"Director: Andrzej Wajda"

• Katyn | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "Katyn" is the story of Polish army officers murdered by the Russian secret police in the Katyn forest during the Second World War and the families who, unaware of the crime, were still waiting for their husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers to return.

• Danton | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £19.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Danton (Gerard Depardieu) and Robespierre were close friends and fought in the French Revolution but by 1793 with the new Republic in place Robespierre heads the ""Committee For Public Safety"" and has begun his now infamous ""Reign Of Terror"" flushing out any dissenting voices and sending them without hesitation to Guillotine. Danton well known as a spokesman of the people returns to Paris after his self-imposed exile to call an end to the bloodshed but in doing so makes a dangerous

• Ashes And Diamonds | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Maciek a young Resistance fighter is ordered to kill Szczuka a Communist district leader on the last day of World War II.

• The Andrzrej Wajda War Trilogy | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.26

  Contains: A Generation (a.k.a Pokolenie): Set against the German occupation of Poland during World War Two this is the story of a group of youths and their coming of age. Canal (a.k.a Kanal): Set during the last days of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 this is the story of a company of men who are forced to say goodbye to their families and retreat to the sewers in a bid to flee the advancing deadly battle. Ashes And Diamonds (a.k.a Popiol i Diament): On the last day of World War Two a young Resistance fighter is ordered to kill a Communist leader. However his conscience is telling him not to obey knowing the consequences could be deadly he must decide whether to follow his orders for the last time.

• Ashes & Diamonds | Blu Ray | (21/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C DVD: LANGUAGES: Polish ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Remastered, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: On the last day of World War Two in a small town somewhere in Poland, Polish exiles of war and the occupying Soviet forces confront the beginning of a new day and a new Poland. In this incendiary environment we find Home Army soldier Maciek Chelmicki, who has been ordered to assassinate an incoming commissar. But a mistake stalls his progress and leads him to Krystyna, a beautiful barmaid who gives him a glimpse of what his life could be. Gorgeously photographed and brilliantly performed, Ashes and Diamonds masterfully interweaves the fate of a nation with that of one man, resulting in one of the most important Polish films of all time. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Venice Film Festival, ...Ashes and Diamonds (1958) ( Popiól i diament ) ( PopióB i diament (Ashes & Diamonds) ) (Blu-Ray)

• The Promised Land | DVD | (10/11/2014) from £11.45   |  Saving you £1.54 (13.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Adapted from Nobel Laureate Wladyslaw Reymont s classic 1897 novel, The Promised Land is the story of three friends united in their ruthless pursuit of fortune. With stunning camerawork and sumptuous design, Wadja depicts the explosive energy of a world being transformed by rampant industrialisation. Nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar (and also voted 'Best Film in the history of Polish cinema' in the monthly Polish magazine FILM) Wajda s lavish epic is a wry, incisive, shocking and elegantly realized Dickensian tale of greed, human cruelty, exploitation and betrayal. THE PROMISED LAND is presented here in its original full-length, uncut cinema version. Presented in its original, UNCUT cinema version from a new HD digital transfer with restored picture and sound, approved by the director. Also features a newly filmed, exclusive interview with director Andrzej Wajda.

• Katyn | Blu Ray | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Katyn" is the story of Polish army officers murdered by the Russian secret police in the Katyn forest during the Second World War and the families who, unaware of the crime, were still waiting for their husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers to return.

• Polish Cinema Classics Volume II | DVD | (25/03/2013) from £40.15   |  Saving you £-5.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  A second volume of our acclaimed series. Second Run DVD proudly presents three celebrated works of Polish Cinema, now fully restored and released for the first time ever in the UK. Andrzej Wajda PROMISED LAND (Ziemia obiecana, 1974): Voted the best film in the history of Polish cinema in the monthly Polish magazine FILM, Wajda's Oscar-nominated epic Promised Land is a wry, incisive, shocking and elegantly realised Dickensian tale of greed, human cruelty, exploitation and bet...

• Walesa - Man Of Hope | DVD | (10/11/2014) from £8.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (66.74%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From lowly shipyard worker to Nobel Peace Prize winner, the rise of the legendary Lech Wałęsa is brilliantly captured in this remarkable biopic by Academy Award-nominated director, Andrzej Wajda. With communist authorities bloodily suppressing workers' uprisings across Poland, political activist Lech is arrested and beaten, eventually forced to collaborate with Security Services. Undeterred, he continues to lead his fellow workers against Soviet oppression. As his reputation grows and his actions begin to forge a path to freedom for citizens across Eastern Europe, the stakes are raised and Lech must decide what price he is willing to pay for freedom.

• Man of Marble: 2-Disc Special Editon | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £14.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (12.21%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Often described as 'the Polish Citizen Kane' Wajda's Man Of Marble is about the attempts of a determined young woman filmmaker Agnieszka (Krystyna Janda) to make a documentary about the Polish national hero Mateusz Birkut a labourer who in the early days of the Communist revolution was hailed for his productivity feats and became as famous as any film star only to disappear from the record books in 1952. Through interviews with his former wife colleagues friends and enemies who knew him Birkut emerges as a man who believed in the socialist ideals and the workers revolution. Unlike many of his colleagues and compatriots Birkut refused to forgive and forget. His disappearance became in effect the unrelenting conscience of the revolution. However the young filmmaker's hard-driving style and the content of her film unnerve the authorities who thinks it's getting too close to a political nerve... Not only regarded as one of the greatest most important films in the history of Polish cinema it is also one of the key films of the 1970s and one of the most compelling attacks on government corruption ever made. This ground-breaking feature is presented in an all new HD digital restoration and features exclusive newly filmed interviews with director Andrzej Wajda lead actress Krystyna Janda and renowned filmmaker Agnieszka Holland who was Assistant Director on Man Of Marble. Special Features: Exclusive Interviews: With Director Andrzej Wajda With Star Krystyna Janda With Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland New HD transfer Booklet essay by Michael Brooke

• Man of Iron | DVD | (20/07/2009) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-11.03 (-110.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Frequently regarded as one of the greatest and most important films to ever come out of Poland the Oscar nominated and Palm d'or winning Man Of Iron (Czlowiek z Zelaza) is legendary director's Andrezj Wajda's final and most moving and poignant film regarding the Solidarity Movement and its struggles to gain recognition in his native country. Continuing from his seminal Man Of Marble Man Of Iron expands on the story of Maciej Tomczyk a young worker involved in the anti-Communist labour movement. In Warsaw in 1980 the Regime sends Winkel a weak alcoholic TV hack to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikes particularly on Maciek who has become an inspirational figure in the Union movement following the killing of his father in the December 1970 protests. Posing as a sympathiser to the cause Winkel interviews people who know Tomczyk including his detained wife in an effort to undermine and destroy the growing support behind the movement. The film uses actual news footage of the 1968 and 1970 protests and of the later birth of free unions and Solidarity which it interweaves throughout the stories of a son coming to terms with his father a couple falling in love a reporter searching for courage and a nation undergoing historic if all too fleeting change.

• Ashes & Diamonds | Blu Ray | (27/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  On the last day of World War Two in a small town somewhere in Poland Polish exiles of war and the occupying Soviet forces confront the beginning of a new day and a new Poland. In this incendiary environment we find Home Army soldier Maciek Chelmicki who has been ordered to assassinate an incoming commissar. But a mistake stalls his progress and leads him to Krystyna a beautiful barmaid who gives him a glimpse of what his life could be. Gorgeously photographed and brilliantly performed Ashes and Diamonds masterfully interweaves the fate of a nation with that of one man resulting in one of the most important Polish films of all time. Arrow Academy presents Andrzej Wajda's masterpiece Ashes and Diamonds on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

• Polish Cinema Classics | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £43.75   |  Saving you £-3.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A 4-DVD set comprising four remarkable films (all available for the first time in the UK) from some of Polish cinemas most vital and provocative talents. All four films are newly remastered from brand new HD materials.Titles Comprise:Eroica: Andrzej Munk's two-part anti-war poem is a darkly comic, intelligent and insightful satire on duty, courage and heroism.Night Train: Night Train (1959): Jerzy Kawalerowicz's homage to Hitchcock. Two people - one of whom may be a vicious murderer - on the run and on a train bound for the Baltic coast. Taut and gripping with a wonderful jazz score.Innocent Sorcerers: Innocent Sorcerers (1960): Following after his renowned War Trilogy, Andrzej Wajda made this provocative film about contemporary youth from a script co-written by Jerzy Skolimowski. A young womanising doctor meets his match in the form of a spirited young woman.Goodbye, See You Tomorrow: Janusz Morgenstern's touching story of young love. With outstanding performances from Polish superstar Zbigniew Cybulski (known as the 'Polish James Dean') and a young Roman Polanski, and with music by the great Polish composer Krzysztof Komeda (Rosemary's Baby).

• Innocent Sorcerers (Niewinni czarodzieje) | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Following his renowned War Trilogy, Andrzej Wajda made this provocative film from a script co-written by Jerzy Skolimowski (Deep End).A commentary on the lives of young people who grew up in the new, post-war communist Poland, Wajda chronicles a bohemian milieu of motor-scooters, love, sex and jazz with great vitality and humour. The rebellion the film depicts is social and moral, not political - and the film angered both Communist and Church authorities by showing its young characters' explicit rejection of any ideological affinity.With an outstanding cast headed by Tadeusz Lomnicki and including Polish superstar Zbigniew Cybulski and a young Roman Polanski in one of his earliest acting roles, this is a key film in its director's output - and one that has substantially grown in stature over time.