Bohdan Poręba (5 April 1934 – 25 January 2014) was a film and theatre director and screenwriter.
Biography His father was a soldier of Polish Legions and member of the Home Army, and his mother was a teacher. Bohdan Poręba until 1945 lived with his family in Vilnius. Later, he attended Ludwik Waryński High School in Bydgoszcz, where he led a drama club. In 1955 graduated in film direction from the Łódź Film School.
He headed Profil Film Unit from 1975 to 1981 and from 1982 to 1998. He was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party (from 1969) and Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth; as well as first president of the Zjednoczenie Patriotyczne “Grunwald”. From 1987 to 1989 he was a member of the .
He directed more than twenty theatre plays. From 1986 to 1989 he was an artistic director of the .
In 2005 parliamentary election he ran for Sejm from the committee of Samoobrona, as a member of National Party. He was married twice. With his second wife, Ewa Jastrzębowska, they had a son Maciej. He lived at Targowa Street at Praga. He was buried at the Northern Communal Cemetery in Warsaw.
Filmography Wyspa wielkiej nadziei (1957; documentary film) (1959) (1961) (1963) Nad odrą (1965) (1969; TV series) (1970) Hubal (1973) Jarosław Dąbrowski (1975) Gdzie woda czysta i trawa zielona (1977) Polonia Restituta (1980) Katastrofa w Gibraltarze (1983) (1986) (1988) (1991)
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Awards for Wyspa wielkiej nadziei (1958) Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1983)
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