A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing Read More »
Tag Archives: Jerzy Skolimowski
The Shout (1978) Jerzy Skolimowski, Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt
Bored while officiating a cricket match at a psychiatric hospital Read More »
The Lightship (1985) Jerzy Skolimowski, Robert Duvall, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Tim Phillips
Just when US Coast Guard captain Miller takes his teenage son Alex to his lightship off the coast of Virginia Read More »
Success Is the Best Revenge (1984) Jerzy Skolimowski, Michael York, Joanna Szczerbic, Michal Skolimowski
Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England Read More »
King, Queen, Knave (1972) Jerzy Skolimowski, David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida, John Moulder-Brown
On the death of his parents, Frank, a romantic teenager Read More »
The Departure AKA Le départ (1967) Jerzy Skolimowski, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Jacqueline Bir
A fast-paced comedy about a young Belgian car nut and hairdresser’s apprentice Read More »
Hands Up! AKA Rece do góry (1981) Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Joanna Szczerbic, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Censored by the Polish authorities, this film was reedited and new footage added. Read More »
Cztery noce z Anna / Four Nights With Anna (2008) Jerzy Skolimowski, Artur Steranko, Kinga Preis, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A worker, Leon, is deeply in love with Anna. (None of them are really young). During night time Leon will enter an open window and merely be sitting and looking at the sleeping Anna. Read More »
The Adventures of Gerard (1970) Jerzy Skolimowski, Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach, Adventure, Comedy, History, War
White Nights (1985) Taylor Hackford, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Drama
An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. Read More »
Walkower / Walkover (1965) Jerzy Skolimowski, Aleksandra Zawieruszanka, Krzysztof Chamiec, Drama, Sport
Jerzy Skolimowski’s second feature (and first full-length narrative) cemented his status as a one-man Polish New Wave, with the rhythms of his films influenced as much by jazz and (his own) poetry as by more conventional storytelling. Skolimowski himself plays a dropout-turned-amateur boxer who’s distracted from his bouts when Teresa (Aleksandra Zawieruszanka), an old university friend, re-enters his life.
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Deep End (1971) Jerzy Skolimowski, Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler, Comedy, Drama, Romance
John Moulder-Brown plays a teen-aged London bathhouse attendant who forms a business alliance with female attendant Jane Asher. The object is to obtain better tips from their clients, but soon the impressionable Moulder-Brown falls in love with the older Asher. Brushed off by the girl in favor of a handsome swimming instructor, Moulder-Brown makes several halfhearted attempts at revenge. When the boy and girl finally do get together sexually, the event is motivated by lust and has tragic results…
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Bariera / Barrier (1966) Jerzy Skolimowski, Joanna Szczerbic, Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Drama, Comedy
A rebellious student wants to get total independence and overcome all the barriers in his life: of money, age, status, cults and conventions. However, he meets a girl with completely different ideals.
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