Romuald Kropat ( Polish. Romuald Kropat ; March 9, 1927 , Pruzhany Polish Republic (1918-1939) (now the Brest region of Belarus ) - July 6, 2008 , Lodz , Poland ) - Polish cameraman and photographer, teacher. Winner of the State Prize of Poland (1955).
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Biography
In 1943-1945 he worked as a photolab at the USSR, after the war he moved to Poland. He studied at the Graduate School of Natural History (WSSP) in Gdansk .
A graduate of the first issue of the Higher State School of Cinema, Television and Television. Leona Schiller in Lodz (1950). He worked with well-known directors Andrzej Munk (“The Man on the Rails ”) and Konrad Naletsky (TV series “ Four Tankmen and a Dog ”).
Since 1960, he was a member of the Union of Polish Photographic Artists (ZPAF).
For many years he worked as a teacher of the Department of Cinematography at the Lodz Film School, from 1978 he also taught photography.
Prepared many famous cameramen and photographers.
Winner of a number of awards in the field of film and photography. In 1960-1970, he participated in many exhibitions in the country and abroad.
He died leaving a rich collection of photos and negatives.
Selected camera work
He participated in the filming of more than 20 feature films, television, documentaries, short films and serials.
- Two brigades / Dwie brygady (1950)
- Not far from Warsaw / Niedaleko Warszawy (1954)
- Stars should burn / Gwiazdy muszą płonąć (1955)
- The Man on the Rails (1956)
- Rancho Texas / Rancho Texas (1958)
- Another person / Drugi człowiek (1961)
- And you will become an Indian / I ty zostaniesz Indianinem (1962)
- Attic / Mansarda (1963)
- Zygmunt Walishevsky (1897–1936) / Zygmunt Waliszewski (1897–1936) (1964)
- Wolf Ticket / Wilczy bilet (1964)
- Tomek and the dog / Tomek i pies (television series, 1965)
- Four tankers and a dog (1966,1968-1969) - series, series 1-16
- Children from our school / Dzieci z naszej szkoly (television series, 1968–1969)
- Ursula / Urszula (TV movie, 1970)
- Berry in the city / Jagoda w miescie (TV movie, 1971)
Awards
- 1955 - State Prize of Poland (as part of the creative team of the creators of the movie "Stars must burn" (Gwiazdy muszą płonąć);
- 1967 - Ministry of National Defense Prize of I degree for the series " Four tankers and a dog ";
- 1967 - Award of the Ministry of Culture and Art I degree for the series " Four tankers and a dog ."
Links
- Cropat, Romuald (Eng.) On the Internet Movie Database
- KROPAT Romuald (Polish)