In a small English village, an experimental composer and his wife see their routine existence upended by the arrival of an enigmatic stranger, who claims to possess knowledge of Aboriginal magic and the ability to kill using a deadly scream—a power that makes him an object of both terror and desire. This man causes a deep crisis among the couple, testing their rationality, even sanity.
Jerzy Skolimowski
Born in 1938 in Łódź (Poland), he is a film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. Graduated in ethnology, literature and history from Warsaw University in 1959, he is also a graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź (1962), and has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début ‘The Menacing Eye’. In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his film ‘Le Départ’, and a year later he won the Special Prize in the 13th edition of Seminci with ‘Barrier’. He has participated in the Cannes competition on numerous occasions, with films such as ‘King, Queen, Knave’ (1972), ‘The Shout’ (1978, winner of the Grand Jury Prize), ‘Moonlighting’ (1982, award for best screenplay), ‘Success is the Best Revenge’ (1984), ‘Torrents of Spring’ (1989) or ‘Four Nights With Anna’ (2008), which marked his return to Poland after 17 years living in Los Angeles, where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films. He received the Golden Lion award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and ‘EO’ (2022) earned him the Cannes Festival Jury Prize and the Best Director award at Seminci.
DIRECTOR
Jerzy Skolimowski
SCREENPLAY
Michael Austin, Jerzy Skolimowski
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mike Molloy
EDITOR
Barrie Vince
SOUND
Alan Bell
MUSIC
Tony Banks, Rupert Hine, Michel Rutherford
PRODUCTION
Jeremy Thomas
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Recorded Picture Company
CAST
Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens, Tim Curry, Julian Hough, Carol Drinkwater, John Rees
