' I no longer regard myself as a political filmmaker because the situation in Poland is entirely different. The audience is no longer interested in political subjects.'
In Berlin with competition entry, Panna nikt (Miss Nobody), Andrzej Wajda pondered the recent sea-changes in Polish film culture. Nowadays, Hollywood, not the Communist Party, sets the agenda 'While one group of filmmakers try desperately to win audiences by imitating American films,' Wajda notes, ' another group has come to an opposite conclusion. They forget about the audience altogether.'
Wajda is no more optimistic about Polish filmgoers: 'When they see a Polish film, they can't understand why the effects are so modest, why the overall impression is so low-key.'
They screen around 250 films a year,' Wajda exclaims, 'but more than 200 are from the US!'
Commenting on the influence of the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, Wajda notes, 'While most of our films were political, he chose to relate to contemporary life in a completely different way - a psychological, metaphysical way. And events have shown it was the right way.' GM
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