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Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski

Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski

1995•59m•2.0/10
Documentary

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The making of Jerzy Kosinski. The BBC documentary on the life and art of enigmatic novelist Jerzy Kosinski. Through interviews with his second wife Kiki von Fraunhofer-Kosinski, friends and fellow authors, and Polish villagers who knew Kosinski when he was a child hiding from the scourge of Nazism, this program attempts to assess the verity of Kosinski's "autobiographical" fiction, the need for him to maintain a nebulous mystique about his early life, and to understand his obsession with S&M sex clubs in Manhattan during the 1970s and 1980s.

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BBC Film

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EN

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Jerzy Kosiński

Jerzy Kosiński

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Ted Field

Ted Field

Erica Jong

Erica Jong

Dora Militaru

Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski

William Styron

William Styron

Kiki von Fraunhofer-Kosinski

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