Jerzy Bossak

Although barely known outside Poland, Jerzy Bossak (1910-89) was one of the key figures in the development of Polish cinema, especially in the immediate postwar period when the industry was getting back on its feet after a near-total shutdown during World War II. In the 1930s, he had been a member of the Society for the Promotion of Film Art, a club roughly analogous to the London Film Society of the time, dedicated to the recognition of film as a serious art form. From 1946, he continued to promote these ideals as editor of the magazine Film, was one of the first teachers at the Łódź Film School on its foundation in 1948, and would later become head of Poland’s documentary unit (WFD) while also running Kamera, one of the main Polish state-funded film units - while somehow finding time to become one of Poland’s pioneering documentary-makers.

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