Andrzej Wajda — Director (7)
Sweet Rush (2009) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Tatarak
director: Andrzej Wajda actor: Krystyna Janda / Pawel Szajda
other title: Der Kalmus / El junco
As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
A Generation (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Pokolenie
other title: Generazione / Uma Geração
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives.
The Ashes (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Popioły
other title: Ceneri sulla grande armata / Cendres
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.
Afterimage (2016) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
Powidoki
other title: Il ritratto negato / Les fleurs bleues
In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.