Ashes and Diamonds 1958  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumil Kobiela, Jan Ciecierski, Stanislaw Milski, Artur Mlodnicki, Halina Kwiatkoska, Ignacy Machowski, Zbigniew Skowronski, Aleksander Sewruk, Barbara Krafftówna, Wiktor Grotowicz, Zofia Czerwinska
In this final offering of Andrzej Wajda's war trilogy ("Generation" and "Kanal" preceded it), World War II Polish resistance fighter Maciek Chelmicki (Zbigniew Cybulski) is ordered to assassinate a Communist official. After he fails and is sent out to try again, he listens to his conscience and begins to understand that his generation's cause is lost.
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Danton 1982  PG, 136 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chereau, Boguslaw Linda, Angela Winkler, Roland Blanche, Roger Planchon, Anne Alvaro, Emmanuelle Debever, Krzysztof Globisz, Gerard Hardy, Tadeusz Huk, Ronald Guttman, Andrzej Seweryn
During the French Revolution, Robespierre (Wojciech Pszoniak) and Georges Danton (Gerard Depardieu) represented opposing ideas on how best to carry out the plans for liberty, equality, and fraternity. Robespierre's "Reign of Terror" prevailed, and Danton joined the aristocrats on the guillotine.
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Everything for Sale 1969  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Beata Tyszkiewicz, Andrzej Lapicki, Witold Holtz, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Potocka, Bogumil Kobiela, Tadeusz Kalinowski, Elzbieta Kepinska, Irena Laskowska
This lesser-known film of the great Polish director paints another picture, this time of life on a movie set. It is a tribute to his friend Zbigniew Cybulski, a frequent actor in Wajda's films who was killed in an accident. In this tale, the crew on the movie set reacts (or non-reacts) in different ways to the leading man's death.
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Innocent Sorcerers 1960 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Romance
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Zbigniew Cybulski, Wanda Koczeska, Kalina Jedrusik, Teresa Szmigielowna, Roman Polanski, Andrzej Nowakowski, Jerzy Skolimowski
Although he is not interested in them, women are very attracted to Dr. Andrzej Bazyli (Tadeusz Lomnicki), and he is getting tired of all the attention. Then, Pelagia (Krystyna Stypulkowska) appears on the scene, and his life picks up as they begin a battle of wits that finally dissolves Bazyli's indifference–at least for awhile.
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Kanal 1957 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: They Loved Life
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Emil Karewicz, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Vladek Sheybal, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski, Stanislaw Mikulski, Zofia Lindorf, Teresa Berezowska, Jan Englert, Janina Jablonowska, Maria Kretz, Kazimierz Dejunowicz, Zdzislaw Lesniak, Maciej Maciejewski
This compelling story is the second in Andrzej Wajda's trilogy concerning the Polish Resistance Movement of World War II. In September, 1944, when Warsaw was in the midst of rising up against Nazi occupation, a doomed resistance group bids final good-byes to families and trudges through Warsaw's underground sewer system in a desperate attempt to escape.
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Katyn 2007 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka, Magdalena Cielecka, Jan Englert, Agnieszka Glinska, Pawel Malaszynski, Maja Komorowska, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Antoni Pawlicki, Wiktoria Gasiewska, Agnieszka Kawiorska, Sergey Garmash, Jacek Braciak
Set during the early days of World War II, this story centers on the massacre of captured Polish officers that took place in the Katyn Forest and the subsequent attempts to cover-up the truth concerning whether it was the Soviets or Nazis who performed the massacres. The director Andrzej Wajda's father, Captain Jakub Wajda, was one of those murdered during that massacre. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Landscape After the Battle 1970 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Leszek Drogosz, Stefan Friedmann, Mieczyslaw Stoor, Jerzy Zelnik, Tomasz Lengren
Mayhem reins as jubilant prisoners are freed from a concentration camp at the end of World War II. But quiet Tadeusz (Daniel Olbrychski) is only interested in retrieving his books. As resettlement stresses the survivors, Tadeusz and Nina (Stanislawa Celinska) meet and try to cope with "freedom." Powerful, but sad.
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Lotna 1959 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Jerzy Pichelski, Adam Pawlikowski, Jerzy Moes, Mieczyslaw Loza, Bozena Kurowska, Bronislaw Dardzinski, Artur Mlodnicki, Roman Polanski, Karol Rommel, Wieslaw Golas, Adam Dzieszynski, Karol Rommel, Tadeusz Somogi, Irena Malkiewicz, Henryk Hunko
Lotna ("swift one") is an off-white horse that Polish Cavalry Captain Chodakiewicz (Jerzy Pichelski) rides while defending his country during World War II. But, after the captain is killed in action, the horse is passed from one soldier to another as the cavalry tries to stop the invading German foot troops.
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Love at Twenty 1962 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Shintaro Ishihara, Marcel Ophuls, Renzo Rossellini, Francois Truffaut, Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier, Francois Darbon, Rosy Varte, Nami Tamura, Barbara Lass, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Cristina Gajoni, Geronimo Meynier, Koji Furuhata, Barbara Frey, Zbigniew Cybulski, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Vera Tschechowa, Werner Finck
This episode of the story of Antoine Doinel's (Jean-Pierre Leaud) life, which began with "The 400 Blows" (1959), presents five stories that are told to reflect love among the younger generation. Five directors–Francois Truffaut, Renzo Rossellini, Shintaro Ishihara, Marcel Ophuls, and Andrzej Wajda–present the stories, which are each set in a different country (France, Italy, Japan, West Germany, and Poland).
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Man of Iron 1981 PG, 140 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Boguslaw Linda, Irena Byrska, Wieslawa Kosmalska, Andrzej Seweryn, Krzysztof Janczar, Boguslaw Sobczuk, Franciszek Trzeciak
In this sequel to "Man of Marble," the story of Poland's workers' revolt at the Gdansk shipyard is covered with Lech Walesa, one of the real heroes, making a brief appearance. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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Man of Marble 1977 N/R, 160 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Michal Tarkowski, Krystyna Zachwatowicz, Piotr Cieslak, Wieslaw Wojcik, Krystyna Janda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki, Magda Teresa Wojcik, Boguslaw Sobczuk
This is an excellent story about Mateusz Birkut's rise from bricklayer to Poland's champion of the people in the 1950s. Communist authorities disallowed the showing of the film's finale.
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Pan Tadeusz 1999 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Boguslaw Linda, Daniel Olbrychski, Grazyna Szapolowska, Andrzej Seweryn, Marek Kondrat, Krzysztof Kolberger, Michal Zebrowski, Alicja Bachleda-Curus, Jerzy Binczycki, Sergei Shakurov, Henryk Baranowski, Jerzy Trela
Based on Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz's 1834 narrative poem, this story is set during 1811 in Lithuania where exiled members of the Polish gentry live, argue, love, and fight among themselves.
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Pokolenie 1955 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: A Generation
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Tadeusz Fijewski, Ryszard Kotys, Roman Polanski, Zbigniew Cybulski, Janusz Paluszkiewicz, Zofia Czerwinska, Ludwik Benoit, Zygmunt Hobot, Cezary Julski, Bronislaw Kassowski, Jerzy Krasowski, August Kowalczyk
In this film–the first entry in Andrzej Wajda's World War II trilogy ("Kanal" and "Ashes and Diamonds" followed it)–a generation of Polish youths comes of age under Nazi occupation. The story centers on Stach (Tadeusz Lomnicki) who joins Dorota's (Urzsula Modrzynska) "Fighting Youth" group, falls in love with her, and recruits others to help with the Communist cause and ridding Poland of Nazis.
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The Promised Land 1974 N/R, 178 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn, Tadeusz Bialoszczynski, Anna Nehrebecka, Kalina Jedrusik, Bozena Dykiel, Andrzej Szalawski, Franciszek Pieczka, Andrzej Lapicki
Based on a true story that represents the rise of ruthless capitalists in the late-19th century, this is the tale of three Polish workers of different backgrounds who put their differences behind them to become successful in building a thriving textile factory. But success doesn't come easily nor can it always be sustained.
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Samson 1961 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Sampson
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Serge Merlin, Alina Janowska, Jan Ciecierski, Elzbieta Kepinska, Tadeusz Bartosik, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Irena Netto, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Jan Ibel, Bogumil Antczak, Alan Steel
Director Wajda again returns to the Nazi occupation of Poland that occurred in World War II during his youth. A young, Jewish man (Serge Merlin) is imprisoned during World War II, but he escapes. Now, the quiet man is trapped in a world on non-Jews as he tries to survive.
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Siberian Lady Macbeth 1961 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Olivera Markovic, Ljuba Tadic, Kapitalina Eric, Stanislav Goldner, Jovan-Burdus Janicijevic, Branka Petric, Milorad Lazovic, Borisav Milanovic, Snezana Niksic, Rastko Tadic
Based on Shakespeare's tale of Lady Macbeth, this version by Wajda uses a background musical score from an earlier opera of the story. Katerina starts an affair with a workman when her husband is away on a long trip. After her father-in-law finds out, Katerina poisons him, and when her husband returns she has similar plans for him.
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The Young Girls of Wilko 1979 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Krystyna Zachwatowicz, Anna Seniuk, Maja Komorowska, Stanislawa Celinska, Christine Pascal, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Zofia Jaroszewska, Tadeusz Bialoszczynski, Paul Dutron, Andrzej Lapicki, Joanna Poraska
World War I veteran Wiktor (Daniel Olbrychski) visits five sisters with whom he had spent a wonderful summer prior to the war. In flashback, the women's stories during that summer are revealed. Nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar.
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Zemsta 2002 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: The Revenge
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Roman Polanski, Janusz Gajos, Andrzej Seweryn, Katarzyna Figura, Daniel Olbrychski, Agata Buzek, Rafal Krolikowski, Lech Dyblik, Cezary Zak, Jerzy Nowak
Based on the popular play, director Andrzej Wajda teams up with long-time friend and filmmaker Roman Polanski for this light-hearted farce. Feuding neighbors, Cseznik (Janusz Gajos) and Rejent (Andrzej Seweryn ), live in separate parts of a dilapidated castle. Cseznik yearns for rich widow Podstolina (Katarzyna Figura) and solicits the help of the flamboyant, but foolish, Papkin (Roman Polanski). But Rejent has plans of his own.
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| 1. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
2. Danton (1982)
3. Everything for Sale (1969)
4. Innocent Sorcerers (1960)
5. Kanal (1957)
aka: They Loved Life
6. Katyn (2007)
7. Landscape After the Battle (1970)
8. Lotna (1959)
9. Love at Twenty (1962)
10. Man of Iron (1981)
11. Man of Marble (1977)
12. Pan Tadeusz (1999)
13. Pokolenie (1955)
aka: A Generation
14. The Promised Land (1974)
15. Samson (1961)
aka: Sampson
16. Siberian Lady Macbeth (1961)
17. The Young Girls of Wilko (1979)
18. Zemsta (2002)
aka: The Revenge
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