For 25 years the Polish film director Andrzeji Wajda has been making some of the most exciting and boldly critical films in Eastern Europe. From the post-war disillusion and despair of Ashes and Diamonds to his masterly analysis of contemporary Poland, and its recent past in Man of Marble and Man of Iron, Wajda has shown an instinctive understanding of changing national attitudes. How has he managed, in a long career in film and theatre, not to be silenced by censorship? How does he view his films, and his obsession with Polish history, in the urgent mood of today?

Arena filmed him in Warsaw and Cracow shortly after he had returned from the Cannes Film Festival where he won the Palm d'Or. With Roman Polanski and Professor Jerzy Bossak

(Andrzej Wajda's Man of Marble: 10.55)