Having written and directed all of his films, Andrzej Zulawski has created works inhabited by magnetic performances, combining destructive passions, violent Manichaeism and lyricism. He is particularly acclaimed for his great talent as a filmmaker and actors’s director, and has worked with Romy Schneider, Sophie Marceau, Isabelle Adjani, Francis Huster, Jacques Dutronc, Guillaume Canet, Lambert Wilson or Valerie Kaprisky, amongst many others.
He made his directorial debut in 1967 with a medium length film entitled The Story of Triumphant Love, and his first full length feature, The Third Part of the Night (1971) was widely acclaimed and earned many international prizes. As Zulawski’s career grew, he had difficulties with the Soviet regime, eventually facing censorship for his film The Devil (1972). He is known by films such as Mad Love (1985), based on The Idiot by Dostoïevski, My Great Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (1989), adapted from Raphaële Billetdoux’s bestseller, or Fidelity (2000), freely inspired by “The Princess of Cleves” by Madame de La Fayette and produced by Paulo Branco.
