Andje Vaida died

The Polish director Andrzej Vaida died on Sunday evening at the age of 90, Gazeta Wyborcza reports . The cause of death is not called.

Vaida was born on March 6, 1926 in the city of Suvalki. His father Yakov Vaid, an officer of the Polish army, was killed in Katyn. Andrzej Vaida planned to become a military man, but did not manage to end the Cadet Corps before the outbreak of World War II and held most of the war in the city of Radom.

In 1946, Vaida entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow for a course of painting. However, he later changed his decision and in 1949 began to study in the film school of the city of Lodz.

Since the beginning of the 1980s, Vaida began to engage in politics. He visited the Gdan shipyard, where he was a member of the consultation council of the Solidarity Trade Union.

In 1981, Vaida shot the film “A Man of Iron” about workers' strikes on the coast of the Baltic Sea. This is the first Polish film to receive a gold palm branch of the Cannes Film Festival. In addition, he was nominated for Oscar.

Vaida owner of honorary prizes of various film festivals for his contribution to world cinema: the Golden Leo of the Venice Festival (1998), Oscar (2000), an honorary golden bear of the Berlin Film Festival (2006).

In 2007, the film “Katyn” was released about the fate of Polish officers who were shot in 1939 in the Soviet Union.