Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

March 6, 1926

Died

October 9, 2016 (90 years old)

Place of Birth

Suwałki, Polska

Also Known As

Анджей Вайда
アンジェイ・ワイダ
安杰伊·瓦伊达
안제이 바이다

IMDb Profile

Andrzej Wajda

Biography

Andrzej Wajda (born 6 March 1926) was a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he was possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School" (active circa 1955 to 1963). He was known especially for a trilogy of war films: A Generation (1954), Kanał (1956) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958).

Four of his movies were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: The Promised Land (1975), The Maids of Wilko (1979), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyń (2007).

He passed away in 2016 at the age of 90.

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