President's office honours deceased "Smolensk" director

Antoni Krauze created a unique style based on intelligent observation and scepticism towards Poland's communist realities, the Presidential Office has written in a tribute to the film director who died on Wednesday. Krauze, whose last film was the much-discussed 2016 production "Smolensk", a fictionalised account of the 2010 Smolensk air disaster in west Russia which killed the Polish president and numerous top state officials, died in Warsaw aged 78. "Gone from us is Antoni Krauze, an outstanding director of feature and documentary films. He created a unique style based on intelligent observations of the world, and driven by scepticism towards the realities of the Polish People's Republic," the tribute said.