Wojciech Marczewski

Wojciech Szczęsny Marczewski born February 28 1944 in Łódź is a Polish film director and screenwriter academic teacher and recipient of the Officers Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta Initially he collaborated with the SeMaFor Small Film Studio and the Czołówka Film Studio Later as part of the Tor Film Studio he directed critically acclaimed films about growing up in oppressive systems Nightmares 1978 set during the Kulturkampf era in the Prussian Partition and Shivers 1981 FIPRESCI Award at the Berlin International Film Festival His next film Escape from the Liberty Cinema 1990 received the Golden Lion at the Gdańsk Polish Film Festival Marczewski is also the author of Weiser 2000 based on the novel by Paweł Huelle and a lecturer at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing founded in 2002 He has received numerous honorary awards including from the Polish Filmmakers Association and the organizers of the Tarnów Film Awards In 2024 he was honored with the Platinum Lions for lifetime achievement