Jerzy Skolimowski

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Jerzy Skolimowski (born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film producer, screenwriter, dramatist, and actor.

Skolimowski, a graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Lódz, has produced more than 20 films since his 1960 debut OKO wykol (The Menacing Eye).

In 1967, he was given a Golden Bear for his film Le départ.

Deep End (1970), starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown, is his most well-known film.

He lived in Los Angeles for more than 20 years, with some of him appearing in films and others in a figurative, expressionist style.

Since a 17-year absence with Cztery noce z Anna (Four Nights with Anna) in 2008, he has returned to Poland and filmmaking as a writer and director.

At the 2016 Venice Film Festival, he was given the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Early life

Skolimowski was born in ód, Poland, the son of Maria (née Postnikoff) and Stanis Skolimowski, an architect. He had noticed signs in his career that had been largely scarred by the war. Even having been rescued from the ruins of a bombed-out house in Warsaw as a small child, he had seen the horrors of war. The Nazis executed his father, a member of the Polish Resistance, in a murder attempt. His mother concealed a Jewish family in the house, and Skolimowski recalls being compelled to take candy from Nazis to keep appearances.

His mother became the cultural ambassador of the Polish embassy in Prague after the war. Milo Forman and Ivan Passer, as well as Václav Havel, were among his classmates at school in Podbrady, a spa town near Prague.

Skolimowski was regarded as a troublemaker at school because he was the source of several pranks that enraged the authorities. He did ethnography, history, and literature at college, and picked up boxing, which was also the subject of a feature-length documentary, his first significant film. Skolimowski's obsession with jazz and friendship with composer Krzysztof Komeda brought him into contact with actor Zbigniew Cybulski and producers Andrzej Munk and Roman Polanski.

Film as life

After Barrier's departure from Poland to Le Départ in Belgium in French, he moved to Le Départ in Belgium. Le Départ was a light film rather than a comedy, "does not have the same layered complexity that I like in my work." Skolimowski returned to Poland to make Rce do góry (Hands Up! (third film in the Andrzej trilogy and the fourth of his Polish sextet.

The anti-Stalinist themes of Hands Up!

The film's release resulted in the film being banned and he being practically barred from then-communist Poland. Jimi Hendrix, a neighbor in the same building, later retrained in London, with Jimi Hendrix as a neighbor.

Between Hands Up!

And, with Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Gerard (1970), Skolimowski wrote a story in which three different directors (with Zbynych and Peter Solan) created their own story using similar dialogue, even though the central characters in each section are separated by twenty years in age. With Jean-Pierre Léaud playing opposite Skolimowski's wife Joanna Szczerbic, Skolimowski's segment, "The Twenty Year Olds," seems to be an extension of Le Départ.

Deep End (1970) was Skolimowski's second non-Polish film to be based on his own screenplay. The movie with a coming-of-age storyline has a strong similarity to Le Départ's. Deep End was a promising film, but the studio did a bad job. His films The Shout (1978) and Moonlight (1982) became critical hits, with Moonlighting being shot in the United Kingdom and starring Jeremy Irons, the fifth of his Polish sextet's fifth film, being both technically and commercially his most profitable film.

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Later career

After returning from America, he directed his first film (Four Nights with Anna).

In 2010, he directed Essential Killing, starring Vincent Gallo and Emmanuelle Seigner. Multiple accolades were given, including the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival, the Golden Lions Award for Best Film at the Venice International Film Festival, and the Best Film Award at the Venice International Film Festival. Richard Dormer and Andrzej Chyra appeared in 11 Minutes, a dramatic film directed in 2015. At the 88th Academy Awards, it was named as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar.

Skolimowski was honoured with the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in July 2016 for his "life work."

The Jury Prize was awarded to his film EO at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. The Polish-Italian co-production is a modern adaptation of Robert Bresson's 1966 drama film Au Hasard Balthazar. He co-wrote Polanski's upcoming drama film The Palace in 2022.

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