Movies: Jerzy Skolimowski

Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde....

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 lives through his second heart attack and still refuses to change his lifestyle, Julius will have to...

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

Short documentary about sequences removed from the film....

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 or not he should take vengeance....

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

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 Metthew is its author. Also in life Marc plays "Napoleon", becoming the leader of a group of local yo...

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

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

A short crime film set in a fairground....

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

A knife thrower practices on a target girl....

Student film by Skolimowski abot a street ironically called Beautiful....

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, Baltazar. He and his wife, Ewa Piaskowska, decided to stay on the Italian island. This film follows their...

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