Andrzej Wajda

...Theatre): My favorite film in the fest so far, this remarkable documentary observes Polish auteur Andrzej Wajda ("Kanal," "Man of Marble," "Sweet Rush") as he directs "Katyn," a period drama about the WWII massacre of Polish officers,...

In this article: Katyn and Warsaw

...Polish and French roots. They also announced a wide range of cultural events, including a retrospective on film director Andrzej Wajda and painter and writer Josef Czapski, who died in exile in France. © Copyright 2009 Associated Press.

In this article: Poland, France, Nicolas Sarkozy, Donald Tusk, Natural gas, All rights reserved, Climate change, and EU

...detail a small picture of Ceausescu's Romania, through the experience of a student seeking a banned abortion. And last year Andrzej Wajda's epic, Katyn, exposed what happens when a country is forced by the dominating power to live a lie, and...

In this article: Nicolae Ceausescu, Europe, Claustrophobia, Fruit, The Lives of Others, 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days, Katyn, and Romania

...Netherlands/France SWEET RUSH Cast: Krystyna Janda, Pawel Szajda, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Julia Pietrucha, Jan Englert DIR: Andrzej Wajda PROD: Waldemar Dabrowski, Slawomir Jozwik, Michal Kwiecinski, Dorota Rakowska-Kosmicka, EXEC PROD:...

In this article: USA, Christopher Plummer, Tom Ford, John Hillcoat, and The Road

...said on Poland's TVN24 television. "She didn't give the impression that she was there by chance. " Polish artists, including Andrzej Wajda, the director and Oscar laureate, and Daniel Olbrychski, Poland's best-known actor, joined in an...

In this article: Roman Polanski, Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, United States, Barack Obama, Oscar, Cannes Film Festival, and Financial Times

..."inadmissible." It described Polanski as "one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers." In Poland, the celebrated director Andrzej Wajda and other figures of the cinema world called for Polanski's immediate release. Although born in...

In this article: Roman Polanski, Democracy, United States, Zurich, Los Angeles, Bernard Kouchner, The Ghost, Europe, Robert Harris, and Poland

Petitions from leading film directors and other cinema figures, including one signed by the celebrated Polish director, Andrzej Wajda, focused most of their anger on the Swiss authorities. The fact that the Polish-born Mr Polanski was...

In this article: Roman Polanski, US, Zurich, Switzerland, France, Cannes International Film Festival, and Rosemary's Baby

...circulating in France and signed by artists including Costa Gavras, Stefen Frears and Monica Bellucci. Oscar-winning director Andrzej Wajda and other Polish filmmakers also appealed for the immediate release of Polanski, a native of...

In this article: Roman Polanski, United States, Bernard Kouchner, Zurich, France, Oscar, and Yevgeny Adamov

...with it a sense of farewell, as Rivette, through his on-screen surrogates, takes a bow and bids us adieu. ANDRZEJ WAJDA, 83In Wajda's Sweet Rush, a lovelorn doctor's wife (the excellent Krystyna Janda), whose two sons died in World War...

In this article: Jacques Rivette, New York Film Festival, Alain Resnais, Manoel de Oliveira, Jane Birkin, and World War II

...Ostaszewska (Anna); Artur Zmijewski (Andrzej); Andrzej Chyra (Jerzy); Jan Englert (General) Directed by: Andrzej Wajda; written by Wajda, Wladyslaw Pasikowski and Przemyslaw Nowakowski, based on the novel "Post Mortem" by Andrzej Mularczyk;...

In this article: Katyn, A Generation, Artur Zmijewski, Koch Lorber Films, Pawel Edelman, Poland, and Roman Polanski