Andrzej Wajda

All Movies of Andrzej Wajda

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  Marek Edelman… And There Was Love in the Ghetto
  Director of the film

   2019

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  Paths through the Labyrinth - The Composer Krzysztof Penderecki
   2013

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  6.8
  Walesa: Man of Hope
  Director of the film

   2013

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  7.0
  Sweet Rush
  On one level, Andrzej Wajda’s film tells a story of Marta, a middle-aged woman married to a small town doctor. Marta searches for happiness in the arms of a much younger man, Bogus. Their relationship is as innocent and fresh as...
  Director of the film

   2009

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  7.8
  Katyn
  In the spring of 1940, following the invasion of Poland by Russia's Red Army in 1939, up to 20,000 Polish officers and soldiers were executed by Stalin's secret police. The men were imprisoned in three POW camps, one of which was ...
  Director of the film

   2007

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  7.0
  Pan Tadeusz
  Based around a 19th century poem by Adam Mickiewicz, PAN TADEUSZ is set in Lithuania, and details an epic feud between two families. Directed by Andrzej Wajda (HUNTING FLIES) the two families in question are of Polish descent, but...
  Director of the film

   1999

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  9.0
  Miss Nobody
  Director of the film

   1996

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  Holy Week
  As the Warsaw Ghetto burns, a Jewish woman seeks sanctuary with a former boyfriend on the Christian side of the city. Andrzej Wajda’s adaptation of Jerzy Andrzejewski’s short story Holy Week is an inquiry into the relationshi...
  Director of the film

   1995

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  7.0
  Korczak
  A biography of Janusz Korczak, a writer, radio personality, teacher, and doctor who is best remembered for his work as the director of a Jewish orphanage in Poland during the early years of the Nazi regime.
  Director of the film

   1990

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  5.0
  The Possessed
  Director of the film

   1988

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  7.0
  A Love in Germany
  In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish pri...
  Director of the film

   1983

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  7.2
  Danton
  Wajda directs his camera toward the social upheaval and political treachery of the French Revolution, and by doing so, draws an obvious allegory to the political situation in his native Poland in the 1980s. Depardieu is the boiste...
  Director of the film

   1982

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  7.3
  Man of Iron
  MAN OF IRON, Andrzej Wajda's account of the events at the Gdansk shipyard in the summer of 1980, stars Marian Opania as Winkiel, a burned-out, alcoholic journalist who's assigned to look into the activities of Maciek Tomzyk (Jerzy...
  Director of the film

   1981

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  5.0
  The Orchestra Conductor
  Director of the film

   1980

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  7.7
  Young Girls of Wilko
  Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been i...
  Director of the film

   1979

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  Without Anesthesia
  A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His...
  Director of the film

   1978

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  7.0
  Man of Marble
  Student filmmaker determined to make her diploma film about a 1950s national hero, charms her way among his surviving contemporaries to uncover the truth about his achievements.
  Director of the film

   1977

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  8.0
  The Promised Land
  At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew and a German, pool their money t...
  Director of the film

   1975

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  The Wedding
  Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get...
  Director of the film

   1973

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  Landscape After Battle
  Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies tr...
  Director of the film

   1970

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  9.0
  Everything for Sale
  The disappearance of the leading actor from the film’s set worries its director Andrzej. He embarks on a journey to look out for the actor with a young actor and missing actor’s wife and mistress.
  Director of the film

   1969

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  Layer Cake (TV)
  Director of the film

   1968

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  Gates to Paradise
  Director of the film

   1968

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  The Ashes
  Director of the film

   1965

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  8.0
  Love at Twenty
  Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. François Truffaut starts things off with a story of innocent love (Anto...
  Director of the film

   1962

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  Ashes and Diamonds
  The third and last chapter of Andrzej Wajda's thematic (wartime) trilogy (coming after A Generation and Kanal), Ashes and Diamonds, a study on the political and social chaos felt at the end of the WWII, follows the story of Maciek...
  Director of the film

   1958

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  8.2
  Kanal
  September, 1944. It’s the 56th day of Warsaw’s uprising against the Nazis. The third Platoon of the Resistance is down to 43 heroic men and women, and they’re penned in. After a last day of fighting, and of good-byes to fami...
  Director of the film

   1957