Fifty years after creating the first cinematic account of the Warsaw uprising with “Kanal” – a classic that put Polish cinema on the international map – octogenarian master Andrzej Wajda offers “Katyn ...
Katyn, a name that haunts Poland, may gain greater familiarity in the West. A new book from Yale University Press and a new, Oscar-nominated film from director Andrzej Wajda offer different takes on ...
There are directors like John Ford and Alexander Dovzhenko, national bards singing the tales of the tribe, and others like Charles Chaplin and Frank Capra, peopleNs artists talkinN straight to the ...
Katyn is the new film by postwar Poland’s most prominent film director, the 81-year-old Andrzej Wajda, and deals with the fate of an estimated 22,000 Polish officers and intellectuals—including ...
Andrzej Wajda has been making movies for half a century, but it’s doubtful that any of the Polish director’s previous films could be as personal or as wrenching as “Katyn.” Nominated for an Oscar last ...
Watching Andrzej Wajda’s unnervingly even-tempered Katyn, you wonder why the Poles who managed to live through World War II and the dual occupation of the Germans and Soviets did not go mad: Survival ...
The Polish director Andrzej Wajda, who has had a sixty-year career, crowns it with a consummate film. Katyn seems to be the work that he has been moving toward all of his busy life. Katyn Forest is ...
The Russian release of Andrzej Wajda’s Oscar nommed pic “Katyn” has been put back for technical and political reasons, the Polish director said Wednesday. Wajda told Variety that plans to screen the ...
WARSAW -- Oscar-winning director Andrzej Wajda is to make a film on the 1940 Katyn massacres, one of the earliest and most infamous mass-shootings of prisoners during World War II where 22,000 Polish ...
BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - In "Katyn," Poland's master filmmaker Andrzej Wajda vividly and movingly dramatizes one of the last major crimes of World War II to be acknowledged. Sign up here. This ...