Andrzej Wajda's film on the man who helped topple Communism is less controversial than expected. By Nick Holdsworth Director: Andrzej Wajda The life of a simple electrician, at first fighting for his ...

Poland’s eminence gris of filmmaking, Andrzej Wajda, is planning to make a film about 1980s pro-democracy Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, with a script by Agnieszka Holland. Wajda, whose new film ...

Polish helmer Andrzej Wajda is one of the world’s most celebrated filmmakers, having received kudos at Berlin, Cannes, Venice and an honorary Oscar. His latest film, “Walesa: Man of Hope,” screens at ...

During his long tenure at the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk, Walesa advocated workers’ rights and participated in strikes and other activities that led to the Solidarity movement and, eventually, ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Lech Walesa will finally see his life made into a movie, more than three decades after the shipyard electrician launched the Solidarity union that helped topple communism in Eastern ...

Throughout a career spanning more than half a century, Andrzej Wajda, Poland’s grand old man of cinema, has never shied away from politically conscious films. From 1957’s “Kanal” to 2007’s “Katyn,” ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Veteran director Andrzej Wajda has earned an honorary Oscar for his catalogue of powerful movies, but he felt he had one more mission to complete before his long career ends: to ...

Lech Walesa is not the man he was 30 years ago, says the actor who plays him in the new Andrzej Wajda film, "Man of Hope," which opened Thursday at AFI's "European Union Film Showcase" and is Poland's ...

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The film sets out to draw a nuanced picture of Walesa the man, not the icon he would later become. It shows moments of self-doubt, the compromises he had to make, and the difficulty he had feeding his ...