer: Edward Kłosiński
Running time: 116 min.
Country: Poland, France
Year: 1979
Wiktor returns to a manor house in Wilk, which he had to leave 15 years ago, before World War I broke out. Here he spent his youth in the company of 5 sisters to whom he was bound not only by ties of friendship. He soon realises that they, like the times, have changed.


THREE COLOURS: WHITE (Trzy kolory: Biały)
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Cinematographer: Edward Kłosiński
Running time: 88 min.
Country: France, Poland, Switzerland
Year: 1993
A Polish hairdresser’s life crumbles when his beautiful French wife deserts him. Forced to begin anew, the man returns to Poland, only to plan a scheme of vengeance against her.


MAN OF IRON (Człowiek z żelaza)
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cinematographer: Edward Kłosiński
Running time: 147 min.
Country: Poland
Year: 1981
In 1980 the Party sends Winkel, an alcoholic radio reporter, to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on one of the shipyard strike organisers, Maciek Tomczyk. The narrations of people interviewed by him become flashbacks using actual news footage of 1968 and 1970 protests and of the later birth of free unions and Solidarity.


TOP DOG (Wodzirej)
Director: Feliks Falk
Cinematographer: Edward Kłosiński
Running time: 104 min.
Country: Poland
Year: 1977 (1978?)
A satire about an ambitious social climber and charming sociopath determined to be chosen as the master of ceremonies for the most important social event of the season, a black-tie ball in the Lux hotel.


GLOOMY SUNDAY (Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod)
Director: Rolf Schübel
Cinematographer: Edward Kłosiński
Running time: 109 min.
Country: Germany, Hungary
Year: 1999
Set in pre-World War II Budapest, a romantic melodrama with a ménage-a- trois at its centre. The title refers to that famous ballad fabled to have caused over one hundred suicides in the 1930s, and indeed that titular song becomes the crux of the film.


THE PROMISED LAND (Ziemia obiecana)
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cinematographer: Wacław Dybowski, Edward Kłosiński, Witold Sobociński
Running time: 179 min.
Country: Poland
Year: 1974 (1975?)
An adaptation of W. S. Reymont’s novel about tumultuous friendship and partnership of three young industrialists set in the 19th century Łódź. A portrayal of a city where fortune sits for the taking, which turns out to be not a blessed land but a cursed one - an arena of ruthless struggle for survival, pursuit of money, profit and capital.


MOTHER OF KINGS (Matka Królów)
Director: Janusz Zaorski
Cinematographer: Witold Adamek, Edward Kłosiński
Running time: 127 min.
Country: Poland
Year: 1982
When her husband is killed in an accident, Łucja is left to bring up four sons alone in war torn Poland. The film covers her life during the period of World War II, followed by the harsh rule of Stalin.