Jerzy SkolimowskiFilmography

Eastern Promises

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinéad Cusack

Synopsis: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Vincent Cassel star in this David Cronenberg's thriller concerning a London midwife who unwittingly stumbles into a clandestine Russian sex trafficking ring. An unidentified Russian teen has been rushed to a London hospital after going into Read More

Before Night Falls

Actors: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn

Synopsis: For his sophomore feature film effort, visual artist Julian Schnabel chronicles the life of one of Cuba's most charismatic literary voices, the late Reinaldo Arenas. Working with Arenas' friends and family, Schnabel recounts the author's impoverished rural upbringing and the intense love and Read More

L.A. Without a Map

Actors: David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, Cameron Bancroft

Synopsis: Mika Kaurismaki directed this British-French-Finnish romantic comedy adapted from Richard Rayner's autobiographical novel about a series of Hollywood misadventures. Vacationing in the North of England, aspiring Los Angeles actress Barbara (Vinessa Shaw) stops briefly in a village where she meets Read More

Mars Attacks!

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Jim Brown

Synopsis: This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s Read More

The Hollow Men

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Sarne

Synopsis: In a little town by the sea, Mark (Joseph Kay) is preparing a production of a play by an anonymous author. He is an actor and director, and will be appearing in the play. When his brother Matthew (John Yorick) appears in town, something about the situation makes him very uncomfortable; it turns Read More

Ferdydurke

Crew: Director

Actors: Iain Glen, Robert Stephens, Judith Godrëche, Fabienne Babe

Torrents of Spring

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski, Valeria Golino, Francesca de Sapio, William Forsythe

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Ivan Turgenev, this drama tells of a young Russian noble during the mid 19th century who, although engaged to a young pastry chef, falls for a seductive married noblewoman who has arranged to buy his estate. Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski and Valeria Golino star in this Read More

Big Shots

Actors: Ricky Busker, Darius McCrary, Robert Joy, Robert Prosky, Jerzy Skolimowski

Synopsis: Consumed by grief when his father is felled by a heart attack, 11-year-old Obie (Ricky Busker) runs away from his white, upper-class surroundings. He ends up in a particularly dismal Chicago ghetto neighborhood where, after enduring a beating administered by gang members, he is befriended by Read More

The Lightship

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Duvall, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Tom Bower, Robert Costanzo, Badja Djola

Synopsis: Before entering this story of a battle between the ostensible forces of good over evil, viewers should know that a lightship is a floating lighthouse, anchored in dangerous waters to warn other ships away. The German-American Captain Miller (Klaus Maria Brandauer) is in charge of one such Read More

Mesmerized

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy, Harry Andrews, Dan Shor

Synopsis: This psychodrama is set in New Zealand during the 1880s and is based on the true story of an orphaned 18-year-old who marries a cruel, much-older man. He constantly abuses her and keeps her under his thumb until she snaps and using hypnotism, kills him. Later she is tried in court. ~ Sandra Read More

White Nights

Actors: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: The fancy footwork and star appeal of Gregory Hines as Raymond, an exiled American, and the powerful grace of Mikhail Baryshnikov as Nikolai, a defector, combine with a great production design to carry this otherwise thinly-stretched tale of intrigue. With a stellar supporting cast (Isabella Rossellini Read More

Success is the Best Revenge

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael York, Janna Szerzerbic, Michael Lyndon, George Skolimowski, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Moonlighting

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jiri Stanislav, Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz

Synopsis: Jeremy Irons portrays Nowak, one of four Polish laborers, living in England. In exchange for a place to stay, Irons and his buddies -- none of whom have British work permits -- agree to renovate their landlord's flat within a limited time-frame. Despite their hectic schedule, the boys agree never Read More

Circle of Deceit

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski, Gila Von Weitershausen, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: Bruno Ganz plays a West German journalist whose frequent assignments to war-torn nations have left him jaundiced. He is assigned to cover the civil war in Beirut. The combination of his harrowing experiences on the job and his after-hours relationship with widow Hannah Schygulla affects Ganz Read More

The Shout

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens, Tim Curry

Synopsis: An asylum director begins telling a visitor to a cricket game the story of one of his "better" patients, Crossley (Alan Bates) who is able to compete. Some time previously, Crossley accosted Anthony (John Hurt), a composer, just after church and was for some reason invited to dinner. Once at the Read More

King, Queen, Knave

Crew: Director

Actors: David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida, John Moulder-Brown, Mario Adorf, Carl Fox-Duering

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Poslizg

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This ironic Polish film tells the story of a charming scoundrel. Marek is a high-school dropout and a bit of a hoodlum. Still, he is quite charming. He earns his money by taking pictures and is not above using some of them for blackmail. After he and his girlfriend witness a collision between a Read More

The Adventures of Gerard

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Peter McEnery

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Deep End

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler, Christopher Sandford, Diana Dors

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Rece do Góry

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bogumil Kobiela, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Joanna Szczerbic, Jerzy Skolimowski

Synopsis: Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski directed Hands Up in 1967; he also wrote it, handled the art direction, and played a leading role. Skolimowski portrays Andrzej Leszcyzc, one of several doctors attending a medical school reunion in a sealed-up railway carriage. Between drinks, the disenchanted Read More

Dialogue

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this Hungarian melodrama, Semjen recently freed from a Nazi concentration camp destroyed by Russian tanks marries her idealistic sweetheart Sinkovits. Initially, they are very happy. But then her husband is locked up by the Stalinists. The pragmatic Semjen then reunites with Sztankai, her Read More

Le Départ

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Catherine Duport

Synopsis: Marc Jean-Pierre Leaud is a young man who works at a local beauty shop and dreams of cars. When he "borrows" his boss's car for the evening, he is seduced by a wealthy woman before finding love with a younger woman nearer to his own age. Marc also dreams of being part of the affluent society he Read More

Bariera

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jan Nowicki, Joanna Szczerbic, Tadeusz Lomnicki

Synopsis: This Polish drama chronicles the rebelliousness of the country's youth as it presents episodes from a young man's cross-country journey. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sposob Bycia

Actors: Andrzej Lapicki, Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Barbara Wrzesinska

Synopsis: A man (Andrzej Lapicki) reflects on why his wife and child left him in this drama with comic overtones directed by Jan Rybowski. The man is a concentration camp survivor from World War II who admits to himself he is willing to be underhanded in order to get ahead. His past experiences give him a Read More

Walkower

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jerzy Skolimowski

Synopsis: An aging boxer makes a scant living as a prizefighter in this drama. A former college buddy helps the fighter get an engineering job. Still the lure of the ring is strong, and when the fellow learns that his factory has a boxing team, he eagerly signs up. During a major fight, he ends up winning Read More

Rysopis

Crew: Art Director, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Elzbieta Czyzewska, Jerzy Skolimowski

Synopsis: In this drama, a budding ichthyologist studies at a university to try to avoid the draft. At the last moment he then relents and enlists. He has only a few hours to organize his personal life before he must undertake basic training. He goes to his apartment; there he finds his sick dog and has it Read More

Knife in the Water

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz

Synopsis: Noz w Wodzie was not only Polanski's first feature-length film, but it also marked the first screen appearance of Polish actor Zygmunt Malanowicz who played a young student. In fact, the only experienced thespian in the featured trio is Leon Niemczyk as Andrzej, the self-important, somewhat Read More

Niewinni Czarodzieje

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tadeusz Lomnicki

Synopsis: Award-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda guides this effective tale about a young doctor and the woman he finds when he did not know he was looking. The doctor is attractive enough to have women after him all of the time, which may seem like a great problem for most men but is unsettling to Read More