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Co środowiska filmowe na świecie mówią o śmierci Andrzeja Wajdy?

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Deadline - Legendary Polish Director Andrzej Wajda dies at 90

Andrzej Wajda, considered Poland’s greatest director with credits including the Oscar-nominated The Promised Land (1975), The Maids of Wilko (1979), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyń (2007) has died. He was 90, and among numerous accolades over his long career received an honorary Oscar and Palme d’Or.

Born in 1926 in Suwałki, Wajda grew up during some of Poland’s most terrifying years. His father was executed by the Soviets after the partitioning of the country with Germany, and as a teenager Wajda fought with the polish resistance against the Soviets and Nazis. After the war, he studied painting before attending the Łódź Film School.

He began his career as an apprentice to Aleksander Ford, after which he was able to direct features, with one of his earliest films being 1955’s A Generation, an adaptation of the novel by Bohdan Czeszko. The film also marked the first instance of one of Wajda’s trademarks, veiled examinations of the devastating political and cultural circumstances afflicting Poland, and the effects growing up during World War II had on his psyche, a risky endeavor due to communist-era censorship.

Wajda would make his political beliefs more explicit later in his career, becoming a supporter of Poland’s Solidarity movement, taking advantage of a brief thaw in censorship in 1980 to make his landmark film Man of Iron, which depicts early success by the anti-communist labor movement that included in its cast Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa. His involvement in the film lead to a crackdown by the Polish government and his production company was forced out of business. Despite this, the film won the Palme D’Or in 1983.

Defying pressure from the government, he continued to explore political themes throughout the decade, notably with the Gérard Depardieu-starring Danton, that depicts revolution descending into terror and was reflective of martial law in Poland.

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Variety - Andrzej Wajda, Celebrated Polish Director, Dies at 90

Renowned Polish director Andrzej Wajda died Sunday in Warsaw after a short illness. He was 90. His death was confirmed by the Associated Press and Polish media outlets.

Though best known in the U.S. for his realistic WWII trilogy “A Generation,” “Kanal,” and “Ashes and Diamonds” from the late 1950s, the always controversial and politically vital filmmaker continued working into the 21st century and was considered Poland’s preeminent filmmaker. His latest film, the biopic “Afterimage,” had recently been selected as Poland’s foreign language Oscar submission. In 2000 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences honored Wajda with an honorary Oscar in recognition of a lifetime of work.

Through his bold use of imagery, Wajda was able to circumvent state censors during the Cold War years and create stinging indictments of war and political oppression in the postwar years.

Poland’s history under the Soviet Union was the basis for two of his most acclaimed works, 1977’s “Man of Marble” and 1981’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner “Man of Iron,” which details the country’s famous Solidarity labor movement and featured Poland’s real-life hero Lech Walesa. (He returned to the subject of Walesa for the 2013 biopic “Walesa: Man of Hope.”) For a time, however, the Polish government became too restrictive and Wajda was forced to emigrate to France, where he lived until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. When he returned he was elected to the Polish parliament and appointed head of Warsaw’s leading theater, where Wajda was also a leading light, much like Ingmar Bergman in Sweden.

In his book “Double Vision,” written in the mid-’80s, Wajda lamented the lack of interest in Polish movies in the West. But in his native country he was regarded as one of its most important artists. Several of Wajda’s films were never released in the U.S., where he never enjoyed the popularity of countrymen Roman Polanski or Krzysztof Kieslowski.

(nie przeklejam reszty, ale polecam przeczytać, bowiem jest ładniej i ciekawiej napisane niż w większości polskich wydań)

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The Hollywood Reporter - Andrzej Wajda, Oscar-Winning Polish Director, Dies at 90

Poland's leading filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, whose career maneuvering between a repressive communist government and an audience yearning for freedom won him international recognition and an honorary Oscar, has died. He was 90.

Wajda had recently been hospitalized and died Sunday night, according to his colleague, film director Jacek Bromski.

Wajda, who recently completed his last film, Afterimage — a biopic of famous Polish avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski — had been struggling with ill health in recent years.

Wajda, who celebrated his 90th birthday in March, had long wanted to make a film about Strzeminski, who was forced out of his job teaching art in post-war Poland after refusing to cooperate with communist authorities.

Wajda's career stretched across more than six decades with multiple prizes at top international festivals, including Cannes, where his wartime-set feature Kanal collected a special jury prize in 1957. He eventually took the Palme d'Or in 1981 for Man of Iron, another nominee for the foreign-language Oscar.

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Jak widać powyżej, trzy najważniejsze i najbardziej opiniotwórcze dzienniki w środowisku filmowym Ameryki odrobiły zadanie domowe dostarczając rzetelne i indywidualne teksty o jednym z najważniejszych reżyserów w historii kina (zamiast np. tylko polegać na notkach pochodzących z Associated Press). Przez chwilę, nagłówki o jego śmierci wisiały na stronach głównych, nawet pomimo o wiele ważniejszego tematu dla USA jakim była debata Trump / Clinton

Z pozostałych ważnych wydań:

The Guardian - Andrzej Wajda: great director had Poland written on his heart

Andrzej Wajda had a viable claim to be Poland’s great national artist of modern times, a virtual cinematic folk memory, a man who sought to intervene in Poland’s history with his movies, converting the ashes of bitterness and historical agony into diamonds of film. He was a director with Poland written on his heart.

In a staggeringly productive career, so much of which he pursued in the face of bureaucratic opposition and censorship — while working in uneasy harmony with the agencies of the state — Wajda took on the big themes of Polish history, from a country at the very heart of wartime conflict between Nazism and communism,and the cold war collision between west and east. The division of Poland, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, and the fact that his homeland was at the centre of the most toxic acts of geopolitical bad faith in modern history, was something that Wajda grew up with.

Wajda is sometimes called a cinematic poet of lost causes: but he made Poland and Polish cinema a great found cause.

(nawet Brytyjczycy byli w stanie napisać wprost że Wajda wielkim patriotą był, ale co oni tam wiedzą, wykop go przejrzał, j------o koniukturalistę no)

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The New York Times - Andrzej Wajda, Towering Auteur of Polish Cinema, Dies at 90

His absorption in Polish sensibilities, and in quintessentially Polish subjects, like the romantic appeal of lost causes, extended beyond plot and subtext to the iconography with which he filled his movies, a tendency he lamented but could not escape. “I would gladly trade in this clutch of national symbols — sabers, white horses, red poppies — for a handful of sexual symbols from a Freudian textbook,” he once said. “The trouble is that I just wasn’t brought up on Freud.”

(znowu, bardzo ciekawy artykuł o Wajdzie, choć w głównej mierze przedruk z artykułów Kaufmana, który w latach 80 był korespondentem NYT w Polsce)

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TIME - Leading Polish Filmmaker Andrzej Wajda Dies at 90

"Our mentor, our teacher, a model not to be matched"

(WARSAW, Poland) — Poland’s leading filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, whose career maneuvering between a repressive communist government and an audience yearning for freedom won him international recognition and an honorary Oscar, has died. He was 90.

(głównie przepiska z AP, wzbogacona cytatami o nim ludzi ze środowiska)

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Z nieanglojęzycznych przejrzałem tylko dwa francuskie dzienniki:

Le Monde wypuścił dwie notki - obszerny nekrolog z notką biograficzną oraz trochę dłuższy esej skupiający się na jego inspiracjach pochodzących z dzieciństwa i walce o wolną Polskę

Légende du cinéma mondial, le metteur en scène polonais Andrzej Wajda est mort, dimanche 9 octobre, à Varsovie à l’âge de 90 ans, ont annoncé ses proches et plusieurs médias polonais.

Le réalisateur de L’Homme de marbre est mort d’une insuffisance pulmonaire. Hospitalisé depuis plusieurs jours, il se trouvait dans un coma pharmacologique, a rapporté un proche de la famille sous couvert d’anonymat, à l’Agence France-Presse.

Cet artiste engagé a été pendant toute sa vie le chantre de la difficile histoire polonaise, à laquelle il a su donner une dimension universelle, récompensée par un Oscar en 2000 pour l’ensemble de son œuvre.

Fils d’un officier polonais assassiné par l’armée soviétique à Katyn, résistant engagé à 16 ans dans la lutte contre l’occupant nazi, Andrzej Wajda, devenu cinéaste, n’a jamais détourné son objectif du creuset qui l’avait façonné, l’histoire de son pays. Wajda a filmé la lutte pour la liberté, la construction et la reconstruction d’une nation, de Génération (1955), son premier film, évocation de la résistance, à Afterimage, portrait d’un artiste en lutte contre le pouvoir stalinien, qui a été présenté en septembre au Festival de Toronto. Un mois après cette dernière apparition sur la scène internationale, le plus connu des cinéastes polonais « de l’intérieur » est mort le 9 octobre, à Varsovie, des suites d’une insuffisance respiratoire. Il avait 90 ans.

Z kolei Le Figaro wypuścił aż cztery artykuły poświęcone Wajdzie - nekrolog za AFP, przypomniany wywiad z 2014 roku o upadku komunizmu i jego wkładzie w to, podsumowanie kariery w 5 filmach, oraz hołd ze strony francuskich środowisk filmowych

La naissance en Pologne de Solidarnosc, premier syndicat libre des pays de l'Est, fut un bouleversement. Le réalisateur Andrzej Wajda, qui a soutenu et filmé le mouvement depuis ses débuts, revient sur cet instant crucial de l'histoire de la Pologne. Et remet à l'honneur son leader charismatique que rien ne prédisposait à faire tomber le régime, première brèche qui allait provoquer, il y a vingt-cinq ans, la chute du communisme.

Ale po przejrzeniu pobieżnym głównych dzienników w innych językach, wiadomość o śmierci Wajdy była najważniejszym wydarzeniem ostatniego dnia ze świata kultury.


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[WezelGordyjski]

@Joz: I polskie

[N.....o]

@WezelGordyjski: no niestety to bardzo smutne, ale i prawdziwie polskie.