Krzysztof Kieślowski
Polish film director and screenwriter (1941-1996) · Poland · Directors · Died at 54
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Something wrong?A Polish director who turned moral inquiry into cinema - *Dekalog*'s ten films on the commandments, *The Double Life of Veronique*'s mysterious doubling, the *Three Colours* trilogy's meditation on liberty, equality, fraternity.
A life in dates
Krzysztof Kieslowski: I'm So-So...Film, 19951994
Three Colors: RedFilm, Director, Writer1991
The Double Life of VéroniqueFilm, Director, Writer1989
DekalogSeries, Director, Writer
Decalogue IFilm, 1989Director, Writer1988European Film Award for Best FilmAward1987
Blind ChanceFilm, Director, Writer1985
No EndFilm, Director, Writer1979
Camera BuffFilm, Director, Writer1977
HospitalFilm, Director1975
Curriculum VitaeFilm, Director, Writer1974
X-RayFilm, Director1971
FactoryFilm, Director1969
From the City of LodzFilm, Director, Writer1966
The OfficeFilm, Director1941Born27 June 1941Also in Deutsch
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In their own words 2
, If there is anything worthwhile doing for the sake of culture, then it is touching on subject matters and situations which link people, and not those that divide people.
I don't make biographical films … None of the films is about me. Not a single one. None. I have my life and I'll simply never tell anyone what part of me is in my films.
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HEHeaven
TAThe Big AnimalKSKrzysztof Kieslowski: I'm So-So...
TWThree Colors: WhiteTRThree Colors: Red
TBThree Colors: BlueTVThe Double Life of VéroniqueDIDecalogue I
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DIDecalogue III
DXDecalogue X
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ALA Short Film About Love
AKA Short Film About KillingBCBlind ChanceNENo End
THTalking Heads
RSRailway Station
TCThe CalmCBCamera Buff
FVFrom a Night Porter's Point of View
SASeven Women of Different AgesHOHospital
TSThe Scar
PEPersonnel
SLSlateCVCurriculum VitaeXRX-Ray
RERefrainFAFactory
ISI Was a SoldierFLFrom the City of Lodz
CRConcert of RequestsTOThe Office
TRTramway129 credits on file
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DEDekalogAwards
About this person
Krzysztof Kieślowski was born on 27 June 1941 in Poland and became a film director and screenwriter whose work traced questions of chance, choice, and connection. *Dekalog* arrived in 1989 - ten hour-long films, each circling one of the Ten Commandments, winning the Venice FIPRESCI Prize that year. *The Double Life of Veronique* followed in 1991, a story of two women in two countries living parallel lives, taking Cannes' FIPRESCI and Ecumenical Jury prizes. Then came the *Three Colours* trilogy between 1993 and 1994 - *Blue*, *White*, *Red* - which brought him Venice's Golden Lion in 1993 and Berlin's Silver Bear in 1994, plus Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay in 1995. He died on 14 March 1996, and six years later the British Film Institute's *Sight & Sound* poll placed him second among modern directors.
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