# The best Andrzej Wajda films

From Kanał to Afterimage: the Andrzej Wajda films that film scholars and audiences rank highest (Interia, Dzieje.pl, Empik).

- 6 votes · 12 items
- Mar 7, 2026 · frame24_trojmiasto
- https://even.best/en/l/2290/the-best-andrzej-wajda-films

## Top 12

1. **The Promised Land (1974)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Three friends build a factory in Łódź, from Reymont.
2. **Kanał (1957)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Warsaw Uprising fighters in the sewers.
3. **The Wedding (1972)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Wyspiański's play on screen.
4. **Innocent Sorcerers (1960)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Warsaw jazz and a young doctor.
5. **Ashes and Diamonds (1958)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Zbigniew Cybulski on the last day of the war.
6. **Man of Marble (1977)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A young director digs into the story of a model worker.
7. **The Young Ladies of Wilko (1979)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A man returns to the manor of the sisters from his youth.
8. **Everything for Sale (1969)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A film about film-makers after Cybulski's death.
9. **Katyń (2007)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Katyn massacre through the victims' families.
10. **Afterimage (2016)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The last years of painter Władysław Strzemiński; Wajda's final film.
11. **Man of Iron (1981)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — The Gdańsk shipyard and Solidarity; Palme d'Or.
12. **Pan Tadeusz (1999)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Mickiewicz's epic poem.

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