Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski

Born: May 5, 1938
in Łódź, Poland
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.

Movies for Jerzy Skolimowski...

Title: Warszawianka
Character: Ojciec Czułego
Released: June 19, 2023
Type: TV
Polish drama series which follows the tragicomic adventures of a 40-year-old urban legend (Borys Szyc) 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.
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The Stolen Caravaggio
Title: The Stolen Caravaggio
Character: Jerzy Kunze
Released: September 20, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Julius
Title: Julius
Character: Olgierd Szybenik "Chorwat"
Released: September 19, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Day of the Siege
Title: Day of the Siege
Character: Giovanni III di Polonia
Released: October 11, 2012
Type: Movie
Storyline: 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.
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The Avengers
Title: The Avengers
Character: Georgi Luchkov
Released: April 25, 2012
Type: Movie
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!
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'Deep End': Remembering the Deleted Scenes
Title: 'Deep End': Remembering the Deleted Scenes
Character: Self
Released: July 18, 2011
Type: Movie
Short documentary about sequences removed from the film.
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Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life
Title: Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life
Character: Self
Released: July 2, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End
Title: Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End
Character: Himself
Released: January 2, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Naznaczony
Character: Profesor Wojciech Radler
Released: September 9, 2009
Type: TV
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!
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Eastern Promises
Title: Eastern Promises
Character: Stepan
Released: September 14, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Before Night Falls
Title: Before Night Falls
Character: Professor
Released: September 3, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Operacja Samum
Title: Operacja Samum
Character: Hayes
Released: May 7, 1999
Type: Movie
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?
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L.A. Without a Map
Title: L.A. Without a Map
Character: Minister
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Mars Attacks!
Title: Mars Attacks!
Character: Dr. Zeigler
Released: December 13, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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30 Door Key
Title: 30 Door Key
Character: dyrektor szkoły
Released: September 2, 1991
Type: Movie
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.
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Skolimowski à la table
Title: Skolimowski à la table
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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".
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Torrents of Spring
Title: Torrents of Spring
Character: Wiktor Wiktorowicz
Released: October 21, 1989
Type: Movie
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?
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Big Shots
Title: Big Shots
Character: Doc
Released: October 2, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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White Nights
Title: White Nights
Character: Colonel Chaiko
Released: November 22, 1985
Type: Movie
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.
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Hands Up!
Title: Hands Up!
Character: Andrzej Leszczyc, Zastawa (1967 footage) / Self (1981 footage)
Released: January 21, 1985
Type: Movie
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
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Moonlighting
Title: Moonlighting
Character: Boss (uncredited)
Released: September 18, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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Circle of Deceit
Title: Circle of Deceit
Character: Hoffmann
Released: October 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.
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A Slip-Up
Title: A Slip-Up
Character: [obsada aktorska]
Released: October 17, 1972
Type: Movie
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...
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King, Queen, Knave
Title: King, Queen, Knave
Released: June 6, 1972
Type: Movie
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.
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Deep End
Title: Deep End
Character: Tube Passenger With Newspaper (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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.
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Barrier
Title: Barrier
Character: Waiter - Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1966
Type: Movie
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
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Sposób bycia
Title: Sposób bycia
Character: Leopold
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: Movie
A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.
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Identification Marks: None
Title: Identification Marks: None
Character: Andrzej Leszczyc
Released: November 18, 1965
Type: Movie
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
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Walkover
Title: Walkover
Character: Andrzej Leszczyc
Released: June 4, 1965
Type: Movie
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.
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Innocent Sorcerers
Title: Innocent Sorcerers
Character: Boxer (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1960
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV