Andrzej Wajda

(14 votes)   In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

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(36 votes)   Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.

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(36 votes)   By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.

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(35 votes)   A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

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(34 votes)   I think that adult Polish audiences, while observing what was happening in Poland, started to give in to a particular kind of anxiety.

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(32 votes)   Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

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(31 votes)   Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

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(29 votes)   However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

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(27 votes)   As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

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(27 votes)   Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.

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(26 votes)   Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.

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(25 votes)   At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

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(13 votes)   It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.

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(13 votes)   Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

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(12 votes)   In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

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