25th November 2011
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Oscar-winning director Andrzej Wajda to begin shooting Lech Wałęsa movie
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Acclaimed Polish film director Andrzej Wajda will begin shooting a film about Nobel Peace Prize winner and former leader of the Solidarity trade union Lech Wałęsa, in Gdańsk on December 1.
“This will be the most difficult movie I have made in my life,” the Oscar-winning director said at a press conference on Thursday.
The director said that documentary footage of the strikes which took place at the Gdańsk shipyard as well as Mr Wałęsa's negotiations with communist authorities would be woven in to the film, which is planned for release in autumn 2012.
Polish actors Robert Więckiewicz and Agnieszka Grochowska will play the roles of Lech Wałęsa and his wife, Danuta.
The 85-year-old director's most famous works include “Man of Iron” which won the 1981 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and Katyń, the story of the mass execution of Poles by the Soviet secret police in 1940.
See WBJ's retrospective of Mr Wajda’s work here.
From Warsaw Business Journal
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