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Andrzej Wajda

May 2024

  • David Naden

    Other lives
    David Naden obituary

    Other lives: Bafta award-winning film editor who worked on documentaries, drama and features

April 2024

  • Men of means … Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak and Andrzej Seweryn in The Promised Land.

    The Promised Land review – Andrzej Wajda’s anti-capitalist comic opera is still razor sharp

    Wajda takes three young entrepreneurs and follows their greed and ambition to toxic capitalism’s logical conclusion in this queasily disturbing satire

December 2016

  • Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek in Toni Erdmann, which swept the board at the European film awards 2016.

    Toni Erdmann sweeps the board at European film awards 2016

    Maren Ade’s comedy, the first film directed by a woman to win best picture, also scores prizes for two leads, screenwriting and direction

12 October 2016

  • A scene from Kanał, the second film in Andrzej Wajda’s war trilogy

    Andrzej Wajda’s portrayal of grim reality opened my eyes to the power of cinema

    Letter: As a teenager, I had pretty typical young tastes in film – cowboys, space, war etc. Then one night, for reasons that escape me, I stayed up to watch Kanał, the second film of Wajda’s war trilogy

10 October 2016

  • The Oscar-winning Polish film director Andrzej Wajda, who died on 9 October 2016, aged 90.

    The Guardian view on Andrzej Wajda: a voice for humanity

  • Ashes and Diamonds, 1958, starring Zbigniew Cybulski, left, was one of Wajda’s finest works.

    Andrzej Wajda obituary

  • Oscar-winning Polish film director Andrzej Wajda in 2013. He died on 9 October, aged 90.

    Film blog
    Andrzej Wajda: great director had Poland written on his heart

  • Andrzej Wajda

    Acclaimed Polish film director Andrzej Wajda dies aged 90

May 2016

  • My Name Is Ivan.

    Andrei Tarkovsky: it's time to immerse yourself in the work of a true auteur

    The Russian director’s debut is the perfect place to start to gain an appreciation of a film-maker of extraordinary influence and cinematic vision

March 2016

  • A scene from Ida, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski.

    Polish TV broadcaster criticised for its treatment of Ida screening

    The European Film Academy joins the protest against TVP’s critical introduction to its broadcast of Paweł Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning film Ida

February 2016

  • ‘I don’t make a concession to viewers’: Andrzej Żuławski in 1988.

    Andrzej Żuławski obituary

    Uncompromising film director with a taste for depicting the extremes of human behaviour

December 2015

  • Leo Tolstoy circa 1908.

    Four-day marathon public reading of War and Peace begins in Russia

    Coordinated by Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter, readers around the world will each read two to three minutes, streamed on Russian state television

April 2015

  • 140x84 trailpic for Scorsese Restoration project

    Martin Scorsese's Polish cinema restorations – video

  • Mother Joan of the Angels. 1961

    Martin Scorsese: my passion for the humour and panic of Polish cinema

May 2014

  • Jerzy Radziwilowicz in Man of Marble

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Man of Marble – Philip French on the Polish film that anticipated Solidarity

    As exciting as a thriller, Wajda's film inspired a generation of Polish film-makers, writes Philip French

October 2013

  • Invigorating … Wałęsa: Man of Hope

    Wałęsa: Man of Hope – review

    A full-tilt biopic tribute to the Polish trade-union leader and founder of the Solidarity movement is very enjoyable, writes Peter Bradshaw

March 2012

  • Shades of blackness … Zbigniew Cybulski

    Film blog
    Alexei Sayle: why I love Polish cinema

    Thanks to artists such as Zbigniew Cybulski and Andrzej Wajda, the world of vintage Polish film is stranger than anything else you will ever encounter

April 2011

  • Leon Niemczyk, left, and Zygmunt Malanowicz in Roman Polanski's first feature, Knife in the Water

    Film blog
    A short history of Polish cinema

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    New Europe: Poland
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