FILM DIRECTOR

Jerzy Grotowski

1933 - 1999

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Jerzy Marian Grotowski (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈmarjan grɔˈtɔfskʲi]; 11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre director and theorist whose innovative approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today. He is considered one of the most influential theatre practitioners of the 20th century as well as one of the founders of experimental theatre. He was born in Rzeszów, in southeastern Poland, in 1933 and studied acting and directing at the Ludwik Solski Academy of Dramatic Arts in Kraków and Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerzy Grotowski has received more than 540,789 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Jerzy Grotowski is the 117th most popular film director (down from 116th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Poland (down from 139th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Film Director.

Jerzy Grotowski is most famous for his work in theater, which he called "poor theater." He believed that theater should be an experience for the audience and not just a spectacle for the audience.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jerzy Grotowski ranks 117 out of 2,041. Before him are Terrence Malick, Kenji Mizoguchi, Otar Iosseliani, Manoel de Oliveira, Jules Dassin, and Peter Jackson. After him are David Lean, Sergei Bondarchuk, John Woo, Howard Hawks, Victor Fleming, and Jiří Menzel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Jerzy Grotowski ranks 44. Before him are Gene Wilder, Richard R. Ernst, Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Samora Machel, Steven Weinberg, and Oliver Sacks. After him are David McCallum, Gian Maria Volonté, Richard Rogers, Joan Collins, Charles K. Kao, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. Among people deceased in 1999, Jerzy Grotowski ranks 20. Before him are Wassily Leontief, Georgios Papadopoulos, Willi Stoph, Robert Bresson, Raisa Gorbacheva, and Arthur Leonard Schawlow. After him are Joe DiMaggio, Julius Nyerere, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Akio Morita, Glenn T. Seaborg, and Trygve Haavelmo.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jerzy Grotowski ranks 150 out of 1,694. Before him are Albrecht von Roon (1803), Edward Sapir (1884), Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860), Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Bronisław Komorowski (1952), and Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086). After him are Clara Immerwahr (1870), Alfred Tarski (1901), Miroslav Klose (1978), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), and Rochus Misch (1917).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Jerzy Grotowski ranks 6. Before him are Andrzej Wajda (1926), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Billy Wilder (1906), Dziga Vertov (1896), and Fred Zinnemann (1907). After him are Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), and Krzysztof Zanussi (1939).

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