Andrzej Wajda - most famous Polish film director, an Oscar winner
Once dubbed a symbol for a besieged country of Poland, Wajda is known for drawing from that country's history to suit his tragic sensibility—crafting an oeuvre of work that devastates even as it informs.
His films are also famous of their visual sides. Wajda shows some symbolic scenes, very often he transforms some paintings onto the screen or makes new versions of some paintings from polish and European history.
He always tries to give the right mood and atmosphere of period he is telling about, by referring to particular visual characteristics. Wajda makes great epic pictures as well as some existential, psychological ones.
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Andrzej Wajda () (born 6 March 1926) is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is perhaps the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School" (active circa 1955 to 1963). He is known especially for a trilogy of war films: A Generation (1954), Kanal (1956) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958).
A major figure of world and Central European cinema after World War II, Wajda made his reputation as a sensitive and uncompromising chronicler of his country's political and social evolution. He is currently listed as the 97th greatest director of all-time by film website They Sho...
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- manny steinberg manny steinberg Sep 9, 2008 @ 9:02 am
- I recently published my book outcry , its well received in the states , by its readers , Iwould like to mail my book to AndrzejWajda ,him being one of best directors in the world , perhaps he might find , it to be material for a motion picture ,I am a holocaust survivor , been in the States since 1946 ,in 1950 i was inducted into the American army and i served in Korea 22 months the story of my book , has great potential, the name is OUTCRY MEMOIRS OF MANNY STEINBERG , AND i have a childrens book , the boy named 27091 ,
a director like Andrzej WAjda can bring out the best of my book
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