To his 90. Birthday in March, he received the honorary citizenship of Gdansk, the city in which his film “Walesa” and “man of iron” games. Poland’s ruling law and justice party boycotted the ceremony, pointedly. She had reason to be. He felt now sometimes the spiritual atmosphere of the post-war period, remembered, had Andrzej Wajda said. Whether Stalinism or extreme nationalism, the symptoms of lack of freedom are the same.
For many poles, the Grand old man of Polish cinema, was p last back to what he always was, the face and the Conscience of the Nation. Probably Andrzej Wajda of this late fame was saddened. Everything is repeated? Must we really learn from history that we learn nothing from history?
in 2007, he directed the Film of his life, he was 81. The Film that he always knew that he would make him, and he knew that nothing was impossible, as this piece of cinema could emerge. It was “Katyn”, a lawsuit in the images, forcing himself to Cool. In Katyn Stalin in 1940, left 20 000 Polish officers murdered.
The Polish history was his life theme
Andrzej Wajda is a child of a cavalry officer Jakub Wajda, serving in 72. Polish infantry regiment. The son will never forget as 1943 arrived, the first news about the mass graves, the German Wehrmacht had found the bodies. The Name Jakub Wajda, was not on the lists. Breathe a sigh of relief. Hope.
“The news from Katyn were a vibration, which distracted us from the crimes of the Jews”, would Wajda say later, and it sounded to blame. Debt-lots of debt, is that it? The question is going to keep him busy always. The son of a cavalry officer Jakub Wajda joined the Polish resistance. He didn’t know it yet, but he had found his life’s theme, it had found him: the Polish history. How riddled her weave, the destiny, the debt and hope the threads in it?
showed up As the underground fighters from the underground, had taken over the Polish Communists in Power in the country. Between you and the son of the Polish officer, on his return, he hoped for even a day, there was a relationship of sincere distrust and a certain contempt, and yet, the 22-Year-old, decided by the decision of the ruling Communists, “We need a film school!” to refer to.
the last days of The Warsaw uprising, he addressed in “channel”
He had tried to be a painter, and yet there were too many images in his head, and they were moved to, than they would have individually fit on canvases. The resistance fighters Andrzej Wajda was one of the first students of the Łódźer film school. He persuaded a small unknown actor, who had fled from the Warsaw Ghetto, in his first student film. So Roman Polanski played the lead role in Wajda’s “Generation”.
The Film was, like its successors from the resistance of the Polish home army. There was resistance, but it was the wrong regardless of the party, anarchist, Pro-Western, even. The wrath of the film school’s founder, grew from Film to Film, as well as the championship of the Director. Wajda, the wanderer.
following in the footsteps of “channel”, Wajda’s first masterpiece. Time: to came the last days of the Warsaw uprising, when the Red army was already on the other side of the Vistula, and the desperate Fighting but help. Location: the sewers of Warsaw.
In France, learned of, who had murdered his father
“channel”, appeared in a hard document gesture, like a Film of Italian neorealism, documentary, and yet so expressive, plaintive, without accuse. The 31-year-old Director was invited to the factory in 1956, after Cannes. Here he learned of the Polish exiles, his father was dead, shot by the Soviet secret service in the cellars of the NKVD in Kharkov.
Wajda didn’t have to go back, he wouldn’t have the large Polish exile community to connect, but he was a native filmmaker. he is Not Allowed to be sure that the interest of Poland as for Polish history, such as he? Yes, he was Allowed to his countrymen, his audience leave, now, where the map was recorded in his father’s country again? He was allowed to leave it to the other? No, Wajda turned, with the news about the fate of his father in the brain and the stomach, “ash and diamond”.
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