Jerzy Skolimowski

Date of Birth: 05 May 1938
Country: Poland
Total Credits at Criticker: 10 (Actor), 24 (Director), 22 (Writer)
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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 learned to displace his host. (imdb)
A Polish man is sent to London with a trio of workmen to renovate a wealthy man's apartment. The supervisor must keep their job a secret, since they have no work permits; the pressure increases when he learns that Poland has imposed martial law. {Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide}
Two old acquaintances meet by accident. Both are about to fight against tough opponents, his is a boxing fight, hers is a struggle to have her original project implemented at a large industrial facility. They both have to solve the same dilemma: whether to take on the fight, which looks to be unequal, or lose it (and - symbolically - also life) by default. (culture.pl)
A boy from lower class has just finished school. Because he cannot find other work he takes a job in one of the public bathes in the suburbs of London. There he meets a girl who is a little bit older than he... (imdb)
It begins with a sci-fi motif: abstract images and electronic music take the viewer from ruins of Lebanon to the set of Voelker Schloendorf "The Forgery" where Skolimowski plays a lead role. Another shift takes us to London, where Skolimowski shoots a street scene. There are also shifts into the past with the old footage, featuring a score of Polish actors in a setting resembling Kantor's experimental theatre (imdb)
A crematorium worker repeatedly breaks into a woman's house at night to help with housework.
A day in the life of Andrzej Leszczyc: his dog has been bitten by a rabid dog, his mistress is discontented, the conscription board have finally caught up with him and because he's dropped out of university he's going to do two years in the navy, leaving at three o'clock that afternoon. (imdb user comments)
A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II.
A young student (Jan Nowicki) losses interest in college and goes straight ahead, searching for a "different life". His goal is: to marry a wealthy woman, live in a villa, buy a car. As a grown-up his actions a bit "weird". When he meets a women... who changes his life. (imdb)
Hamles (1960) - Short Film
experimental short film of the director Jerzy Skolimowski. A little love history with surrealism.
A thriller centered on a political prisoner who attempts his escape. (imdb)
A fast-paced comedy about a young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice, his girlfriend, and their legal and illegal attempts to get a Porsche under him for his nearing debut race. (imdb)
Peter McEnery stars as Col. Etienne Girard, Hussar officer of the Napoleonic era. The story takes place during the Little Corporal's 1808 campaign in the Spanish peninsula. Col. Gerard's adventures include an ongoing war of nerves against Napoleon's forces, not to mention a steamy affair with one Countess Teresa Claudia Cardinale.
On the death of his parents, Frank, a romantic teenager, moves in with his aunt and uncle He quickly falls in love with his beautiful, sophisticated aunt, Martha, and begins to fantasize about her. Frank is torn between his adolescent desires and his fondness for his Uncle Charles. (imdb)
Poland is under communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.
Pieniadze albo zycie (1961) - Short Film
Based on Stanislaw Dygat's short story "Piec tysiecy zlotych" (S. Dygat plays one of the parts). The plot is set during the war. Two men at a shooting range; during an argument one of them confesses he is a Jew. The military police observe the scene from a distance. (Surreal Moviez)
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back. (imdb)
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. (imdb)
A jealous husband out of control, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a reckless drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled student on a mysterious mission, a high-rise window cleaner on an illicit break, an elderly sketch artist, a hectic paramedics team and a group of hungry nuns. A cross-section of contemporary urbanites whose lives and loves intertwine. They live in an unsure world where anything could happen at any time. (imdb)
Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.