“In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.” FilmActorsTelevisionEuropeProductionsMovieFilmmakingNot InterestedLegislationPolishBroadcastersFilm Production Author:Andrzej Wajda
“A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.” StatesBigsActorsMoneyCommittedProductionsMaking MoneyBudgetsMovieFundFilmmakingNoveltyPolish Author:Andrzej Wajda
“In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.” WayPoliticalMotivationLiteratureStrongSocialFocusChangedPeriodsTraditionSignificantPsychologicalPolishSignificant Change Author:Andrzej Wajda
“However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.” ActorsMovieFilmmakingPolish Author:Andrzej Wajda
“Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.” SupportMilitaryIndustrySovietTransformedIncapablePolishMagnitudeSuperfluous Author:Andrzej Wajda
“The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.” StatesWould BeFilmActorsTelevisionSourceIndustryDifficultyAffairMovieFilmmakingLegislationBeneficialFundingPolishFilm Industry Author:Andrzej Wajda
“On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.” WellsHandsBigsSchoolFilmAudienceStudentsAdultsContemporaryPrimariesPolishGreat FilmSpectaclesSecondary School Author:Andrzej Wajda
“Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.” ShouldHas BeensMadeFilmAudienceSeeingAdultsSignificantCinemaOur SocietySpheresPolishPressured Author:Andrzej Wajda
