According to one of Poland’s biggest selling tabloids, award-winning actor Borys Szyc has won the role of Solidarity titan  Lech Walesa in Andrzej Wajda’s forthcoming biopic.

Poland's veteran director has yet to confirm or deny the claim, which has set internet portals buzzing.

Although shooting has yet to begin, Wajda’s project is already one of the most hotly discussed Polish films in many years.

The 84-year-old director reasserted his mastery in 2007 with the historical drama Katyn, the first feature film about the wartime Soviet massacre of Polish officers. The work scooped a number of international awards as well as an Oscar nomination.

Wajda announced his plans to make a film about Walesa at the Berlin Festival in 2009.

“What worries and makes me angry today is the situation where the hero of Solidarity, Lech Walesa, who played such an important role in history, is being attacked by people who are nobodies in comparison with him,”  the director told journalists at the event.

Nevertheless, Wajda later expressed that he will not skirt away from the accusations that Walesa collaborated with the communist security services during the 1970s, prior to the Solidarity revolution.

Super Express made the claims that Borys Szyc will take the role, but Wajda has yet to confirm the matter. 32-year-old Borys Szyc has been a prolific figure in recent years.

He impressed critics with his role as an amphetamine-snorting tough man in in the cult hit, Snow White and Russian Red (2009). (nh)