Everything for Sale is Wajda's very personal homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, a hero of the “lost generation” and star of most of the great Polish films of the late fifties and sixties (including Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds). In 1967 Cybulski was killed in a freak accident by a train he was running to catch. Wajda recreates the incident in Everything for Sale, a film about the making of a film whose lead actor has disappeared. Daniel Olbrychski, who takes over the part of the lost star, in fact went on to become the most popular figure in Polish cinema of the next decade. Wajda weaves fiction, biography, and autobiography into this extraordinary work, which constantly reflects upon itself in its exploration of the nature of myth and the exigencies of art. Witold Sobocinski's color cinematography captures both the harsh landscape of a Polish winter and the artificial decor of the world of film heroes.