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Dir­ector of doc­u­ment­ary films. Born in Bydgoszcz in 1930. Gradu­ated from the Fac­ulty of Dir­ect­ing at the Łódź Film Tele­vi­sion and Theatre School. In the years 1956 – 1990 he worked as a dir­ector at the Doc­u­ment­ary Film Stu­dio in Warsaw. Kara­basz has made about 50 doc­u­ment­ary films; the most fam­ous are: Muzykanci (The Musi­cians), Ludzie w drodze (People on the Road), Pier­wszy krok (The First Step). He is the father of the Pol­ish school of doc­u­ment­ary film mak­ing and a prize win­ner at many inter­na­tional and national fest­ivals. The film The Musi­cians (1960) was awar­ded the Golden Dragon prize at the Cra­cow Fest­ival, the Warsaw Mer­maid (a prize of Film Cri­tique Club) and other prizes at fest­ivals in Leipzig, Tours, Venice, Mex­ico City, Ober­hausen and San Francisco.He has dir­ec­ted four fea­ture films and sev­eral plays for the Tele­vi­sion Theatre. Kara­basz is a mem­ber of the Kronika Film Stu­dio and the Academy of Arts in Ber­lin; he also teaches at the Fac­ulty of Dir­ect­ing at the Lódź Film Tele­vi­sion and Theatre School. He has pub­lished sev­eral books on doc­u­ment­ary film mak­ing: Cier­pliwe oko (The Patient Eye), Bez fikcji (No fic­tion), Odczytać czas (Read­ing Time), Roz­mowa o dok­u­mencie (A Con­ver­sa­tion on Doc­u­ment­ary Films). —polishdocs.pl