Event Details
In person: Agnieszka Holland
Just after Agnieszka Holland completed film school in Prague, Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, already an established and celebrated auteur for films like Ashes and Diamonds (1958), welcomed the young aspirant to visit his set of The Wedding (1973). Over time, Holland said, “our relation moved from ‘master–pupil’ to something much more equal in collaboration and friendship,” and she started to write scripts with him. One of their most meaningful collaborations was this 1990 biopic about the extraordinary Polish-Jewish humanitarian Janusz Korczak, remembered “for his pedagogical philosophy and his heroic actions during the Holocaust,” Holland told the BFI. With stunning cinematography by Robby Müller (Dead Man, 1995), Korczak is, as Steven Spielberg once wrote, "one of the most... important European pictures about the Holocaust."
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1990 | 118 min | Poland, Germany, United Kingdom, France | Black-and-white | Polish, German with English subtitles | Not Rated | DCP
DIRECTED BY: Andrzej Wajda
PRODUCED BY: Janusz Morgenstern, Willi Segler, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Regina Ziegler
WRITTEN BY: Agnieszka Holland
WITH: Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dałkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska, Marzena Trybala