Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda

Known for: Directing
Born: 1926-03-06
Died: 2016-10-09
Place of birth: Suwałki, Polska

Biography

Andrzej Wajda (born 6 March 1926) was a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he was possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School" (active circa 1955 to 1963). He was known especially for a trilogy of war films: A Generation (1954), Kanał (1956) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958). Four of his movies were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: The Promised Land (1975), The Maids of Wilko (1979), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyń (2007). He passed away in 2016 at the age of 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrzej Wajda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

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Also known as

Анджей Вайда
アンジェイ・ワイダ
安杰伊·瓦伊达
안제이 바이다

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