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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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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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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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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With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.
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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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Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.
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Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.
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We knew from the very beginning that this was a Soviet crime. There were letters (from the detention camp) that people received, including from my own father. All of a sudden the letters stopped coming. We were aware that something happened in the spring of 1940. There was no doubt.
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Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
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However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
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The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.
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It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
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Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.