The Polish film director Andrzej Wajda has been awarded the International Primo Levi 2011 award
The Prize was handed out on the 3rd of October by Piero della Strologo, President of the Italy's Primo Levi Cultural Center at the prestigious Manggha Museum in Kraków.
To celebrate the great filmmaker's achievements, other leading figures of Polish culture were in attendance, as well as Danièle Sulewic and Alberto Rizzerio, creators and curators of the project.
Andrzej Wajda's films are in the spotlight in an exhibition dedicated to Polish Jews entitled "The Mysterious World of Dybbuk: Polish-Jewish culture through the works of Andrzej Wajda", at Palazzo Ducale in the Italian city of Genoa until the 16th of October.
The exhibition, in addition to presenting the work of one of the great contemporary European artists from the point of view of the unusual relationship between Polish and Jewish cultures, suggests important reflections on the future of multicultural Europe, in the year of Poland's presidency over the European Union. Between 10-15 October 2011, a solo show devoted to the filmmaker is to be presented at the Palazzo Ducale. Eight films are presented, including "A generation" (1955), "Samson" (1961), "Landscape after the battle" (1970), "The wedding" (1973) and "Pan Tadeusz" (1999).
For more information until the "The Mysterious World of Dybbuk", see: the Polish institute in Rome.