Andrzej Żuławski (born in 1940) is one of the most controversial Polish directors. For years, he has been a creator of emotional, passionate, obsessive cinema on the edge of image hysteria. Even in his debut, the visionary Third Part of the Night / Trzecia część nocy (Poland 1971), Żuławski was visibly different from the communist Poland’s film style, which he never actually got adapted to. After the censors blocked his eccentric projects – The Devil / Diabeł (Poland 1972), referring to the events of March 1968 and the apocalyptic sci-fi film The Silver Globe / Na srebrnym globie (Poland 1976-87) – he resolved to move to France and to chain his artistic way to the European cinema. His subsequent films: The Important Thing Is To Love / L' Important c'est d'aimer (France / Italy / Germany 1975), Possession (Germany 1981), The Public Woman / La femme publique (France 1984) or Mad Love / L’amour braque (France 1985) were still shocking, both due to their new-wave form and the expressive, almost hysteric style. As he admits himself, he makes films about things that torture him, which are expressed the best through women. For many actresses – Małgorzata Braunek, Romy Schneider, Izabelle Adjani or Sophie Marceau – the roles proposed by Żuławski were the boldest and the most important ones of their artistic lives.