Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski

05.05.1938 (85 years) (Łódź, Poland)

Jerzy Skolimowski (Polish: [jɛʐɨ skɔliˈmɔfskʲi], born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol (The Menacing Eye). In 1967 he was awarded Golden Bear for his film Le départ. His most famous film is Deep End(1970), starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown. He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films. He recently returned to Poland, and to film making as a writer and director, after a 17-year hiatus with Cztery noce z Anną (Four Nights with Anna) in 2008. He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.

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Cast

The Avengers (2012)

IMDB: 8.0 (1226675 votes)
Eastern Promises (2007)

IMDB: 7.6 (246498 votes)

Crew

The Palace (2023)

IMDB: 5.2 (477 votes)
Torrents of Spring (1989)

IMDB: 5.9 (305 votes)