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Tag Archives: Andrzej Wajda
Katyn (2007) Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski
When the Soviet Union on 17 September 1939 invades Poland, Anna Aleksandrowna leaves her home in Krakow Read More »
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania AKA Pan Tadeusz (1999) Andrzej Wajda, Boguslaw Linda, Daniel Olbrychski, Grazyna Szapolowska
In the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia’s client state of Lithuania, think independence will come Read More »
Holy Week AKA Wielki tydzien (1995) Andrzej Wajda, Beata Fudalej, Wojciech Malajkat, Magdalena Warzecha
During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto Read More »
The Shadow Line AKA Smuga cienia (1976) Andrzej Wajda, Marek Kondrat, Graham Lines, Tom Wilkinson
From Joseph Conrad’s great novel comes the story of a young seaman trying to helm a damaged boat to Singapore Read More »
The Possessed AKA Les possédés (1988) Andrzej Wajda, Isabelle Huppert, Jutta Lampe, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
This story begins in 1870 at a little town somewhere in Russia. It processed the real “Nyecsajev story”. Read More »
The Promised Land AKA Ziemia obiecana (1975) Andrzej Wajda, Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn
At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles Read More »
Man of Marble (1977) Andrzej Wajda, Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki
In 1976, a young woman in Krakow is making her diploma film, looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer Read More »
Young Girls Of Wilko (1979) Andrzej Wajda, Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk, Maja Komorowska
Set in the late ’20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. Read More »
Man of Iron (1981) Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
A worker becomes a “man of iron” forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love Read More »
Sibirska Ledi Magbet / Siberian Lady Macbeth (1962) Andrzej Wajda, Olivera Markovic, Ljuba Tadic, Kapitalina Eric, Drama, Mystery, Romance
In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman’s adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk. Read More »
Danton (1983) Andrzej Wajda, Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Biography, Drama, History
Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre’s incitement Read More »
Bez znieczulenia / Without Anesthesia (1978) Andrzej Wajda, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Ewa Dalkowska, Andrzej Seweryn, Drama
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. Read More »
Zemsta / The Revenge (2002) Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polanski, Janusz Gajos, Andrzej Seweryn, Comedy
A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier’s niece. Read More »
Pokolenie / A Generation (1955) Andrzej Wajda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Drama, War
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, a generation of youth comes of age. Stach and his friends start with spontaneous acts of defiance, which can prove deadly, but have no organized purpose. Read More »