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Andrzej Wajda - Personal reflections after 'Rough Treatment' (144/222)

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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Entertainment

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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: The film 'Rough Treatment' brought me to a point where I realised that if I carry on playing this game, my whole crew would be disbanded, everyone would be dispersed and I wouldn't be able to find any material for myself with which to carry on in this direction. So I did what I had done earlier when I was making 'Birchwood', when I went back and made 'The Shadow Line'. In short, I knew that if I didn't pass from one subject to another, but would continue trying to follow this direction, I wouldn't succeed. I had gone too far here, first with 'Man of Marble' and everything that had surrounded that film, and then with 'Rough Treatment' which also had a very poor reception. That was because it shows the way a person was manipulated once the Party decided to roughly shunt him to one side.

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