Country: Kazakhstan
Year: 1966
Duration: 83'
"At first the film was supposed to be done by another director named Karabasz, who was a very famous documentary filmmaker. it took me six months to write the screenplay for him. He began to shoot the film and then got sick. Then he asked me to take over the direction, but the screenplay that I had written for Karabasz was not apt for my film. I kept on shooting for ten weeks. All the time I kept on looking for new ideas. I was making the film day by day. From a formal point of view, the difference between Bariera and my other films was that I thought more about the purely visual aspect. I am perfectly aware that this film represents a kind of mosaic structure. If you put the little stones next to one another, it is precisely for the reason that you want to get a picture of the whole, because the complete vision of the film comes at the end - or it does not come at all. This is exactly what I wanted." (Jerzy Skolimowski, "Cahiers du Cinéma", n. 182, September, 1966 and n. 192, July-August 1967)
"The young student leaves all of his past life behind him and goes away carrying everything that belongs to him in his valise. But, as opposed to Leszczyc, he has a basic encounter - a girl who in this film stands out in a way that none of the preceding feminine figures did. Bariera continues and widens Rysopis and Walkower, but - what is more important - it announces an opening, the overcoming of oneself in regard to the others, the desperate need to believe in something like love, and the bitterness of not being able to believe in anything else, if only because 'our cynical generation can still have romantic thrusts', as one of the film's character says." (Tomas Perez Turrent, "Positif", n. 80, 1966)
Biography
film director
Jerzy Skolimowski
(Lodz, Poland, 1938), director, screenwriter, producer, and actor, after inconsistent studies and experience as a boxer and a poet, became involved in cinema thanks to Andrzej Wajda, who encouraged him to enroll in the film school in Lodz. With Polanski, he wrote the screenplay for Knife in the Water (1962) and he debuted as a director with Rysopis (1964), which, with his next film Walk over (1965), made him one of the major exponents of the international Nouvelle Vague of the 1960s. In 1967, his film The Departure won the Golden Bear in Berlin but that same year another movie of his, Hands Up!, was censored (it was released only in 1981) and he never made another movie in his home country. Skolimowski's international career is full of risky production adventures and great masterpieces and spans various countries (Czechoslovakia, Italy, Germany, England, the United States). After the failure of King, Queen, Knave, he spent a great deal of inactive time in England and Poland, followed by the great success of his English movies The Shout (1978) and Moonlighting (1982). In 1985, he directed his first all-American movie, Lightship and he moved to the US. After returning to his homeland, in 1991 he directed his first Polish movie after Hands Up!, 30 Door Key and over the years continued to work in cinema, writing and producing the film by his two sons Józef and Michal, The Hollow Men (1993). After a long hiatus from film, he returned to directing movies in 2008 with Four Nights with Anna, presented at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes, followed by Essential Killing (2010), Special Jury Prize in Venice; 11 Minutes (2015); and EO (2022), the Jury Prize in Cannes.
FILMOGRAFIA
Rysopis (Rysopis - Segni particolari nessuno, 1964), Walkover (1965), Bariera (Barriera, 1966), Le Départ (Il vergine, 1967), The Adventures of Gerard (Le avventure di Gerard, 1970), Deep End (La ragazza del bagno pubblico, 1970), König, Dame, Bube (Un ospite gradito... per mia moglie, 1972), The Shout (L'australiano, 1978), Ręce do gory (Mani in alto, 1981), Moonlighting (Moonlighting - Cittadini di nessuno, 1982), Success Is the Best Revenge (Il successo ad ogni costo, 1984), The Lightship (Lightship - La nave faro, 1985), Torrents of Spring (Acque di primavera, 1989), Thirty Door Key/Ferdydurke (1991), Cztery noce z Anną (Quattro notti con Anna, 2008), Essential Killing (id. 2010), 11 minut (11 Minutes, 2015), EO (2022).
Cast
& Credits
Screenplay: Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej Kostenko.
Director of photography: Jan Laskowski.
Art director: Roman Wolyniec, Z. Staszewski.
Editor: Halina Prugar, Maria Rutkowska.
Music: Krzysztof KomedaTrzcinski; canzone cantata da: Ewa Demarczyk e Chor "Novy".
Sound: Wieslawa Dembitiska.
Cast and characters: Jan Nowicki (lui), joanna Szczerbic Gei), Tadeusz Lomnicki (il medico), Zdzislaw Maklakiewicz (il venditore del giornale), Ryszard Pietruski (capocameriere), Maria Malicka (donna delle pulizie), Malgorzata Lorentowicz (la signora nella casa dei pegni), Andrzej Herder ("Manius"), Zygmunt Malanowicz ("Eddy").
Direttori di produzione: Stanislaw Zylewicz, Ryszard Straszewski.
Production company: Gruppo "Kamera" .
Director of photography: Jan Laskowski.
Art director: Roman Wolyniec, Z. Staszewski.
Editor: Halina Prugar, Maria Rutkowska.
Music: Krzysztof KomedaTrzcinski; canzone cantata da: Ewa Demarczyk e Chor "Novy".
Sound: Wieslawa Dembitiska.
Cast and characters: Jan Nowicki (lui), joanna Szczerbic Gei), Tadeusz Lomnicki (il medico), Zdzislaw Maklakiewicz (il venditore del giornale), Ryszard Pietruski (capocameriere), Maria Malicka (donna delle pulizie), Malgorzata Lorentowicz (la signora nella casa dei pegni), Andrzej Herder ("Manius"), Zygmunt Malanowicz ("Eddy").
Direttori di produzione: Stanislaw Zylewicz, Ryszard Straszewski.
Production company: Gruppo "Kamera" .