Edward Lada LaudaÅ„ski (23 April 1922, Šódź â€" 1993, New York, New
York) better known as Édouard de Laurot, aka Yves de Laurot, was a
filmmaker and writer of Polish/French nationality.Jonas Mekas (2007)
notes the incredible circumstances of De Laurot's life, including his
experiences in the Polish Resistance and surviving the second Warsaw
Uprising during World War II. In a video interview Mekas recounts how
Laurot would tell the friends of the engaged cinema group tall stories
including how he was chosen by the Polish resistance in Warsaw to swim
across the river Wisla, under German fire, and deliver a message to
the Soviets on the other bank, which was too incredible for anyone to
believe, yet a Washington lawyer later confirmed the story on a visit
to Warsaw â€" LaudaÅ„ski in fact was the messenger who swam the river.
After the uprising Edward Laudański worked for British Secret
Service. After the war he studied in England and in 1950, he obtained
a diploma in English studies at Cambridge University.In his interview
"Yves de Laurot defines Cinema engagé" (Cinéaste, Spring 1970)
Laurot/Laudański describes how he first held a film camera. His group
of Polish partisans had captured a German tank, and found a military
Arriflex 35mm in the tank. According to Laurot a young German soldier,
despite having a gun, was persuaded to surrender and teach the
partisans how to use the camera in exchange for his life.From the
early 1950s Laudański/Laurot began to be involved in film and
criticism, offering encouragement to Peter Weiss. De Laurot cofounded
Film Culture magazine with Jonas Mekas in 1955, providing a
Marxist-theoretical perspective to their criticism which Mekas later
abandoned. Mekas describes De Laurot's imperious style, to which he
attributes many of the shortcomings of their collaboration on "Guns of
the Trees." ) Edouard de Laurot Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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