ANDRZEJ WAJDA PASSED AWAY
With great sadness, we have received the news about the death of Andrzej Wajda. We say farewell to the authority, the great Master of the cinema, the author who was unique and one of his kind, the artist valued in Poland and around the world for generations.
In the enormous creative output of Andrzej Wajda, there was also a place for documentary films. The director portrayed outstanding Polish artists, starting from Xavery Dunikowski in the film "I Walk in the Sun," Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz in "Pogoda domu niech będzie z tobą..." to "Wróblewski according to Wajda" or showed the theatre, which was close to his heart, just like in the films "Dead Class" or in "Demons (The Possessed) A Retrospect."
Through the medium of documentary film, Andrzej Wajda also told about himself, such as in the film "The Debit and the Credit," made in 1999. Some of the documentary films were screened again during the 56th edition of Krakow Film Festival.
He was with us and it seemed to us that he will be with us. Always. As the film-maker, authority, initiator and author of beautiful, handwritten letters.
He passed away, leaving behind films, objects, the film school and a group of wonderful actors and successors. He passed away on European Art Cinema Day, remaining forever one of its icons.
Earlier, at the festival in Gdynia, he bequeathed his credo to us. His last film, "Afterimage," will definitely be interpreted as his creative testament from now on - Krzysztof Gierat, the president of Krakow Film Foundation and the director of Krakow Film Festival.
Andrzej Wajda died on October 9, 2016. He was 90 years old.
in the photo, Andrzej Wajda with Krzysztof Gierat at the 55th KFF, photo by Tomasz Korczyński