Biography
Andrzej Fidyk (born in 1953, Warsaw) is a Polish documentary filmmaker, producer, and professor of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. He is best known for work his 1989 documentary Defilada (The Parade), which depicts the mass parades choreographed to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) in 1988.
Initially, Fidyk planned to be an economist. During 1972 and 1977 he studied foreign trade at
the Central School of Planning and Statistics at the Warsaw School of Economics. After graduation, he worked at the Foreign
Trade Bureau for two years, work which he hated
He first started working for television in 1980, since when he has made over 40 documentary films shown primarily on Polish and British television. From 1991 to 1996 he worked for the BBC in the Music and Arts Department. Between 1996 and 2004 he was Head of Documentaries at Polish Television.
Filmography
all 7
Movies 7
Director 7
Wałęsa by Wałęsa (2017)
Balcerowicz. Gra o wszystko (2009)
Yodok Stories (2008)
Belarusian Waltz (2007)
Reed Dance (2000)
The Russian Striptease (1993)
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GenderMale
Birthday1953-03-31 (71 years old)
Birth PlaceWarsaw, Poland
CitizenshipsPoland
AwardsGold Cross of Merit, Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta
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