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Details emerge about Wajda funeral

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Roberto Galea 12.10.2016 09:52
Polish film director Andrzej Wajda will be buried in a strictly private ceremony on Wednesday, 19 October, at the Salwator Cemetery in Kraków, the resting place of some of his relatives.
Photo: PAP/Maciej KulczyńskiPhoto: PAP/Maciej Kulczyński

It was Wajda’s wish to be buried in Krakow, a city where he studied at the Fine Arts Academy, spent much time and worked with the Stary Theatre company.

The burial will be preceded by mass celebrated in the city’s Dominican Church.

The director’s family has asked those wishing to attend the service to make donations for palliative care centres for cancer patients instead of bringing flowers or wreaths.

A day earlier, on Tuesday, a requiem mass for the famous film maker will be celebrated at the Dominican Church in Warsaw’s Old Town.

Thousands of people have paid tributes to Wajda, signing the books of condolence in the City Halls of Kraków, Gdańsk and Wrocław, as well as in the Warsaw district of Żoliborz where the director and his wife lived for the last several decades.

Andrzej Wajda died on Sunday, aged 90. In 2000 he received an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Four of his films received Oscar nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category: “The Promised Land”, “The Maids of Wilko”, “Man of Iron”, and “Katyń”.

His last film “Afterimage”, which focuses on the life of Władysław Strzemiński – a pioneer of the avant-garde in Polish visual arts in the first half of the 20th century – is the Polish candidate for this year’s Academy Award in the same category. (mk/rg)

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