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Andrzej Witold Wajda ( Polish: [ˈandʐɛj ˈvajda]; 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, [1] the Palme d'Or, [2] as well as Honorary Golden Lion [3] and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "Polish Film School".
Andrzej Wajda. Andrzej Witold Wajda (ur. 6 marca 1926 w Suwałkach, zm. 9 października 2016 w Warszawie) – polski reżyser filmowy i teatralny, w młodości aktywny jako malarz. W latach 1989–1990 dyrektor artystyczny Teatru Powszechnego w Warszawie. Czterokrotnie jego filmy były nominowane do Oscara dla najlepszego filmu nieanglojęzycznego.
Andrzej Wajda is an Academy Award-winning director. He is the most prominent filmmaker in Poland known for The Promised Land (1975), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyn (2007). He was Born on March 6, 1926, in Suwalki, Poland.
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- Suwalki, Podlaskie, Poland
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- Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Andrzej Wajda was a Polish director and screenwriter who was a leading figure in the “Polish film school,” a group of highly talented individuals whose works brought international recognition to their country’s post-World War II reality.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
From the Nazi invasion of his homeland through four-and-a-half decades of Soviet dominion, across 40 features including the towering classics Ashes and Diamonds, The Promised Land and Man of Iron, Andrzej Wajda – who has died at the age of 90 – embodied and expressed the tumultuous history of twentieth-century Poland.
Andrzej Wajda, the Oscar-winning Polish director whose films charted his country’s turbulent history, has died at the age of 90.
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Oct 10, 2016 · Andrzej Wajda, who mined Polish history to create films that established him as one of the world’s great directors and won him an Academy Award for his life’s work, died on Sunday. He was 90.
