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The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda returns with this passionate biopic about avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who battled Stalinist orthodoxy and his own physical impairments to advance his progressive ideas about art.

Andrzej Wajda

 

Andrzej Wajda was born in 1926 in Poland. In 1950 he began the studies of film directing, and in 1955 he shot his first film, A Generation, which would become the foundation of a trilogy that would later on position him as an influential filmmaker. In his work he focused on the political-social issues in Poland in the XX century - life during the Second World War, under the communist regime... He received numerous prestigious national and international awards. He passed away in 2016.