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Andrzej Wajda - Polish reality at the end of the war (14/222)

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: When we reached that small village near Kazimierz, we encountered a sizable unit of several hundred soldiers and a few officers who were wondering what they should do because they knew the Germany army was at their back, and that they had only remained because they had been away from the main body of the army. They felt they should disband and disperse. I remember hearing for the first time my mother's conversation with these officers who suddenly asked my mother what she thought about them disbanding. That's when I realised that if this is what reality's like, then we were completely lost. They were asking my mother, but how was she supposed to know what they should do? Their problem did not lie, as I understood it, in their tactics, their problem lay in moral responsibility, was it permissable to do this? Should they leave those soldiers and allow them to go home, to disband in the situation that had arisen, or should they go off and fight somewhere? I have to say that this was etched on my memory, it was part of my education which I later needed when I came to make war films once the war was over. This was a moment that I remembered well.