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	Andrzej Wajda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andrzej Wajda (born March 6, 1926) is a Polish film director, one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School.
		While capable of turning out mainstream commercial fare (often dismissed as "trivial" by his critics), Wajda was more interested in works of allegory and symbolism, and certain symbols (such as setting fire to a glass of liquor, representing the flame of youthful idealism that was extinguished by the war) recur often in his films.
		Wajda's later devotion to Poland's burgeoning Solidarity movement was manifested in Man of Marble (1976) and Man of Iron (1981), with Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa appearing as himself in the latter film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrzej_Wajda (643 words)

	Andrzej Wajda
		Andrzej Wajda creates a fascinating study of political opportunism, character analysis, and the filmmaking process under communism in Man of Marble.
		Co-written with Agnieszka Holland, Andrzej Wajda creates a surreal, Kafka-esque, and allegorical portrait of the widespread government intervention, euphemistically called "rough treatment", that occurred during the tenure of the First Party secretary, Edward Gierek, which often led to career and personal ruin.
		Using fragmented scenes and unresolved relationships, Wajda provides a subtle reflection of the destructive and arbitrary nature of political suppression: the enigmatic young student, Agata's (Krystyna Janda) unprovoked attachment to Jerzy; Jacek's open hostility and consuming envy towards the prominent journalist; Ewa's determination to continue with the divorce proceedings despite overwhelming personal uncertainty.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/wajda.html (1149 words)

	Polish Directors - Andrzej Wajda
		Andrzej Wajda's film chronicles the extraordinary efforts of Dr. Janusz Korczak (Wojciech Pszoniak), a pediatrician and author, to protect a group of abandoned children in the Warsaw Ghetto.
		Legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda proved himself as ambitious as ever at the age of 73 with this lavish period drama based on the 19th century epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz, considered by many to be one of the greatest works of Polish literature.
		Andrzej Wajda's profound psychological study of a man who accidentally kills a schoolmate in a brawl and is imprisoned.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /tlstore/foreignvids-polish-wajda.html (1796 words)

	Kinoeye \| Polish film: Andrzej Wajda and landscape
		Wajda's films frequently use landscape to create a sense of Polish national identity that draws on memories of a former age.
		Mise-en-scène in Andrzej Wajda's films is often conceived in order to produce this effect of landscape as national icon which is well demonstrated in the first shot of the opening sequence of Popiół i diament.
		She publishes in English and Polish and is the co-editor of The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda: The Art of Irony and Defiance (2003) and Gender in Film and the Media (2000).
	www.kinoeye.org /04/05/ostrowska05.php (2764 words)

	The Andrzej Wajda - Philip Morris Freedom Prize
		Moreover, the occasion marked the founding of the new "Andrzej Wajda -- Philip Morris Freedom Prize," to be awarded annually to a promising filmmaker from Central or Eastern Europe, in whose works are reflected the themes of freedom and democracy.
		Wajda's credo was underscored in the dialogue exchange with Volker Schlöndorff at the American Academy, namely: "The weakness of contemporary cinema is the lack of ideas.
		Over his long career, Andrzej Wajda has held the position that cinema can be effective when viewed as a "game," or "dialogue," between the audience and the film director.
	www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca /wajda991.htm (795 words)

	“Why Not Have Our Own World?”: Interview with Andrzej Wajda
		Unlike Wajda’s older films, which at the time of their release attracted a high arthouse praise and devotion from elite directors and audiences around the world and in Poland, Pan Tadeusz was an overwhelming commercial success, but only in its domestic market.
		Andrzej Wajda’s filmmaking trajectory is a great example of, for most time, an ability to attune his films to the changing range of frequencies accepted and expected by his audiences.
		Andrzej Wajda paraphrasing a great Polish journalist in John Orr and Elzbieta Ostrowska (Eds), The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda: The Art of Irony and Defiance (London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2003), p.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/36/andrzej_wajda.html (4736 words)

	Andrzej Wajda
		Wajda is very much in the “romantic”, as opposed to the “positivist”, tradition of Polish culture, in other words he tends to sympathise with somewhat reckless rebellions against oppression rather than with a more considered wait-and-see approach.
		Wajda was a highly accomplished film-maker right from the start, with an exuberant style reminiscent of someone like Martin Scorsese (example: the exhilarating 2-minute tracking shot along the corridors of the Warsaw Museum which begins Man of Marble (1977)).
		Of the dozen Wajda films I have seen, which include nearly all his most celebrated ones, my choice of the greatest has to be Man of Marble, a multi-layered Citizen Kane-like investigation by a young filmmaker (a brilliant Krystyna Janda) into the sudden disappearance from all public mention of a hero of 1950s Poland.
	www.talkingpix.co.uk /ArticleWajda.html (948 words)

	Andrzej Wajda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A major figure in the world of post-World War II Eastern European cinema, Polish director Andrzej Wajda has chronicled his country's political and social evolution with sensitivity, fervor, and a refusal to make compromises in dealing with his difficult subjects.
		Wajda's later devotion to Poland's burgeoning Solidarity movement was manifested in Man of Marble (1976) and Man of Iron (1981), with Solidarity leader Lech Walesa appearing as himself in the latter film.
		Three years later, at the 2000 Oscar ceremony, Wajda was presented with an honorary Oscar for his numerous contributions to the cinema; he subsequently donated the award to Krakow's Jagiellonaian University.
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	Andrzej Wajda Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Andrzej Wajda (born March 6, 1926) is a Polish film director.
		He was born in Suwalki, Poland in the family of Polish POW murdered by Soviets in Katyn massacre.
		Three of Wajda's works, namely The Promised Land, The Maids of Wilko and Man of Iron gained Academy Award nominations for the best foreign language film.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Wajda_Andrzej.html (155 words)

	Andrzej Wajda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This film and the subsequent KANAL (1957) and ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1958) form a powerful trilogy in which Wajda examines with intense sensitivity the predicament of individuals caught in events beyond their control and bitterly questions the traditional glorification of heroism in battle.
		Although Wajda was to prove himself a most versatile director in future years, turning out romantic films, comedies, and epics, as well as dramas, he periodically returned to themes relating to his WW II memories.
		EVERYTHING FOR SALE (1968), Wajda's most personal and possibly most poignant film, is an introspective tribute to Zbigniew Cybulski, the young star of Wajda's trilogy, who was killed in a tragic accident in 1967.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho8/wajda_a.htm (491 words)

	Andrzej Wajda
		A article by Andrew James Horton subtitled "Andrzej Wajda's work acknowledged by Tinseltown" outlining the Directors career and filmography.
		A Warsaw Voice article on the occasion of Wajda being presented a lifetime achievement award at the 2006 Berlinate film festival.
		The article describes Wajda oeuvre in the context of the many international awards he has received.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /web/arts_culture/cinema/wajda/link.shtml (165 words)

	Andrzej Wajda's SAMSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wajda, who has been a mentor to a generation of Polish filmmakers including Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Agnieszka Holland, remains one of the most acclaimed and decorated film directors alive.
		Never afraid of controversy, Wajda has continually questioned the national myths of his homeland and dared to touch upon old wounds and uncomfortable matters: he remains a romantic to the bone.
		By no means a darling of the communist authorities, Wajda nonetheless was an artist too important to be ignored or silenced.
	www.pjhftoronto.ca /sms.html (549 words)

	Andrzej Wajda
		Andrzej Wajda's first three features form a landmark in Polish cinema, and a monument of that great decade of European movies, the 1950s.
		Working mostly during a thaw in Soviet control over his homeland, Wajda and his collaborators created three films that looked back at the Second World War from the perspective of a new generation whose youth was defined by the catastrophe of Nazi occupation and Soviet control.
		Its message was acceptable to the communist regime in power when it was made, because it presents a rather harsh portrayal of pre-communist Poland, set in the late 1800s.
	www.dvd-today.com /actor/Andrzej-Wajda/dvd.html (684 words)

	Amazon.com: Andrzej Wajda - Three War Films (A Generation, Kanal, and Ashes & Diamonds) - Criterion Collection: DVD: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kanal is the director of Andrzej Wajda's second tale in his war trilogy based on real events that took place starting in August 1944 when the Poles rose up against the Nazis with hope of getting help from the Soviet Red Army.
		Wajda continues to frame each scene with artistic detail, as the mise-en-scene and the cinematography continue to amaze the audience.
		Wajda himself, along with his co-writer Morganstern, and a prominent Polish film critic, Plazewski, provide interviews, filmed in 2003 - there is 90 minutes of this and, while highly illuminating in many details, it also hints at the spirit which leadens the actual films.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007989ZW?v=glance (5040 words)

	Andrzej Wajda. Official Website of Polish movie director - Biography
		WAJDA, Andrzej ; Polish film and theatrical director; born March 6th 1926 in Suwalki; son of Jakub Wajda and Aniela Wajda;
		These people, our teachers, were educated people who understood what was going on in Poland, and though they deferred to this ideology, they did not completely lose their wits.
		So, for example, Andrzej Munk could not make a film with a consumptive hero (I was to play that hero because I was terribly thin), he could not make it even as a student etude, because to show a victim of consumption was considered just too pessimistic.
	www.wajda.pl /en/kalendarium.html (3385 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films
		In 1999, Polish director Andrzej Wajda received an Honorary Academy Award® for his body of work—more than thirty-five feature films, beginning with A Generation in 1955.
		Wajda’s second film, Kanal—the first ever made about the Warsaw uprising—secured him the Special Jury Prize at Cannes and started him on the path to international acclaim, secured with the release of his masterpiece, Ashes and Diamonds, in 1958.
		These three groundbreaking films ushered in the “Polish School” movement and later became known as the “War Trilogy.” But each boldly stands on its own—testaments to the resilience of the human spirit, the struggle for personal and national freedom, and Wajda’s unique contribution to his homeland and to world cinema.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/boxed_set.asp?id=282 (247 words)

	Amazon.com: Andrzej Wajda Collector's Edition: DVD: Andrzej Wajda,Roman Polanski,Janusz Gajos,Andrzej Seweryn,Katarzyna ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Andrzej Wajda is one of the giants of film history and Poland’s foremost director.
		With a keen eye for balance between intellect and emotions and always provocative, Wajda has been a barometer of Poland’s political and economic trajectory for the last 50 years and one of the greatest storytellers depicting human fate in the midst of the cold war.
		Andrzej Wajda - Three War Films (A Generation, Kanal, and Ashes & Diamonds) - Criterion Collection DVD ~ Andrzej Wajda
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	Andrzej Wajda Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda: The Art of Irony and Defiance
		This book is a major reassessment of the great Polish director Andrzej Wajda, who received a Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2000.
		Distilling his many years of film work into a concise, engaging book, Wajda offers an introduction to filmmaking in the form of an anecdotal memoir.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Andrzej_Wajda (191 words)

	Andrzej Wajda
		By far the best-known film director working in Poland, Andrzej Wajda has achieved the status, both in his life and his work, of a symbol for his beleaguered country.
		The son of a cavalry officer killed in WWII, Wajda joined the Resistance as a teenager.
		Wajda's first feature film, "A Generation" (1954), traced the fate of several young people living under the Nazi Occupation....
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	Andrzej Wajda
		Wajda, who is also a theater director, was active in Polish politics after the end of Communist rule, serving in the senate (1989–91) and as chairman of the nation's Cultural Council (1992–94).
		Polish director Andrzej Wajda honored at Berlin film festival
		Box-set pick: Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films.(New DVD Releases)(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)
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	Andrzej Wajda @ Filmbug
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	Andrzej Wajda War Trilogy prices at Smarter.com
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	Malaspina.com - Andrzej Wajda (1926-) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wajda on Film : A Master's Notes [Book Citation and Orders]
		The Theatre of Andrzej Wajda [Book Citation and Orders]
		IMDb Categorized Filmography Entry for Andrzej Wajda (1926-)
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	The Art of Poster - Andrzej Wajda
		We are very happy to announce that Polish director Andrzej Wajda will receive an honorary award for lifetime achievement at the March Oscars.
		Our new presentation features retrospective exhibition of Polish posters to his movies.
		PIERSCIONEK Z ORLEM W KORONIE 1993 The Ring with a Crowned Eagle
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