Konrad Szołajski

Konrad Szołajski, pseudonym Piotr Kaczorowski (born 25 May 1956), is a Polish film director and screenwriter.

He completed Polish studies at the University of Warsaw in 1979 and later studied at the British National Film School.

In 1985, he received a master's degree in film and television directing from the University of Silesia in Katowice. Between 1985 and 1987 he studied post-production, directing and filmmaking at the National Film School in the United Kingdom. In 2012, he defended his doctoral degree at the Radio and Television Faculty of the University of Silesia. Then in 1993-94 he taught filmmaking classes at the Department of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw.

In 2002 he received the Studio AVA Film award in the Media Festival “Man in Danger” for his documentary Zawód: posłanka. In December 2016 the German television 3sat issued a program on the subject Exorzismus-Boom in Polen (Boom of exorcisms in Poland), in which Konrad Szołajski talked about exorcisms and his documentary.

Lectures and appearances In 2017, Szołajski attended the seventeenth European Skeptics Congress (ESC) in Old Town Wrocław, Poland. Here, he joined Mariusz Błochowiak, Jakub Kroulík and Chris French on a panel on exorcisms which was chaired by Amardeo Sarma. Later, Szołajski showed the audience his documentary "The Battle with Satan". It followed several people who believed that their life problems could be cured by exorcisms.

Filmography

Fictional Kop głębiej (Dig deeper) (2011) O czym szumią kierpce (What are the mocassins rustling about) (2000) Operacja Koza (Operation: goat) (1999) Musisz żyć (You have to live) (1997) Człowiek z… (The man from...) (1993)

Documentary The Battle with Satan (2015) Głosy (Voices) (2012) I Bóg stworzył seks… (And God created sex...) (2011) Niejedzenie (Non-eating) (2010) Podryw po polsku (Pick up in Polish) (2010) Uwodziciele (Seducers) (2010) Good morning, Lenin! (2009) Wkręcacze (Blenders) (2006) Gruba do łóżka, chuda na bal… (Fat girl to bed, skinny girl on the ball...) (2006) Pogrzeby to nasze życie (Funeral is our life) (2004) Alwernia (2004) Oprowadzę was po moim świecie (I will show you my world)(2003) Zawód: posłanka (Occupation: Member of Parliament) (2002) Sztuka kochania według Wisłockiej (Art of love according to Wisłocka) (2000) Tajemnice starego domu (Secrets of an old house) (1999) Pani od seksu (The lady of sex) (1998) Sceny z życia kick-bokserki (Scenes from the kick-boxer's life) (1997) Dziennikarze '82 (Journalists '82) (1997) Nowa opowieść o prawdziwym człowieku (New story of a real man) (1996) Cały pogrzeb na nic! (The whole funeral for nothing!) (1995) Bondologia stosowana (Applied Bondology) (1995) Zdziczenie obyczajów pośmiertnych (Savagery of posthumous habits) (1995) Komiksiarze (Comic-bookers) (1994) Parafia księdza kustosza (Parish of the curator priest) (1993) O wawelskim smoku (About the Wawel Dragon) (1993) Pan inspektor przyszedł (Mr. Inspector came) (1987) Witamy w Anglii (Welcome to England) (1987)