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Andrzej Wajda died on 9 October He was 90
By Barbara Hollender
The news came as a shock to us. Andrzej Wajda seemed indestructible. He lasted. He has always been here with us. It is difficult to imagine our cinema without him. It is also difficult to imagine Poland without him. I know this may sound pathetic, but it is the truth. Times would change, the history of the country would change and he would always remind us about our roots, he would always ask questions: “Who are we?”, “Where do we come from?”, “Where are we heading to?”
He told me once: “During the years of my work in the People’s Republic of Poland, I have grown accustomed to talking to society. My films reached to the people who were in the government and to those whom I valued highly – to the intellectuals and writers. But primarily to viewers. I still keep the letters from people from small towns who wrote to me because I told them something important. I have never adopted the perspective of Warsaw or any other perspective. I have always wondered if my film would be enjoyed in Suwalki or whether it would be accepted in Lódz. This was the Poland that I was talking to.”
Wajda was born in Suwalki on 6 March, He said that he was formed by the officer’s home, the patriotic school and the Church. His father, s
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Andrzej Wajda: president whose films charted representation travails exclude his nation
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Martin Scorsese: my passion for the humour and panic of Polish cinema
As for many other people, my introduction to Polish cinema came with Andrzej Wajda’s trilogy: Ashes and Diamonds, Kanal and A Generation – actually, they were released out of order here in the US, and we saw Kanal first, followed quickly by Ashes, both in , and then we got to see A Generation later. Among the three, it was Ashes and Diamonds that had the greatest impact on me. It announced the arrival of a master film-maker. It was one of the last pictures that gave us a real testament of the impact of the war, on Wajda and on his nation. It introduced us to a whole school of film-making, related to what was coming out of the Soviet Union but quite distinct. And it gave us Zbigniew Cybulski, a great actor and a new generational icon.
But all Wajda’s films made an impression on me. Whenever I had the opportunity to see one I was impressed by his mastery. I also loved Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s films: Night Train, Mother Joan of the Angels and in particular Pharaoh, which had a fresh approach to the historical picture. Wojciec Has’s films, The Hourglass Sanatorium and later The Saragossa Manuscrip