Polish filmmaker Kazimierz Kutz dies at 89
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Grzegorz Siwicki
19.12.2018 16:10
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Polish filmmaker Kazimierz Kutz dies at 89
Polish film and theatre director, author, MP and senator Kazimierz Kutz, eulogist of his native Silesia, has died in Warsaw at the age of 89.
Kazimierz Kutz, pictured in 2015. Photo: PAP/Rafał Guz
“A great loss for Polish culture. In a sense I was brought up on his film aesthetics and his understanding of Silesia” said Deputy PM and Culture Minister Piotr Gliński.
In the words of actor and friend Franciszek Pieczka “Silesia has suffered a great loss. Silesia owes him very much. He interested wider audiences in Silesia, its culture, its ethos, and Silesia should be ever grateful”.
As Kazimierz Kutz himself said in an interview for Polish Radio “it was obvious to me - that if you have a profession such as mine, then you have to testify, to articulate where you came from”.
A graduate of the famed Łódź Film School, beginning as an assistant to Andrzej Wajda, Kazimierz Kutz directed more than 20 films, including a Silesian trilogy beginning with “Salt of the Black Earth”, now considered a classic.