Signals: Jerzy Skolimowski
Overview of films
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Deep End
Masterpiece by Skolimowski situated in an England constructed in Hamburg. Mike is a working-class kid who gets a job in a swimming pool in Swinging
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Money or Life
In five minutes, a young Skolimowski makes his ideas about World War II known and the acting talent of the film’s writer, Stanislaw Dygat, is
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Hands Up!
Fourth and last part of the Leszczyc Tetralogy. When a group of students makes a portrait of Stalin with two pairs of eyes, it has major consequenc
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The Shout
Entirely in the line of the theme of British cinema in the late 1970s, The Shout is about a stranger from afar who comes to disrupt the life of an
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Success Is the Best Revenge
Exiled theatre director is bent on breaking through in his new homeland England. His son Adam (played by Skolimowski’s own son Michael Lyndon
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Little Hamlet
A group of proletarians from Warsaw come together in a decaying building with countless stairs. A song links them to Shakespeare.
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Walkover
Second part of the Leszczyc Tetralogy. A young man arrives by train in a city without a name to box there. However, he does not really qualify for
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Four Nights with Anna
Leon, a mentally handicapped man in middle age, is continuously misunderstood and abused. He falls in love with Anna, but doesn’t dare tell h
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Ferdydurke
On the eve of the Second World War, the writer Józio is visited by his old professor Pimko, is sent back to school and is lodged with the modern Ml
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Erotique
Surrealist ‘erotic’ film about a man and a woman who meet, are attracted and repelled by each other in a room covered with newspapers,
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Le départ
19-year-old student barber Marc from Brussels dreams of becoming a racing driver. He enters for a rally and does all he can to get hold of a car. F
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Barrier
Third part from the Leszczyc Tetralogy. Four medical students play a game. The winner (this time not played by Skolimowski himself, but by Jan Nowo