Hundreds of Warsaw residents and public figures packed a church on Tuesday for a Mass to bid farewell to renowned filmmaker Andrzej Wajda.
Wajda, who received an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar in 2000, died in hospital on October 9 at the age of 90, just months after finishing Afterimage, a movie that will compete for a foreign language Academy Award.
The film is a biopic about avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski fighting totalitarian Stalinist ideology.
Culture Minister Piotr Glinski, former presidents Aleksander Kwasniewski and Bronislaw Komorowski as well as popular Polish actors, many of whom played in Wajda's movies, were in the crowd that packed Warsaw's St Jack church for the special Mass.
