SYLWESTER CHECINSKI - Film and TV director. Born in Susiec, near Tomaszow Lubelski, in 1930. He is a graduate of the Lodz Film School (1956). His directorial film debut was Story of the Golden Boot in 1961. He was a deputy director at ILUZJON Film Studio from 1976 to 1980, and a deputy artistic director of KADR Film Studio. He directed Our Folks, and its sequels (Take It Easy and Big Deal), which gained the status of a cult movie in Poland. He received the Honorary Jancio Wodnik Award at the Prowincjonalia 2005 Polish Film Festival in Wrzesnia. The Polish filmmaker Sylwester Checinski may not yet be a household name in the United States on par with his Lodz contemporaries, Polanski and Kieslowski, but neither is he a neophyte; his career stretches back into the early fifties. And though he retains immense popular appeal in Poland, his works are just now seeing the light of day in the United States thanks to the diligence of the Chicago-based Facets Video. The director's 1991 black comedy Calls Controlled (Rozmowy Kontrolowane) - his last film to date - concerns a government official (Stanislaw Tym) torn in two directions by attempting to satisfy the demands of Solidarity proponents and government officials concurrently. The film co-stars Irena Kwiatkowska and Alina Janowska. The hero of the movie is thirty engineer. According to the viaduct project was built, which is zawalil causing the death of several people. Psycho-moral drama represents an attempt to morals and customs characteristic of the technical intelligentsia, in which the hero lives and works.