The brilliant director of theater and cinema Andrzej Wajda (Andrzej Wajda) has a huge number of awards of various levels, but even their totality still does not reflect his huge contribution to art. Andrzej Wajda’s films change a person from the inside – they speak the truth.
Andrzej Wajda was born on March 6, 1926 in northern Poland in Suwalki. The father of the future director, Yakub Vajda, who served as an officer of horse artillery, in 1939 was in Soviet captivity and was shot. According to some reports, this tragedy occurred in Katyn, and according to others, Yakub Vaidu was criminally deprived of his life in Kharkiv. Andrzej Wajda's mother worked as a school teacher.
By the time Poland was occupied by Germany, Andrzej Wajda had completed seven classes. To escape the hijacking in the Reich, during the war he worked in German workshops.
After the war ended, Andrzej Wajda studied painting at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, however, without completing his studies, he entered the Lodz Film School at the director's department.
His debut standalone
Generation picture This was the beginning of what became known as the Polish Film School.
In many of his directorial creations, the director with the deepest psychologism reveals the theme of war. Among them are
Ash and diamond "Landscape after Battle,"
Korchak , "Holy Week."
A huge impression on the audience around the world was made by Andrzej Wajda’s painting “Katyn”.
Andrzej Wajda is known for his unsurpassed adaptations of both Polish and world literary classics. Among them are “Demons”, created based on the staging of A. Camus famous novel by F. Dostoevsky, “Siberian Lady Macbeth” by N. S. Leskov, “Pilate and others” based on the novel “Master and Margarita”, “Pan Tadeusz” based on the poem by A. Mickiewicz.
A very bright, aesthetically flawless and very rigid creation of Vajda -
film "Promised Land" It is an important social parable.
Andrzej Wajda harshly criticized Stalinism, and his films “Without anesthesia”, “Danton”, “Man of Marble” and “Man of Iron” caused an incredible resonance around the world.
Many of Andrzej Wajda’s theatrical works are also known, including “Demons”, as well as “Crime and Punishment” – based on the novels of F.M. Dostoevsky.
Andrzej Wajda has always been active in political and social activities. In particular, he headed the Union of Polish Filmmakers, which was banned during martial law in 1981.
Since 1972, Andrzej Vajda has been married to actress and theater artist Kristina Zakhvatović.
The Kyoto Cinematic Award, which he received in 1987, was spent by Andrzej Wajda to create a museum of Japanese art in Krakow. /