Jerzy Stuhr about himself, Kieslowski and Fellini
July 8, 2011, 7:00 PM
The Master Class with famous Polish actor, professor and director Jerzy Stuhr completed this year’s meetings with notable filmmakers. On his fourth visit to Karlovy Vary, the filmmaker presented Italian film Habemus Papam, where he portrays the Vatican spokesman. At the Jameson Festival Lounge he talked about the way director Nanni Moretti makes films and shared stories about Federico Fellini. “He said he liked Marcello Mastroianni because he never read scripts, so he could make him do anything. The worst actor to work with was Donald Sutherland. This follower of the Anglo-Saxon school of acting kept pestering Fellini for an explanation of his character’s motives.”
Jerzy Stuhr went on to talk about the work style of Krzysztof Kieślowski, with whom he made his first films during the time of Polish “cinema of moral unrest.” He discussed his work as director and told the participants about the difficulties actors from the former communist block faced when venturing West. “I would get offers to play a Polish homeless guy washing cars at an intersection or a Russian gangster in Greek prison. Nanni Moretti writing a role for me in Habemus Papam is a dream come true.
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