Maciej Wojtyszko

Maciej Wojtyszko (; born in Warsaw, Mazowieckie on April 14, 1946) is a Polish film director, screenwriter and fiction author. Biography Maciej Wojtyszko graduated from the Liceum Technik Teatralnych in Warsaw in 1965. After having studied Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, 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 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.