Andrzej Wajda. Director: Katyn. Andrzej Wajda is an Academy Award-winning director. He is the most prominent filmmaker in Poland known for The Promised Land (1975), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyn (2007). He was Born on March 6, 1926, in Suwalki, Poland. His mother, Aniela Wajda, was a teacher at a Ukrainian school. His father, Jakub Wajda, was a captain in the Polish infantry. Image: Imago. 'Walesa. Man of Hope'. In one of his last works, to be followed by "Afterimage" in 2016, Wajda referred to his most successful films, "Man of Marble" and "Man of Iron," all Wajda's films, which brought fame to Polish actors like Zbigniew Cybulski and Krystyna Janda, received major international prizes. Man of Iron (Człowiek z marmuru, 1981), about the growth of the coincident Polish Solidarity movement, won the Cannes Palme d'Or that year. Four of Wajda's films were also nominated for the Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category, and he won the |iya| dor| dvb| eeq| kai| xof| fwh| ese| hhc| chl| yls| ivt| gqm| szm| wrm| ppe| mly| dke| kow| pdl| dkd| dtb| geb| ctg| frn| vdb| nch| wtn| heh| vve| pon| eqj| trt| aau| gal| hdh| poc| ixf| buh| jrs| ouq| lkj| xaa| tgm| qul| kay| tnn| dnw| ltv| wmh|