Andrzej Wajda

Marek Edelman… And There Was Love in the Ghetto (2019)

Shortly before his death, Marek Edelman (1919-2009), former commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943) against the Nazi occupation, wonders about several basic themes of human existence in relation to the Shoah: how was it possible to enjoy love, tende ...

Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations (2017)

Afterimage (2016)

In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls ...

Wróblewski According to Wajda (2016)

Andrzej Wajda mentions Andrzej Wróblewski (1927-1957) as a painter and friend. It tells about a man facing the challenges of the epoch and dramatically searching for his space. Wróblewski, seen through the eyes of Wajda, is a genius who had to wait a lon ...

Wałesa: Man of Hope (2013)

How was it possible that a single man influenced contemporary world so significantly? This film is an attempt to capture the phenomenon of a common man's metamorphosis into a charismatic leader — an attempt to see how a Gdansk shipyard electrician fighti ...

Demons Years Later (2013)

At the Old Theater in Krakow Wajda staged a play in 1971, based on Dostoevsky's novel "Demons". In this documentary Wajda tells the story of the unique play that went on uninterrupted for 10 years despite opposition from the authorities. ...

Makbet (2010)

A theatrical performance of the Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theatre in Krakow recorded for TVP Kultura. ...

Kręć! Jak kochasz to kręć! (2010)

In this documentary, Andrzej Wajda presents a biography of the famous filmmaker and his long-time collaborator, Edward Klosinski. He was an outstanding cinematographer. Among others, his wife Krystyna Janda and closest friends, as well as the director hims ...

Sweet Rush (2009)

As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama. ...

Katyn (2007)

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government offi ...

Solidarność, Solidarność... (2005)

A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts. There are various forms: mini-feature, music video, documentary, animation, interview. ...

Jan Nowak-Jezioranski: Courier from Warsaw (2004)

Interview with political scientist and social activist Jan Nowak-Jezioranski by film director Andrzej Wajda. ...

The Revenge (2002)

A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece. The old soldier, Cupbearer, and the notary are sworn enemies, which may doom the love between the niece, Klara, and the notary's son, Waclaw. On ...

The Lessons of Polish Cinema (2002)

Andrzej Wajda documentary about Polish film. ...

The Judgement Passed on Franciszek Klos (2000)

Franciszek Kłos is an officer of the Blue Police in a small town. He is sentenced to death for collaborating with the Nazi occupiers. ...

In the Shadow of Hollywood (2000)

In the Shadow of Hollywood examines this assault on our senses through interviews with directors, producers, writers and other experts in the film industry. ...

Credit and debit. Andrzej Wajda about himself (1999)

An attempt to summarize the director's life and work to date, starting from his early youth and ending with his work on "Pan Tadeusz". ...

Bigda is Coming! (1999)

The film tells about the period of Polish history in the 20s of the last century, when the fragile government of the country fell, and a man of the people came to the fore. In fact, he turned out to be a cunning populist and an immoral politician, ready fo ...

The Last Days (1999)

Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for independence in 1810s Lithuania, Tadeusz, the son of a murderer, and Zosia, a young woman, come together for a wedding against a backdrop of changing politics, anc ...

Miss Nobody (1996)

A devout Catholic peasant girl is corrupted by two new friends when her family moves to the city. An allegory of traditional Polish values under threat from materialism and decadence in the post-Communist era. ...

Holy Week (1995)

During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and there she h ...

Nastazja (1994)

Andrzej Wajda's Japanese-language film based on the last chapter of Dostoevsky's Idiot, in which Prince Myshkin and Rogozhin return to the past in a conversation over the dead body of Nastassya Filippovna. Bando Tamasaburo, regarded as one of the most outs ...

Schindler's List (1993)

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II. ...

Schuld und Sühne (1992)

The stage adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment" marked Polish film director Andrzej Wajda's return to the theater. Following the play's premiere in Poland, it was staged at Berlin's Schaubühne theater in 1988, and its success led to a f ...

The Ring with a Crowned Eagle (1992)

A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power. ...

Korczak (1990)

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. ...

Interrogation (1989)

In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, to ...

The French as Seen by… (1988)

In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary. Includes: Werner Herzog's Les Gaulois, David Lynch's The C ...

The Possessed (1988)

Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of psychosis and mutual distrust among the population, but in reality, both revolutionaries and repressors are ...

Proust Against Decline (1988)

The plot is unknown and not much is known about the film. It's part of the 'French as Seen by... ...

Chronicle of Amorous Accidents (1986)

Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague. ...

A Love in Germany (1983)

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the auth ...

Danton (1983)

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well kn ...

Man of Iron (1981)

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Po ...

The Conductor (1980)

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly un ...

The Maids of Wilko (1979)

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one tim ...

Pogoda domu niechaj będzie z Tobą... (1979)

Without Anesthesia (1978)

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. His enemies take away his pri ...

Man of Marble (1977)

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared. ...

The Dead Class (1977)

The Dead Class (1975), by Tadeusz Kantor and the Cricot 2 company, is considered one of the most innovative and influential works of twentieth-century theatre. The breakthrough first version of the production - performed to great critical acclaim, but only ...

The Shadow-Line (1976)

Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curious ...

The Promised Land (1975)

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town. ...

November Night (1974)

Television play adaptation of Wajda's stage play of Stanisław Wyspiański's November Night. The drama takes place on two levels - historical and metaphorical. The first one is almost a chronicle of several hours of the uprising - it shows the drama of the ...

The Wedding (1973)

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's ...

Pilate and Others (1972)

The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany. ...

The Third Part of the Night (1972)

Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the story follows Michał, who witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child and then is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. ...

Dekameron 40 czyli cudowne przytrafienie pewnego nieboszczyka (1971)

Seven women gather to hear one of them tell a story of a strange incident that happened to a certain dead man. ...

Mateo Falcone (1971)

After his parents go away in the mountains, young Fortunato Falcone decides to shelter a fugitive for a price of a silver coin. ...

First Love (1971)

Based on a novella by Ivan Turgenev, Pierwsza milość is the story of a 15 year old boy and a 21 year old girl who develop an ill-fated romance. ...

The Birch Wood (1970)

A man suffering from tuberculosis returns from abroad to stay at his brother's farm, hoping to make amends, while also beginning a love affair with a farm girl. ...

Landscape After Battle (1970)

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to cont ...

Signs on the Road (1970)

A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace. ...

Hunting Flies (1969)

Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. When Włodek draws the interest of a library patron, the beautiful young woman encourages him to strive fo ...

Makbet (1969)

A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki and Magda Zawadzka - actors who at that time gained popularity in the series "Pan Wołodyjowski". This perv ...

Everything for Sale (1969)

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up. ...

Gates to Paradise (1968)

In 1212, a Children's Crusade is launched after a young shepherd, Jacques de Cloyes, claims to have had a vision in which it is said that the innocence of children would be able to liberate Jerusalem. A monk, returning from Holy Land, joins the crusade and ...

Roly Poly (1968)

The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved in many car accidents. After each car crash he gets a transplant for one or another internal organ. After a while there is a question: Who really is Ryszard Fox? ...

The Ashes (1965)

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the h ...

Tokyo Olympiad (1965)

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events. Highlights include an epic pole-vaulting match between West Germany and America, and the final mar ...

Siberian Lady Macbeth (1962)

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. ...

Love at Twenty (1962)

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson. ...

Innocent Sorcerers (1960)

A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. ...

Lotna (1959)

Set in the beginning of Wold War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops. LOTNA is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit. ...

Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He mee ...

Kanal (1957)

In the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However ...

A Generation (1955)

Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight o ...

I Walk in the Sun (1955)

A documentary about the sculptor Xawery Dunikowski, shot in his workshop. Director paid a tribute to the artist - a recluse without the artistic inheritors. ...

Five Boys from Barska Street (1954)

In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss. ...

Three Stories (1953)

The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation. ...

While You Are Asleep (1953)

Framed as a mother's bedtime narration to her child, this short documentary observes a city at night, revealing the factories, tram depots, and essential services that operate while most people sleep. Directed by Andrzej Wajda, the film turns nocturnal lab ...

The Pottery at Ilza (1951)

Andrzej Wajda's first movie looks at the pottery in the town of Iłża, Poland. Much of it shows the actual process of creating all the objects out of clay. ...

The Bad Boy (1951)

First short film by Wajda, based on the story "A Naughty Boy" by A. Chekhov. ...

Kill It and Leave This Town (2020)

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive. ...

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk (2018)

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies. ...

Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations (2017)

Wajda by Wajda (2016)

A few months before his death, Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016) revisited his work in an assembly room of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing, established in Warsaw in 2002. ...

Aktorka (2015)

A documentary about Elzbieta Czyzewska, one of Poland's greatest actresses, a beauty icon of the 1960s, who died in 2010. She had a great career in Poland, but the filmmakers focus more on her attempts to make a name for herself as an actress in America, a ...

About Cinema (2015)

An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials of the novelist and playwright Ariano Suassuna and other filmmakers such as Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Ken Loac ...

Wege Durchs Labyrinth - Der Komponist Krzysztof Penderecki (2014)

We Film the People! (2013)

The unique story of film directors who managed to critic the Communist regime while being produced by the State: this is Polish cinema's golden age, in the 1970s. Director Ania Szczepanska, born in Poland and raised in France, meets prominent filmmakers, p ...

Demons Years Later (2013)

At the Old Theater in Krakow Wajda staged a play in 1971, based on Dostoevsky's novel "Demons". In this documentary Wajda tells the story of the unique play that went on uninterrupted for 10 years despite opposition from the authorities. ...

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (2012)

An interview with film director Roman Polanski conducted during his period of house arrest, discussing his life and work. ...

Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic (2012)

The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As a director of photography he worked on such films as The Birch Wood, Landscape Afterthe Battle and Austeria. He introduced, among others, hand‑held camera ...

Komeda, Komeda... (2012)

A feature-length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda. ...

Cegła i inne nagrody filmowe (2012)

Political Dress (2011)

History of a fashion rebellion in communist Poland. The film shares the experiences of those who were singled out as ideological 'saboteurs' by the socialist authorities. The documentary presents the stories and opinions of stylish personalities of the day ...

Andrzej Wajda: Let's Shoot! (2009)

A record of a few months of struggle on the set, showing an atmosphere of work and a picture of immense film machinery, and at same time presenting the truest and intimate portrait of the Master of Polish Cinema, the Oscar winner. ...

Sommer '39 (2009)

In the summer of 1939, people enjoyed the good weather, ignoring politics and pessimistic predictions. Images of everyday life that was about to change dramatically in a Europe in turmoil. ...

Sweet Rush (2009)

As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama. ...

I Have Lived Seventeen Times (2009)

The main character of "Żyłem siedemnaście razy" reflects on his childhood in Gwoździec and tells a story about the beginning of his career as a filmmaker. ...

Andrzej Wajda ogląda "Popiół i diament" (2008)

Primo Levi's Journey (2006)

In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, a film crew retraces Levi's steps. Levi's words, mainly from "The Truce" (1963), tell us what he experienc ...

Solidarność, Solidarność... (2005)

A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts. There are various forms: mini-feature, music video, documentary, animation, interview. ...

Jan Nowak-Jezioranski: Courier from Warsaw (2004)

Interview with political scientist and social activist Jan Nowak-Jezioranski by film director Andrzej Wajda. ...

Jaki jest z bliska (2004)

Andrzej Wajda on the 50th anniversary of his film debut. ...

Knife in the Water: A Ticket to the West (2003)

Kira (2003)

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova. ...

The Lessons of Polish Cinema (2002)

Andrzej Wajda documentary about Polish film. ...

Last Pictures (2000)

Andrzej Munk was one of the leading directors in Polish cinema. Friends and collaborators share their memories about this stunning artist and his premature tragic death. ...

Credit and debit. Andrzej Wajda about himself (1999)

An attempt to summarize the director's life and work to date, starting from his early youth and ending with his work on "Pan Tadeusz". ...

Tren na śmierć cenzora (1992)

The film reveals the mechanisms of the communist institution of censorship. Famous filmmakers - Kazimierz Kutz, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Filip Bajon and Marcel Lozinski - talk about their contacts and experiences with censors, how their films w ...

Signed: Andrzej Wajda (1989)

Without Anesthesia (1978)

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. His enemies take away his pri ...

Screen Tests (1977)

Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an aff ...

Pilate and Others (1972)

The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany. ...

On The Set (1968)

Reportage from the set of the film "Everything for Sale", focusing on the director - Andrzej Wajda. At one stage of the filming, Wajda planned to include all the documentary material shot by Ziarnik in his film. Ultimately, however, he changed the concept. ...