Films

1955 Pokolenie [Generation]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Bohdan Czeszko, based on his novel
Director of Photography: Jerzy Lipman
Music: Andrzej Markowski
Cast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Roman Polanski, Ryszard Kotas, Janusz Paluszkiewicz, Zbigniew Cybulski

This film is available at the www.amazon.com (with English subtitles)

1957 Kanal
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Jerzy Stefan Stawinski, based on his novel
Director of Photography: Jerzy Lipman
Music: Jan Krenz
Cast: Wienczyslaw Glinski, Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Emil Karewicz, Wladyslaw Sheybal, Stanislaw Mikulski, Teresa Berezowska, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski, Adam Pawlikowski and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore
This film is also available at the www.amazon.com (with English subtitles)

1958 Popiol i diament [Ashes And Diamonds]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Jerzy Andrzejewski, based on his novel
Director of Photography: Jerzy Wojcik

Second Director: Janusz Morgenstern
Music: Jan Krenz, Michal Kleofas Oginski
Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumil Kobiela

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore
Jerzy Andrzejewski's book Popiol i diament is available at the Merlin bookstore
This film is also available at the www.amazon.com (with English subtitles)

1959 Lotna
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Wojciech Zukrowski, based on his novel
Director of Photography: Jerzy Lipman
Second Director: Janusz Morgenstern
Music: Tadeusz Baird
Cast: Jerzy Pichelski, Adam Pawlikowski, Jerzy Moes, Mieczyslaw Loza, Bozena Kurowska, Karol Rommel, Roman Polanski

1960 Niewinni czarodzieje [Innocent Sorcerers]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Jerzy Andrzejewski, Jerzy Skolimowski
Director of Photography: Krzysztof Winiewicz
Music: Krzysztof Trzcinski-Komeda
Cast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Wanda Koczewska, Zbigniew Cybulski, Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Trzcinski-Komeda, Kalina Jedrusik-Dygatowa and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore
This film is available at the www.amazon.com (with English subtitles)

1961 Samson
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Kazimierz Brandys, based on his novel and Andrzej Wajda
Director of Photography: Jerzy Wojcik
Music: Tadeusz Baird
Cast: Serge Merlin, Alina Janowska, Elzbieta Kepinska, Tadeusz Bartosik, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jan Ciecierski, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Roman Polanski and others.

1962 Sibirska Ledi Magbet [Siberian Lady Macbeth]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Sveta Lukic, based on a short story by Nikolai Leskov
Director of Photography: Aleksander Sekulovic
Music: Dusan Radic
Cast: Olivera Markowic, Ljuba Tadic, Miodrag Lazarevic, Bojan Stupica and others.

This film is available at the www.amazon.com (with English subtitles)

1962 L'amour à vingt ans [Love At Twenty]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
Director of Photography: Jerzy Lipman
Music: Jerzy Matuszkiewicz
Cast: Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, Zbigniew Cybulski, Wladyslaw Kowalski

1965 Popioly [Ashes]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Aleksander Scibor Rylski, based on the novel by Stefan Zeromski
Director of Photography: Jerzy Lipman
Second Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Music: Andrzej Markowski
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Pola Raksa, Boguslaw Kierc, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Piotr Wysocki, Jozef Duriasz, Wladyslaw Hancza, Jadwiga Andrzejewska, Stanislaw Zaczyk, Jan Swiderski, Jan Nowicki and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore
Stefan Zeromski's book Popioly is available at the Merlin bookstore

1968 The Gates To Paradise
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Jerzy Andrzejewski, based on his novel
English dialogs: Donald Howard
Director of Photography: Mieczyslaw Jahoda
Music: Ward Swingle
Cast: Lionel Stander, Ferdy Mayne, Jenny Agutter, Mathieu Carrière and others.

Jerzy Andrzejewski's story Bramy raju is available at the Merlin bookstore

1968 Przekladaniec [Roly Poly]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Stanislaw Lem, based on his short story
Director of Photography: Wieslaw Zdort
Music: Andrzej Markowski
Cast: Bogumil Kobiela, Ryszard Filipski, Anna Prucnal, Jerzy Zelnik and others.

1969 Wszystko na sprzedaz [Everything For Sale]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Andrzej Wajda
Director of Photography: Witold Sobocinski
Music: Andrzej Korzynski
Cast: Andrzej Lapicki, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Daniel Olbrychski and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore

1969 Polowanie na muchy [Hunting Flies]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Janusz Glowacki, based on his story
Director of Photography: Zygmunt Samosiuk
Music:Andrzej Korzynski
Cast: Malgorzata Braunek, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Daniel Olbrychski, Ewa Skarzanka, Hannna Skarzanka and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore
This film is also available at the www.amazon.com (with English subtitles) as Fury Is A Woman

1970 Brzezina [Birch Wood]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, based on his short story
Director of Photography: Zygmunt Samosiuk
Music: Andrzej Korzynski
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Emilia Krakowska, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Marek Perepeczko and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore

1970 Krajobraz po bitwie [Landscape After the Battle]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Andrzej Brzozowski and Andrzej Wajda, based on the novel by Tadeusz Borowski
Director of Photography: Zbigniew Samosiuk
Music: Antonio Vivaldi, Fryderyk Chopin, Zygmunt Konieczny
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Tadeusz Janczar, Mieczyslaw Stoor, Leszek Drogosz, Aleksander Bardini, Stefan Friedmann, Jerzy Zelnik, Anna German, Malgorzata Braunek and others.

1972 Pilatus und andere [Pilat And Others]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Andrzej Wajda, based on the novel The Master and Margaret by Michail Bulhajov
Director of Photography: Igor Luther
Music: Jan Sebastian Bach
Cast: Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Kreczmar, Daniel Olbrychski, Andrzej Lapicki, Marek Perepeczko, Jerzy Zelnik and others.

Michail Bulchakov's book The Master and Margaret is available at the Merlin bookstore

1973 Wesele [The Wedding]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Andrzej Kijowski, based on Stanislaw Wyspianski's drama
Director of Photography: Witold Sobocinski
Music: Stanislaw Radwan
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Ewa Zietek, Malgorzata Lorentowicz, Barbara Wrzesinska, Andrzej Lapicki, Wojciech Pszoniak, Marek Perepeczko, Maja Komorowska, Franciszek Pieczka, Marek Walczewski, Emilia Krakowska and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore
Stanislaw Wyspianski's drama Wesele is available at the Merlin bookstore

1975 Ziemia obiecana [Promised Land]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Andrzej Wajda, based on Wladyslaw Reymont's novel
Director of Photography: Witold Sobocinski, Edward Klosinski, Waclaw Dybowski
Second Directors: Andrzej Kotkowski, Jerzy Domaradzki
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn, Anna Nehrebecka, Tadeusz Bialoszczynski, Franciszek Pieczka, Bozena Dykiel, Kalina Jedrusik and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore
Stanislaw Reymont's Ziemia obiecana is available at the Merlin bookstore

1976 Smuga cienia [The Shadow Line]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Boleslaw Sulik, Andrzej Wajda, based on Joseph Conrad's novel
Director of Photography: Witold Sobocinski
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Cast: Marek Kondrat, Graham Lines, Tom Wilkinson, Bernard Archard and others.

1977 Czlowiek z marmuru [The Man of Marble]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Aleksander Scibor Rylski
Director of Photography: Edward Klosinski
Second Directors: Krystyna Grochowicz, Witold Holz
Music: Andrzej Korzynski
Cast: Jerzy Radziwillowicz, Krystyna Janda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki, Michal Tarkowski, Piotr Cieslak, Wieslaw Wojcik, Krystyna Zachwatowicz and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore
This film is also available at the www.amazon.com (with English subtitles)

1978 Bez znieczulenia [Rough Treatment]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Agnieszka Holland i Andrzej Wajda
Cooperation: Krzysztof Zaleski
Director of Photography: Edward Klosinski
Music: Jerzy Derfel, Wojciech Mlynarski
Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Ewa Dalkowska, Andrzej Seweryn, Krystyna Janda, Emilia Krakowska, Roman Wilhelmi, Kazimierz Kaczor and others.

This film is available at the www.amazon.com (with English subtitles) as Without Anesthesia

1979 Panny z Wilka [The Maids from Wilko]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Zbigniew Kaminski, based on a short story by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
Director of Photography: Edward Klosinski
Music: Karol Szymanowski
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk, Maja Komorowska, Stanislawa Celinska, Krystyna Zachwatowicz, Christine Pascal, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz's story Panny z Wilka is available at the Merlin bookstore

1980 Dyrygent [The Orchestra Conductor]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Andrzej Kijowski
Director of Photography: Slawomir Idziak
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven
Cast: John Gielgud, Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Seweryn, Jan Ciecierski, Marysia Seweryn and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore
This film is available at the www.amazon.com (with English subtitles)

1981 Czlowiek z zelaza [The Iron Man]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Aleksander Scibor-Rylski
Director of Photography: Edward Klosinski
Music: Andrzej Korzynski
Cast: Jerzy Radziwillowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Andrzej Seweryn, Irena Byrska and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore
This film is also available at the www.amazon.com (with English subtitles)

1983 Danton
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Jean-Claude Carrière, based on Stanislawa Przybyszewska's play Danton's Affair
Cooperation: Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland, Boleslaw Michalek, Jacek Gasiorowski
Director of Photography: Igor Luther
Music: Jean Prodromides
Cast: GΘrard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche, Patrice ChΘreau, Emmanuelle Debever, Krzysztof Globisz, Tadeusz Huk, Marek Kondrat, Boguslaw Linda and others.

1983 Eine Liebe in Deutschland [Love In Germany]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Boleslaw Michalek, Agnieszka Holland, Andrzej Wajda, based on Rolf Hochhuth's novel
Director of Photography: Igor Luther
Decoration: Allan Starski
Music: Michel Legrand
Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Marie-Christine Barrault, Piotr Lysak, Daniel Olbrychski and others.

1986 Kronika wypadkow milosnych [A Chronicle of Amorous Incidents]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Andrzej Wajda, based on Tadeusz Konwicki's novel
Director of Photography: Edward Klosinski
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Cast: Paulina Mlynarska, Piotr Wawrzynczak, Bernadetta Machala, Dariusz Dobkowski, Tadeusz Konwicki, Jaroslaw Gruda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Zachwatowicz and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore

1988 Les Possédes [The possessed]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Jean-Claude Carrière, based on a novel by Dostojevsky
Cooperation: Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland, Edward Zebrowski
Director of Photography: Witold Adamek
Decoration: Allan Starski
Music: Zygmunt Konieczny
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jutta Lampe, Philippine Leroy Beaulieu, Bernard Blier, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Laurent Malet, Jerzy Radziwillowicz, Omar Sharif and others.

Fiodor Dostojevsky's novel Bracia Karamazow is available at the Merlin bookstore

1990 Korczak
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Agnieszka Holland
Director of Photography: Robby Mⁿller
Decoration: Allan Starski
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Cast: Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Marzena Trybala, Piotr Kozlowski, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Jan Peszek, Aleksander Bardini, Wojciech Klata, Krystyna Zachwatowicz and others.

This film is available at the Merlin bookstore
This film is also available at the www.amazon.com (with English subtitles)

1992 Pierscionek z orlem w koronie [The Crowned-Eagle Ring]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Andrzej Wajda, Maciej Karpinski, Andrzej Kotkowski, based on a novel by Aleksander Scibor-Rylski Pierscionek z konskiego wlosia (the Horsehair Ring).
Director of Photography: Dariusz Kuc
Decoration: Allan Starski
Music: Zbigniew Gorny
Cast: Rafal Krolikowski, Agnieszka Wagner, Adrianna Biedrzynska, Maria Chwalibog, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Cezary Pazura, Miroslaw Baka, Piotr Bajor, Jerzy Trela and others.

1994 Nastasja
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Andrzej Wajda, Maciej Karpinski, based on The Idiot by Dostojevsky
Japan translation: Masao Yonekawa
Director of Photography: Pawel Edelman
Decoration and costumes: Krystyna Zachwatowicz
Cast: Tamasaburo Bando, Toshiyuki Nagashima

Fiodor Dostojevsky's book Idiota is available at the Merlin bookstore

1995 Wielki Tydzien [Holy Week]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Andrzej Wajda, based on Jerzy Andrzejewski's short story
Director of Photography: Wit Dabal
Decoration: Allan Starski
Music: G.F. Narholz, F. Ullmann, S. Burston, O. Siebien, R. Baumgartner, J. Clero, V. Borek
Cast: Beata Fudalej, Wojciech Malajkat, Wojciech Pszoniak, Magdalena Warzecha, Jakub Przebindowski, Cezary Pazura, Maria Seweryn and others.

1996 Panna Nikt [Miss Nothing]
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Radoslaw Piwowarski, based on a Tomek Tryzna's novel
Director of Photography: Krzysztof Ptak
Cast: Anna Wielgucka, Anna Mucha, Anna Powierza, Stanislawa Celinska, Janga Jan Tomaszewski and others.

Tomek Tryzna's novel Panna Nikt is available at the Merlin bookstore

1998 Pan Tadeusz
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Andrzej Wajda, Jan Nowina-Zarzycki, Piotr Weresniak, based on a poem by Adam Mickiewicz
Second Director: Adek Drabinski
Director of Photography: Pawel Edelman
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Cast: Michal Zebrowski, Alicja Bachleda-Curus, Boguslaw Linda, Daniel Olbrychski, Grazyna Szapolowska, Andrzej Seweryn, Marek Kondrat,
Krzysztof Kolberger, Siergiej Szakurow, Jerzy Binczycki and others.

Adam Mickiewicz's poem Pan Tadeusz is available at the Merlin bookstore