Farewell to Autumn

^director Mariusz Treliński
^screenplay (based on the novel of the same name by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – Witkacy) Wojciech Nowak, Janusz Wróblewski, Mariusz Treliński
^{director of photography} Jarosław Żamojda
^music Michał Urbaniak
^with Jan Frycz, Maria Pakulnis, Grażyna Trela, Henryk Bista, Jan Peszek
^awards
 Hungarian Film Critics Award for Jarosław Żamojda, 1991
 Best Art Direction (Andrzej Przedworski) and Best Costume Design (Ewa Krauze) at the 15th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 1990
 the Andrzej Munk Prize for Mariusz Treliński and Jarosław Żamojda, 1989
 prize awarded by the head of the Polish Film Council for Mariusz Treliński (Best Debut Actor in Feature Film), 1991

STANISŁAW IGNACY WITKIEWICZ, FAREWELL TO AUTUMN [POŻEGNANIE JESIENI]

Atanazy looked at Azalina with contempt. ‘What’s the hell? I’m on my own. Why this terrible sense of loneliness and unfathomable sorrow?’. He felt the absolute impenetrability of two selves in a mysterious world whose monstrosity and strangeness we try to screen from us and other people with a translucent net of mendacious concepts, which never reflect the essence of things, and a pile of functions resulting from social compulsion.

GRAŻYNA STACHÓWNA, FAREWELL TO AUTUMN [POŻEGNANIE JESIENI], ‘CZAS KRAKOWSKI’, 1990, NO. 195

From the first sequence Treliński takes us into a fascinating sensual world created on the screen where shapes, colours, smells, objects and materials affect the viewer’s imagination with an extraordinary force. [… But] then comes the outbreak of a genuine revolution and the world of refinement and perversion is blown away by a historic upheaval like a house of cards.