On 6 March, Andrzej Wajda has celebrated his 90th birthday. Andrzej Wajda was born in 1926 in Suwałki, then spent most of his childhood years in Radom. He became fascinated with painting in grammar school, and in 1946 he began his...
JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI (born 1938)
Skolimowski won his first award at the Berlin International Film Festival for
The Poles have one of the longest and most distinguished of all documentary histories. During the Communist era the more adventurous filmmakers would effectively conduct a dialogue with audiences that were inclined to trust them more...
Joseph Conrad once wrote that he ‘sought, through the power of the written word, to make the reader hear, feel and, above all else, see’. Looking back over his intensely personal and deeply heartfelt films, Andrzej Żuławski could lay...
There is something gloriously disgraceful about a filmmaker pushing eighty, making the type of film you would expect from a twenty year old. But then again, Jerzy Skolimowski has always done things to the beat of his own...
At the closing ceremony of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, Tomasz Wasilewski - writer and director of Zjednoczone Stany Miłości (United States of Love) - received the Silver Bear Award for Best...