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Andrzej Witold Wajda (Polish: [ˈandʐɛj ˈvajda]; 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar , [1] the Palme d'Or , [2] as well as Honorary Golden Lion [3] and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the " Polish Film School ".
Andrzej Wajda is an Academy Award-winning director. He is the most prominent filmmaker in Poland known for The Promised Land (1975), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyn (2007). He was Born on March 6, 1926, in Suwalki, Poland.
Andrzej Wajda was a Polish director and screenwriter who was a leading figure in the “Polish film school,” a group of highly talented individuals whose works brought international recognition to their country’s post-World War II reality.
Oct 10, 2016 · Andrzej Wajda, who mined Polish history to create films that established him as one of the world’s great directors and won him an Academy Award for his life’s work, died on Sunday. He was 90....
Oct 13, 2016 · Andrzej Wajda, who died this week at age 90, was Poland’s greatest filmmaker, as well as a union activist, a supporter of dissidents and for a time a senator, but he was something...
Mar 7, 2024 · Andrzej Wróblewski, a painter (1927-1957), one of Poland’s most independent post-war artists is associated with his well-known series Executions, dating from the end of the 1940s, which depicts visually expressive scenes from Nazi-occupied Poland, brutally deformed human figures torn into pieces.
Andrzej Wajda, the Oscar-winning Polish director whose films charted his country’s turbulent history, has died at the age of 90.
