the Author of around fifty paintings, the Patriarch of the Polish cinematography in the twentieth century is rightly considered one of the best in Europe, weida was one of the most acclaimed Directors of his time – and winner of the Cannes “Golden Palma“, and honorary “Oscar” and an honorary prizes of all the major festivals, from Berlin to Venice. Meanwhile, as expected great the Director, he continued to work until the last day. One of his later paintings, “air“, at the Berlin festival in 2009 was awarded the prize for innovation, awarded usually for young Directors. Wajda took place just a few days before the premiere of his latest film with the prophetic title “afterimage” (Afterimage) – its world premiere in the “Master” of the festival in Toronto, and the European very soon will be held at the Rome festival. The film is dedicated to the fate of Polish avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski in which Wajda saw a lot of roll calls with its own.
the Impact of Wajda’s movie on the world more than it used to be – it was released in 1958 “Ashes and diamonds” is largely inspired by the great wave of Soviet films about the great Patriotic war, and his film “Korczak” (1990) encouraged a Spielberg in his masterpiece “Schindler’s List”. Many employees Wajda – from its permanent artist Allan Starsky to composer Wojciech Kilar (“Dracula” by F. F. Coppola) made his brilliant career in Hollywood, but the woad, although he worked in Europe (in 1988 ekraniziroval in France, for example, “Demons” Dostoevsky) remained loyal to the Poland, he directed his main masterpieces, from “Generation” and “Channel”, which found a voice of his peers from a generation that grew up during the Nazi occupation, to the epic “promised Land” and the lyrical “Ladies of Wilco”.
1971. Andrzej Wajda and Barbara Brylska in Moscow. PHOTO Valentin Kuzmin/Fotokhronika TASS
Wade was a historian very uneasy destiny of their homeland in the last several centuries – from the historic “Ashes” (1965) to the biography of Lech Walesa, filmed in 2013. And the fate of Poland in a very complex way tied to Russia and USSR, so with our country Wajda could not emerge as the complicated relationships. It deified we have (for “Ashes and diamonds”), then showered curses ideological (anti-Communist “Man of marble” and support of the movement “Solidarity”). Contradictory Russian character was familiar Weide in the nuances and not hearsay. In the film adaptation of the poem national Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz “pan Tadeusz” to personalize aforesaid the Director designated one of the best Russian actors – Sergei Shakurova.
Picture of Wajda’s “Katyn” (2007), first made known to a wide mass of terrible, uncomfortable for us the truth: in the spring of 1940 in the Katyn forest, 12 thousand captured Polish officers were shot by the riot GPU direct order Stalin, and not at the behest of Hitler, how many decades of argued in the USSR. The great Polish Director was entitled to a movie – and because his father was among the Katyn massacre, and because of his long life in art, he had the courage to speak the truth about the time in which he lived. “Katyn” was a painting first and foremost about finding the truth, her forgetfulness, her betrayal, her Martyr’s resurrection and tragic event. Wajda was accused her not only of the bloody Stalinist regime, but fellowpoles, for decades mirusia with lies, day after day betray the memory of those killed for the sake of survival in the “free Poland”.
March of 2008 the film Director Andrzej Wajda at a press conference at the Embassy of Poland in connection with the premiere of the film “Katyn” at the Moscow House of Cinema. Photo ITAR-TASS/ Alexei Filippov
of Course, there were those who called this anti-Stalinist, anti-totalitarian picture of the “anti-Russian”. But these charges were complete and samorazoblachitelnym stupidity: Wajda loved Russian culture, not just put the Russian classics in film and theatre (including in Moscow “the contemporary”) and “Katyn” gave Sergei Garmash, one of the main roles of a Soviet officer who saves the life of a pole.
And while “Katyn” was not released in Russian cinemas, three years after the premiere of the film in Berlin it was shown on Russian television ahead of the official memorial celebrations dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Katyn events. A few years later the film repeated in connection with the tragedy of the crash of the Polish President in the same Katyn forests. Wajda’s movie is invariably associated with the tragedies of twentieth century history and will always remain their testimony of huge imaginative power.
Gone from the life of Polish Director Andrzej Wajda. The master died at the age of 90 years
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