Adamek, Witold

(1945-)

   Cinematographer, film director, and film producer. After graduating in 1969 from the Łódź Film School, Adamek initially worked as a camera operator and then as a cinematographer on several classic Polish films, including Janusz Zaorski's The Mother of Kings (1982/1987), Wiesław Saniewski's Custody (1985), and Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film about Love (1988). He often collaborated with director Radosław Piwowarski, for example on Yesterday (1985), Train to Hollywood (1987), and The Sequence of Feelings (1993), and with Juliusz Machulski, for whom he photographed Squadron (1992) and Girl Guide (1995). In recent years, Adamek also scripted, photographed, and directed several films, including bitter contemporary dramas such as Monday (Poniedziałek, 1998) and Tuesday (Wtorek, 2001) and the melodrama with Andrzej Chyra and Magdalena Cielecka, Loneliness Online (Samotność w sieci, 2006). He also acted as a producer of Jan Jakub Kolski's Keep Away from the Window (2002).

   Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema by Marek Haltof