Jerzy Skolimowski

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Jerzy Skolimowski (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ skɔliˈmɔfskʲi]; born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist, actor and painter. Beginning as a screenwriter for Andrzej Wajda's Innocent Sorcerers (1960), Skolimowski has made more than twenty films since his directorial debut The Menacing Eye (1960). In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his Belgian film The Departure (1967). Among his other notable films is Deep End (1970), starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown as well as The Shout, starring Alan Bates, Susannah York and John Hurt, Moonlighting (1982), starring Jeremy Irons and Essential Killing, starring Vincent Gallo He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films. He returned to Poland, and to filmmaking as a writer and director, after a 17-year hiatus with Four Nights with Anna...

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The AvengersMovie • 2012NET PlayhouseSeries • 1966Good BoyMovie • 2026Eastern PromisesMovie • 2007Mars Attacks!Movie • 1996EOMovie • 2022The Silent TwinsMovie • 2022IdaMovie • 2013Before Night FallsMovie • 2000White NightsMovie • 1985MoonlightingMovie • 1982L.A. Without a MapMovie • 1999The PalaceMovie • 2023Deep EndMovie • 1971The ShoutMovie • 1978Knife in the WaterMovie • 1962Circle of DeceitMovie • 1981The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683Movie • 2012The Stolen CaravaggioMovie • 2018Four Nights with AnnaMovie • 2008Essential KillingMovie • 201011 MinutesMovie • 2015MesmerizedMovie • 1985Innocent SorcerersMovie • 1960