Kazimierz Kutz
Kazimierz Kutz was born in 1929 in Szopienice, Upper Silesia. He is one of the most famous Polish film and theatre directors and was engaged in the formation of the most important movements in the Polish cinema such as nouvelle vague polonaise or moral anxiety cinema. In his films he is always uncompromising and direct, he likes to portray the beauty of life and the dilemmas of simple people.
Kutz received several important prizes both in Poland and abroad. In 1999 the readers of the most popular Polish daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, granted Kutz the title of the most famous living Silesian of the 20th century. In 2006 the Polish, German and French LGBT organizations awarded him the Tolerance Prize in recognition of his work in the field of antidiscrimination of homosexual people.
Since 1997 Kazimierz Kutz has been involved in the Polish political life and at the moment he is an MP representing the central liberal Platforma Obywatelska.