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Filmmaker · Poland

Andrzej Wajda

Died in 2016

Andrzej Wajda, born in 1926 in Suwałki, the son of an officer of the Polish army whom the Soviet political police murdered in 1940 and of a schoolteacher, spent the war in Radom and joined the Home Army in 1942. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków from 1946 to 1949, then directing at the film school in Łódź, and was an assistant to Aleksander Ford. Also a theatre director, he presided over the association of Polish filmmakers, was a senator from 1989 to 1991, received an Honorary Oscar in 2000 and died in Warsaw on 9 October 2016.

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