Wajda told the Polish news agency PAP that he wanted to "warn against the state intervention into art." Wajda once said that "my Polish films were always images of a fate in which I myself had also participated." Wajda was born March 6, 1926, in the northeastern Polish town of Suwalki. Nine years later, "Katyn" was a national catharsis, breaking silence over a tragedy that affected thousands of families in Poland. Wajda also received lifetime achievement awards from the film festivals in Venice in 1998 and Berlin in 2006.

Source: New York Times October 09, 2016 23:04 UTC