On 91-m to year of life has died the Polish Director Andrzej Wajda – TASS

WARSAW, October 10. /Offset. TASS Irina Polina/. Polish Director Andrzej Wajda, died Sunday evening at the age of 90 years. This was reported on Monday Polish TV.

“recently, the Director was sick. A few days ago he was in the hospital. We were hoping that he will come out of it,” – said the TV channel TVN-24 writer and Director Jacek Bromski.

At the end of September at the film festival in Gdynia was presented a new film Wajda “the’s an after-image” (Powidoki), tells about the last years of the artist Vladislav Strzeminski – pioneer of the Polish avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s. The author personally received a special award of the jury in this review of his latest work. Later it became known that the Polish film Institute, put forward the tape as a candidate for the award “Oscar” in the category “Best foreign language film”.

Despite the late hour, Poland had already heard many words of sympathy. One of the first became the country’s President Andrzej Duda. “Died, Andrzej Wajda, the legendary Polish film Director, laureate of “Oscar”. Honor his memory,” he said on his official page in social network Twitter.

Critics often called Vida, “the father of Polish cinema” and “the conscience of the Polish people”. “Without Wajda, Polish cinema will never be the same as before”, – according to local media in their reports about the death of the Director.

Andrzej Wajda was born on 6 March 1926 in suwałki. His father Jakub was an officer in the Polish army and was killed in Katyn. The family of Andrzej dreamed that his son also devoted himself to the service in the army, but the young Wajda chose the first Academy of fine arts in Krakow, and later the High school of cinema in łódź. The first premiere of the young Director with the film “Generation” took place in 1955.

Wide recognition came to him after the film about the fate of the Warsaw uprising Kanal (1956), awarded with several prizes, including special prize at the Cannes film festival in 1957. Notable socio-political resonance, not only in Poland, called his films “Man of marble”, “Without anesthesia”, “man of iron” and “Danton”. In addition, Wajda put about 40 plays in different theatres, including “Demons” in Moscow “contemporary”.

the Work of the Director is awarded a number of prestigious awards. In addition to the Polish awards, Andrzej Wajda has a prize of the Moscow film festival, is the winner of the French film “Cesar”, the Italian theatrical award of a name of Luigi Pirandello, the European film award “Felix”, has the “Golden lion” at the Venice international film festival, “Palme d’or” at the Cannes film festival. In 2000 Andrzej Wajda received the award “Oscar” for outstanding contribution to world cinema, and in February 2006, the “Golden bear” for the contribution to cinema at the Berlin international film festival. At the end of 2010, Wade was awarded the order of Friendship for his great contribution to the development of Russian – Polish relations in the field of culture.