Jerzy Skolimowski
Jerzy SKOLIMOWSKI (1938, Poland) is a filmmaker, scriptwriter, actor, poet and painter. He graduated in Ethnography from Warsaw University in 1959 and attended the prestigious Polish Film School in Lódz. Together with Roman Polanski, he wrote the screenplay for Polanski’s film Knife in the Water (1962). Skolimowski has directed more than 20 films in and outside of Poland. In 1967, he won the Golden Bear in Berlin for his film Le départ. For The Shout (1978), he was awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes. Skolimowski has twice won the Venice Special Jury Prize, in 1985 for The Lightship and in 2010 for Essential Killing. In 2016, he received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. In 2009, a retrospective of his work was screened in Rotterdam. His most recent film, Eo (2022), premiered at Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize.
Filmography
Oko wykol/The Menacing Eye (1960, short), Hamles/Little Hamlet (1960, short), Erotyk/Erotique (1960, short), Boks/Boxing (1961), Pieniadze albo zycie/Money or Life (1961, short), The Nude (1962), Rysopis/Identification Marks: None (1964), Walkower/Walkover (1965), Bariera/Barrier (1966), Rece do góry/Hands Up! (1966), Le départ (1966), Deep End (1970), The Adventures of Gerard (1970), King, Queen, Knave (1972), The Shout (1978), Moonlighting (1982), Dialóg 20-40-60 (segment: The Twenty-Year-Olds, 1968), Success Is the Best Revenge (1984), The Lightship (1985), Torrents of Spring (1989), Ferdydurke/Thirty Door Key (1991), Cztery noce z Anna/Four Nights with Anna (2008), Essential Killing (2010), 11 minut/11 Minutes (2015), W domu (2020, TV series, episode: To nie my), Eo (2022)
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Jerzy Skolimowski at IFFR
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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 Lo
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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 revealed
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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 consequences.
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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 ord
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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) struggl
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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 the
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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 her this.
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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 Mlodz
