Andrzej Wajda
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Maren Ade’s comedy, the first film directed by a woman to win best picture, also scores prizes for two leads, screenwriting and direction
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Letter: As a teenager, I had pretty typical young tastes in film – cowboys, space, war etc. Then one night, for reasons that escape me, I stayed up to watch Kanał, the second film of Wajda’s war trilogy
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The Russian director’s debut is the perfect place to start to gain an appreciation of a film-maker of extraordinary influence and cinematic vision
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The European Film Academy joins the protest against TVP’s critical introduction to its broadcast of Paweł Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning film Ida
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Uncompromising film director with a taste for depicting the extremes of human behaviour
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Coordinated by Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter, readers around the world will each read two to three minutes, streamed on Russian state television
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As exciting as a thriller, Wajda's film inspired a generation of Polish film-makers, writes Philip French
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A full-tilt biopic tribute to the Polish trade-union leader and founder of the Solidarity movement is very enjoyable, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Thanks to artists such as Zbigniew Cybulski and Andrzej Wajda, the world of vintage Polish film is stranger than anything else you will ever encounter
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Andrew Pulver: Polish film was an early frontrunner, before occupation forced wave after wave of talent abroad. Its fortitude is embodied by Andrzej Wajda – still going strong 50 years after his first feature
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Oscar-winning Polish film-maker says he will tell the story of how an uneducated worker triggered the collapse of communism
The Guardian view on Andrzej Wajda: a voice for humanity