Andrzej Wajda
Also Known As: Анджей Вайда, アンジェイ・ワイダ, 安杰伊·瓦伊达, 안제이 바이다
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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Suwałki, Polska
Birthday: March 06, 1926
Deathday: October 09, 2016
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Gender: Male
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Signed: Andrzej Wajda
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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Primo Levi's Journey
Overview: In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, a film crew retraces Levi's steps. Levi's words, mainly from "The Truce" (1963), tell us what he experienced. In turn, we see Poland's hollow post-war factories, nationalism in the Ukraine, Soviet-style Communism in Belarus, the abandoned town of Prypiat (Chernobyl), poverty and emigration from Moldavia, Italian factories in Romania, and on across Hungary and Slovakia to Munich where Levi's rage found no listeners. Then home to Turin. An aged Mario Rigoni Stern remembers his friend. What has changed? Some issues of the war remain unsettled.
Genres: Documentary War History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-09-12
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I Have Lived Seventeen Times
Overview: The main character of "Żyłem siedemnaście razy" reflects on his childhood in Gwoździec and tells a story about the beginning of his career as a filmmaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
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Without Anesthesia
Overview: A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-11-27
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Tren na śmierć cenzora
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Na planie
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Andrzej Wajda ogląda "Popiół i diament"
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic
Overview: The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As a director of photography he worked on such films as The Birch Wood, Landscape Afterthe Battle and Austeria. He introduced, among others, hand‑held camera shots, colour lights and shooting at minimum exposure. Reminiscences of his colleagues and friends, including Andrzej Wajda and Piotr Szulkin, show a gifted artist and a modest man who valued his work above all.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-10-01
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Last Pictures
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-01-02
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Screen Tests
Overview: Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-05-16
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About Cinema
Overview: 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. They all respond to two basic questions: why do they make movies and why do they serve the seventh art. The filmmakers share their thoughts about time, narrative, rhythm, light, movement, the meaning of tragedy, the audience‘s desires and the boundaries with other forms of art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-15
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Cegła i inne nagrody filmowe
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
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Credit and debit. Andrzej Wajda about himself
Overview: An attempt to summarize the director's life and work to date, starting from his early youth and ending with his work on "Pan Tadeusz".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-12-31
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Knife in the Water: A Ticket to the West
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-01
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Andrzej Wajda: Róbmy zdjęcie!
Overview: A record of a few months of struggle on the set, showing an atmosphere of work and a picture of immense film machinery, and at same time presenting the truest and intimate portrait of the Master of Polish Cinema, the Oscar winner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-12-31
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Pilate and Others
Overview: 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. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Overview: An interview with film director Roman Polanski conducted during his period of house arrest, discussing his life and work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-09
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Kira
Overview: Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-06-15
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Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-05-18
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski: Courier from Warsaw
Overview: Interview with political scientist and social activist Jan Nowak-Jezioranski by film director Andrzej Wajda.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-12-31
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Wege Durchs Labyrinth - Der Komponist Krzysztof Penderecki
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-05-27
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Sweet Rush
Overview: As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-04-23
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Kill It and Leave This Town
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Drama Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-03-02
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Wajda by Wajda
Overview: A few months before his death, Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016) revisited his work in an assembly room of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing, established in Warsaw in 2002.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-12-03
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Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-03-06
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Solidarność, Solidarność...
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Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-08-31
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Sommer '39
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-08-12
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Komeda, Komeda...
Overview: A feature- length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-09-28
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Katyn: 60 Days on the Set
Overview: The making-of featurette of Andrzej Wajda's 2007 film Katyń.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-05
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