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name: "Lidia Skarżyńska"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lidia-skarzynska"
fi1m_id: "lidia-skarzynska"
tmdb_id: 1609611
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "14 January 1920"
died: "20 July 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T16:02:14.422773+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lidia Skarżyńska

## Identity

Lidia Skarżyńska

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lidia-skarzynska
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lidia-skarzynska
- **TMDB ID:** 1609611
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1609611

Costume designer. Born 14 January 1920 in Zabierzów k. Krakowa, Polska. Died 20 July 1994.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 14 January 1920, Zabierzów k. Krakowa, Polska
- **Died:** 20 July 1994
- **Also known as:** Lidia Minticz-Skarżyńska, Lidia Minticz, Lidia Skarzynska
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1609611

## Biography

Lidia Minticz-Skarżyńska (also credited as Lidia Skarżyńska or Lidia Minticz) was a Polish costume designer, scenographer, painter and educator. Born on 14 January 1920 in Zabierzów near Kraków, she studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, completing her training in 1948, and also attended courses in architecture at the Kraków University of Technology and at the Kraków Film Institute.

She collaborated extensively with her husband Jerzy Skarżyński on theatre and film productions. In cinema she worked on several films directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, providing costume design for *The Saragossa Manuscript* (1965), *Szyfry* (1966), *Lalka* (1968) and *The Hourglass Sanatorium* (1973). She also contributed to earlier short films and television productions.

Skarżyńska lectured at the Postgraduate Studio of Theatre, Film and Television Scenography at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts from 1970 and was appointed professor of scenography. She received several Polish state awards, including the Order of Polonia Restituta, and died in Kraków on 20 July 1994.

*Sources: culture.pl, pl.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmpolski.pl.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Saragossa Manuscript* (1966), Fi1m 84, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-saragossa-manuscript.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Hourglass Sanatorium* (1973), Costume Designer
- *Ostatni liść* (1973), Costume Design
- *The Doll* (1968), Costume Design
- *The Codes* (1966), Costume Design
- *The Saragossa Manuscript* (1966), Costume Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-saragossa-manuscript.md)
- *Good Sins* (1963), Production Design, Costume Design
- *Story of the Golden Boot* (1961), Production Design, Costume Design

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