Andrzej Wajda Retrospective at Ciné Lumière / Kinoteka 2026

04 FEBRUARY - 29 MARCH 2026

THE WEDDING

Andrzej Wajda

28 Feb, 13:00
Ciné Lumière

In adapting Stanisław Wyspiański’s seminal 1901 poem-play of Polish national discord, Wajda created the first truly psychedelic Polish extravaganza, rivaled at the time only by some passages from his protégé’s slightly earlier Third Part...

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THE DEVIL

Andrzej Żuławski

28 Feb, 15:15
Ciné Lumière

Deemed unreleasable by the communist authorities in Poland upon its completion in 1972, The Devil remains one of the great films maudits of Polish cinema — even though it didn’t see the light of a projector before 1988. A uniquely...

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MAN OF IRON + INTRO

Andrzej Wajda

07 Mar, 12:00
Ciné Lumière

The Palme d’Or-winning follow-up to Man of Marble sees Winkel, a Communist-friendly radio journalist, charged with finding compromising information about a Solidarity opposition leader. But in witnessing protesting workers’ fight against...

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POSSESSION

Andrzej Żuławski

07 Mar, 15:40
Ciné Lumière

Possession emerged as the ‘loser’ of the unofficial duel of two Cannes 1982 competition entries by esteemed Eastern European masters. While Andrzej Wajda’s somber Man of Iron won the Palme d’Or, his onetime protégé’s ambitious body...

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THE POSSESSED

Andrzej Wajda

14 Mar, 15:30
Ciné Lumière

One of the most underseen films in the entire Wajda oeuvre, The Possessed is based on the notorious novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first serialized between 1871 and 1872. Focused on a group of young anarchists whose radical politics and...

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THE PUBLIC WOMEN

Andrzej Żuławski

14 Mar, 17:55
Ciné Lumière

Before he tampered with Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot in Mad Love, Andrzej Zulawski made The Public Woman, a startling, indirect adaptation of another work by the same author—namely, the white-hot political tale of terror and conviction, The...

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