Wajda’s documentary premiered in Madrid
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
12.02.2016 08:32
A documentary film by Poland’s veteran director Andrzej Wajda has its premiere Friday at the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid.
Andrzej Wajda. Photo: Flickr.com/Piotr Drabik
Entitled 'Wróblewski according to Wajda', it is the director’s highly personal account of his friendship with Andrzej Wróblewski, one of Poland’s most prominent artists of the post-World War Two period, whose career was cut short by a mountaineering accident in the Tatra mountains in 1957, at the age of twenty nine.
Wajda and Wróblewski made friends during their studies at the Fine Arts Academy in Kraków. In the forty-minute documentary, Wajda dwells on the enormous impact which Wróblewski’s paintings exerted on his art as a filmmaker.
The screening of the film is one of the side events accompanying a retrospective exhibition of Wróblewski’s works at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, which runs until 28 February.
The Polish premiere of Wajda’s documentary is to be held in Warsaw on 9 March, at a gala event to mark the director’s 90th birthday.
Wajda’s most acclaimed features include 'A Generation', 'Ashes and Diamonds', 'The Maids of Wilko', 'The Promised Land', 'Danton' and 'Katyń'. (mk/rg)