Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski

1938-05-05 Łódź, Poland 69 Credits

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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The Palace

The Palace

2023

Writer, Executive Producer

5.3
Writing Producing

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.

EO

EO

2022

Producer, Director, Writer

6.5
Producing Directing Writing

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 lif...

The Silent Twins

The Silent Twins

2022

Thanks

6.7

June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, th...

It's Not Us

It's Not Us

2020

Director

7.0
Directing

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, Balta...

A Man in Love

A Man in Love

2019

Editorial Staff

7.0

Middle age divorced man in Tokyo falls in love with Hostess club girl and his assistant.

The Stolen Caravaggio

The Stolen Caravaggio

2018

as Jerzy Kunze

6.0
Acting

Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she rec...

Julius

Julius

2018

as Olgierd 'Chorwat' Szybenik

5.5
Acting

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 ...

11 Minutes

11 Minutes

2015

Producer, Director, Writer

5.6
Producing Directing Writing

The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time.

Ida

Ida

2013

Thanks

7.2

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 ...

Ixjana

Ixjana

2012

Co-Producer

3.0
Producing

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 pas...

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683

2012

as John III Sobieski

4.3
Acting

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 t...

The Avengers

The Avengers

2012

as Georgi Luchkov

7.8
Acting

When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I...

'Deep End': Remembering the Deleted Scenes

'Deep End': Remembering the Deleted Scenes

2011

as Self

Acting

Short documentary about sequences removed from the film.

Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End

Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End

2011

as Self

9.0
Acting

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-pro...

Essential Killing

Essential Killing

2010

Director, Screenplay, Producer

5.8
Directing Writing Producing

A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.

Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life

Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life

2010

as Self

7.0
Acting

Krzysztof Komeda was a jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski, Komeda succeed...

Four Nights with Anna

Four Nights with Anna

2008

Director, Writer, Producer

6.2
Directing Writing Producing

Leon falls in love with a nurse and obsessively tries to get close to her.

Eastern Promises

Eastern Promises

2007

as Stepan

7.4
Acting

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 Russia...

Before Night Falls

Before Night Falls

2000

as Professor

6.6
Acting

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vili...

Operacja Samum

Operacja Samum

1999

as Hayes

6.0
Acting

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...

L.A. Without a Map

L.A. Without a Map

1999

as Minister

5.9
Acting

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...

Mars Attacks!

Mars Attacks!

1996

as Dr. Zeigler

6.4
Acting

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...

The Hollow Men

1993

Producer

2.0
Producing

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 M...

30 Door Key

30 Door Key

1991

as dyrektor szkoły

5.6
Acting

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 n...

30 Door Key

30 Door Key

1991

Director, Producer, Screenplay

5.6
Directing Producing Writing

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 n...

Skolimowski à la table

1990

Acting

André S. Labarthe invites Jerzy Skolimowski to the editing table, to analyze his film Walkower shot by shot. Episode of the TV program "Cinéma, ciném...

Torrents of Spring

Torrents of Spring

1989

as Wiktor Wiktorowicz

5.6
Acting

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 pastr...

Torrents of Spring

Torrents of Spring

1989

Director, Screenplay

5.6
Directing Writing

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 pastr...

Big Shots

Big Shots

1987

as Doc

6.3
Acting

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 you...

The Lightship

The Lightship

1985

Director

5.3
Directing

A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.

White Nights

White Nights

1985

as Colonel Chaiko

6.7
Acting

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 an...

Mesmerized

Mesmerized

1985

Writer

4.8
Writing

An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her.

Hands Up!

Hands Up!

1985

as Andrzej Leszczyc, Zastawa (1967 footage) / Self (1981 footage)

5.8
Acting

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Hands Up!

Hands Up!

1985

Director, Screenplay

5.8
Directing Writing

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Success Is the Best Revenge

Success Is the Best Revenge

1984

Producer, Screenplay, Director

6.0
Producing Writing Directing

Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the ...

Moonlighting

Moonlighting

1982

as Boss (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

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 man...

Moonlighting

Moonlighting

1982

Director, Producer, Screenplay

7.0
Directing Producing Writing

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 man...

Circle of Deceit

Circle of Deceit

1981

as Hoffmann

6.1
Acting

Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.

The Shout

The Shout

1978

Director, Screenplay

5.9
Directing Writing

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 learne...

A Slip-Up

A Slip-Up

1972

as Auto Shop Owner

5.7
Acting

A young man strikes up an ill-fated romance with a married woman.

A Slip-Up

A Slip-Up

1972

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

A young man strikes up an ill-fated romance with a married woman.

King, Queen, Knave

King, Queen, Knave

1972

4.4
Acting

Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who ...

King, Queen, Knave

King, Queen, Knave

1972

Director

4.4
Directing

Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who ...

Deep End

Deep End

1971

as Tube Passenger With Newspaper (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

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 attend...

Deep End

Deep End

1971

Director, Screenplay

7.0
Directing Writing

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 attend...

The Adventures of Gerard

The Adventures of Gerard

1970

Screenplay, Director

6.4
Writing Directing

Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic ...

Dialogue 20-40-60

Dialogue 20-40-60

1968

Screenplay, Director

5.3
Writing Directing

"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak director Peter S...

The Departure

The Departure

1967

Director, Screenplay

6.6
Directing Writing

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 ti...

Barrier

Barrier

1966

as Waiter - Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

Barrier

Barrier

1966

Director, Screenplay

6.8
Directing Writing

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

Sposób bycia

Sposób bycia

1966

as Leopold

3.5
Acting

A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.

Identification Marks: None

Identification Marks: None

1965

as Andrzej Leszczyc

6.4
Acting

After being drafted into military service, a Polish student spends his last day coming to terms with his estranged wife, visiting old friends, and sav...

Identification Marks: None

Identification Marks: None

1965

Art Direction, Director, Screenplay

6.4
Directing Writing

After being drafted into military service, a Polish student spends his last day coming to terms with his estranged wife, visiting old friends, and sav...

Walkover

Walkover

1965

as Andrzej Leszczyc

6.1
Acting

Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily sty...

Walkover

Walkover

1965

Director, Screenplay

6.1
Directing Writing

Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily sty...

The Friend

The Friend

1965

Dialogue

5.0

Engineer Ijon Tichy is called in to help with a malfunctioning electronic brain.

Night Fare

Night Fare

1962

Producer, Screenplay

Producing Writing

The Nude

1962

Director

Directing
Knife in the Water

Knife in the Water

1962

Screenplay, Dialogue

7.3
Writing

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 bo...

Beautiful

1962

Director

Directing

Student film by Skolimowski abot a street ironically called Beautiful.

Your Money or Your Life

Your Money or Your Life

1961

Director, Writer

4.7
Directing Writing

A short crime film set in a fairground.

Boxing

1961

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

School study, variation on the theme of art, by Jerzy Skolimowski.

Erotique

Erotique

1961

Director, Writer

5.3
Directing Writing

A girl wipes the mirror and suddenly notices the reflection of a man who then speaks to her. The girl backs away, afraid.

Innocent Sorcerers

Innocent Sorcerers

1960

as Boxer (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

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 a...

Innocent Sorcerers

Innocent Sorcerers

1960

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

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 a...

Little Hamlet

Little Hamlet

1960

Director, Writer

5.3
Directing Writing

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...

The Menacing Eye

The Menacing Eye

1960

Director, Writer

4.6
Directing Writing

A knife thrower practices on a target girl.

Good Boy

N/A

Producer

Producing

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 stran...

Angel of Death

N/A

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

A Jewish pathologist, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, who is sent to work under Dr. Josef Mengele. There, he struggles to hold onto his humanity while being force...