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Korczak and screenplay by Agnieszka Holland
Andrzej Wajda Film-maker
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Since Agnieszka Holland had helped me on Danton, being in Paris at that time, and also with a few scenes and even directed a bit with me on Love in Germany, I asked her to write the screenplay to Korczak. Agnieszka got very excited then because she wasn't able to make any films herself, so this screenplay was a substitute for her active membership in cinema. She wrote a beautiful, very vivid screenplay about a doctor from that time when the fate of an orphanage is being determined during the war. There are only a few scenes set in '39, in fact, only one from '39 when the children are saying farewell to the other world and when the brutal German occupation marches in. After that, it's the story of Dr Korczak. I entrusted this role to Wojtek Pszoniak with great success. I was calm again, I was back home.

Ponieważ Agnieszka Holland dopomagała mi i w filmie Danton, bo była wtedy w Paryżu i dopomagała mi w pewnych scenach, a nawet i trochę reżyserowała ze mną Miłość w Niemczech poprosiłem ją, żeby ona napisała scenariusz do filmu Doktor Korczak. I Agnieszka bardzo się zapaliła wtedy, ponieważ nie mogła sama robić żadnego filmu, więc przynajmniej ten scenariusz dawał jej jakiś substytut, że tak powiem, przynależności działania w kinie. I napisała bardzo piękny, bardzo wyrazisty scenariusz o doktorze z tego okresu, kiedy decydują się losy Domu Sierot już w czasie wojny. Ma kilka tylko scen z 1939 roku, właściwie jedną tylko scenę z 1939 roku – jak się żegnają z tamtym światem i jak wkracza brutalna niemiecka okupacja. No i dalej jest już historia doktora Korczaka. Powierzyłem tą rolę Wojtkowi Pszoniakowi. Myślę, że z wielkim szczęściem. Znowu się uspokoiłem, byłem u siebie w domu.

Polish film director Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016) was a towering presence in Polish cinema for six decades. His films, showing the horror of the German occupation of Poland, won awards at Cannes and established his reputation as both story-teller and commentator on Poland's turbulent history. As well as his impressive career in TV and film, he also served on the national Senate from 1989-91.

Listeners: Jacek Petrycki

Cinematographer Jacek Petrycki was born in Poznań, Poland in 1948. He has worked extensively in Poland and throughout the world. His credits include, for Agniezka Holland, Provincial Actors (1979), Europe, Europe (1990), Shot in the Heart (2001) and Julie Walking Home (2002), for Krysztof Kieslowski numerous short films including Camera Buff (1980) and No End (1985). Other credits include Journey to the Sun (1998), directed by Jesim Ustaoglu, which won the Golden Camera 300 award at the International Film Camera Festival, Shooters (2000) and The Valley (1999), both directed by Dan Reed, Unforgiving (1993) and Betrayed (1995) by Clive Gordon both of which won the BAFTA for best factual photography. Jacek Petrycki is also a teacher and a filmmaker.

Tags: Danton, Paris, Love in Germany, Wojciech Pszoniak, Agnieszka Holland

Duration: 1 minute, 36 seconds

Date story recorded: August 2003

Date story went live: 24 January 2008