Film buffs have the chance to meet one of Europe's most feted film directors on Tuesday when Andrzej Wajda attends the screening of Przekladaniec (Roly Poly) at the Jewish Cultural Centre.
Wajda, who won the Golden Bear for lifetime achievement last month at the Berlin Film festival, has already won an Oscar for the same category.
Closing a month of Wajda's films at Cracow's Jewish Cultural Centre, Professor Tadeusz Lubelski will chair a discussion on the work of Poland's most distinguished director.
The meeting begins at 6pm, followed by the final film of the season, the short work 'Przekladaniec' (1968).
Andrzej Wajda was born in 1926, and studied painting at Cracow's Art Academy. In the fifties he won international acclaim with a trilogy of films about Poland in the Second World War. Wajda went on to make over thirty films, several of which won awards at international festivals.
Mr Wajda is currently making a film that relates to a very personal theme, the Katyn crime, in which Soviet forces murdered over 15,000 Polish officers in 1941. Wajda's own father was amongst the victims.
Mr Wajda will be attending the meeting tomorrow at 6pm. The Centre can be found at ul. R. Meiselsa 17.
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