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Jan Lenica is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Polonais born on 4 january 1928 at Poznań (Pologne)
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).
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German Poststamp designed by Jan Lenica
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Jan Lenica
Nationality Pologne
Birth 4 january 1928 at Poznań (Pologne)
Death 5 october 2001 (at 73 years) at Berlin (German)
Birth 4 january 1928 at Poznań (Pologne)
Death 5 october 2001 (at 73 years) at Berlin (German)
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).
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German Poststamp designed by Jan Lenica
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Filmography of Jan Lenica (3 films)
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Ubu and the Great Gidouille (1979)
, 1h20Directed by Jan Lenica
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime, Animation
Rating64%
House (1959)
Directed by Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
Genres Animation
Actors Ligia Branice
Rating54%
A woman (played by Borowczyk's wife Ligia Branice) has a series of surreal, dream-like hallucinations and encounters within the confines of a lonely apartment building. Some of these bizarre occurrences include various abstract objects appearing in a room, two men engaging in fencing and martial arts, a man entering and leaving a room repeatedly, and a living wig destroying several items on a table. The film ends with the woman passionately kissing a male mannequin's face before it crumbles to pieces.
Scriptwriter
Ubu and the Great Gidouille (1979)
, 1h20Directed by Jan Lenica
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime, Animation
Roles Writer
Rating64%
House (1959)
Directed by Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
Genres Animation
Actors Ligia Branice
Roles Scenario Writer
Rating54%
A woman (played by Borowczyk's wife Ligia Branice) has a series of surreal, dream-like hallucinations and encounters within the confines of a lonely apartment building. Some of these bizarre occurrences include various abstract objects appearing in a room, two men engaging in fencing and martial arts, a man entering and leaving a room repeatedly, and a living wig destroying several items on a table. The film ends with the woman passionately kissing a male mannequin's face before it crumbles to pieces.
Producer
Ubu and the Great Gidouille (1979)
, 1h20Directed by Jan Lenica
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime, Animation
Roles Producer
Rating64%