Andrzej Wajda

Director

1926-03-06 – 2016-10-09

Andrzej Wajda was a Polish film director and screenwriter, regarded as one of the leading figures of Polish cinema.

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On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.
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Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
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In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
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Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.
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