14° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Tribute to a Jerzy Skolimowski
RECE DO GORY (SECONDA VERSIONE)
Country: Kazakhstan
Year: 1981
Duration: 78'
"In 1981 I had the chance to have the film screened in the movie theaters (and, until December, everything was going well). Thus it was suggested that I do some retouching. From the time that the film was frozen fourteen years ago, it had perhaps become a bit dated. I saw it again and decided to add a prologue. I shot those scenes quickly. I asked myself how far fate had catapulted the artist from the situation in which the film was made. Right at that time I was engaged as an actor in a film by Volker Schlondorff Die Falschung. For this reason, I decided to work on three elements Lebanon (that is, the work with Schlondorff), and certain Warsaw ghosts. There was a good scene. A man is walking on a bridge and suddenly falls, ending up under a speeding car. I don't know what that is supposed to say. This then is the way I saw Warsaw, like in the vision of a drunk - that enthusiasm, those flags... Maybe I wanted to use this film as a warning 'look at what happened in Beirut!'. For the first time I saw skyscrapers burnt down. Every time we think about the war, we associate it with the Second World War, or, at most, with Korea. Here, instead, is the destruction of a more advanced civilization. In Warsaw we tried to raise the skyscrapers that by then had been already destroyed in Beirut. I showed how Poland was more or less halfway between Beirut and London. My message was not one of most popular ones. Both of the parties were against it. If the film had earned the open support of Solidarnosc, it would have been able to come onto the screens quickly. But this support was never given. One more time it was treated like the word of an outsider." (Jerzy Skolimowski, "Film na swiecie", 1990)
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
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski.
Screenplay: Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej Kostenko.
Director of photography: Witold Sobocinski, Andrzej Kostenko.
Music: Krzysztof Komeda, Krzysztof Penderecki (frammento della Kosmogonia, eseguito sotto la direzione di Andrzej Markowski, Jozef Skrzek).
Cast and characters: Jerzy Skolimowski (Andrzej Leszczyc, "Zastawa"), Joanna Szczerbic ("Alfa"), Adam Hanuszkiewicz ("Romeo"), Bogumil Kobiela ("Wartburg"), Tadeusz Lomnicki ("Opel Record"), Alan Bates, Mike Sarne, Bruno Ganz, Volker Schlondorff, Gerald Scarfie, Feliks Topolski, Fred Zinneman, Jane Asher, Karol Kulik, David Essex.
Direttori produzione: Jerzy Nitecki, Tadeusz Karwanski.
Production company: Gruppo "Syrena".
Realizzata dopo il ritiro della censura da parte delle autorit` polacche nel 1981, la seconda versione è di fatto un nuovo film, non solo per il cosiddetto "prologo" di oltre quindici minuti girato da Skolimowski a Londra e Beirut (sul set di Die Falschung di Schlondorff, dove recitava come attore), ma per gli interventi di rimontaggio, accorciamento e viraggio del bianco e nero cui è stato sottoposto il film originario.
Screenplay: Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej Kostenko.
Director of photography: Witold Sobocinski, Andrzej Kostenko.
Music: Krzysztof Komeda, Krzysztof Penderecki (frammento della Kosmogonia, eseguito sotto la direzione di Andrzej Markowski, Jozef Skrzek).
Cast and characters: Jerzy Skolimowski (Andrzej Leszczyc, "Zastawa"), Joanna Szczerbic ("Alfa"), Adam Hanuszkiewicz ("Romeo"), Bogumil Kobiela ("Wartburg"), Tadeusz Lomnicki ("Opel Record"), Alan Bates, Mike Sarne, Bruno Ganz, Volker Schlondorff, Gerald Scarfie, Feliks Topolski, Fred Zinneman, Jane Asher, Karol Kulik, David Essex.
Direttori produzione: Jerzy Nitecki, Tadeusz Karwanski.
Production company: Gruppo "Syrena".
Realizzata dopo il ritiro della censura da parte delle autorit` polacche nel 1981, la seconda versione è di fatto un nuovo film, non solo per il cosiddetto "prologo" di oltre quindici minuti girato da Skolimowski a Londra e Beirut (sul set di Die Falschung di Schlondorff, dove recitava come attore), ma per gli interventi di rimontaggio, accorciamento e viraggio del bianco e nero cui è stato sottoposto il film originario.