Kazimierz Kutz was born on 16 February 1929 in Szopienice, since 1960 district of Katowice, to a railway worker and a former partisan of the Silesian Uprisings.

After the World War II Kutz graduated from gymnasium in Mysłowice and in 1949 was admitted to the Łódź Film School.

Between 1981 and 1983, lectured in the Radio and Television Faculty at Silesian University in Katowice, and, between 1985 and 1991, taught directing at the Higher Theatre School in Kraków.

For his involvement in the matters of Silesia, and for his films depicting the traditions and problems of that part of Poland, he was considered by some the spokesman of all Silesians.

[1] In 1997 Kutz took part in the elections to the Senate of Poland (from the list of Freedom Union party, Katowice constituency) and was supported by approximately 500,000 Silesians.