Wajda, Andrzej

Andrzej Wajda (born 6 March 1926 in Suwałki) is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School.

A major figure of world and Central European cinema after World War II, Wajda made his reputation as a sensitive and uncompromising chronicler of his country's political and social evolution.

Once dubbed a symbol for a besieged country, Wajda is known for drawing from Poland's history to suit his tragic sensibility—crafting an oeuvre of work that devastates even as it informs. His films are also famous of their visual sides. Wajda shows some symbolic scenes, very often he transforms some paintings onto the screen or makes new versions of some paintings from Polish and European history.

FILMOGRAPHY

* The Bad Boy (Zły chłopiec, 1951)
* The Pottery at Ilza (Ceramika ilzecka, 1951)
* While you are sleeping (Kiedy ty śpisz, 1953)
* A Generation (Pokolenie, 1954)
* Towards the Sun (Idę do słońca, documentary on Xawery Dunikowski, 1955)
* Kanal (1956)
* Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament 1958)
* Lotna (1959)
* Innocent Sorcerers (Niewinni czarodzieje, 1960)
* Siberian Lady Macbeth (Powiatowa lady Makbet, 1961)
* Samson (1961)
* Love at Twenty (L'amour à vingt ans, 1962)
* The Ashes (Popioly, 1965)
* Everything For Sale (Wszystko na sprzedaż, 1968)
* Roly Poly (Przekładaniec, 1968)
* Gates to Paradise (Bramy Raju, 1968)
* Hunting Flies (Polowanie na muchy, 1969)
* The Birch Wood (Brzezina, 1970)
* Landscape After the Battle (Krajobraz po bitwie, 1970)
* Pilate and Others (Pilatus und andere, 1972)
* The Wedding (Wesele, 1973)
* The Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana, 1974)
* The Shadow Line (Smuga cienia, 1976)
* Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru, 1977)
* Without Anesthesia aka Rough Treatment (Bez znieczulenia, 1978)
* The Maids of Wilko (Panny z Wilka, 1979)
* As years go by, as days go by ("Z biegiem lat, z biegiem dni", 1980 serial tv)
* The Orchestra Conductor (Dyrygent, 1980)
* Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza, 1981)
* Danton (1983)
* Love in Germany (Eine Liebe in Deutschland, 1983)
* A Chronicle of Amorous Accidents (Kronika wypadków miłosnych, 1985)
* The French as seen by... (Proust contre la déchéance, 1988)
* The Possessed (Les possédes, 1988)
* Korczak (1990)
* The Crowned-Eagle Ring (Pierścionek z orłem w koronie, 1992)
* Nastasja (1994)
* The Holy Gral (Wielki Tydzień, 1995)
* Miss Nobody (Panna Nikt, 1996)
* Pan Tadeusz (1999)
* Bigda idzie - tv theatre "Bigda idzie!"; 1999)
* The Condemnation of Franciszek Klos (Wyrok na Franciszka Kłosa, 2000)
* June night ("Noc czerwcowa" -tv theatre, 2001)
* Broken Silence (Przerwane milczenie, 2002)
* The Revenge (Zemsta, 2002)
* Czlowiek z nadziei (2005)
* Katyń (2007)
* Sweet Rush (Tatarak) (2009)