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"Andrzej Wajda Retrospective Box Set"
1969-2002
Directed by Andrzej Wajda

Six classic film's from Poland's foremost director and one of international cinema's most treasured auteurs. Includes Everything for Sale (1969), an homage to deceased Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski. Landscape After Battle (1970) reveals the destructive effects of war by way of a German stalag liberated by the American army. Promised Land (1974) follows three industrialists of differing backgrounds as they join to build a factory in Lodz. Man of Marble (1976) tells the story of a young film student who risks censure in order to study the true story of a national hero who was erased from public record. In Young Girls of Wilko (1979) a man returns to the town where he spent his youth only to find that the past is gone but that he left an impression before leaving. Finally, in Zemsta (2002), a pair of feuding 17th century families are forced to share a castle and come to terms with greed and romance. Polish with English subtitles. 757 minutes.