In 1999 Polish director Andrzej Wajda received an Honorary Academy Award for his body of work: more than thirty-five feature films beginning with A Generation in 1955. Wajda's next film in 1957 Canal the first ever made about the Warsaw Uprising won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes and launched Wajda on the path to international renown a status secured with the release of his masterpiece Ashes and Diamonds in 1958.
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