Kondratiuk died on Monday. He suffered from pancreatic cancer.
Father Andrzej Luter, a friend of the director, said on Facebook: "He lived with the disease in his own way, until the very end without losing his specific sense of humour.”
Kondratiuk was born in 1943 in present-day Kazakhstan. In 1969, he graduated from the Łódź Film School with a degree in directing.
His most famous films include Marriageable Girls (Dziewczyny do wzięcia), made in 1972, and Blissful (Wniebowzięci), which he co-directed with his brother Andrzej Kondratiuk in 1973.
In the 1970s, the Kondratiuk brothers were often seen as an artistic tandem. The duo avoided complicated plots, and their favourite form was a documentary style focusing on the talent of actors, their naturalness and lack of poses.
Janusz Kondratiuk devoted his last film Fighting Like a Dog with a Cat (Jak kot z psem) to the memory of his brother. The film, which premiered in 2018, was an autobiographical portrayal of an unusual family.
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Source: filmweb.pl, Onet