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Andrzej Wajda - news / articles

Wajda turns to Soviet massacre - 16 February 2006
Cult Polish director Andrzej Wajda's next project will be to tell the true story of Polish troops killed by Soviet forces in 1940. - -The Danton and Popiol I Diament (Ashes And Diamonds) director, who is 80 next month, was especially motivated to film the story as his

Andrzej Wajda - what members say

Ashes And Diamonds review by from England

Postwar Poland 15 July 2007
...s and nationalists, and the belief in love and humanity. Dramatically filmed by Andrzej Wajda, it stars Zbigniew Cybulski as a young partisan named Maciek, who is upset and ... Read customer review

Katyn review by ito from Manchester

Confusing Katyn 16 July 2009
...y a disjointed series of unconnected vignettes. I understand that the director, Andrzej Wajda's father was killed in the massacre and this is possibly why he spends more of ... Read customer review

Man Of Iron review by A customer from Harrow

Beginning of the end for the Iron Curtain 11 September 2010
...cal and political background, Man of Iron is a film set in 1980 and directed by Andrzej Wajda, who wanted to show the trouble with Communism in Poland. The movie introduc... Read customer review

Andrzej Wajda - filmography

Katyn on DVD (2009)
Starring: Artur Zmijewski, Maja Ostaszewska, Andrzej Chyra
Director: Andrzej Wajda
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Celebrated Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda takes the helm for this Oscar-nominated drama detailing the harrowing events surrounding the 1940 massacre of captured Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest. A unique blend of conventional narrative and documentary-style filmmaking, KATYN opens in the ..read more »

70% from 3,426 members

Katyn - Blu-ray (2007)
Starring: Artur Zmijewski, Jan Englert, Maja Ostaszewska
Director: Andrzej Wajda
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Celebrated Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda takes the helm for this Oscar-nominated drama detailing the harrowing events surrounding the 1940 massacre of captured Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest. A unique blend of conventional narrative and documentary-style filmmaking, KATYN opens in the ..read more »

69% from 565 members

Danton on DVD (1983)
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chereau
Director: Andrzej Wajda
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Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a series of massive executions, The Terror. Confident in the peoples' support, Danton clashes with his former ally, ..read more »

66% from 983 members

Man Of Iron on DVD (1981)
Starring: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
Director: Andrzej Wajda
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MAN OF IRON, Andrzej Wajda's account of the events at the Gdansk shipyard in the summer of 1980, stars Marian Opania as Winkiel, a burned-out, alcoholic journalist who's assigned to look into the activities of Maciek Tomzyk (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), the charismatic and articulate leader of striking ..read more »

69% from 125 members

Innocent Sorcerers on DVD (1960)
Starring: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Wanda Koczeska
Director: Andrzej Wajda
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Following after his renowned War Trilogy, Andrzej Wajda made this provocative film about contemporary youth from a script co-written by Jerzy Skolimowski. A young womanising doctor meets his match in the form of a spirited young woman.

70% from 10 members

Lotna (1959)
Starring: Jerzy Pichelski, Adam Pawlikowski, Jerzy Moes
Director: Andrzej Wajda
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This feature film directed by Andrzej Wajda functions as a tribute to the filmmaker's father, a Polish cavalry officer killed in World War II.

55% from 11 members
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Ashes And Diamonds on DVD (1958)
Starring: Wienczyslaw Glinski, Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar
Director: Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Wajda
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A young Polish Resistance fighter is ordered on the last day of WWII to assassinate an incoming Russian commissar. However, a mistake leads to him having an encounter with a beautiful barmaid.

72% from 677 members

Ashes And Diamonds - Blu-ray (1958)
Starring: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski
Director: Andrzej Wajda
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A young Polish Resistance fighter is ordered on the last day of WWII to assassinate an incoming Russian commissar. However, a mistake leads to him having an encounter with a beautiful barmaid.

67% from 120 members

Kanal on DVD (1957)
Starring: Tadeusz Gwiazdowski, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Teresa Izewska
Director: Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Wajda
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Set in war-torn Warsaw during World War II, this drama tells the story of a group of soldiers and patriots attempting to flee the grasp of the Nazis by escaping through the city's maze of underground sewers.

75% from 365 members

A Generation on DVD (1954)
Starring: Janusz Paluszkiewicz, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Teresa Izewska
Director: Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Wajda
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Story of youths during the German occupation of Poland in the World War II who come to adulthood through love and adversity.

69% from 263 members

The Andrzrej Wajda War Trilogy (3 discs) on DVD
Starring: Wienczyslaw Glinski, Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar
Director: Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Wajda
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Features Polish auteur Andrzrej Wajda's war trilogy, containing A GENERATION, CANAL, and ASHES AND DIAMONDS.In A GENERATION, a cocky Polish youth falls for a pretty Resistance leader. As a result he joins the movement but he and his brash friends treat their first mission as a game. Inevitably, the ..read more »

70% from 313 members

Andrzej Wajda facts

5 most recent films

Katyn - 3.5 stars
Katyn - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Danton - 3.5 stars
Man Of Iron - 3.5 stars
Innocent Sorcerers - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kanal - 4.0 stars
Ashes And Diamonds - 3.5 stars
Katyn - 3.5 stars
The Andrzrej Wajda War Trilogy - 3.5 stars
Katyn - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Lotna - 3.0 stars
Innocent Sorcerers - 3.5 stars
Danton - 3.5 stars
Ashes And Diamonds - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Man Of Iron - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tadeusz Lomnicki - 7 times - show films
Zbigniew Cybulski - 7 times - show films
Adam Pawlikowski - 7 times - show films
Urszula Modrzynska - 6 times - show films
Wienczyslaw Glinski - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Andrzej Wajda - 4 times - show films
Vojtech Jasny - 1 times - show films
Luis Puenzo - 1 times - show films
Janos Szasz - 1 times - show films
Pavel Chukhraj - 1 times - show films