Borovchik 1923 was born in Kwilcz village, a city in western Poland. When he was a teenager, he was fascinated by the internal structure of the 16 mm camera he saw in the shop window, and he tried to shoot his own short film for the first time. In his early years, he studied printing and painting at Cracow Academy of Fine Arts, and his printed works won the 1953 National Award. After that, Borovchik turned to designing movie posters with socialist realism style, and had a very pleasant cooperation with Jan Lenica, a famous Polish graphic artist and animation master. Several animated short films, such as Labyrinth, which they jointly completed, are considered as one of the best masterpieces of Polish animation after the war until today, and have had a great influence on later experimental image masters such as Leibik kinski, terry gilliam and Schweinmeyer.
Borovchik and Lanika moved to Paris with the prize of10,000 dollars at the Brussels Experimental Film Festival. Although they don't speak French, they all joined Argos Films, a veteran art filmmaker who has made many masterpieces, anatole dauman. After that, Borovchik was hired by jacques forgeot to help Les Cinema Societies make commercial short films, an animation company located in an abandoned MGM studio in Paris. Despite the hard times, he continued to plan his own short films, and even borrowed a pet owl from French filmmaker Chris Max to the project astronaut /les astronautes, 1959, inspired by Verne's novels. After completing the award-winning animated feature film "Mr. and Mrs. Kabbah's Grand Theater/Mr. and Mrs. Kabbah's Theater", Borovchik finally waited for the first release of his live-action film "Island of Love, 1968", which is a black-and-white film with hand-painted borders and tells the desperate desire to overthrow serious totalitarianism. The whole film is full of polish art and design, which is perhaps his only work that is not strictly regarded as erotic.
Borovchik's next work, Blanche (197 1), is based on a poem by Julius Slova. In this film, Borovchik's wife, ligia branice, plays a slut who lives in the old owner's castle in Michel Simon. With a tough stance, the film turned an eccentric story book into an extremely violent tragedy. Although the nudity and lust in the film make people uncomfortable, Blanche undoubtedly leads the director to a more provocative sexual theme, running all the way. 1972 At the Berlin Film Festival, the film won the League of Nations Award.
In 1974 short film "/immoral story", Borovchik deeply thought about the theme of pornography, and fermented a can of half-cooked red wine with mixed taste. The four stories in the film span completely unrelated historical times, and their common thread is the destructive power of repressed sexual desire. There are countless staggering places in the film, among which the most controversial place includes the scene of the famous drug Lord LucreziaBorgia having sex with his father and brother in front of a pagan who was burned alive (that is, the Pope and the Archbishop in Red at that time), and he is also the most horrible murderer in Hungarian history. In Paloma Picasso (the youngest daughter of Picasso, a later master designer of colored jewelry, was very avant-garde and rebellious when she was young, and her career just started 1974), the face of Else Bathory, who bathed in the blood of a virgin to keep her youth, appeared in front of the audience. Despite the box office success, this immoral story has consumed the respect of those early critics who praised Borovchik. In the only film he finished in Poland, An Evil Story (1975), borowski transformed the mode of western popular drama with socialist realism by telling the story of a poor girl with a wife in Beloved. Finally, the girl went to a brothel in Paris and became a prostitute. Although it was successful in Poland and even nominated for the Palme d 'Or Award at Cannes Film Festival, the collective cold reception of critics made this film the most underestimated and neglected work in borowski until today.
Beast (1976) was originally a short film project as part of immoral story. When this semi-finished film was shown at 17 London Film Festival, it told the story of a woman with strong sexual desire and a humanoid monster with endless energy, which attracted an uproar in the critics. As the creator of an unprecedented film, the beast costume designed by Borovchik frightened the producer anatole Dorman, and he tried his best to prevent this evil thing from being used in the film. Finally, this costume appeared in the full version of The Beast. Borovchik refers to the horrible image of Gewodan monster in French folklore, and satirizes the dark abyss behind the seemingly glamorous history of French aristocrats in the most obscene and secretive way, which is full of conspiracy and betrayal, close relative rape and brutality. The official release of The Beast at the 20th London Film Festival became a sensational event. The film contains a lot of false rumors such as child pornography, and even those gentlemen who condemn this immoral film in a high-profile way can't help but condescend to watch it secretly. So to this day, The Beast is still the most notorious of all borowski's works. The shameless sexual desire in the film proved to be too exciting for most movie markets. In 2006, critic Nathaniel niall thompson wrote that deliberately exaggerated images such as monster's prosthetic penis and gallons of fake semen usually finally escaped the scissors of the State Electronic Censorship Office and disappeared from the eyes of those expected (acceptable) viewers.
As a madman in erotic films, Borovchik's reputation once hindered his plan to shoot the novel Prostitute Street/Prostitute, which won the Gungur Prize for Literature by the Barcelona madman André Pierre de Diar1975. The prostitute played by the actress Sylvia kristel, who is famous for the erotic blockbuster Emanuel, is the darling of American underground directors, and the businessman played by the male model joe dellesandro plays in applause. This is a cruel, decadent and ambiguous film. Stories/conventions behind the wall in monasteries (1977) are usually classified as nuns' blasphemy films/nunploitations, which later became popular, but the theme is richer than this type of ordinary works.
Cruelty, disgust and fear have always been the best raw materials in Borovchik's hands. He likes to cook them into repetitive theme melodies, which have a shocking effect. Because of the misleading name, Borovchik's 1979 three-part highlight film "Three/Immoral Women" was put into the market as an artistic erotic film. Compared with the soft focus of girls' boudoir skills, the director is obviously more interested in the bloody revenge of those evil women. "Three Immoral Women" is an ode to the infinite power of people to realize their wishes. In order to complete a proud passage set in ancient Rome, Borovchik and his actors even entered the ruins of Rome disguised as tourists and filmed it with hidden cameras hidden behind the crowd. Lulu/Lulu (1979) is adapted from Franz Wedekin's play, and German director G.W. pabst is adapted from Pandora's Box (1929), which is said to be the end of expressionist silent films. Swiss actress Anne Bennet plays Lulu, a dissolute man killer. The life of one of the victims is actually played by the heroine's biological father. Lulu suffered a bloody massacre by critics, which was regarded as an insult to Babst's last work, but the cheerful Borovchik moved self-destruction to the next work, which was the core theme of the complete liberation of the middle class. In his film The Mystery of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which was adapted from Stevenson's classic, borowski gave up the first draft of the script that was too incongruous with the original, and claimed that he perfectly integrated the fresh idea of gender change with Stevenson's classic story frame, but in the end he brought out a pot of chaotic porridge and pushed the fantasy of sexual liberation to the extreme. 1980 Dr. Jekyll's Slaughter/Bloody Wash was played by udo kier as Dr. Jekyll, and since the story of the monastery, Marina pierrot, a stunner in borowski's regular team, played Dr. Jekyll's fiancee Osborne. When Dr. Jekyll's growing criminal impulse finally led to the closure of his restaurant, the restaurant was a microcosm of the respected Victorian era. They were like Sid and Nancy in ancient England (the two protagonists in the movie Falling in Love), which destroyed the social norms they had been pursuing on the surface. Although 198 1 won the prize at the sitges film exhibition, the largest fantasy film exhibition in Europe, Dr. jekyll Massacre dealt a heavy blow to film censors in many countries and made Borovchik's film career even more difficult. He came to Italy to shoot "The Art of Love, 1983", which was adapted from the works of Ovid, a great Roman poet. However, the hard pornographic descriptions added by publishers from Germany without authorization defiled the film. After that, Borovchik became a nominal director in 1985' s "New Emanuel", but in fact, the slow-motion shooting task was completely given to an assistant, who only finished a short scene shortly after the film started shooting.
Borovchik's last cinema film, The Rite of Love 1987, naturally reminds people of the film Prostitute Street, which was also adapted from Pierre Mandia Gus. The film was shot in Depe, Saint-Germain, the birthplace of existentialism, and the female costume designer played by Mathieu Gary kept looking for the mysterious prostitute she met in the Paris subway (the French publisher of Marina's film thought it was more obscene than pornographic magazines, so she refused to promote it before it was released, and the bloody surreal scene presented by the director in the second half of the film made the lecherous who were fascinated by it lose their appetite. As a result, Borovchik's last masterpiece ended badly at the box office. During the intermission of filming, Borovchik insisted on completing some interesting short films, including the collection "Sex, Love, Desire/Private Collection 1979" with two other underground geeks-Just Jaeckin, the father of Longevity Pornography Series, and Uncle Terayama, the Japanese experimental film. During his 40-year career, he made so many erotic TV movies for French TV stations that some critics joked that borowski might be one of the few filmmakers who are entitled to have a separate page in the annual film yearbook. Although critics generally believe that most of these TV plays are just for making money.
Borovchik and his wife Lydia left Paris in the 1990s and lived a leisurely retirement life. On February 3, 2006, Borovchik died of congestive heart failure in Paris Hospital at the age of 82.