Andrzej Wajda jako wybitny przedstawiciel polskiego przemyslu filmowego.

Despite restructuring problems and financial bottlenecks Poland’s film industry has some perfect and successful representatives. Andrzej Wajda is among the most prominent individuals of Polish filmmakers. A generally recognized indication of artistic splendour of a film director is the appreciation and attendance of the viewers. His audiences have been always both numerous and enthusiastic. They have been many viewers on his films and they have been excited because Wajda is capable of showing the difficult and often complicated social and political problems of the times presented. For instance, in the film entitled The Promised Land he skilfully depicts the rapid growth at capitalist Łódź – a textile Eldorado in the end of the 19th century. The intricate circumstances at multinational background of emerging capitalism were understood well by most of the spectators. Even more popular and admired film of political issue was Man of Iron. The film expresses the prevailing point of view of the majority of Polish society supported by the Catholic Church, in opposition to the few who hold the repressive powers. The audiences were not only in great numbers but their enthusiasm continued in family discussions reflected in public debates on TV and in many publications. The fact that plenitudes of people prefer his films to the pictures made by other, often the Hollywood breed of film directors, proves his great distinctiveness and the success he has achieved in the film industry.