Andrzej Wajda Movies

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...

An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials...

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by...

Andrzej Wajda’s first TV Theatre production is an adaptation of Kazimierz Brandys’s book of the same title. An American journalist...

In 1212, a Children's Crusade is launched after a young shepherd, Jacques de Cloyes, claims to have had a vision in which it is said that the...

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt...

In the Shadow of Hollywood examines this assault on our senses through interviews with directors, producers, writers and other experts in the film...

The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As a director of photography he worked on such films...

At the Old Theater in Krakow Wajda staged a play in 1971, based on Dostoevsky's novel "Demons". In this documentary Wajda tells the story of the...

A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.

Document following the production of Andrzej Wajda's 1973 film "The Wedding". It focuses on Wajda's struggle to decide on a concept of depicting one...

An attempt to summarize the director's life and work to date, starting from his early youth and ending with his work on "Pan Tadeusz".

In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later,...

Shortly before his death, Marek Edelman (1919-2009), former commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943) against the Nazi occupation, wonders about...

Set in the beginning of World War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops, the movie is about a white thoroughbred...

A young Jewish man from Warsaw is imprisoned after an antisemitic incident at his university. He is released when the Second World War breaks out and...

Andrzej Wajda on the 50th anniversary of his film debut.