Wajda on Film: A Master's Notes

Andrzej Wajda was born in Suwalki, Poland on March 6, 1926. After World War II, he graduated from the Film School in Lodz and began making films. He directed more than 40 films during his lifetime including A Generation, Kanal, Ashes and Diamonds, Danton, A Love in Germany, Katyn, The Revenge, Tatarak, Walesa: Man of Hope, and Afterimage. Man of Marble won the International Federation of Film Critics prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Man of Iron won the Golden Palm at Cannes. He received the Japanese Imperial Prize for his contribution to film in 1996, an honorary Academy Award in 2000, and lifetime achievement awards from the film festivals in Venice in 1998 and Berlin in 2006. His book, Double Vision: My Life in Film, was published in 1989. He died on October 9, 2016 at the age of 90.