Katyn,
Andrzej Wajda's latest film, opens with grey clouds drifting across the screen.
Katyn, by
Andrzej Wajda,2007, Poland Simon, Eddy Terstall, 2004, Netherlands.
Polish filmmaker
Andrzej Wajda, who met visiting Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko on Thursday, said he was happy that the emperor knew about his most recent movie, ''Pan Tadeusz.''
Andrzej Wajda's Man of Marble, 1976, based on a treatment first submitted to the Polish ministry of culture in 1962, investigates the creation--and subsequent disappearance--of an imaginary Stakhanovite of the early '50s, the bricklayer Mateusz Birkut, who is launched as a public figure by a propaganda short on the construction of the model city of Nowa Huta.
Actor Michael Douglas and directors Jim Jarmusch and
Andrzej Wajda are interested in launching a Sarajevo film festival.
Since the trophy was launched in 2001, the roster of honorees has included such unconventional filmmakers as Ulrich Seidl,
Andrzej Wajda, and Slovak auteur Juraj Jakubisko.
In his afterword, the translator Oscar Swan admonishes
Andrzej Wajda for "tampering with historical reality" (134) in the carousel scene of his film version of Holy Week.
In the 1970s, on the even of the spectacular resurrection of the Polish labor movement, the Plish filmmaker most respected in the West was
Andrzej Wajda. His Man of Marble, the saga of one worker against the background of a country's social upheaval, could be described--though the director would not consider this flattering--as one of the few genuine successes of Socialist Realism.
Polish writer-director Agnieszka Holland has written films for legendary helmers such as
Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Kieslowski, and garnered Oscar and Emmy nominations for films like "Europa, Europa" and TV series such as "Treme." This year, Holland earned raves for directing episodes of "House of Cards." Her work on the Polish omnibus film "Pictures of Life" in 1976 garnered her first mention in Variety.
For example, the novel opens with a chapter set in Georgia in 1921 (this is reminiscent of
Andrzej Wajda's cinematographic rendition of Stefan zeromski's Przedwiosnie, which likewise begins with a scene on the Black Sea).