Andrzej Wajda presents one of the largest naive art collection in Poland, housed in the home of Ludwig Zimmerer, a correspondent of West German radio, from 1956 living and working in Warsaw. Ludwig Zimmerer himself is the presenter of painting works, graphics, sculptures and tapestries. He also talks about the beginnings of the extraordinary collection, the passion of the colle...
In the 50th anniversary of Andrzej Wajda's creative work, his relatives and associates recall their meetings with the outstanding director.
German-French documentary on Andrzej Wajda. The director is Andrzej Wolski, a Pole living in France, author of “Czapski” (1985), “Ja, Gombrowicz” (1987) and “Jan Lebenstein - dziennik samotnika” (2000).
This film was shot in 2016, some months before his death. In the words of Wolski (link) Wajda was “a volcano of energy”.
In the film, Wajda revisits his oeuvre in an editing r...
An abandoned tumbledown theater in the Brazilian outback is the initial setting of a film about cinema, with testimonials from filmmakers such as Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant, Jia Zhangke, Karim Ainouz, Ken Loach and Lucrecia Martel.
Portrait of Andrzej Munk plotted memories of his friends and colleagues. The key to this essay is the prospect of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was held shooting for Passenger , Munk's last film. Crew Passenger not only worked, but spent the night in the camp. Work on the film was interrupted by the sudden death of Andrzej Munk in a car accident. Andrzej Brzozowski...
This time, the dramatic miniature of the author known in the world under the pseudonym Yukio Mishima (1925-70, owned by Hiraoka Kimitake) was realized as an independent, formally separate television spectacle. The title is not unknown to the public in Poland - "Adam's Drum" including two other one-act plays ("Wachlarz", "You're Beautiful") staged in 1965 at Tadeusz omnicki's W...
In 1978, Andrzej Wajda exhibited at the Stary Theater in Krakow - on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of regaining independence - a seven-hour spectacle-river, based on works by Young Poland and inter-war writers. The script combines fragments of texts by Micha Baucki, Gabriela Zapolska, Jan August Kisielewski, Zygmunt Kawecki, Stanisaw Przybyszewski, Tadeusz Boy-eleńsk...
The performance was accompanied by the manifesto of the Theatre of Death. Kantor stated the idea of his theatre, where the idea of LIFE can only be reclaimed in play by LACK OF LIFE. As participants in the séance he invited Witkacy, Schulz and Gombrowicz. The stage of play has been demarcated by cones and ropes. In the closed space the process of recalling the past takes place....
ANDRZEJ WAJDA: LET'S SHOOT! is an extraordinary 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. In 1957 Andrzej Wajda won the Silver Palm in Cannes for his film 'Canal', along with 'Seventh seal' by ...
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. Love Express features interviews with his closest collaborators, filmmakers and leading intellectuals who put his work into perspective, including Terry Gilliam, Bertrand Bonello, Neil Jordan, Andrzej Wajda, P...
