Screening of "Ashes and Diamonds" with an introduction by Martin Scorsese

Screening of "Ashes and Diamonds" with an introduction by Martin Scorsese

📅 March 6 (Friday), 7:00 PM
📍 Studio U20, Aleje Ujazdowskie 20, Warsaw
🎟️ Free admission (limited seating)

📝 Registration required: the original listed a Google form (the source link was incomplete)

On the occasion of the Year of Andrzej Wajda, we invite you to a special, free screening of the masterpiece of Polish cinema "Ashes and Diamonds" (1958) directed by Andrzej Wajda. This film has moved and amazed audiences for decades and raises questions about the choices that define life at moments when history accelerates and nothing is simply black-and-white.

Before the screening we will show a video lecture by Martin Scorsese, one of the greatest contemporary directors, who has often emphasized the influence of "Ashes and Diamonds" on his thinking about cinema and his own work.

His remarks were recorded in May 2025 at the Directors Guild of America in New York after a ceremony awarding Martin Scorsese the Golden Medal "Gloria Artis — Distinguished for Culture" by Bogdan Klich, chargé d’affaires of the Polish Embassy in Washington. The remarks took place during the inauguration of a retrospective of Andrzej Wajda’s films, co-organized by the Andrzej Wajda Centre for Film Culture on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his Academy Award for lifetime achievement. The retrospective was funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Promotion of Culture Fund and co-financed by the Polish Film Institute. It was held under the honorary patronage of Polish Television.