Zanussi is an Italian producer of home appliances that in 1984 was bought by Electrolux. Zanussi is a leading brand for domestic kitchen appliances in Europe^{[citation needed]}. Products have been exported from Italy since 1946.

The Zanussi Company began as the small workshop of Antonio Zanussi in 1916. The enterprising 26-year-old son of a blacksmith in Pordenone in Northeastern Italy began the business by making home stoves and wood-burning ovens.

Antonio Zanussi’s, most spectacular stroke of imaginative insight came in 1933 when he launched REX – the company’s new trademark at that time and a well-known presence on the Italian market even today – to coincide with a huge media event of the day: this was the new record for a transatlantic crossing (Gibraltar to New York) with which the Italian liner “Rex” conquered the coveted Blue Riband. The linking of his innovative new “Model 503” oven to this spectacular Italian triumph was a supreme example of marketing genius at a time when the word was still unknown in Europe.

Krzysztof Zanussi, (born 17 July 1939 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish producer and film director.

He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is also a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice.

Zanussi studied physics at Warsaw University (Uniwersytet Warszawski) and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński) in Kraków. He is the director of the Polish Film Studio TOR and has received several prizes and awards, including the David di Donatello Prize of the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, the Cavalier's Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order, and the Cavalier de L'Ordre des Sciences et Lettres.

Krzysztof Zanussi has written On editing an amateur film (1968), Discourse on an amateur film (1978) and the memoirs, memoirs Time to Die (1999). He appeared as himself in Camera Buff (1979), a film about an amateur film maker, directed by his friend Krzysztof Kieślowski.

He is currently planning on directing an international production about the life and contributions of St. Hedwig of Poland, as well as a Polish-Ukrainian comedy.