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USED

Identification Marks: None / Hands Up!
Polish Import, Limited Booklet, Region B

$16.99

Region B - Not Compatible with NA Players

Specifications

Format Blu-ray
Condition Used
Label BFI
Region Code Region B

Two early features from EO director Jerzy Skolimowski, released on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK

Identification Marks: None (1965): A day in the life of student Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himsef) who, between the morning and late afternoon, gives up on his studies, breaks up with his partner, and decides to join the army. Before his departure, Andrzej tries to straighten out his life, and encounters Barbara, who he sees as the woman he has always waited for.

Hands Up! (1981): The fourth of a series of semi-autobiographical films in which Skolimowski plays his alter ego Andrzej Leszczyc. Hands Up! was made in 1967 but was banned for 18 years by Poland’s then Communist regime. After Poland’s liberation, Skolimowski was invited to revisit the film which he duly did, adding a 20 minute sequence that explains why the film was so withheld by the censors.

Extras
  • Newly recorded audio commentaries on both films by critic and scholar Michał Oleszczyk (2023)
  • The Boxing Ichthyologist (2023, 32 mins): writer Michael Brooke introduces us to the early Polish films of Jerzy Skolimowski in this newly commissioned video essay
  • Archive interview with Jerzy Skolimowski (1983, audio only, 43 mins): the director discusses his early work in an interview recorded at the BFI’s National Film Theatre
  • Stills galleries
  • **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet with new writing on the films by Ewa Mazierska, an essay by David Thompson on the career of Jerzy Skolimowski and film credits

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