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Andrzej Wajda - 'The Promised Land': A new version (124/222)

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: I had constructed my entire idea, so to speak. After many years I watched this film again and suddenly I saw that it could be edited quite differently. I was convinced that I'd made a film that begins at dawn with everyone praying in their own language and that this is how the day in Łódź begins. Suddenly, I see it begins with people on their way to a country house, riding bicycles through some woods, birch trees. I lost my temper and thought this has to be done again. The film needs to be edited properly, some scenes can be cut. A shorter film is always better than a longer one, and 'The Promised Land' had been too long. It was too long because, among other things, to get adequate means with which to make the film I'd had to agree to making a film for TV and so television had contributed to this. So we'd made four, hour-long films for TV and the excess material, so to speak, had all been put in. But when I'd been editing the film, I hadn't been as strict as I should have been, and I thought to myself that after 20 years the film that TV viewers acknowledge as the most memorable Polish post-war film can count on being released in cinemas. I convinced the distributor, Vision. Mr Otulak, full of faith, so to speak, undertook this project. A new sound version was made, which improved the sound greatly. I shortened the film, rearranged the scenes, I think it worked. Witold Sobocinski saw to the images. So the film was released, it was more powerful, better... and suddenly it turned out that audiences weren't paying the slightest bit of attention to this film. Younger audiences decided they'd already seen this film on TV. They didn't need to see anything for the second time that had already been on television, whereas the audience that had been waiting to see this film again, my audience which had encountered 'The Promised Land' when it was first released, no longer went to the cinema. So this was my great disappointment.