FILM
Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda (born 1926) is a film director, one of the most prominent representatives of the Polish Film School. Wajda has chronicled Poland’s political and social evolution with sensitivity, fervour and a refusal to make compromises in dealing with difficult subjects. Wajda has repeatedly drawn from Poland's history, tradition, literature and painting, to suit his tragic sensibility, crafting an oeuvre of work that devastates evenly as it informs. The most significant of his films include Canal (set during the Warsaw Uprising, telling the story of people in desperate situation), The Wedding (based on Wyspiański’s drama), The Promised Land (about the beginning of capitalism in Poland and the struggle between tradition and modernity), Man of Iron (about Solidarity) and Pan Tadeusz (filmed Mickiewicz’s national epic; extremely difficult to film because of Mickiewicz’s difficult verse).
In 2000 Wajda won an Oscar
for career achievement.
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941 – 1996) started his career as a documentary
director and only later turned to feature film. His films deal with eternal
questions of humanity: moral values, love, life and death (e.g. The
Decalogue, Three Colours trilogy).
Although most of his films are set in Poland during the period of communism, the
reflection is entirely universal.
Kieślowski left a few unfilmed scenarios, which were recently filmed by other
directors.
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