Andrzej Wajda
Directing

Andrzej Wajda

Born 6 March 1926 · Suwałki, Polska · Died 9 October 2016

Andrzej Wajda (March 6, 1926 – October 9, 2016) 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.

Known for

Ashes and Diamonds
Katyn
Danton
Kanal
Man of Iron
Man of Marble
The Promised Land
Wałesa: Man of Hope
Afterimage
Interrogation
The Last Days
A Generation
Kill It and Leave This Town
Marek Edelman… And There Was Love in the Ghetto
Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations
Wróblewski According to Wajda
Afterimage
Wałesa: Man of Hope
Demons Years Later
Macbeth
Sweet Rush
Katyn
The Revenge
The Judgement Of Franciszek Kłos
The Last Days
Bigda is Coming!
Miss Nobody
Holy Week
Nastazja
The Ring with a Crowned Eagle
Korczak
Interrogation
The Possessed
The French as Seen by…
Crime and Punishment
Chronicle of Amorous Accidents
Danton
A Love in Germany
Man of Iron
The Conductor
The Maids of Wilko
Without Anesthesia
November Night
Screen Tests
Man of Marble
The Dead Class
The Shadow-Line
The Promised Land
The Wedding
Pilate and Others
Landscape After Battle
The Birch Wood
Swimming Lesson
Hunting Flies
Everything for Sale
Makbet
Roly Poly
Gates to Paradise
The Ashes
Love at Twenty
Siberian Lady Macbeth
Samson
Innocent Sorcerers
Lotna
Ashes and Diamonds
Kanal
A Generation
I Walk in the Sun
Three Stories
While You Are Asleep
The Pottery at Ilza
The Bad Boy
Andrzej Wajda · Midrow