Name
Andrzej Wajda
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1926-03-06
Deathday
2016-10-09 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Suwałki, Polska
Biography
Andrzej Wajda (born 6 March 1926) was a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he was possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School" (active circa 1955 to 1963). He was known especially for a trilogy of war films: A Generation (1954), Kanał (1956) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958).
Four of his movies were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: The Promised Land (1975), The Maids of Wilko (1979), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyń (2007).
He passed away in 2016 at the age of 90.
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Known For
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The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from ...
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Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided...
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A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR...
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Andrzej Wajda's first movie looks at the pottery in the town of Iłża, Poland. Much of it...
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Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist ...
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In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuse...
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Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight f...
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A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic ...
- 1989 Signed: Andrzej Wajda as Self
- 2006 Primo Levi's Journey as Self
- 2009 I Have Lived Seventeen Times as Self
- 1978 Without Anesthesia as TV Show Contestant (uncredited)
- 1968 On The Set as Self
- 1992 Tren na śmierć cenzora as Self
- 2008 Andrzej Wajda ogląda "Popiół i diament" as Self
- 2012 Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic as Self
- 2000 Last Pictures as Self
- 1977 Screen Tests as Andrzej Wajda
- 2015 About Cinema as Self
- 1999 Credit and debit. Andrzej Wajda about himself as Self
- 2012 Cegła i inne nagrody filmowe as Self
- 2003 Knife in the Water: A Ticket to the West as Self
- 2009 Andrzej Wajda: Let's Shoot! as Self
- 1972 Pilate and Others as Reporter (uncredited)
- 2012 Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 Kira as Self
- 2018 Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk as Self
- 2004 Jan Nowak-Jezioranski: Courier from Warsaw as Self - Interviewer
- 2014 Wege Durchs Labyrinth - Der Komponist Krzysztof Penderecki as Self
- 2009 Sweet Rush as Self
- 2020 Kill It and Leave This Town as Old Man on the Train (voice)
- 2016 Wajda by Wajda as Self - Filmmaker
- 2017 Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations as Self
- 2005 Solidarność, Solidarność... as Self
- 2009 Sommer '39 as Self
- 2012 Komeda, Komeda... as Self
- 2009 Katyn: 60 Days on the Set
- 2004 Jaki jest z bliska as Self
- 2011 Political Dress as Self
- 1997 Polish School as Self
- 2013 We Film the People! as Self
- Soon Wajda as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 Aktorka as Self
- 2013 Demons Years Later as Self
- 2002 The Lessons of Polish Cinema as Self
- Soon An old beggar with a hurdy-gurdy as Self
- 2005 Andrzej Wajda: On Ashes and Diamonds as Himself
- 2026 I Dreamed the Future as Self (archive footage)
- 1974 Spécial cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1948 Bambi ( 1 episode ) as Self
