Andrzej Wajda
Directing Born Mar 6, 1926 Suwałki, Polska 24 credits
Biography
Andrzej Wajda (born 6 March 1926) 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.
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Full filmography
- Spécial cinéma (1974) as Self
- Bambi (1948) as Self
- Aktorka (2015) as Self
- Screen Tests (1977) as Andrzej Wajda
- On The Set (1968) as Self
- Political Dress (2011) as Self
- Sommer '39 (2009) as Self
- Last Pictures (2000) as Self
- Tren na śmierć cenzora (1992) as Self
- Wajda as Self (archive footage)
- Andrzej Wajda: On Ashes and Diamonds (2005) as Himself
- Komeda, Komeda... (2012) as Self
- Demons Years Later (2013) as Self
- Andrzej Wajda ogląda "Popiół i diament" (2008) as Self
- Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations (2017) as Self
- Wege Durchs Labyrinth - Der Komponist Krzysztof Penderecki (2014) as Self
- Cegła i inne nagrody filmowe (2012) as Self
- The Lessons of Polish Cinema (2002) as Self
- We Film the People! (2013) as Self
- Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic (2012) as Self
- An old beggar with a hurdy-gurdy as Self
- About Cinema (2015) as Self
- I Have Lived Seventeen Times (2009) as Self
- Credit and debit. Andrzej Wajda about himself (1999) as Self