Andrzej Witold Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director.
16 Facts About Andrzej Wajda
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Andrzej Wajda's father was murdered by the Soviets in 1940 in what came to be known as the Katyn massacre.
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The Birch Wood was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival where Andrzej Wajda won the Golden Prize for Direction.
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In 1990, Andrzej Wajda was honoured by the European Film Awards for his lifetime achievement, only the third director to be so honoured, after Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman.
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Andrzej Wajda continued to make films set during World War II, including Korczak, a story about a Jewish-Polish doctor who takes care of orphan children, in The Crowned-Eagle Ring and Holy Week specifically on Jewish-Polish relations.
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In 1994, Andrzej Wajda presented his own film version of Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot in the movie Nastasja, starring Japanese actor Tamasoburo Bando in the double role of Prince Mishkin and Nastasja.
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In 1999, Andrzej Wajda released the epic film Pan Tadeusz, based on the epic poem of the Polish 19th-century romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz.
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In 2002, Andrzej Wajda directed The Revenge, a film version of his 1980s comedy theatre production, with Roman Polanski in one of the main roles.
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In February 2006, Andrzej Wajda received an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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In 2007, Katyn was released, a well-received film about the Katyn massacre, in which Andrzej Wajda's father was murdered; the director shows the dramatic situation of those who await their relatives.
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Andrzej Wajda followed it with Sweet Rush with Krystyna Janda as a main character.
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Andrzej Wajda received the Prix FIPRESCI during the 2009 European Film Awards.
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Andrzej Wajda founded The Japanese Centre of Art and Technology in Krakow in 1994.
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Students of Andrzej Wajda School take part in different film courses led by famous European film makers.
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In September 2009, Andrzej Wajda called for the release of director Roman Polanski after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.
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Andrzej Wajda died in Warsaw on 9 October 2016 at the age of 90 from pulmonary failure.