
Birthday:
05-05-1938
(86 years)
Birthplace:
Łódź, Poland
Biography
Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. He’s a graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź. In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his film “Le départ”. He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films. He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.
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Eastern Promises
Act like Stepan
event2007 star_border 7.4
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A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
The Avengers
Act like Georgi Luchkov
event2012 star_border 7.7
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When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
Skolimowski à la table
event1990
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André S. Labarthe invites Jerzy Skolimowski to the editing table, to analyze his film Walkower shot by shot. Episode of the TV program "Cinéma, cinémas".
White Nights
Act like Colonel Chaiko
event1985 star_border 6.7
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After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.
Circle of Deceit
Act like Hoffmann
event1981 star_border 6.1
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Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.
Innocent Sorcerers
Act like Boxer (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 7.1
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A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. But he loses her when he goes out to see some friends and then rushes madly around the city after her.
Sposób bycia
Act like Leopold
event1966 star_border 3.5
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A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.
Big Shots
Act like Doc
event1987 star_border 6.3
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Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a young hustler and, after stealing a gangster's car, the two embark on an adventure down south in search of the hustler's estranged father.
Moonlighting
Act like Boss (uncredited)
event1982 star_border 7.1
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A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
30 Door Key
Act like dyrektor szkoły
event1991 star_border 5.6
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A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
Operacja Samum
Act like Hayes
event1999 star_border 5.9
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The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the Iraqi Secret Service. His father, a retired secret service operative goes to Iraq to attempt to rescue him not knowing that he is secretly being used as bait. Now, two Polish secret agents have been assigned by the CIA to attempt a rescue mission. The stakes are high, but are they high enough to risk the life of one of the best officers?
Hands Up!
Act like Andrzej Leszczyc, Zastawa (1967 footage) / Self (1981 footage)
event1985 star_border 5.8
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The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
Torrents of Spring
Act like Wiktor Wiktorowicz
event1989 star_border 5.7
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In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, in order to finance the wedding, Dimitri goes back to Russia to sell his family estate. Unfortunately he falls prey to a seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna, who pretends to be willing to buy his land to come nearer him. Now Sanin is in a fix: should he choose the pure Gemma or the evil but irresistible Maria?
Before Night Falls
Act like Professor
event2000 star_border 6.6
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Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
King, Queen, Knave
event1972 star_border 4.4
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Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who finds himself deep in the romantic clutches of his uncle's sensual wife. After Frank's parents die, he goes to live with his aunt Martha (Gina Lollabrigida) and uncle Charles (David Niven). Sexy Martha entices Frank into her embrace then wants him to kill her husband so that they can live off of his money. Frank wouldn't mind so much, but he really likes his uncle.
Barrier
Act like Waiter - Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
event1966 star_border 6.8
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A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
L.A. Without a Map
Act like Minister
event1999 star_border 5.9
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An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
Act like John III Sobieski
event2012 star_border 4.3
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In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, will open way to conquer the Europe. The Sept 11 is the day of main battle between Polish cavalry under the King Jan III Sobieski and Turks.
Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End
Act like Self
event2011 star_border 9
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A fascinating and absorbing documentary about the making of Jerzy Skolimowski's cult favourite, DEEP END, which was shot in 1970 as a US-German co-production on location in London and Munich. The film's two stars, Jane Asher and John Moulder-Brown, 23 and 17 years of age at the time respectively, meet for the first time in 40 years and discuss their on-screen and off-screen relationship in candid detail, while director/writer Skolimowski chronicles the production history from the writing of the script to the film's acclaimed first showing at the Venice Film Festival. Director of photography Charly Steinberger revisits some of the original locations and explains how he managed to shoot almost the entire film with a hand-held camera. Also on board are production designer Anthony Pratt, editor Barrie Vince, and actor Christopher Sandford, each of whom contributes his own version of how DEEP END was part of the sixties' "swinging London"; and at the same time tilted it on its head.
Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life
Act like Self
event2010 star_border 7
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Krzysztof Komeda was a jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski, Komeda succeeded in writing his own chapter in the history of soundtracks. This documentary follows the life story of the composer by the means of his melodic sounds. It is a reflection on his soundtracks, which changed the common film scores forever. It is a contemporary document about the attitude to life in a time of social, political and cultural change after war, about work and exodus of Polish artists in the 50s and 60s. A story about how film music is created and how it affects people. Directors who worked with Komeda and who are also friends talk about him: Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Henning Carlsen and Andrzej Wajda. His wife, Zofia Komeda, and his sister, Irena Orlowska, recollect him.
Identification Marks: None
Act like Andrzej Leszczyc
event1965 star_border 6.4
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The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of freedom. A slacker before there was a word for it, Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himself) drifts through a series of open-ended encounters with women following a wake-up argument with his pouting wife, and a long-delayed military physical (the film’s title derives from one of the questions). Skolimowski hoarded four years’ worth of the annual film footage allotment from his Lódz film school in order to create this first feature marked by compositional bravado and a trademark air of the absurd. -Barbara Scharres, Gene Siskel Film Center
The Stolen Caravaggio
Act like Jerzy Kunze
event2018 star_border 6
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Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.
Julius
Act like Olgierd Szybenik "Chorwat"
event2018 star_border 5.5
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An organised arts teacher has only one main problem in life, which is his father – a painter always going from one party to the next. When the father lives through his second heart attack and still refuses to change his lifestyle, Julius will have to find a way to influence his behaviour.
Walkover
Act like Andrzej Leszczyc
event1965 star_border 6.1
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Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
'Deep End': Remembering the Deleted Scenes
Act like Self
event2011
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Short documentary about sequences removed from the film.
A Slip-Up
Act like [obsada aktorska]
event1972 star_border 5.7
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The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They witness a hit-and-run driver killing a little girl on a sled. He builds up an elaborate trap by putting a doll dressed as a child down the hill in the path of a car. The man hits it and thinking that he hit a child - runs. Marek takes pictures of him and tries to blackmail him to use his car for a week. He wants to use the car to win back the nurse, who could not cope with his humors...
Mars Attacks!
Act like Dr. Zeigler
event1996 star_border 6.4
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A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Deep End
Act like Tube Passenger With Newspaper (uncredited)
event1971 star_border 7
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London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.
Naznaczony
Act like Wojciech Radler (13 ep.)
event2009 star_border 5.2
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The life of a math teacher and his loved ones turns into hell when a mysterious man reminds him of his former sin.
What would you do, if you could decide about the punishment for your Persecutor, someone who hurt you or the people close to you? Would you seize the opportunity to make your own punishment? Sometimes judges can be accused. Some day everyone will answer for their sins. Some day has finally come!
Still Here
Act like Stanisław Czułkowski (7 ep.)
event2023 star_border 5.9
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Polish drama series which follows the tragicomic adventures of a 40-year-old urban legend in Warsaw. He is a deeply complex character, an irresponsible party animal, a serial lothario and everyone’s friend at the same time. Behind the veneer he is tormented and self-loathing, trapped by his parents and shackled by the culture and the times that shaped him.
Le Cercle
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2005
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As long as there is cinema, LE CERCLE will be there. It is the only television program of critical debates 100% devoted to cinema. Each week, it offers fiery, joyful and non-condescending jousts on the films on the bill; and invites with "Le questionnaire du CERCLE" directors to come and share their passion for cinema.
Knife in the Water
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 7.3
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On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the boat with them, Andrzej begins to subtly torment him; the hitchhiker responds by making overtures toward Krystyna. When the hitchhiker is accidentally knocked overboard, the husband's panic results in unexpected consequences.
Four Nights with Anna
Writer (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6.3
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Leon falls in love with a nurse and obsessively tries to get close to her.
The Palace
Writer (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 5.4
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A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.
Essential Killing
Director (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 5.8
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A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.
The Lightship
Director (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 5.3
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A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
Mesmerized
Writer (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 5
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An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her.
Boxing
Director (1 ep.)
event1961
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School study, variation on the theme of art, by Jerzy Skolimowski.
The Adventures of Gerard
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6.4
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Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
Success Is the Best Revenge
Producer (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 6
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Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.
Dialogue 20-40-60
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 5.3
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"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak director Peter Solan and Czech director Zbynìk Brynych shot three different stories. The result was an extraordinary experiment in the world cinema, which we can call an insight in the relationships of men and women of different age groups, an analysis of love and marriage of those who are at the beginning, in the middle or going towards the end of their life."
The Hollow Men
Producer (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 2
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Matthew comes to a seaside town to see a performance of his play, although even his brother Marc, who plays the role of Napoleon, does not know that Metthew is its author. Also in life Marc plays "Napoleon", becoming the leader of a group of local youth.
A Man in Love
Editorial Staff (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7
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Middle age divorced man in Tokyo falls in love with Hostess club girl and his assistant.
Ida
Thanks (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.2
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Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
EO
Producer (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.5
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The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.
The Departure
Director (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 6.6
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A young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice attempts to get a Porsche by all means for his nearing debut race and meets a girl in the same time.
Little Hamlet
Director (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 5.3
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Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Erotique
Director (1 ep.)
event1961 star_border 5.3
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A girl wipes the mirror and suddenly notices the reflection of a man who then speaks to her. The girl backs away, afraid.
The Menacing Eye
Director (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 4.6
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A knife thrower practices on a target girl.
11 Minutes
Producer (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 5.6
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The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time.
Your Money or Your Life
Director (1 ep.)
event1961 star_border 4.7
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A short crime film set in a fairground.
The Friend
Dialogue (1 ep.)
event1965 star_border 5
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Engineer Ijon Tichy is called in to help with a malfunctioning electronic brain.
Ixjana
Co-Producer (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 2
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Marek, a young writer, is trying to solve the mystery of the night his friend Arthur died. In the recesses of his memory, Marek finds fragments of past events: a party at the home of an eccentric publisher, his argument with Arthur, the exchange of blows, blood. Afraid that he has killed his friend, Marek suppresses his feelings of fear and guilt in his passionate meetings with a woman who has more to do with Arthur’s disappearance than it seems...
Beautiful
Director (1 ep.)
event1962
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Student film by Skolimowski abot a street ironically called Beautiful.
The Shout
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 5.9
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A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
It's Not Us
Director (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7
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Part of HBO Europe's Polish at Home series. Jerzy Skolimowski was in Sicily when the pandemic hit, where he was supposed to shoot his next film, Baltazar. He and his wife, Ewa Piaskowska, decided to stay on the Italian island. This film follows their experience during the pandemic.
Good Boy
Producer (1 ep.)
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Nineteen year old Tommy likes his life as a criminal, and leads his friends in acts of horrifying violence, until one night he is kidnapped by a stranger, Chris. Waking up with a chain around his neck in the basement of an isolated home, Tommy finds himself at the centre of a dysfunctional family dynamic as Chris and his mysterious wife Kathryn try to make Tommy a “good boy”, in a process of forced rehabilitation. The one thing Tommy knows for sure: he must escape.
At Home - Poland
Director (1 ep.)
event2020
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Spring 2020, Poland. 16 filmmakers create 14 short films about unexpected experience of isolation caused by pandemic.
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