Biography
Kazimierz Kutz was born February 16, 1929, in Szopienice, since 1960 district of Katowice, to a railway worker and a former partisan of the Silesian Uprisings. After the World War II Kutz graduated from gymnasium in Mysłowice and in 1949 was admitted to the Łódź Film School. After finishing his studies in 1954 he started working as an assistant to Andrzej Wajda. His film debut was Cross of Valor (1959). Since then he finished more than 20 pictures, including six about his home region - Silesia. He is also famous for directing theatre plays on some of the most prominent scenes of Poland, including the Teatr Stary in Kraków and National Theatre in Warsaw, as well as several plays for the Polish television. In 1972, he founded the Silesia Film Company in Katowice and, until 1978, was its Artistic Director. In the 1970s he became the main director of the Polish Television branch in Katowice. He was also working for several branch and cultural organisations. After the Martial Law had been imposed in Poland in 1981 Kutz was interned by the communist authorities, but was released soon afterwards. Between 1981 and 1983, lectured in the Radio and Television Faculty at Silesian University …
Directed
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Colonel Kwiatkowski (1996) — Director
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Pearl in the Crown (1972) — Director
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Heat (1964) — Director
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The Taste of the Black Earth (1970) — Director
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Death as a Slice of Bread (1994) — Director
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Nobody's Calling (1960) — Director
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Reverted (1994) — Director
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The People from the Train (1961) — Director
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Cross of Valor (1959) — Director
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The Beads of One Rosary (1980) — Director
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Silence (1963) — Director
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Straszny sen Dzidziusia Górkiewicza (1994) — Director
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Skok (1969) — Director
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Glory and Glory (1998) — Director
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Wild Horses (1962) — Director
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Znikąd donikąd (1975) — Director
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Word of Honor (1953) — Director
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Na straży swej stać będę (1984) — Director
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Ktokolwiek wie... (1966) — Director
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Linia (1975) — Director
- Antigone in New York (1995) — Director
