Polish Director Andrzej Wajda died – tagesschau.de

One of the most famous Polish Directors dead: Andrzej Wajda died at the age of 90 years. In his award-winning works, he continued the resistance against the German occupation, the coming to power of the Communists and with the massacre of Katyn.

The Polish theatre and film Director Andrzej Wajda is dead. The 90-Year-old died in the hospital, as his colleague Jacek Bromski, Polish media said.

Already his first films, “A Generation” (1955), “The canal” (1957) and “ashes and diamonds” (1958) are still regarded as masterpieces and classics of the “Polish film school”. The Director dealt with the war and the takeover by the Communists after 1945. For “The channel” about the Polish resistance in Warsaw, he received the 1956 best Director award in Cannes.

After the imposition of martial law in 1981 was occupied by Wajda in his home country with a ban from profession. Instead, the orders received in France and the Federal Republic of Germany, where he shot the film “Danton” and “A love in Germany”. After the fall of communism, he addressed, in 1995, in the adaptation of the novel “Holy week,” the Polish anti-Semitism and turned the 2007 movie “Katyn” about the massacre of over 22,000 Polish officers by the Soviet secret service in the Second world war.

To Wajda’s greatest works, The promised Land “and” man Of marble””. The main theme of the films, Wajda was Poland. He was considered one of the greatest Directors in the history of Polish cinema, was a co-founder of the Polish film school.

To Wajda’s numerous awards include the Golden lion of Venice, the Golden Ehrenbär the Berlinale and the honorary Oscar for his life’s work. Wajda was an officer in the French Legion of honour and was awarded the Great Federal cross of merit, as well as several honorary doctorates.

in 1926, in Suwalki, born in Wajda worked as a technical draftsman, a locksmith, and auxiliary fresco painter in the repair of the Church. As a teenager, he fought in the Polish resistance against the German occupiers. After the war, he studied Film and theatre at the film school in Lodz.