Editing Andrzej Wajda (section)

==Early career==
After Wajda's apprenticeship to director [[Aleksander Ford]], Wajda was given the opportunity to direct his own film. ''[[A Generation]]'' (1955) was his first major film. At the same time Wajda began his work as a director in theatre, including [[Michael V. Gazzo]]'s ''[[A Hatful of Rain]]'' (1959), ''[[Hamlet]]'' (1960), and ''[[Two for the Seesaw (play)|Two for the Seesaw]]'' (1963) by [[William Gibson (playwright)|William Gibson]]. Wajda made two more increasingly accomplished films, which developed further the anti-war theme of ''A Generation'': ''[[Kanał]]'' (1957) ([[Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)#Prize winners|Special Jury Prize]] at [[Cannes Film Festival]] in 1957, shared with Bergman's ''[[The Seventh Seal]]'') and ''[[Ashes and Diamonds (film)|Ashes and Diamonds]]'' (1958) with [[Zbigniew Cybulski]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/andrzej-wajda-dead-oscar-winning-936684|title=Andrzej Wajda, Oscar-Winning Polish Director, Dies at 90|work=hollywoodreporter.com|date=9 October 2016 |access-date=10 October 2016}}</ref>

While capable of turning out mainstream commercial fare (often dismissed as "trivial" by critics), Wajda was more interested in works of [[allegory]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/222801/legendary-polish-director-andrzej-wajda-dies|title=Legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda dies|work=buenosairesherald.com|access-date=10 October 2016}}</ref> and [[symbol]]ism,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theculturetrip.com/europe/poland/articles/man-of-hope-andrzej-wajda-s-solidarity-trilogy/|title=Man of Hope: Andrzej Wajda's Solidarity Trilogy|first=Thomas|last=Storey|work=theculturetrip.com|date=23 October 2013 |access-date=10 October 2016}}</ref> and certain symbols (such as setting fire to a glass of liquor, representing the flame of youthful idealism that was extinguished by the war) recur often in his films. ''[[Lotna]]'' (1959) is full of [[surrealistic]] and symbolic scenes and shots, but he managed to explore other styles, making [[French New Wave|new wave]] style ''[[Innocent Sorcerers]]'' (1960) with music by [[Krzysztof Komeda]], starring [[Roman Polanski]] and [[Jerzy Skolimowski]] (who was also a co-script writer) in the episodes. Then Wajda directed ''[[Samson (1961 Polish film)|Samson]]'' (1961), the story of Jacob, a Jewish boy, who wants to survive during the Nazi occupation of Poland. In the mid-1960s Wajda made ''[[The Ashes (film)|The Ashes]]'' (1965) based on the novel by Polish writer [[Stefan Żeromski]] and directed several films abroad: ''[[Love at Twenty]]'' (1962), ''[[Siberian Lady Macbeth]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wajda.pl/en/filmy/film07.html|title=Andrzej Wajda. Official Website of Polish movie director – Films – "Siberian Lady Macbeth"|first=Tomasz Wygoda – code, Katarzyna Lezenska – content, Belin Czechowicz -|last=design|work=wajda.pl|access-date=10 October 2016|archive-date=2 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502134032/http://www.wajda.pl/en/filmy/film07.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kinolorber.com/film/view/id/277|title=Siberian Lady Macbeth|work=kinolorber.com|access-date=10 October 2016}}</ref> (1962) and ''[[Gates To Paradise]]'' (1968).

In 1967, Cybulski was killed in a train accident, whereupon the director articulated his grief with ''[[Everything for Sale (1969 film)|Everything for Sale]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wajda.pl/en/filmy/film12.html|title=Andrzej Wajda. Official Website of Polish movie director – Films – "Everything For Sale"|first=Tomasz Wygoda – code, Katarzyna Lezenska – content, Belin Czechowicz -|last=design|work=wajda.pl|access-date=10 October 2016|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304192547/http://www.wajda.pl/en/filmy/film12.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> (1968), considered one of his most personal films, using the technique of a film-within-a-film to tell the story of a film maker's life and work. The following year he directed an ironic satire ''[[Hunting Flies (1969 film)|Hunting Flies]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wajda.pl/en/filmy/film13.html|title=Andrzej Wajda. Official Website of Polish movie director – Films – "Hunting Flies"|first=Tomasz Wygoda – code, Katarzyna Lezenska – content, Belin Czechowicz -|last=design|work=wajda.pl|access-date=10 October 2016}}</ref> with the script written by [[Janusz Głowacki]] and a short television film called ''[[Przekładaniec]]'' based on a screenplay by [[Stanisław Lem]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?film=122590|title=FilmPolski.pl|access-date=10 October 2016}}</ref>