Andrzej Wajda
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"Andrzej Wajda" is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School" (active c. 1955 to 1963). He is known especially for a trilogy of war films: A Generation (1954), Kana? (film)/Kana? (1956) and Ashes and Diamonds (film)/Ashes and Diamonds (1958).

Four of his films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: The Promised Land (1975 film)/The Promised Land (1975), The Maids of Wilko (1979), Man of Iron (1981), and Katy? (film)/Katy? (2007).

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You are doing the right thing.

We knew from the very beginning that this was a Soviet crime. There were letters (from the detention camp) that people received, including from my own father. All of a sudden the letters stopped coming. We were aware that something happened in the spring of 1940. There was no doubt.

A great artist has died, a man with the hallmarks of a genius.