Józef Arkusz
Polish film director
Died when: 74 years 93 days (891 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Józef Arkusz (18 March 1921 – 29 June 1995) was a Polish film director and producer of over 70 educational films.Józef Arkusz was born on 18 March 1921 in Peratyn, Tarnopol Voivodeship (modern day Chervonohrad Raion, Lviv Oblast).
His family moved to Lviv in the early 1930s.During World War II he took part in the underground movement Armia Krajowa, for which he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
Following the war, he moved to the industrial city of Lódz, in central Poland, where he began studying biology.
He attended the University of Poznan, and received a degree in Biology in 1950.He furthered his education by attending and graduating from the Lódz Film School in 1953.
He worked on minor films and projects until the 1960s when he began to be noticed by the international community.
At this point, his career took off and he made some of his most famous educational films.Working at the Educational Film Studio (Wytwórnia Filmów Oswiatowych) in Lódz, he created General Topic Films (Filmy Oswiatowe), and is credited as being one of the most influential Polish documentary filmmakers.
He pioneered new methods of filming and documentary production, which are now used as standard practice around the world.His film topics included technical and biological specialties and focused on new biological advances of the modern age.
He died in Lódz, Poland on Monday 19 June 1995.
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