Jerzy Szeski
- Costume & make-up
- March 29, 1920 · Chersoń nad Dnieprem, Ukraina
- December 7, 1992
Biography
His real name was Beniamin Sheskin. He used this name until the mid-1940s. Jerzy Szeski (March 29, 1920 – December 7, 1992) was a set and costume designer for film and theater. He came to Poland (Grodno) with his family in 1938. During the Soviet occupation, in December 1939, he became a set decorator and actor at the Polish Puppet Theatre of Western Belarus in Grodno. After the outbreak of the German-Soviet war, he escaped to Warsaw. After the war, he began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, simultaneously collaborating with Krakow theaters. From the fall of 1945 to April 1946, he served as artistic director of the "Wesoła Gromadka" Children's Theater, and in 1946-47, he was employed as a painter-decorator at the Słowacki Theater. After graduating, he worked in numerous theaters throughout Poland, including: at the Dramatic Theatres in Wrocław (1949-51), the Dramatic Theatres in Szczecin (1951-54), and the Powszechny Theatre in Łódź (1955-57). From 1967, he was a full-time employee of the Polish Film Federation (PRF) "Zespoły Filmowe." He was one of the most outstanding Polish film set designers of the second half of the 20th century, and an expert on military artifacts, particularly those from the 17th century.
Known for
Filmography
- Pobojowisko · Set Decoration, Costume Design
- The Knight · Production Design
- Racławice. 1794 · Production Design
- 80 Hussars · Production Design
- Wherever You Are, Mr. President · Production Design
- The Leper · Production Design
- Beniamiszek · Costume Design, Production Design
- The Story of Sin · Costume Design
- The Nest · Armorer
- Copernicus · Armorer
- Glass Ball · Costume Design
- Dekameron 40 czyli cudowne przytrafienie pewnego nieboszczyka · Costume Design
- Mateo Falcone · Costume Design, Screenplay
- Theatre Macabre · Adaptation
- Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni... · Production Design
- Landscape After Battle · Costume Design, Production Design
- Album polski · Production Design
- Makbet · Costume Designer, Art Direction
- Venus of Ille · Costume Design
- Colonel Wolodyjowski · Armorer
- When Love Was a Crime · Production Consultant
- The Siding · Costume Design
- I Am Burning! · Costume Design
- Checkmate! · Costume Design
- Cat and Mouse · Production Design
- The Ashes · Weapons Master, Costume Design
- Teenager · Assistant Production Design
- Marysia i Krasnoludki · Production Design, Screenplay
- Place on Earth · Costume Design
- Octopus Cafe · Set Decoration, Costume Design
- The Attempt · Costume Design
- The Eighth Day of the Week · Costume Design
- Trzy kobiety · Costume Design
- Kanal · Costume Design
- Nikodem Dyzma · Costume Design
- Shadow · Set Decoration, Costume Design
- The Hours of Hope · Assistant Director, Costume Design
- Career · Costume Design
- A Generation · Costume Design
- Difficult Love · Set Decoration, Costume Design
- Soldier of Victory · Assistant Director
- The Warsaw Debut · Costume Design, Assistant Director