Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda is an Academy Award-wining director. He is the most prominent filmmaker in Poland known for Ziemia obiecana (1975), Czlowiek z zelaza (1981), and Katyn (2007). He was born Andrzej Wajda on March 6, 1926, in Suwalki, Poland. His mother, Aniela Wajda, was a teacher at a Ukrainian school. His father, Jakub Wajda, was a captain in the Polish infantry. Wajda described his childhood as a happy pastoral country life before the Second World War. In 1939, Poland was invaded by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. In 1940, Wajda's father was killed by Stalin's agents in the Katyn massacre.

El Festival Internacional de Cine de Guanajuato