Jerzy Wójcik

Jerzy Wójcik

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.

Camera

1988

Diabeł

Director of Photography

1982

The Lynx

Director of Photography

1974

The Deluge

Director of Photography

1967

Westerplatte Resists

Director of Photography

1967

Medaliony

Director of Photography

1966

Pharaoh

Director of Photography

1964

Echo

Director of Photography

1963

Przy torze kolejowym

Director of Photography

1961

Samson

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

Koniec nocy

Director of Photography

1957

1957

Kanal

Camera Operator

Writing

Directing

Infos

Full Name
Jerzy Wójcik
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
9/12/1930
Date of Death
4/3/2019