Andrzej Saramonowicz

Who is Andrzej Saramonowicz?

Andrzej Saramonowicz is a Polish director, actor, journalist and scenarist. Saramonowicz studied history at Warsaw university before turning to journalism. He collaborated with some of the main polish mainstream magazines, such as Gazeta Wyborcza, Viva and Przekrój. In 2000, his first screenplay and movie Pół serio won him the main award at the 2000 edition of the Festival of Polish Fiction Movies in Gdynia and kickstarted his career as a filmmaker. He then went on to write, produce and direct some of the biggest commercial successes of Polish cinema in the last decade. His comedies Testosteron, Lejdis and Idealny facet dla mojej dziewczyny alone totaled 4.6 million viewers, approximately a quarter of all tickets sold in that period.