14° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Tribute to a Jerzy Skolimowski

RYSOPIS SKOLIMOWSKIEGO

IDENTIFICATION MARKS: SKOLIMOWSKI

Country: Kazakhstan
Year: 1992
Duration: 43'


Skolimowski's films have always fascinated me. Rysopis, Walkower, Bariera, Rece do góry were the cult movies of my filmic training. Therefore, when Skolimowski returned to free Poland after his years as emigrant in order to shoot Thirty Door Key, I decided to put hlm and myself before a mirror... to define him better for myself and the others because I persist in holding him a special author. When I offered to do an almost biographical film, he answered 'You have to convince me'. I prepared myself for the interview like I would prepare for an exam. After he read my two-page screenplay, Skolimowski agreed and accepted the presence of a team of 'voyeurs' on his set. He became our p)artner. And this is something that was one more problem for him, seeing that he was producer, director, and actor in two episodes of his film. I will never forget the show he put on when he danced in front of the actors (in the scene of the duel between the two antagonists, Filidoro and Antifilidoro, which was later not included in the last version of the film). I am thankful to Skolimowski for having allowed me to film this dance." (Jerzy Kolat)

Biography

film director

Jerzy Kolat

Jerzy Kolat (Nowy Sacz, 1955) studied painting and graphic art at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, theater and film at Jagellonica University, and piano at the Krakow Conservatory. He worked on the sets of directors including Wajda, Zaniissi, Zulawski, Bergman, Fassbinder, Costa Gavras and Spielberg. He made his first film when he was 16. In 1976 he made interviews with Polanski and Kantor that were blocked by the censor. In 1979 he made some black-and-white sequences for Kieslowski's Amator, for which he worked as assistant director. He writes for publications specializing in cinema.

FILMOGRAFIA

Zapomnienie (cm, 1975), Anarchista (animazione, cm, 1976), Instygator (animazione, cm, 1977), Wedlug Mrozka (TV, 1990), Rysopis Skolimowskiego (mm, 1992), Ten, ktory niosl (mm, 1993), Apokalipsa Costy-Gavras (doc., 1993).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Jerzy Kolat.
Director of photography: Waldemar Kolsicki, Zdzislaw Wajda, Andrzej Albinowski.
Editor: Zbigniew Osiniski, Grazyna Gradori, Maryla Mendel.
Music: Marta Broczkowska, Hanna Makowska.
Sound: Malgorzata Krupa.
Director of Production: Zbigniew Domagalski, Anna Woldat.
Production company: "Wir" (Warszawa).
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