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Andrzej Witold Wajda (Polish: [ˈandʐɛj ˈvajda]; 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "Polish Film School". He was known especially for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation (1954), Kanał (1956) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958).

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A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

Actors, Big, Money, Movie, Production, Time

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

Actors, Europe, Filmmaking, Movie, Television

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

Adults, Filmic, Hands, School, Students

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

Directors, Hands, Having, Theatre, Worked

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

Change, Concern, Economy, Industry, Might, Transition

By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.

Dint, Existence, Reality, Solidarity

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

Perception, Understanding, Words, World

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

Audiences, Cinema, Cinemas, Film, Films, Made

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

Create, Reality, Said, Vision

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

Continued, Film, Films, Past, Spirit

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

Adults, Cinema, Films, Our Society, Pressured, Significant

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

Firsts, Sporadically, Systemic, Transition, Years

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.

Changed, Motivation, Period, Significant Change, Strong, Tradition

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

Difficulty, Level, Play, Reality, Similitude, Writing

Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.

Industry, Magnitude, Military, Support, Transformed

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Anchors, Encodes, Literature, Past

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

Actors, Beneficial, Film, Movie, State, Would Be

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

Names, Rely, Television, Theatre, Written