Andrzej Wajda

Pilate and Others

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.

Release Date1972-03-29

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Reporter (uncredited)

Vote Count4

Without Anesthesia

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 privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence.

Release Date1978-11-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd TV Show Contestant (uncredited)

Vote Count15

Screen Tests

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 affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.

Release Date1977-05-16

Charactersd Andrzej Wajda

Vote Count6

Kill It and Leave This Town

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.

Release Date2020-11-27

Charactersd Old Man on the Train (voice)

Vote Count27

Jan Nowak-Jezioranski: Courier from Warsaw

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

Release Date2004-12-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self - Interviewer

Bambi

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.

Release Date1948-01-01

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Spécial cinéma

Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye on his show Spécial cinéma. Between intimate confessions from actors and immersion in the world of the greatest filmmakers, Christian Defaye took viewers on a journey into the fascinating world of cinema for nearly thirty years.

Release Date1974-09-25

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Polish School

The documentary talks about the origins, development and achievements of the Polish film school. People from the environment of the "Filmówka" in Łódź, among others. Wanda Jakubowska, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Antoni Bohdziewicz, Janusz Morgenstern or Kazimierz Kutz. The film is richly illustrated with archival materials and the first films of the school. The beginnings of the Łódź Film Festival begin in Krakow with the Young Film Workshop; On May 6, 1945, at Józefitów 16 production facility of the Polish Film Production Company, an inaugural meeting is held. After numerous transformations, in July 1946 the Young Film Workshop and the Film Training Course began activities, which can be considered as the beginning of state film education in post-war Poland. The later fate of the school is already connected with Łódź; July 16, 1948, the act of establishing the Film School was signed.

Release Date1997-01-01

Charactersd Self

Tren na śmierć cenzora

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 were censored, what parts were considered contrary to the ideology of the socialist state. These interferences were often of an absurd nature. At the same time, the filmmakers mention how much of the intended content they managed to smuggle out. The film is also an attempt to analyze and summarize the role of censorship in a totalitarian state and its impact on culture and art.

Release Date1992-01-01

Charactersd Self

Sweet Rush

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.

Release Date2009-04-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count29

Credit and debit. Andrzej Wajda about himself

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".

Release Date1999-12-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Kira

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

Release Date2003-06-15

Charactersd Self

Aktorka

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, after her sudden emigration to the United States with her husband, American journalist David Halberstam. Friends and acquaintances of Elzbieta Czyzewska speak without embellishment about her failed marriage, her battle with alcoholism won after years, and her attempts to return to Poland. This is a story about the fate of the actress at different stages of her career: at the top, at the bottom and in between.

Release Date2015-12-04

Charactersd Self

Political Dress

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.

Release Date2011-01-01

Charactersd Self

On The Set

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.

Release Date1968-01-01

Charactersd Self

Last Pictures

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.

Release Date2000-01-02

Charactersd Self

Jaki jest z bliska

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

Release Date2004-01-01

Charactersd Self

Komeda, Komeda...

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

Release Date2012-09-28

Charactersd Self

Sommer '39

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.

Release Date2009-08-12

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

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

Release Date2012-10-09

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count39

Signed: Andrzej Wajda

Release Date1989-01-02

Charactersd Self

Cegła i inne nagrody filmowe

Release Date2012-01-01

Charactersd Self

Primo Levi's Journey

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 experienced. In turn, we see Poland's hollow post-war factories, nationalism in the Ukraine, Soviet-style Communism in Belarus, the abandoned town of Prypiat (Chernobyl), poverty and emigration from Moldavia, Italian factories in Romania, and on across Hungary and Slovakia to Munich where Levi's rage found no listeners. Then home to Turin. An aged Mario Rigoni Stern remembers his friend. What has changed? Some issues of the war remain unsettled.

Release Date2006-09-12

Charactersd Self

Vote Count6

Wajda by Wajda

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.

Release Date2016-12-03

Charactersd Self - Filmmaker

Vote Count2

Solidarność, Solidarność...

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.

Release Date2005-08-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

About Cinema

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 Loach, Andrzej Wajda, Karim Ainouz, José Padilha, Hector Babenco, Vilmos Zsigmond, Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant and Jia Zhangke. They all respond to two basic questions: why do they make movies and why do they serve the seventh art. The filmmakers share their thoughts about time, narrative, rhythm, light, movement, the meaning of tragedy, the audience‘s desires and the boundaries with other forms of art.

Release Date2015-09-15

Charactersd Self

Vote Count6

Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic

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 shots, colour lights and shooting at minimum exposure. Reminiscences of his colleagues and friends, including Andrzej Wajda and Piotr Szulkin, show a gifted artist and a modest man who valued his work above all.

Release Date2012-10-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

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.

Release Date2018-05-18

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Wege Durchs Labyrinth - Der Komponist Krzysztof Penderecki

Release Date2014-05-27

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

Andrzej Wajda ogląda "Popiół i diament"

Release Date2008-01-01

Charactersd Self

Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations

Release Date2017-03-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

I Have Lived Seventeen Times

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.

Release Date2009-01-01

Charactersd Self

We Film the People!

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, producers, actors such as Andrzej WAJDA, Marcel LOZINSKI, Krzyszstof ZANUSSI, Kristina JANDA, Ryszard BUGAJSKI and confronts them the testimonies of the State men of that time. Through unknown archives, forgotten documentaries and excerpts of cult films, she relates how the Solidarnosc people ended up in Cannes.

Release Date2013-11-21

Charactersd Self

Knife in the Water: A Ticket to the West

Release Date2003-08-01

Charactersd Self

Wajda

A documentary, focusing on foreign successes of the Polish Master of the cinema - Andrzej Wajda. By using unique archival materials, home videos, fragments of his films - never shown before we would like to create a documentary about the great director who inspired a whole generations of filmmakers - including Martin Scorsese, Nikita Michałkow, Volker Schlondorff. The film will be based on the interviews with many outstanding creators of world cinema as well as the memories of his wife Krystyna Zachwatowicz. We want to reach the unknown foreign archival materials regarding Wajda, photos from the film set and festivals, as well as his personal journal notes from these events.

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Andrzej Wajda: Let's Shoot!

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.

Release Date2009-12-31

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Marek Edelman… And There Was Love in the Ghetto

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, tenderness, passion and lust while the whole world was crumbling and burning around.

Release Date2019-04-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobCo-Director

Vote Count1

Schindler's List

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.

Release Date1993-12-15

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count16979

The French as Seen by…

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 Cowboy and the Frenchman, Andrzej Wajda's Proust contre la déchéance, Luigi Comencini's Pèlerinage à Agen, Jean-Luc Godard's Le dernier mot.

Release Date1988-10-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count18

Gates to Paradise

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 hears the children's confessions, gradually realizing that most of them are taking part not for religious, but for more worldly reasons, like rejected love and hopes for freedom, the true nature of their enthusiasm is homosexual. In fact, if the children follow Jacques, it is more for romantic than religious reasons. They take literally the famous phrase: “Love one another”.

Release Date1968-05-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

The Promised Land

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.

Release Date1975-02-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count79

Katyn

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 officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.

Release Date2007-09-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count260

The Shadow-Line

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 curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.

Release Date1976-09-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Theatre Macabre

Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors.

Release Date1971-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Man of Iron

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. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.

Release Date1981-07-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count86

First Love

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.

Release Date1971-09-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

The Possessed

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 being manipulated by a diabolical individual.

Release Date1988-02-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count24

Danton

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 known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.

Release Date1983-01-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count171

Afterimage

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. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.

Release Date2016-10-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count82

A Generation

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 oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.

Release Date1955-01-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count58

Samson

The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising.

Release Date1961-09-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

The Dead Class

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 rarely seen live by audiences outside Poland - was documented on film in 1976 by the Oscar-winning director Andrzej Wajda.

Release Date1977-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Interrogation

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, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.

Release Date1982-12-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count67

In the Shadow of Hollywood

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

Release Date2000-01-01

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Makbet

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 perverse use of the artists' images by the director was intended to serve an interpretation of the tragedy that emphasizes Shakespeare's question: where does evil in man come from?

Release Date1969-06-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Tokyo Olympiad

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 marathon race through Tokyo's streets. Two athletes are highlighted: Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, who receives his second gold medal, and runner Ahamed Isa from Chad, representing a country younger than he is.

Release Date1965-03-20

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count49

The Wedding

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 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.

Release Date1973-01-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count24

Makbet

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

Release Date2010-05-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Mateo Falcone

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

Release Date1971-12-21

DepartmentArt

JobSupervising Art Director

The Revenge

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 this day, the tongue-tied Cupbearer asks a braggart courtier, Papkin, to sue on his behalf for the hand of the widow Hanna. Papkin succeeds and

Release Date2002-10-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count35

The Conductor

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 unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for both personal and professional reasons.

Release Date1980-02-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

Korczak

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

Release Date1990-05-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count30

November Night

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 attitudes of Poles at the beginning of the armed struggle, in confrontation with the attitude of Grand Duke Constantine, the Tsar's deputy in Poland. The second one presents the world of gods playing out their arguments. Man becomes a plaything in their hands, but it is he who experiences his fear, heroism and hope.

Release Date1974-01-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Birch Wood

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.

Release Date1970-11-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count19

Innocent Sorcerers

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. But he loses her when he goes out to see some friends and then rushes madly around the city after her.

Release Date1960-12-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count36

Ashes and Diamonds

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 meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.

Release Date1958-10-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count261

The Last Days

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, ancient traditions, and the uncertain future of a country.

Release Date1999-10-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count58

Roly Poly

Based on a screenplay by Stanislaw Lem. 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?

Release Date1968-03-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

Kanal

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, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.

Release Date1957-04-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count149

The Third Part of the Night

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.

Release Date1972-01-04

DepartmentArt

JobSupervising Art Director

Vote Count91

Nastazja

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 outstanding female impersonators in Japanese theater, plays the dual role of Myshkin and Nastassya.

Release Date1994-04-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Hunting Flies

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 for better things in his life and professional career. Together, the two take off for a three-day affair, but surprises could await Włodek upon his return home.

Release Date1969-08-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count14

As the Days Come and the Days Go

A story about the fate of two Krakow families, the action takes place in the years 1874-1914.

Release Date1980-09-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

The Lessons of Polish Cinema

Andrzej Wajda documentary about Polish film.

Release Date2002-04-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Condemnation of Franciszek Klos

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

Release Date2000-09-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Holy Week

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 has a chance meeting with her ex-fiancé. He offers to put her up--that is, hide her--for a few days. He's now married, a professional who lives in an idyllic suburb reached by a trolley that runs through the woods. His wife seems more committed to putting up the fugitive than he is. The story involves the neighbors, the building owner who avoids involvement and seeks solace in classic poetry, and the super and his suspicious wife.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

The Pottery at Ilza

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.

Release Date1951-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

Broken Silence

“Broken Silence” is composed of five hourlong shorts from a quintet of international directors: Hungary’s Janos Szasz (“Eyes of the Holocaust”), Argentina’s Luis Puenzo (“Some Who Lived”), Russia’s Pavel Chukhraj (“Children From the Abyss”), the Czech Republic’s Vojtech Jasny (“Hell on Earth”) and Poland’s Andrzej Wajda (“I Remember”). The helmers, some descendants of Holocaust survivors, focus on the atrocities within their particular parts of the world, with testimonials, pictures and an overall tone as they pertain to each region’s culture and history.

Release Date2002-04-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Ziemia obiecana

Release Date1978-05-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count6

Proust Against Decline

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

Release Date1988-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Bad Boy

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

Release Date1951-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Demons Years Later

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.

Release Date2013-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Chronicle of Amorous Accidents

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.

Release Date1986-11-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count14

Miss Nobody

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.

Release Date1996-10-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count19

The Maids of Wilko

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 time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.

Release Date1979-09-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count28

Siberian Lady Macbeth

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.

Release Date1962-07-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

Man of Marble

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.

Release Date1977-02-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count84

A Love in Germany

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 authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.

Release Date1983-10-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Five Boys from Barska Street

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

Release Date1954-02-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count4

Schuld und Sühne

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 film adaptation. The production closely follows the original text and, with a few exceptions, features the Schaubühne ensemble.

Release Date1992-09-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Love at Twenty

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.

Release Date1962-06-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count50

Signs on the Road

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

Release Date1970-06-02

DepartmentArt

JobSupervising Art Director

The Ring with a Crowned Eagle

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

Release Date1992-04-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

The Ashes

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 hopes of Poland's revival.

Release Date1965-09-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

Landscape After Battle

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 control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.

Release Date1970-09-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count21

Dekameron 40 czyli cudowne przytrafienie pewnego nieboszczyka

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

Release Date1971-12-26

DepartmentArt

JobSupervising Art Director

Vote Count5

Wałesa: Man of Hope

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 fighting for workers’ rights awakened a hidden desire for freedom in millions of people.

Release Date2013-09-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count82

I Walk in the Sun

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

Release Date1955-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Wróblewski According to Wajda

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 long time for recognition, but also did not fully recognize his own greatness. Their paths crossed right after the war, when they both studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Born in Vilnius, the young artist studied at the faculty of painting and sculpture, he also studied art history at the Jagiellonian University. The film was produced on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title organized at the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow in 2015.

Release Date2016-02-12

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Crime and Punishment

Polish television play adaptation of the first of Fyodor Dostoevsky's great novels, in which reflections on the commandment "thou shalt not kill" are shown through the fate of a poor student Raskolnikov. Giving himself the right to commit a justified crime, he kills with an ax an old usurer, whom he despises and considers to be the cause of all human evil.

Release Date1987-04-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Three Stories

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

Release Date1953-04-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Lotna

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.

Release Date1959-09-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

Everything for Sale

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.

Release Date1969-01-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count28

„Biesy” po latach

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

While You Are Asleep

A documentary about the night life in a city. While some sleep, others work.

Release Date1953-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Bigda is Coming!

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 for any tricks for the sake of his goals.

Release Date1999-11-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Muzeum Oświęcimskie

Release Date1951-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Pogoda domu niechaj będzie z Tobą...

Release Date1979-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kręć! Jak kochasz to kręć!

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 himself, talk about his extraordinary work. The film also uses excerpts from many major productions that Klosinski took part in creating.

Release Date2010-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Katyn: 60 Days on the Set

The making-of featurette of Andrzej Wajda's 2007 film Katyń.

Release Date2009-10-05