Jerzy Skolimowski has traced an indelible route in world cinema, having an anxious, undisciplined and independent spirit combined with a personal vision for the art of cinema and an authentic, as well as modern film production.

Born on May 5th, 1938 in Lodz and after the war, he starts his adventurous education in Poland and for a short time period, in Bohemia, where he follows his mother, a cultural attache in Prague. Afterwards, he is registered in the Department of History of the Material Culture, and begins his professional occupation with one of his greatest passions, boxing, taking part in thirty boxing matches for newcomer boxers. (Besides, boxing appears very often in his films.) Moreover, at the same time, he passionately attends the jam sessions, where he meets and is bound by a friendship with the great composer and afterwards his collaborator, Krzysztof Komeda, and tours throughout Poland with his band.

In 1958 and 1959, he issues two poetic collections and a one-act play and becomes a member of the Pole Authors Association. In Poland, he accidentally meets the famous film director, Andrzej Wajda, and the author, Jerzy Andrzejewsji, with whom he will cooperate in the script of the film Innocent Enchanter, and in which he makes his first appearance as an actor in the role of a young boxer. Until then, he had never be interested in cinema, but after being urged by the great film director Andrzej Munk, he registers in the famous Lodz School and in 1961, shoots his first short film under the title Boxing (First award in the Sports Films Festival of Budapest.) During the same period, he works with Roman Polanski on the script of the film Knife in the Water, which is directed two years later.