Andrzej Wajda

When Fucking Spring Is in the Air

It is winter in Gdynia, Poland. This is Kasia's town, a rebellious teenager: headstrong, fearless, and streetwise. When Kasia was 3 years old, her parents left Poland, hoping for a better life in Germany. They never returned and Kasia grew up with her grandmother. When her grandmother passes away, Kasia is heartstruck. To top it all off, she also seems to be pregnant.

Release Date:2024-02-29

Department:Writing

Job:Script Consultant

Vote Count:5

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 Date:2021-03-02

Character:Old Man on the Train (voice)

Vote Count:20

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 Date:2019-04-29

Department:Directing

Job:Co-Director

Vote Count:1

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 Date:2018-05-18

Character:Self

Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations

Release Date:2017-03-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

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 Date:2016-12-03

Character:Self - Filmmaker

Vote Count:2

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 Date:2016-10-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:81

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 Date:2016-02-12

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

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 Date:2015-09-15

Character:Self

Vote Count:4

Wege Durchs Labyrinth - Der Komponist Krzysztof Penderecki

Release Date:2014-05-27

Character:Self

Vote Count:3

Walesa: 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 Date:2013-09-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:76

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 Date:2013-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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 Date:2012-10-09

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:37

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 Date:2012-10-01

Character:Self

Komeda, Komeda...

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

Release Date:2012-09-28

Character:Self

Makbet

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

Release Date:2010-05-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Kręć! Jak kochasz to kręć!

Release Date:2010-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Andrzej Wajda: Róbmy zdjęcie!

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 Date:2009-12-31

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Katyn: 60 Days on the Set

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

Release Date:2009-10-05

Sommer '39

Release Date:2009-08-12

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

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 Date:2009-04-23

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Self

Vote Count:26

Andrzej Wajda ogląda "Popiół i diament"

Release Date:2008-01-01

Character:Self

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 Date:2007-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:243

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 Date:2006-09-12

Character:Self

Vote Count:6

Solidarność, Solidarność...

Release Date:2005-08-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Jan Nowak-Jezioranski: Courier from Warsaw

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

Release Date:2004-12-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self - Interviewer

Knife in the Water: A Ticket to the West

Release Date:2003-08-01

Character:Self

Kira

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

Release Date:2003-06-15

Character:Self

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 Date:2002-10-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:31

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 Date:2002-04-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

The Lessons of Polish Cinema

Andrzej Wajda documentary about Polish film.

Release Date:2002-04-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The Condemnation of Franciszek Klos

Release Date:2000-09-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

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 Date:2000-01-02

Character:Self

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 Date:2000-01-01

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

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 Date:1999-12-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

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 Date:1999-11-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Pan Tadeusz

A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.

Release Date:1999-10-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:56

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 Date:1996-10-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:16

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 Date:1995-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

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 Date:1994-04-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

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 Date:1993-12-15

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:16173

Schuld und Sühne

Release Date:1992-09-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Ring with a Crowned Eagle

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

Release Date:1992-04-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

Tren na śmierć cenzora

Release Date:1992-01-01

Character:Self

Korczak

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

Release Date:1990-05-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:27

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 Date:1989-12-13

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:61

Signed: Andrzej Wajda

Release Date:1989-01-02

Character:Self

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 Date:1988-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:17

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 Date:1988-02-24

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:20

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 Date:1988-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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 Date:1987-04-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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 Date:1986-11-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:12

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 Date:1983-10-26

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:7

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 Date:1983-01-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:162

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 Date:1981-07-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:70

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 Date:1980-09-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:8

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 Date:1980-02-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:13

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 Date:1979-09-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:24

Pogoda domu niechaj będzie z Tobą...

Release Date:1979-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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 Date:1978-11-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:TV Show Contestant (uncredited)

Vote Count:14

Ziemia obiecana

Release Date:1978-05-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:5

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 Date:1977-05-16

Character:Andrzej Wajda

Vote Count:5

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 Date:1977-02-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:76

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 Date:1977-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

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 Date:1976-09-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

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 Date:1975-02-21

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:72

Spécial cinéma

Release Date:1974-09-25

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

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 Date:1974-01-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.

Release Date:1973-01-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:20

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 Date:1972-03-29

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Reporter (uncredited)

Vote Count:3

The Third Part of the Night

Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michał witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also tells the true untold story of a vaccine laboratory where Jews and members of the resistance were employed as feeders for parasites infected with typhus.

Release Date:1972-01-04

Department:Art

Job:Supervising Art Director

Vote Count:80

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 Date:1971-12-26

Department:Art

Job:Supervising Art Director

Vote Count:4

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 Date:1971-12-21

Department:Art

Job:Supervising Art Director

Theatre Macabre

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

Release Date:1971-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

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 Date:1971-09-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

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 Date:1970-11-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:17

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 Date:1970-09-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:19

Signs on the Road

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

Release Date:1970-06-02

Department:Art

Job:Supervising Art Director

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 Date:1969-08-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:12

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 Date:1969-06-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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 Date:1969-01-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:25

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 Date:1968-05-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:11

Roly Poly

Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). 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 Date:1968-03-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:13

Na planie

Release Date:1968-01-01

Character:Self

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 Date:1965-09-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:14

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 Date:1965-03-20

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:43

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 Date:1962-07-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:14

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 Date:1962-06-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:50

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 Date:1961-09-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

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 Date:1960-12-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:31

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 Date:1959-09-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:9

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 Date:1958-10-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:242

Kanal

During the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising following 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 Date:1957-04-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:134

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 Date:1955-01-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:52

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 Date:1955-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3

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 Date:1954-02-27

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:4

Three Stories

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

Release Date:1953-04-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

While You Are Asleep

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

Release Date:1953-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

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 Date:1951-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

The Bad Boy

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

Release Date:1951-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

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.

Character:Self

Cegła i inne nagrody filmowe

Character:Self

Bambi Awards

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 Date:1948-01-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1