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Jerzy Skolimowski
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor Born: May 5, 1938 in Lódz, Poland Biography:Polish director "Jerzy Skolimowski" is one of the most original and innovative of the eastern European filmmakers. He is also one of the few to find success in the West. As a youth, the talented Skolimowski published several short stories, two poetry volumes, and was a jazz musician. At the University of Warsaw, he studied anthropology, history, and literature. He entered films after a chance encounter with renowned director "Andrzej Wajda". Skolimowski helped him write the script for "Innocent Sorcerers" (1960). Then, with Wajda's help, he enrolled in the Film School at Lodz where he and classmate "Roman Polanski" wrote the script for the latter's debut feature "Knife in the Water" (1962). It took Skolimowski four years to make his own first feature, "Identification Marks: None" (1964), a combination of several short student films starring himself as an anti-hero -- a figure that would appear in... Full Biography
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