WARSAW (Web Desk) – Oscar-winning Polish film director Andrzej Wajda has died aged 90, the Polish Filmmakers’ Association confirmed on Monday.
Wajda won international acclaim for “Man of Iron” (1981), which tells the story of the anti-Communist Solidarity movement, and the film’s subversive predecessor “Man of Marble” (1977).
Fans, film-makers and political leaders rushed online to pay tribute after his death was announced late on Sunday.
“We all stem from Wajda. We looked at Poland and at ourselves through him. And we understood better. Now it will be more difficult,” Poland’s former prime minister and the current head of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said on social media.
Communist authorities censored the “Man of Marble”, angered by its portrayal of political corruption in the early 1950s Stalinist period, shown through the fall from grace of a Stakhanovite bricklayer.
