Mariusz Trelinski

Mariusz Trelinski is a film, opera and theatre director. He graduated from The Lodz Film School (PWSFTviT), where directors such as Krzysztof Kieslowski, Roman Polanski and Andrzej Wajda studied. His television debut, The Rump of a big whale (1987) was acclaimed by critics becoming the manifesto of the "children of the martial law" generation. His next film, Farewell To Autumn (Pozegnanie Jesieni) (1990) premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival in 1990 next to movies directed by Jane Campion, as well as Martin Scorsese. The film, a multiple award winner, was one of the most spectacular events in the Polish film industry of the 1990s. In 1995 he directed A Gentle Creature based on the short story by Dostoyevsky (an award-winner of the Moscow festival and the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia) as well as television plays. His last film, Egoists, also premiered in Gdynia (2000), giving rise to heated discussions and becoming one of the festival's greatest events. The director himself said that of all the films he had made so far, "this one is probably the most dangerous". He was the artistic director of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera from 2005 - 2006 and returned in 2008. He's an award nominated director of numerous films (both for theatre and TV), as well as nearly twenty operas. His works were presented in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Valencia, Tel Aviv and Brussels, in the world's leading theatres, in which he teamed up with great conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Kent Nagano, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev and Carlo Rizzi. Mariusz Trelinski is also a scriptwriter.