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Andrzej Wajda
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Mr. Andrzej Wajda is an internationally famous film maker in Poland. In the late 1950s, when Polish cinema was in full flourish after World War II, Mr. Wajda made the films "Canal" and "Ashes and Diamonds" and he was a leader of the Polish School. Since that time he has made a major contribution to the development of cinema art by continually releasing outstanding films made with deep sensitivity and elaborate compositional power.
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Andrzej Wajda's film chronicles the extraordinary efforts of Dr. Janusz Korczak (Wojciech Pszoniak), a pediatrician and author, to protect a group of abandoned children in the Warsaw Ghetto. On Aug. 6, 1942, he refused an offer from the Nazis to spare his life and accompanied 200 orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka. Agnieszka Holland wrote the screenplay; Robby Muller was the cinematographer. Polish with English subtitles. Poland/France, 1990, 113 mins.
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The Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda earned his place in political history with his 1977 theatrical release "Man of Marble," a harsh critique of Soviet ideology that was an important public act of dissent in Communist Poland. But his place in film history probably rests with his first three features, "A Generation" (1955), "Kanal" (1957) and "Ashes and Diamonds" (1958), visions of Poland during and just after World War II that queasily recount the origins of the Polish Communist state.
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Andrzej Wajda has been married four times. His second wife was Zofia Żuchowska (she is buried in Radom). His third wife was popular actress Beata Tyszkiewicz with whom he has a daughter Karolina (born 1967). His fourth and current wife is actress and costume designer Krystyna Zachwatowicz.
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Kanal, Andrzej Wajda's second film, is based on a story by Jerzy Stefan Stawiński which appeared in the magazine Twórczość. The events of the story are drawn from the writer's personal experience. Stawiński had taken part in two battles for Warsaw, as an 18-year-old in 1939 and then in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
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[One] major staging directed by Wajda was that of THE DANTON CASE after a play by Stanislawa Przybyszewska. This 1976 performance at the Warsaw's Powszechny Theatre was scant in theatrical effects; instead, the attention of the audience seated on two sides of the acting space was focused on the protagonists, played by Wojciech Pszoniak and Bronislaw Pawlik. Indeed, the audience took part, doubling up as the deputies to the Convention and members of the Tribunal.
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