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Polish cinema loses the secret of its appeal
In conversation with Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo, Polish film director Andrzej Wajda suggests there is decreasing interest in Polish cinema abroad. "Today, Polish cinema has very little opportunity to be shown outside Poland. Its appeal used to be based on the Berlin Wall. Everyone wanted to know what was behind that wall. Stalin, and then the Soviet Union, engendered fear with the Cold War. And everyone wanted to know if the people behind the Iron Curtain really wanted this War. Since the wall came down, there is no more secret. We have become one of many countries - in Europe, too - trying to build an indigenous cinema arts."
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Andrzej Wajda on the Katyn massacre
The Polish film maker Andrzej Wajda, interviewed by Benedetta Craveri, explains why he decided to make a film called 'Katyn', about the massacre of over 20,000 members of the Polish elite committed by the Soviets in 1940. "Katyn is deeply rooted in the Polsih memory ... . The Polish communist regime was never willing to tell the truth about Katyn, no book, no debate on the subject was allowed. The memory of it represented a big obstacle in relations between Russia and Poland. ... At the same time, the attitude of the allies also damaged relations between Poland and the west. Their silence concerning the massacre has been considered a betrayal. This is indeed why part of the Polish elite chose communism, even though it was known who perpetrated the crime."
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Andrzej Wajda on the power of images
In an interview led by Tomasz Fialkowski and Lukasz Maciejewski, film director Andrzej Wajda defends the term "the Polish school of film", a term which has come under discussion owing to the great diversity and many differences between the films in question. "Our strength lay in the great diversity of the films. The films were never of a purely political nature and those in power always tried to keep us away from current issues... It was incredibly important that Polish filmmakers learned very quickly to work more with images than with words. Ideologies are expressed through words, so the censors were very sensitive as far as words were concerned. Images therefore proved to be the ideal medium.
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Andrzej Wajda on his next film
The veteran Polish film director Andrzej Wajda was awarded an honourary Golden Bear for his life's work at this year's Berlinale film festival. In an interview led by Tadeusz Sobolewski, he says that his next film will be a personal project. It will be about the fate of his own family and the massacre of Polish soldiers and civilians in the Katyn forest in 1940, which the Soviet Union long denied. "The film won't concentrate so much on the crime perpetrated in Katyn, but on the lies that were told about it after the war, and which continued for years. And about the waiting. My father died in Katyn... I want to make a film which is set in our house about how my mother and I discover my father's name on a list of victims, but under a different first name. And how we wait for him after the war."
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