Maciej Wojtyszko (ˈmat͡ɕɛj vɔjˈtɨʂkɔ; born in Warsaw

Warsaw

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, Mazowieckie

Masovian Voivodeship

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 on April 14, 1946) is a Polish film director

Film director

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 and fiction author

Author

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Biography

Maciej Wojtyszko graduated from the Liceum Technik Teatralnych in Warsaw in 1965. After having studied Philosophy at the University of Warsaw

University of Warsaw

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, he went to the National Film School in Łódź, where he graduated as a director in 1973.

He was lecturer at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy

Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy

Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy is a public higher education institution in Warsaw, Poland. It's focus is on the theatre arts.It was originally founded in Łódź in 1946, and moved to Warsaw in 1949. It continues the tradition of the National Institute of Theatre Arts founded in Łódź...

 in Warsaw in 1990-93 and 1999-2002, and Dean of the Halina and John Machulskich Theatre School. He is a member of the Association of Polish Writers.

In 2002, Maciej Wojtyszko was awarded with the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Polish for his “outstanding contribution to the Polish culture”. He is married to the writer Henryka Królikowska and father of the writer Maria Wojtyszko and the actor and screenwriter Adam Wojtyszko.

Theatre

Maciej Wojtyszko started his career in theatre with Alexander Isaakovich Gelman

Alexander Isaakovich Gelman

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’s play Bench in 1986 at the Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw, and became known with his stage adaptations of Ilya Ehrenburg

Ilya Ehrenburg

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’s The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz at the Athenaeum Theatre in Warsaw and Sławomir Mrożek’s Love in the Crimea at the Old Theatre in Krakow.

Film and television

As a film director, he started his career in 1984 with a screen adaptation of his own novel Synteza (Synthesis). Internationally, he got noticed with his four-parts mini-series Mistrz i Malgorzata

The Master and Margarita (TV series 1988)

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 (The Master and Margarita) in 1990. After this, Wojtyszko would direct many successful TV-series and films in Poland, like Miodowe lata (Honeymooners, 1998) for which he got an award at the Polish Humor Festival in Gdańsk

Gdansk

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 and Ogród Luizy (Louise’s Garden, 2007) for which he got the Special Prize of the Jury at the XXXII Polish Film Festival in Gdynia

Gdynia

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The author Maciej Wojtyszko

As a novelist, Wojtyszko made his debut in 1969 with Szpilki (Pins), a collection of satirical stories. He’s the author of several books for children and adolescents, some of which were adapted as animated television series, like Bromba i inni (Bromba and others, 1975) and Tajemnica szyfru Marabuta (The Secret Cipher of the Marabout, 1978). A typical element of his children's books are the bizarre main characters facing with existential problems. “I want to familiarize children with the amazing phenomenon of existence. All my books are about the fact that we live and enjoy life”, Wojtyszko said.

Theatre plays

• 1991 – Klub Pickwicka (The Pickwick Club, Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw)
• 1990 – Shirley Valentine (Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw)
• 1986 – Miłość na Krymie (Love in the Crimea, Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw)
• 1986 – Kandyd (Candide, Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw)
• 1986 – Ławeczka (Bench, Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw)

Films and TV series

• 2010 – Swiety interes (Holy interests, film)
• 2009 – Doreczyciel (The deliverer, TV series)
• 2007 – Ogród Luizy (Louise’s Garden, film)
• 2006 – Ale sie kreci! (Go around!, TV series)
• 2004 – Pensjonat Pod Róza (Pension Pod Roza, TV series)
• 2001 – Kocham Klare (I love Klare, TV mini-series)
• 2000 – Miasteczko (Town, TV series)
• 1998 – Miodowe lata (Honeymooners, TV series)
• 1990 – Mistrz i Malgorzata
  The Master and Margarita (TV series 1988)
  The Master and Margarita is a Polish television production of Polish Film Producers Teams , based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.-Three layers:...
  
   (The Master and Margarita, TV mini-series)
• 1986 – Ognisty aniol (Fire angel, film)
• 1984 – Synteza (Synthesis, film)

Cartoons

• 1979 – Tajemnica szyfru Marabuta (The Secret Cipher of the Marabout)
• 1974 – Bromba i inni (Bromba and others)
• 1 972 – Gżdaczi inni (Gżdacz and others)

Childrens’ books

• 2009 – Bromba i Fikandra wieczór autorski (The literary evenining of Bromba and Fikander)
• 2007 – Bromba i psychologia (Bromba and Psychology)
• 2004 – Bromba i filozofia (Bromba and Philosophy)
• 2003 – Bromba i inni (Bromba and others, extended version)
• 1978 – Tajemnica szyfru Marabuta (The Secret Cipher of the Marabout)
• 1977 – Trzynaste piórko Eufemii (The Thirteenth feather of Euphemia, comic strip)
• 1975 – Bromba i inni (Bromba and others)

External links

Maciej Wojtyszko in the Internet Movie Data Base