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Andrzej Wajda - The role of the film director in today's Poland (182/222)

To listen to more of Andrzej Wajda’s stories, go to the playlist:    • Andrzej Wajda (Film director)   Polish film director Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016), whose début films portrayed the horror of the German occupation of Poland, won awards at Cannes which established his reputation as storyteller and commentator on Polish history. He also served on the national Senate from 1989-91. [Listener: Jacek Petrycki] TRANSCRIPT: In the light of this, the question arises what is our role, what is the role of the film director today in Poland? Of course, the young generation has a different problem: there's one thing it wants, and this is beautiful, I, too, rest my hopes in this. The young generation wants to show reality as it really is and gradually an audience is also emerging that wants to watch its own films, films that show a reality which either cheers us or causes us grief. Nevertheless, is it a mistake - and for the first time, I felt I wasn't mistaken, not because 6 million people saw this film when no one had wanted to go and see my earlier films, only this time I thought to myself why shouldn't I make a film for a Polish audience, why should this be some kind of mistake? In other cinematographies, other films are made which attract huge audiences, and then these films come over to us but they're neither funny nor interesting. These films pass unnoticed over here. Maybe that's how it is, that Europe is a world composed of many different worlds and that if a film pleases a Polish audience, perhaps that's reason enough to make it. We had become accustomed to thinking that if a film hasn't won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, or the Golden Lion in Venice, then what sort of film was it? Well, it could always win a Bear in Berlin. However, perhaps today we should take into account the fact that our audiences are searching for a new identity and find it in films like 'Pan Tadeusz' and 'Revenge', which was the next film I made. 'Revenge' is based on a very popular stage play with wonderful parts played by great actors. Why transfer this to the screen? Why show it again? This is what everyone was saying to me. After which it suddenly turned out that at a time when fewer and fewer people were going to the cinema because of the financial recession, this film had an audience of 2 million viewers, while the film that had been publicised most widely had an audience of 2 and-a-half million.