This year marks the centennial of the birth of Andrzej Wajda, who has been called cinema’s great historian of Poland. Born on March 6, 1926, the director received almost every award imaginable, ...

Poland’s eminence gris of filmmaking, Andrzej Wajda, is planning to make a film about 1980s pro-democracy Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, with a script by Agnieszka Holland. Wajda, whose new film ...

Digitally re-mastered cinematic essentials of a director who had the courage to say what many thought. Few film-makers were as tenacious as him in questioning the prevailing reality and common ...

Polish film director Andrzej Wajda, who directed the film "Katyn", talks to FRANCE24 about the massacre of 22,000 Poles by Soviet forces during World War II. Filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, who directed the ...

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, has died, aged 90. His absorption ...

Poland has had a complicated relationship with Lech Walesa. The love-hate of past years, however, is danger of fading into indifference and neglect. Poles are often surprised when foreigners ask after ...

The Birch Wood is Andrzej Wajda's adaptation of a novel by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. It tells the story of a musician on the threshold of death who tries to find his inner peace in a cottage within the ...

Feature film directed by Andrzej Wajda in 1970. Andrzej Wajda's "Krajobraz po bitwie" / "Landscape after battle" was a ground-breaking film discussing the personal stories of the inmates of a WW-II ...

Wajda fought communist censorship and truth-denying propaganda to produce formidable, patriotic films that illuminated Poland’s troubled past – and helped steer its history Andrzej Wajda had a viable ...

Polish fighters contemplate their future in Wajda’s 1958 film in which the war’s end, far from being a cause for celebration, marks a crisis of identity for their country As exciting as a thriller, ...

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. The ...