Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajdais a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of a honorary Oscar and the Palme d'Or, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School". He is known especially for a trilogy of war films: A Generation, Kanałand Ashes and Diamonds...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 March 1926
CountryPoland
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Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.
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Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.
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In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Young directors had no choice but to throw themselves into writing scripts. That did not have a positive effect on the quality of Polish cinema.
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In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.
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A great artist has died, a man with the hallmarks of a genius.
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I think that adult Polish audiences, while observing what was happening in Poland, started to give in to a particular kind of anxiety.
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We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.