Rysopis Poland
1964, 76min.
Script/Dir./Prod. Design.: Jerzy Skolimowski, Dir. of Phot.: Witold Mickiewicz, Compos.: Krzysztof Sadowski, Sound: Jan Czerwinski, Edit.: Halina Gronek.
Cast: Jerzy Skolimowski, Elzbieta Czyzewskq, Andrzej Zarnecki.
Andrzej Leszczyc, 24, lies with his eyes wide open next to a young girl. Suddenly he gets up. He sneaks out of the room; he does not want to wake anybody up, nor to be noticed by anybody in the house. He gets into the street and wanders aimlessly in the dark streets of the town. The day breaks. Andrzej reports to the Drafting office. As a student he has full right to be released from the military service yet he wants to be enlisted, as soon as possible, even at once. It will be 9 a.m. soon. Andrzej has few hours for packing his things, bidding good bye to his friends, settling perhaps some important problems. In a few hours he will be drafted for two years. He goes back to the young woman he sometimes calls his wife, without knowing nothing about her, and who knows nothing about him. He enters his house, which perhaps is not his house at all, he is going to take his belongings, but did he ever have any belongings? He still has some time, which is perhaps too long or maybe too short. Why should he turn left instead of turning right, why does he talk with these people instead of the other ones? Why did he meet this girl now, two years too late, or too years too early? Why does a man lose hope in himself? How can he ever regain this hope, how can he lose or win in life?
Awards
Prize (Festival of Students’ Films, 1964); Directing Award (jointly with Walkower) (Arnhem IFF, 1965); Polish Film Critics Award (Syrenka Warszawska (Wersaw Mermaid).
Production Company
The Polish National Film
Television and Theatre School
| Skolimowski, Jerzy  Jerzy Skolimowski (born 1938, Lodz, Poland)
Director, scriptwriter, actor, poet and painter. He graduated in ethnography from Warsaw University in 1959 and attended the prestigious Polish Film School in Lodz. Skolimowski has directed more than 20 films in and outside of Poland. At college, he took up boxing, which was the subject of a feature-length documentary, his first film, shot in 1961. By his early 20’s, Skolimowski had published several books of poems, short stories and a play. This led to his writing the screenplay and playing a boxer in Andrzej Wajda’s film The Innocent Sorcerers. He subsequently teamed up with Roman Polanski, writing the script of Knife in the Water in 1962. Between 1964 and 1984, he completed several semi-autobiographical features. While living and working in many countries, he also completed six big budget productions including four international co-productions between 1970 and 1992: The Adventures of Gerard, King, Queen, Knave, The Shout, The Lightship, Torrents of Spring and Ferdydurke, all distinctly bearing Skolimowski’s signature. His first US production, The Lightship, starring Robert Duvall, won Best Director Award at the Venice IFF. His next project, Torrents of Spring, starred Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski and Valeria Golino. Two of his films won awards in Cannes IFF: Grand Prix du Jury for The Shout and Silver Palm for Moonlighting. He also won the Golden Bear in Berlin for Le Depart. His last film, Four Nights with Anna premiered in Cannes, and received Grand Jury Prize at the Tokyo IFF in 2008. Skolimowski’s portrayal of a ruthless yet composed KGB colonel in White Nights, established his credentials as an actor. His acting credits are L.A., Without a Map, Mars Attacks!, Torrents of Spring, and Big Shots among others. His paintings were exhibited all around Europe and in the United States. He took part in the Venice Biennale, and his work was acquired by Contemporary Art Museums in Poland and Greece, as well as private collectors in the US, UK, France, Italy, Germany, and other countries. Skolimowski currently resides in Malibu, California and Warsaw, Poland.
Filmography
Oko wykol/The Menacing Eye (1960, short), Hamles/Little Hamlet (1960, short), Eroty/Erotique (1960, short), Boks/Boxing (1961), Pienadze albo zycie/Money or Life (1961, short), The Nude (1962), Rysopis/Identificqtion Marks: None (1964), Walkower/Walkover (1965), Bariera/Barrier (1966), Rece do gory/Hands Up! (1966), Le depart (1966), Deep End (1970), The Adventures of Gerard (1970), King, Queen, Knave (1972), The Shout (1978), Moonlighting (1982), Dialog 20-40-60 (segment The Twenty-Year-Olds, 1968), Succes Is the Best Revenge (1984), The Lightship (1985), Torrents of Spring (1989), Ferdydurke/Thirty Door Key (199!), The Hollow Man (1993), Cztery noce z Anna/Four Nights with Anna (2008).
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