Andrzej Wajda
Birthday: 1926-03-06
Place of Birth: Suwałki, Polska
Biography: Andrzej Wajda (born 6 March 1926) was a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he was possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School" (active circa 1955 to 1963). He was known especially for a trilogy of war films: A Generation (1954), Kanał (1956) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958). Four of his movies were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: The Promised Land (1975), The Maids of Wilko (1979), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyń (2007). He passed away in 2016 at the age of 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrzej Wajda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Primo Levi's Journey
In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journe...
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I Have Lived Seventeen Times
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Without Anesthesia
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full polit...
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Tren na śmierć cenzora
The film reveals the mechanisms of the communist institution of censorship. Famous filmmakers - Kazi...
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On The Set
Reportage from the set of the film "Everything for Sale", focusing on the director - Andrzej Wajda. ...
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Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic
The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As ...
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Last Pictures
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Screen Tests
Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a work...
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About Cinema
An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film abo...
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Credit and debit. Andrzej Wajda about himself
An attempt to summarize the director's life and work to date, starting from his early youth and endi...
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Andrzej Wajda: Let's Shoot!
A record of a few months of struggle on the set, showing an atmosphere of work and a picture of imme...
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Pilate and Others
The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of t...
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Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
An interview with film director Roman Polanski conducted during his period of house arrest, discussi...
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Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, re...
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski: Courier from Warsaw
Interview with political scientist and social activist Jan Nowak-Jezioranski by film director Andrze...
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Sweet Rush
As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel youn...
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Kill It and Leave This Town
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, w...
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Wajda by Wajda
A few months before his death, Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016) revisited his work in an a...
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Solidarność, Solidarność...
A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consi...
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Sommer '39
In the summer of 1939, people enjoyed the good weather, ignoring politics and pessimistic prediction...
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Komeda, Komeda...
A feature-length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda....
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Katyn: 60 Days on the Set
The making-of featurette of Andrzej Wajda's 2007 film Katyń....
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Political Dress
History of a fashion rebellion in communist Poland. The film shares the experiences of those who wer...
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Polish School
The documentary talks about the origins, development and achievements of the Polish film school. Peo...
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