"We expected that people were just waiting for……" — Andrzej Wajda
"We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics."
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32 Quotes by Andrzej Wajda
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Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to…
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As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
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By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into…
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The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of…
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It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
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There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for…
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In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in…
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In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or…
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One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition…
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A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the…
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In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and…
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When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the…
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