While [trailer, film focus]Katyn – Andrzej Wajda’s latest film – is enjoying worldwide exposure (an international premiere at the Berlinale, inclusion in the pre-selection of nine films vying for the 2008 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film), the director has revealed a few details about his new production.

In May or June, shooting will begin on his screen adaptation of the short story "Tatarak" by writer and poet Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz.
This isn’t the first time that Wajda has looked to Iwaszkiewicz’s prose for inspiration. He also adapted The Birch Wood (1970) and The Girls from Wilko (1979).

On this occasion, Iwaszkiewicz’s text serves as inspiration for the first half of the film project. The second part of the work will be based on a text by the young writer Olga Tokarczuk.

Iwaszkiewicz’s story centres on Marta, an elderly woman brimming with memories and experiences who, by chance, recaptures her youth and rediscovers love for a time. Wajda plans to cast Krystyna Janda in the lead.

The film will be lensed by Pawel Edelman and production is set to wrap up in autumn 2008.