After 1945, hundreds of movies about the Second World War were made ... For the director Roman Polański, war is not an easy subject. He, like Andrzej Wajda, had the misfortune to see and remember its ...

‘In order to put our films across, we need to look for a European language of cinema, not the language the cinema uses to indirectly communicate with the domestic audience,’ said Andrzej Wajda ...

Scene from 'Ashes and Diamonds' directed by Andrzej Wajda, 1958, photo: Wiesław Zdort / Film Studio Kadr / Filmoteka Narodowa / www.fototeka.fn.org.pl; ‘The Land’ by Ferdynand Ruszczyc, 1898, oil on ...

Andrzej Wajda’s films ... In the first film about it, it was hard not to show both of these perspectives - as Wajda told Tadeusz Lubelski in an interview for Kino magazine. The story about prisoners ...

On the right, an archival photo of director Andrzej Wajda on the set of 'The Promised Land', his adaptation of Władysław Reymont’s novel. On the left, actors Wojciech Pszoniak (Moryc Welt ...