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Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski (1995)

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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Top billed cast

  • Photo of Jerzy KosińskiJerzy Kosiński
  • Photo of Zbigniew BrzezinskiZbigniew Brzezinski
  • Photo of Ted FieldTed Field
  • Photo of Erica JongErica Jong
  • Photo of Dora MilitaruDora Militaru
  • Photo of Roman PolanskiRoman Polanski
  • Photo of William StyronWilliam Styron
  • Photo of Kiki von Fraunhofer-KosinskiKiki von Fraunhofer-Kosinski

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