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...University took extraordinary steps to publicize the news. Before the release was sent out to the media, Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, hand-delivered copies of it to two journalists spending the year at Harvard on Nieman Fellowships: Andrzej Wroblewski of the Polish monthly Organization Review and Charles Sherman of the International Herald Tribune. Sherman filed a story on the announcement that afternoon...
Alas, these minor revelations-and two marvelously vigorous films from old masters, Italy's Ermanno Olmi (Camminacammina) and Poland's Andrzej Wajda (Danton)-were not enough to keep businessmen and journalists from grousing, as they lolled for a fortnight in one of the world's lushest garden spots. Nor will a disappointing festival keep these congenital optimists from returning next year to this bunker on the Côte d'Azur. - By Richard Corliss
Meanwhile, the exodus of Poles continues. American officials confirmed last week that Andrzej Treumann, the highest ranking Polish banker in the U.S., asked for political asylum during the summer. As North American representative for Poland's Bank Handlowy, Treumann helped negotiate the rescheduling of Warsaw's $27 billion debt to the West...
...Solidarity's cinematic messenger, a director whose films, including Man of Marble and Man of Iron, were surprisingly critical of life in Communist Poland. Rounded up along with other Solidarity dissidents during the Polish government's declaration of martial law last December, Andrzej Wajda, 56, was held under house arrest. Then, in a reversal, Polish authorities decided to let him leave Poland temporarily to shoot a film in Paris. Wajda, whose Man of Iron was nominated for an Oscar, has refused all interviews in France. But in a formal statement, he did say, "The message of my films...
...first significant economic "reform": price hikes of up to 400% on food and other necessities. Solidarity had previously agreed that subsidized food prices would have to rise, but the government had refused to grant what the union was asking in exchange: the right to monitor economic data. Says Andrzej Wolowski, who formerly directed Solidarity's international relations and now lives in Paris: "Things would not have got so tense politically if the government had accepted our practical suggestions. But they took them as a threat...