Polish film director and screenwriter (1941–1996)
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. He made art-house films that asked how to live, and the world's festivals answered with prizes.
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…
Sourced, dated quotes from Krzysztof Kieślowski
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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