Jerzy Skolimowski
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 ... more
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Deep End
(1971)
Drama
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.
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast:
Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler, Christopher Sanford, Diana Dors
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Essential Killing
(2010)
Thriller, War
A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast:
Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner, Zach Cohen, Iftach Ophir
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Moonlighting
(1982)
Drama
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) 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, ...
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast:
Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jirí Stanislav, Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz
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The Shout
(1978)
Drama, Horror
Bored while officiating a cricket match at a psychiatric hospital, Crossley tells Graves (a visitor) the tale of a mysterious stranger (also named Crossley) who invades the lives and house of a local musician and his wife. The stranger claims knowledge of real magic, which he uses to displace his host and dominate his wife. The musicia...
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast:
Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens, Tim Curry
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Four Nights with Anna
(2008)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A crematorium worker repeatedly breaks into a woman's house at night to help with housework.
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast:
Artur Steranko, Kinga Preis, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Redbad Klynstra, Jakub Snochowski
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The Departure
(1967)
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
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.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast:
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Jacqueline Bir, Paul Roland, Paul Frère
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The Lightship
(1985)
Thriller
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast:
Robert Duvall, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Tim Phillips, Arliss Howard, William Forsythe
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Identification Marks: None
(1965)
Drama
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, ...
Runtime:
73 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
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Walkover
(1965)
Drama
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.
Runtime:
77 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
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Hands Up!
(1981)
Comedy, Drama
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
Runtime:
76 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast:
Jerzy Skolimowski, Joanna Szczerbic, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Volker Schlöndorff
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Torrents of Spring
(1989)
Drama, Romance
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. ...
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast:
Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski, Valeria Golino, William Forsythe
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30 Door Key
(1991)
Drama
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.
Runtime:
89 min
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Success Is the Best Revenge
(1984)
Drama
Alex Rodak (Michael York) is a Polish director in exile in London with his family, which includes an older teenage son Adam (Michael Lyndon) who is struggling with an identity crisis, his wife (Joanna Szerzerbic), and another son. Rodak is in the throes of putting together a major show about Poland and the politics of exile at a West E...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast:
Michael York, John Hurt, Anouk Aimée, Michel Piccoli, Michal Skolimowski
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King, Queen, Knave
(1972)
Comedy, Mystery
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...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast:
John Moulder-Brown, David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida, Mario Adorf, Barbara Valentin
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The Adventures of Gerard
(1970)
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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.
Runtime:
92 min
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Little Hamlet
(1960)
Drama
In Little Hamlet, Skolimowski shows his predilection for immature or dwarfed characters, who would later populate his full-length films. Here a group of Warsaw proletarians meet in a destroyed building, consisting largely of stairs, littered with newspapers. A song from a record introduces the film characters as dwarfed versions of per...
Runtime:
8 min
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski
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Dialogue 20-40-60
(1968)
Comedy, Drama
"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 m...
Runtime:
78 min