Wojciechowski, Krzysztof

(1939-)

   Author of educational films, television films and programs, documentary and feature films, Wojciechowski became known for his early documentary classic He Left on a Bright, Sunny Day (Wyszedł w jasny, pogodny dzień, 1971) and has produced more than thirty documentary films. Since his work as the second director on Grzegorz Królikiewicz's Through and Through (Na wylot, 1973), Wojciechowski has produced a series of unique narrative films. Let Us Love (Kochajmy się, 1974) and The Corner of Brzeska and Capri Streets (Róg Brzeskiej i Capri, 1979) show his concern with portraying reality—he employs a cast of nonprofessional actors and offers an almost "ethnographic experience" concerned with, respectively, the developing village and the impoverished working-class Warsaw suburb. In 1997 he made The Story of Prophet Elijah of Wierszalin (Historia o proroku Eliaszu z Wierszalina), another "ethnographic film" set before the war in the Polish eastern provinces.

   Other films: Antics (Antyki, 1978), The Law Is the Law (Prawo jest prawem, 1982), Fetish (Fetysz, 1984).

   Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema by Marek Haltof