
Jerzy Wójcik
Personal Info
Known for
Camera
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-09-12
Day of Death
2019-04-03 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Nowy Sącz, Poland
Jerzy Wójcik
Biography
Jerzy Wójcik (12 September 1930 – 3 April 2019) was a Polish cinematographer, author of screenplays and film and television director.
Jerzy Wójcik graduated from the cinematography department of the Łódź Film School in 1955. He started working in film in 1956 as an assistant to cameraman Jerzy Lipman. He was a camera operator for Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał and Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Prawdziwy Koniec Wielkiej Wojny / Real End of the Great War. Jerzy Wójcik’s name is linked to the films of ‘Polish school’ directors Andrzej Wajda and Andrzej Munk. His full-length feature debut as a cameraman was Munk’s Eroica in 1957. Two years later he was the cinematographer for Wajda’s Popiól i Diament / Ashes and Diamonds. Wójcik was also the cinematographer for several other films by Andrzej Wajda as well as films by Kazimierz Kutz, Stanislaw Różewicz, and Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
In 1981 to 1982, Jerzy Wójcik taught cinematography at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Since 1982 he taught at Łódź Film School. He has also worked as a film director, with projects such as Lament in 1991 and Wrota Europy / The Gateway of Europe in 1999 to his credit. Jerzy Wójcik also wrote a book, Labirynt Światła / Labyrinth of Light, describing his professional experiences and presenting his philosophical reflections.
Jerzy Wójcik has received some prestigious film industry awards, including the ‘Golden Camera 300’ for his lifetime achievement as a cinematographer at the International Cinematographers’ Film Festival in Bitola, Macedonia (1999), and the ‘Vitae Valor’ award for lifetime achievement at the third ‘Vitae Valor’ Film Festival in Tarnów. Jerzy Wójcik’s star in the Avenue of the Stars in Piotrkowska Street in Łódź was unveiled in 2002.
Crew
(1999)
Wrota Europy
Director, Writer
(1994)
Conversation with a Cupboard Man
Supervising Art Director
(1991)
Skarga
Director, Writer
(1988)
Diabeł
Director of Photography
(1988)
Angel in the Wardrobe
Cinematography
(1985)
Woman in a Hat
Director of Photography
(1983)
Pensja pani Latter
Camera Department Manager
(1982)
The Lynx
Director of Photography
(1979)
Elegia
Writer
(1978)
Passion
Director of Photography
(1975)
The Leaves Have Fallen
Cinematography
(1974)
The Deluge
Director of Photography
(1969)
Face to Face
Director of Photography
(1967)
Westerplatte Resists
Director of Photography
(1967)
Medaliony
Director of Photography
(1966)
Pharaoh
Director of Photography
(1966)
Then There Will Be Silence
Director of Photography
(1965)
Back to Life Again
Director of Photography
(1964)
Echo
Director of Photography
(1963)
Przy torze kolejowym
Director of Photography
(1963)
Good Sins
Director of Photography
(1962)
Mój stary
Director of Photography
(1961)
Samson
Director of Photography
(1961)
Time Past
Director of Photography
(1961)
Mother Joan of the Angels
Director of Photography
(1960)
Nikt nie woła
Director of Photography
(1959)
Cross of Valor
Director of Photography
(1958)
Ashes and Diamonds
Director of Photography
(1958)
Eroica
Director of Photography
(1957)
Kanal
Camera Operator
(1957)
The Real End of the Great War
Camera Operator
(1957)
Koniec nocy
Writer, Director of Photography