The film, titled Angel of Death, is set in the German Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II and tells the story of Jewish pathologist Dr. Miklós Nyiszli, who is sent to work under the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.
"There, he struggles to hold onto his humanity while being forced to endure the atrocities of the Holocaust," the report said.
The film will star American actor Shia LaBeouf, who also teamed up with Skolimowski in writing the screenplay.
The project marks Skolimowski’s return to filmmaking after a hiatus of five years.
Skolimowski is one of the icons of Polish cinema.
Born in 1938, he graduated in ethnography from the University of Warsaw at the age of 21, before enrolling at the famous Łódź Film School.
He co-wrote the scripts for Andrzej Wajda’s Innocent Sorcerers and Roman Polanski's highly acclaimed debut feature Knife in the Water.
His own early films Identification Mark, Barrier, Walkover and Hands Up represented the "new wave" in Polish cinema.
The 1967 feature Hands Up was banned by the communist censors and did not go on general release until the Solidarity revolution in 1981. The controversy surrounding the film was one of the reasons Skolimowski decided to emigrate from Poland.
From 1970 onward, he worked in Italy, France, Britain and the United States, where he lived for many years.
In 2008, Skolimowski made his comeback to filmmaking after a lapse of 17 years with the acclaimed Four Nights with Anna, followed by the political thriller Essential Killing, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Festival in 2010, and IO, which garnered the Jury Award at the Cannes Festival in 2022.
A highly versatile personality, Skolimowski is also an actor and producer. He used to write poetry and practice boxing in his early years. He has had many one-man exhibitions of his paintings.
Jerzy Skolimowski, pictured against a backdrop of some of his paintings. Photo: PAP/Marian Zubrzycki
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Source: polskieradio.pl, filmweb.pl