---
name: "Wojciech Has"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/wojciech-has"
fi1m_id: "wojciech-has"
imdb_id: "nm0367860"
tmdb_id: 27002
wikidata_id: "Q1095790"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 April 1925"
died: "3 October 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T16:01:33.620043+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Wojciech Has

## Identity

Wojciech Has

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/wojciech-has
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** wojciech-has
- **IMDb ID:** nm0367860
- **TMDB ID:** 27002
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1095790
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_Has, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1095790, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0367860/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27002

Director. Born 1 April 1925 in Kraków, Poland. Died 3 October 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 April 1925, Kraków, Poland
- **Died:** 3 October 2000
- **Also known as:**  J.W. Has, Войцех Ежи Хас, В. Е. Хас, Войцех Е. Хас, 보이체크 하스, W.J.H.
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_Has, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1095790, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0367860/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27002

## Biography

Wojciech Jerzy Has was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He was born in Kraków on 1 April 1925 and died in Łódź on 3 October 2000.

During the German occupation of Poland, Has studied at the Kraków Business and Commerce College and clandestine classes at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts. After the war he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and completed a one-year film course in 1946. He began by producing educational and documentary films at the Warsaw Documentary Film Studio before moving to the National Film Studio in Łódź.

Has made his feature debut with *The Noose* (1958) and went on to direct *The Saragossa Manuscript* (1965), *The Doll* (1968) and *The Hourglass Sanatorium* (1973). In 1974 he was appointed professor in the directing department at the National Film School in Łódź.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, culture.pl.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Saragossa Manuscript* (1966), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-saragossa-manuscript.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Listy miłosne* (2001), In Memory Of
- *Saragossa* (1998), Actor
- *Conversation with a Cupboard Man* (1994), Supervising Art Director
- *November* (1992), Producer
- *The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober* (1988), Director, Dialogue, Screenplay
- *Memoirs of a Sinner* (1986), Director
- *Write and Fight* (1985), Director
- *On, ona, oni* (1983), Supervising Producer
- *An Uneventful Story* (1983), Director, Screenplay
- *The Hourglass Sanatorium* (1973), Director, Screenplay
- *The Doll* (1968), Director, Screenplay
- *The Codes* (1966), Director
- *The Saragossa Manuscript* (1966), Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-saragossa-manuscript.md)
- *How to Be Loved* (1963), Director
- *Gold Dreams* (1962), as Militiaman (uncredited) · Director
- *Goodbye to the Past* (1961), Director, Storyboard
- *One Room Tenants* (1960), Director, Screenplay
- *Farewells* (1958), Director, Screenplay
- *The Noose* (1958), Director, Story
- *Two Hours* (1957), Assistant Director
- *Our Team* (1955), Director
- *Cultural Review 2/53* (1953), Director
- *Scouts at a Rally* (1952), Director
- *Janek’s Feeder* (1952), Director
- *Herbalists of the Stony Valley* (1952), Director, Screenplay, Cinematography
- *Centralized Control of Production Flow – Sugar* (1951), Director
- *My City* (1950), Director
- *The First Crop* (1950), Writer, Director
- *Steam Locomotive Pt 47* (1949), Director
- *Accordion* (1947), Director, Screenplay
- *Brzozowa Street* (1947), Writer, Director

## Gallery

- ![Wojciech Has](https://film.one/media/person/3911828/gallery-6ff1ea81b936.jpg) Wojciech Has — Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Wojciech_Jerzy_Has.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Wojciech Has](https://film.one/media/person/3911828/gallery-483971af351e.jpg) Wojciech Has — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Polish Academy Life Achievement Award 1999: Polish Academy Life Achievement Award (won)
- Jury Prize 1973: Jury Prize (won), for *The Hour-Glass Sanatorium*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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