Barbara mruklik andrzej wajda autobiography

Following the recent death of Andrzej Wajda, a reconsideration of his work is timely, and all the more so because he provides a reference point for many East Central European .

Andrzej Wajda, “Filmy niezrealizowane,” interview by Barbara Mruklik, in Wajda mówi o sobie.

Andrzej Wajda, “Filmy niezrealizowane,” interview by Barbara Mruklik, in Wajda mówi o sobie.

Andrzej Wajda, “Filmy niezrealizowane,” interview by Barbara Mruklik, in Wajda mówi o sobie.

6 Barbara Mruklik, "Film fabularny ," Historia Filmu Polskiego, vol.

In , he worked on the autobiographical Andrzej Wajda—My Notes from History, a documentary film for Polish television.

6 Barbara Mruklik: AndrzeJ Wajda, (WAIF, Warsaw, ), quoted in Michalek.

Thus this article uses his work as a main switching point between meditations on the issues his films raise. It theorises the status accorded History in them, and in Marxism in general, in relation to Walter Benjamin’s work on allegory and ruin, as well as to questions of characterisation.

Also considered is the degree and nature of existentialism’s influence on this cinema, with blockages of choice foregrounded as necessarily entailing a thematics of doubling, contradiction and masking, and a reworking of the meaning of accusations of ‘treachery’ that have been a leitmotif of oppressed cultures, particularly when – as in cinema – access to the means of production depends on real or appa