Andrzej Wajda. My Inspirations

Andrzej Wajda reveals the secrets of his directing techniques. We learn why he dropped out of the Fine Arts Academy in Cracow and enrolled at the Łódź Film School. We find out what the art of filmmaking meant to him, what he wanted to express through this art form and how Polish paintings inspired him to create some of the scenes in his most iconic films. Wajda, the greatest painter of Polish cinema, compares specific paintings by such artists as JanMatejko, Stanisław Wyspiański, Kazimierz Michałowski, Jacek Malczewski and Leopold Löffler with shots from his own films in order to show their influence on the aesthetics and the visual language he employed. The opening sequence features Martin Scorsese talking about this very aspect of Andrzej Wajda’s work.