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Jan Lenica (1928-2001)

Birthplace:
Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland

Born:
January 4, 1928

Died:
October 5, 2001

Biography from TheMovieDB

Jan Lenica (4 January 1928, Poznań, Poland – 5 October 2001, Berlin) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist.  A graduate of the Architecture Department of Warsaw Polytechnic, Lenica became a poster illustrator and a collaborator on the early animation films of Walerian Borowczyk. From 1963 – 1986 he lived and worked in France, while from 1987 he lived and worked in Berlin. He was a professor of graphic, poster, animated cartoon for many years at German high schools and the first professor of the animation class at the University of Kassel, Germany, in 1979. He used cut-out stop motion animation in his numerous films, which included two features: Adam 2 (1968) and Ubu et la grande gidouille (1976, but released in France only in 1979).  He died on 5 October 2001 in Berlin, Germany.

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Director:
1957  Banner of Youth
1957  Once Upon a Time
1957  Strip-Tease
1958  House
1958  Love Requited
1959  Monsieur Tête
1961  New Janko the Musician
1963  Labyrinth
1964  Rhinoceros
1965  A
1970  Adam 2
1972  Fantorro the Last Enforcer
1975  Landscape
1979  Ubu and the Great Gidouille
2001  Wyspa R.O.

Scenario Writer:
1957  Banner of Youth
1957  Once Upon a Time
1957  Strip-Tease
1958  House
1958  Love Requited
1959  Monsieur Tête
1961  New Janko the Musician
1963  Labyrinth
1964  Rhinoceros
1965  A
1970  Adam 2
1972  Fantorro the Last Enforcer
1975  Landscape
1979  Ubu and the Great Gidouille
2001  Wyspa R.O.

Writer:
1957  Banner of Youth
1957  Once Upon a Time
1957  Strip-Tease
1958  House
1958  Love Requited
1959  Monsieur Tête
1961  New Janko the Musician
1963  Labyrinth
1964  Rhinoceros
1965  A
1970  Adam 2
1972  Fantorro the Last Enforcer
1975  Landscape
1979  Ubu and the Great Gidouille
2001  Wyspa R.O.

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