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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.
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15 December 1993
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
24 April 1953
The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
17 September 1971
Based on a novella by Ivan Turgenev, Pierwsza milość is the story of a 15 year old boy and a 21 year old girl who develop an ill-fated romance.
15 September 2015
An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials of the novelist and playwright Ariano Suassuna and other filmmakers such as Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Ken Loach, Andrzej Wajda, Karim Ainouz, José Padilha, Hector Babenco, Vilmos Zsigmond, Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant and Jia Zhangke.
06 September 1976
Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain.
24 February 1988
Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence.
21 December 1971
After his parents go away in the mountains, young Fortunato Falcone decides to shelter a fugitive for a price of a silver coin.
03 October 1958
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else.
21 September 2007
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border.
22 October 2016
In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism.
12 January 1983
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror.
01 April 1992
A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.
20 April 1957
In the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains.
21 February 1975
At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions.
23 September 2013
How was it possible that a single man influenced contemporary world so significantly? This film is an attempt to capture the phenomenon of a common man’s metamorphosis into a charismatic leader — an attempt to see how a Gdansk shipyard electrician fighting for workers’ rights awakened a hidden desire for freedom in millions of people.
02 June 1970
A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace.
04 October 2002
A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece.
04 January 1972
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the story follows Michał, who witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child and then is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes.
25 October 1996
A devout Catholic peasant girl is corrupted by two new friends when her family moves to the city. An allegory of traditional Polish values under threat from materialism and decadence in the post-Communist era.
30 June 1969
A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki and Magda Zawadzka - actors who at that time gained popularity in the series "Pan Wołodyjowski".
01 March 1996
During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets.
10 November 1970
A man suffering from tuberculosis returns from abroad to stay at his brother's farm, hoping to make amends, while also beginning a love affair with a farm girl.
31 December 2004
Interview with political scientist and social activist Jan Nowak-Jezioranski by film director Andrzej Wajda.
01 January 1951
First short film by Wajda, based on the story "A Naughty Boy" by A. Chekhov.
01 April 1994
Andrzej Wajda's Japanese-language film based on the last chapter of Dostoevsky's Idiot, in which Prince Myshkin and Rogozhin return to the past in a conversation over the dead body of Nastassya Filippovna.
25 February 1977
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
13 December 1989
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends.
05 October 2009
The making-of featurette of Andrzej Wajda's 2007 film Katyń.
26 October 1983
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before.
26 January 1955
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota.
26 December 1971
Seven women gather to hear one of them tell a story of a strange incident that happened to a certain dead man.
27 July 1981
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests.
01 January 1951
Andrzej Wajda's first movie looks at the pottery in the town of Iłża, Poland. Much of it shows the actual process of creating all the objects out of clay.
27 November 2020
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.
27 July 1962
A ruthless woman's adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk.
23 April 2009
As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again.
12 February 2016
Andrzej Wajda mentions Andrzej Wróblewski (1927-1957) as a painter and friend. It tells about a man facing the challenges of the epoch and dramatically searching for his space.
06 May 1990
The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
04 September 1979
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend.
09 January 1973
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl.
18 May 2018
A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies.
09 October 2012
An interview with film director Roman Polanski conducted during his period of house arrest, discussing his life and work.
02 January 2000
Andrzej Munk was one of the leading directors in Polish cinema. Friends and collaborators share their memories about this stunning artist and his premature tragic death.
20 March 1965
This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events.
07 August 1970
Filmed in 1970, this little-known short by Andrzej Wajda remained unseen for over five decades after being archived under the working title The Artist.
12 August 2009
In the summer of 1939, people enjoyed the good weather, ignoring politics and pessimistic predictions.
31 May 1968
In 1212, a Children's Crusade is launched after a young shepherd, Jacques de Cloyes, claims to have had a vision in which it is said that the innocence of children would be able to liberate Jerusalem.
24 September 2000
During the German occupation of a small Polish town, Franciszek Kłos, a lowly local policeman, will stop at nothing to become a Volksdeutsche.
25 September 1965
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century.
04 December 2015
A documentary about Elzbieta Czyzewska, one of Poland's greatest actresses, a beauty icon of the 1960s, who died in 2010.
22 June 1962
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20.
29 November 1999
The film tells about the period of Polish history in the 20s of the last century, when the fragile government of the country fell, and a man of the people came to the fore.
28 January 1969
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young.
31 August 2005
A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts.
01 January 1953
Framed as a mother’s bedtime narration to her child, this short documentary observes a city at night, revealing the factories, tram depots, and essential services that operate while most people sleep.
29 March 1972
The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death.
01 January 1968
Reportage from the set of the film "Everything for Sale", focusing on the director - Andrzej Wajda. At one stage of the filming, Wajda planned to include all the documentary material shot by Ziarnik in his film.
26 October 1988
In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue.
