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1926. Andje Vaida was born
90 years ago, March 6, 1926, the Polish film director Andrzej Vaida, one of the most outstanding filmmakers of our time, was born. In 1997, he was elected to the French Academy to the place of the dying Federico Fellini.
Vaida, whose father was shot in Katyn, never hid his dislike of the Communists. However, commenting on his own film "Katyn", he emphasized: "We need to separate the system, the regime from the people, to separate Stalin from our Moscow friends. Remember, there were such poems by Mitskevich" Friends of Muscovites and Russian Friends "? Even then there was a problem how to write a poem to friends. So we wanted this film to be addressed to friends, with openness and reliability for mutual Understanding.