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Oct 10, 2016 · Andrzej Wajda was born on March 6 1926 in Suwalki, north-east Poland. His father, Jakub, was a cavalry officer who was killed by Soviet forces in the Katyn massacre of 1940, which claimed the ...
Oct 10, 2016 · Andrzej Wajda (pronounced ON-jay VIE-dah) was born on March 6, 1926, in Suwalki, a garrison town near Poland’s border with Lithuania. His father was a cavalry officer, and as young Andrzej moved ...
Mar 4, 2016 · The best place to start – Ashes and Diamonds. Ashes and Diamonds (1958): Spanish poster, 1964. It’s absolutely the obvious choice, but there’s ample reason for that: it really is difficult to look past Ashes and Diamonds (1958). Considered by many to be the greatest Polish film ever made, and by most to be Wajda’s finest work, it was ...
Mr. Wajda has also put his heart into theatrical performance as well as the cinema, and in particular he is renowned as a stage director for the writings of Dostoevski. Mr. Wajda’s 60th birthday was commemorated last year with “The Exhibition — The Theatre of Andrzej Wajda” and “The Exhibition-Andrzej Wajda’s 30 films 1954-1985,” held in various places in Poland.
Andrzej Witold Wajda ( Suwałki, Poljska, 6. ožujka 1926. – Varšava, 9. listopada 2016. ), bio je poljski redatelj, scenarist i producent. 1981. Wajda je osvojio Zlatnu palmu za film Čovjek od željeza. [1] 2000. godine Wajda je bio dobitnik Oscara za životno djelo . 2008. poljski je dnevnik Gazeta Wyborcza Wajdu proglasio Čovjekom godine.
In 1999, Polish director Andrzej Wajda received an Honorary Academy Award for his body of work: more than thirty-five feature films, beginning with A Generation in 1955. Wajda’s next film, Kanal, the first ever made about the Warsaw Uprising, won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes and launched Wajda on the path to international renown, a status secured with the release of his masterpiece ...
Oct 13, 2016 · Andrzej Wajda, who died this week at age 90, was Poland’s greatest filmmaker, as well as a union activist, a supporter of dissidents and for a time a senator, but he was something more.
