ANDRZEJ WAJDA:THREE WAR FILMS

In 1999, Polish director Andrzej Wajda received an Honorary Academy Award for his body of work - more than 35 feature films, beginning with A Generation in 1955. Wajda's second film, Kanal, the first ever made about the Warsaw uprising, secured him the Special Jury Prize at Cannes and started him on the path to international acclaim, secured with the release of his masterpiece, Ashes and Diamonds, in 1958. These three groundbreaking films ushered in the Polish School movement and later became known as the War Trilogy. The Criterion Collection is proud to present this director-approved edition, with new transfers of all three films and extensive interviews with the director and his colleagues.