Krzysztof Zanussi

Krzysztof Zanussi
Krzysztof Zanussi in 2020
Born	(1939-06-17) 17 June 1939 (age 85) Warsaw, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Education	National Film School in Łódź
Occupation(s)	Film director, Producer, Professor

Krzysztof Pius Zanussi (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop.^[1] He is also a professor at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia in Katowice.

He is the recipient of the Golden Lion at the 1984 Venice Film Festival for A Year of the Quiet Sun, the Jury Prize at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival for The Constant Factor as well as two Grands Prix at the 1977 and 2000 Gdynia Film Festival for Camouflage and Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease, respectively.