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Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda

Polish film director (1926-2016)
March 6, 1926 (October 9, 2016)

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V.O.: Powidoki
Pol. 2016. Biography by Andrzej Wajda with Boguslaw Linda, Zofia Wichlacz, Bronislawa Zamachowska. In the late 1940s in Poland, the constructivist painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski refuses to change his artistic approach to conform to the communist ideology.
Runtime: 98 min.

Walesa. Man of Hope

V.O.: Walesa. Czlowiek z nadziei
Pol. 2013. Biography by Andrzej Wajda with Robert Wieckiewicz, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Rosaria Omaggio. Interviewed by an Italian journalist in the early 1980s, Polish trade unionist Lech Walesa recounts his struggle to defend workers' rights.
Runtime: 122 min.
Pol. 2009. Essay film by Andrzej Wajda with Krystyna Janda, Pawel Szajda, Jan Englert. The story of an actress in mourning for her husband is woven into a film in which she plays a dying woman in love with a boy who reminds her of her sons who died in the war.
Runtime: 85 min.
Pol. 2007. History by Andrzej Wajda with Artur Zmijewski, Maja Ostaszewska, Andrzej Chyra. In the spring of 1940, twenty-two thousand Polish officers were killed by the Soviet secret police in the Katyn forest.
Runtime: 118 min.
Pol. 1999. History by Andrzej Wajda with Boguslaw Linda, Michal Zebrowski, Daniel Olbrychski. In 1812, in Russian-occupied Poland, the fate of two rival families who have different points of view of the arrival of Napoleon as a liberator.
Runtime: 125 min.

Holy Week

V.O.: Wielki tydzien
Runtime: 97 min.
Pol. 1990. Biography by Andrzej Wajda with Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska, Piotr Kozlowski. In 1939, in Warsaw, the director of an orphanage for Jewish children must face many difficulties during the German invasion.
Runtime: 118 min.

The Possessed

V.O.: Les Possédés
Fr. 1988. Drama by Andrzej Wajda with Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Lambert Wilson, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey. An aristocrat who is playing at being a revolutionary has the idea of committing a murder to ensure the cohesion of his group of anarchists.
Runtime: 114 min.

Chronique des événements amoureux

V.O.: Kronika wypadków milosnych
Pol. 1986. Sentimental drama by Andrzej Wajda with Piotr Wawrzynczak, Paulina Mlynarska, Dariusz Bolkowski. In 1939, in Poland, a young man from a modest family falls in love with the daughter of a senior officer.
Runtime: 120 min.

A Love in Germany

V.O.: Eine Liebe in Deutschland
All. 1983. Mores drama by Andrzej Wajda with Hanna Schygulla, Piotr Lysak, Marie-Christine Barrault. In 1941 in a German village, the dramatic consequences of a grocer's affair with a Polish prisoner of war.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1982. History by Andrzej Wajda with Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chéreau. The political rivalry between Danton and Robespierre during the French Revolution.
Runtime: 136 min.

Man of Iron

V.O.: Czlowiek z zelaza
Pol. 1981. Social drama by Andrzej Wajda with Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania.
Runtime: 150 min.

The Maids of Wilko

V.O.: Panny z Wilka
Pol. 1979. Psychological drama by Andrzej Wajda with Daniel Olbrychski, Maja Komorowska, Christine Pascal.
Runtime: 116 min.

The Conductor

V.O.: Dyrygent
Pol. 1979. Psychological drama by Andrzej Wajda with John Gielgud, Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Seweryn.
Runtime: 101 min.

Rough Treatment

V.O.: Bez znieczulenia
Pol. 1978. Psychological drama by Andrzej Wajda with Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Ewa Dalkowska, Andrzej Seweryn. A great reporter faces a marital failure coupled with professional disgrace.
Runtime: 113 min.

The Shadow Line

V.O.: Smuga cienia
G.-B. 1976. Psychological drama by Andrzej Wajda with Marek Kondrat, Graham Lines, Tom Wilkinson. A merchant navy officer accepts command of a sailing ship under difficult conditions.
Runtime: 100 min.

Man of Marble

V.O.: Czlowiek z marmuru
Pol. 1976. Social drama by Andrzej Wajda with Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki. A television journalist undertakes an investigation into the fate of a worker glorified in the 1950s for his work performance.
Runtime: 160 min.

The Promised Land

V.O.: Ziemia obiecana
Pol. 1975. Social drama by Andrzej Wajda with Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn. In Poland towards the end of the nineteeth century, three friends join forces to run a spinning mill.
Runtime: 178 min.

The Wedding

V.O.: Wesele
Pol. 1972. Moral study by Andrzej Wajda with Daniel Olbrychski, Ewa Zietek, Andrzej Lapicki. The celebrations surrounding the marriage of a young Polish poet to a village girl in the early twentieth century.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Birch Wood

V.O.: Brzezina
Pol. 1970. Drama by Andrzej Wajda with Daniel Olbrychski, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Emilia Krakowska. A sick musician arrives to spend his last days at his widowed brother
Runtime: 99 min.
Runtime: 89 min.

Everything for Sale

V.O.: Wszystko na sprzedaz
Pol. 1968. Psychological drama by Andrzej Wajda with Beata Tyszkiewicz, Elsbieta Czyzewska, Andrzej Lapicki. An actor dies during the shooting of a film.
Runtime: 90 min.

Love at Twenty

V.O.: L'Amour à 20 ans
Fr. 1962. Sketches by François Truffaut, Renzo Rossellini, Marcel Ophuls, Shintaro Ishihara, Andrzej Wajda with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Rosy Varte. Five sketches devoted to various problems concerning youth in different countries.
Runtime: 118 min.

Siberian Lady Macbeth

V.O.: Sibirska Ledi Magbet
Runtime: 92 min.
Pol. 1961. Drama by Andrzej Wajda with Serge Merlin, Alina Janowska, Elzbieta Kepinska. During Nazi occupation, a young Jewish student imprisoned after a fight is freed and sent to the Warsaw ghetto.
Runtime: 90 min.

Innocent Sorcerers

V.O.: Niewinni czarodzieje
Runtime: 88 min.
Pol. 1959. War drama by Andrzej Wajda with Jerzy Moes, Bozena Kurowska, Adam Pawlikowski. During the invasion of Poland in 1939, a horse passes from one officer to another.
Runtime: 90 min.

Ashes and Diamonds

V.O.: Popiol i diament
Pol. 1958. History by Andrzej Wajda with Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzanowska, Adam Pawlikowski. In Poland, in 1945, a young nationalist student is ordered by his boss to shoot the communist party?s general secretary.
Runtime: 105 min.
Pol. 1957. War drama by Andrzej Wajda with Tadeusz Janczar, Teresa Izewska, Wienczyslaw Glinski. In 1944 in Warsaw, during the uprising against the Nazi occupiers, a brigade of men and women from the suburbs must reach the city centre by way of the sewers.
Runtime: 93 min.

A Generation

V.O.: Pokolenie
Runtime: 87 min.

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