When a film is created, it ... by Andrzej Wajda, a Polish Director

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“When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.”

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Andrzej Wajda

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Name: Andrzej Wajda

Nationality: Polish

Date of Birth: Mar 6, 1926

Profession: Director

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We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.

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In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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