Born in Kraków in 1925 and dying in Łódź in 2000, Wojciech Has studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts and made educational and documentary films before his first features in the late 1950s. He became the main Polish director of the dreamlike and the baroque, with a visual style rooted in painting. He made the psychological dramas Farewells (1958) and How to Be Loved (1962), then The Saragossa Manuscript (1965), The Doll (1968) and The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973). He was a professor and later dean at the film school in Łódź.
Filmography
- The Noose (1957)
- Farewells (1958)
- How to Be Loved (1962)
- The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
- The Doll (1968)
- The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)