Warsaw. The acclaimed film director Andrzej Wajda, who has made known to the West the intricacies of communism in poland and the struggle of the independent trade union Solidarity, died Sunday in Warsaw at the age of 90 by a pulmonary insufficiency, announced media.
The death of Wajda, who leaves behind a long series of celebrated films inspired by the turbulent history of his country, was announced by the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza daily and the chain news private TVN24. A friend of the family, under anonymity, confirmed the death.
Wajda was hospitalized to several days and in an induced coma due to lung problems, added the sources.
The director, who won the 2000 Oscar for the trajectory of his life, had turned to filmmaking after failing in his original plan of being in the military.
The work of Wajda includes classics such as The man of marble (1977), a critique of the communist Poland. followed three years later by The iron man, that account, almost in real time, the history of Solidarity, the first independent trade union in the communist bloc.
- Failure-military
Born march 6, 1926 in Suwalki, north-east Poland, Wajda tried to follow in the footsteps of his father as an officer in the army, but in 1939 was rejected in the academy military.
During the almost 6 years of nazi occupation started in September of 1939, Wajda took courses in painting and after the war he attended successively at the Academy of Arts in Warsaw and the film school of Lodz.
His first feature film. Polokenia (Generation, 1955)is the story of young people of Warsaw under the nazi occupation.
In 1957, Andrzej Wajda gets in the Cannes film Festival the Jury special prize with Kanal, his second film which deals with the uprising of Warsaw in 1944.
The award, “it was the beginning of everything”, chronicled Wajda half a century later.
The award “enabled me to make my next movie, Ashes and diamonds (1958) and gave me a place in the Polish cinema”.
In 1977, (19 years and fifteen films later, among which The gates of Paradise, Hunting flies or The Promised land) Wajda presented, once again at Cannes and its legendary film, El man of marble, a critique of the communist Poland.
This movie was going to be followed three years later by The iron man, where it reflects the story of Lech Walessa and the independent trade union Solidarity, that it would be the Golden Palm in Cannes.
“the day of The award was very important in my life.but I was aware that the award was not just for me, it was also a prize for the Solidarity trade union”.
The Golden Palm in Cannes, in addition, saved Wajda go to prison when in 1981 the regime of general Wojciech Jaruzelski launches a crackdown on Solidarity.
But also there is more output to follow shooting at the alien. That will be the case with Danton (1983), A love in Germany (1986) and The Possessed (1988).
After the fall of communism in 1989, Wajda returns to the history Polish with different films, such as Katyn (nominated for the Oscar 2008) which narrates the story of his father, Jakub Wajda, one of the 22 500 thousand Polish officers massacred in 1940 by the occupants soviets.
His film, posthumous, powidoki (Afterimage), which tells of the last years of the life of the painter of the avant-garde Wladislaw Strzeminski and his fight against stalinism, was completed this year (not yet premiered in theaters), and will be a candidate for Poland at the Oscar.
No comments:
Post a Comment