Jerzy Skolimowski – MRQE

September Eleven 1683

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Storyline: In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire’s warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City’s fall, will open way to conquer the Europe. The Sept 11 is the day of main battle between Polish cavalry under the King Jan III Sobieski and Turks.

Eastern Promises

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

30 Door Key

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.

Torrents of Spring

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, in order to finance the wedding, Dimitri goes back to Russia to sell his family estate. Unfortunately he falls prey to a seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna, who pretends to be willing to buy his land to come nearer him. Now Sanin is in a fix: should he choose the pure Gemma or the evil but irresistible Maria?

Big Shots

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago’s South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a young hustler and, after stealing a gangster’s car, the two embark on an adventure down south in search of the hustler’s estranged father.

White Nights

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.

Rece do góry

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

King, Queen, Knave

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who finds himself deep in the romantic clutches of his uncle’s sensual wife. After Frank’s parents die, he goes to live with his aunt Martha (Gina Lollabrigida) and uncle Charles (David Niven). Sexy Martha entices Frank into her embrace then wants him to kill her husband so that they can live off of his money. Frank wouldn’t mind so much, but he really likes his uncle.

Rysopis

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The footloose ennui of Polands postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodgers final day of freedom. A slacker before there was a word for it, Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himself) drifts through a series of open-ended encounters with women following a wake-up argument with his pouting wife, and a long-delayed military physical (the films title derives from one of the questions). Skolimowski hoarded four years worth of the annual film footage allotment from his Lódz film school in order to create this first feature marked by compositional bravado and a trademark air of the absurd. -Barbara Scharres, Gene Siskel Film Center

Walkower

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.