Movies: Krzysztof Kieślowski

This documentary explores the changing faces of the old Polish city of Lodz, and how its modernization, both physically and culturally, affects the older, more conservative residents, many of whom lived through World War II and are confused and somew...

Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings....

One of the first documentary films of Krzysztof Kieslowski. It is a story about everyday life funeral in the 70s...

Documentary tracing the filmmaker’s work in Poland, from his days as a student through The Double Life of Véronique....

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A boy leaves a party and gets on a passenger tram. Aboard, he shyly watches a girl, who soon falls asleep....

A biographical story of Krzysztof Kieślowski. The production is composed of well-selected fragments of his documentaries and feature films. The aim of that is to create a universal human story: birth, education, maturation, love, work, illness, and d...

"Legenda" is a document about a famous polish writer Stefan Żeromski. It serves as an interview with people who knew the artist....

This interview, made in January 1995, is an attempt to examine the universal messages offered by 'Decalogue', as well as it's idiosyncrasies...

Portrait of an artist as a young manic. First, a montage of still photographs of an artist's face. Then motion. He stirs in sleep; he paints and expresses frustration. He looks for a light for his cigarette. He sketches, wads it up; makes tea; stares...

Presents highlights of a workshop for young directors conducted by the Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941-1996) in Amsterdam during the summer of 1994, inclusive of interviews with Kieślowski himself. The theme of the workshop was the directi...

Ten days of preparation for the Monte Carlo rally. The two Polish drivers battle with the technical shortcomings of the Polish Fiat 125 and overwhelming bureaucracy. They did not finish the race. An allegory of the country's industrial and economic p...

Commissioned film about the conditions of safety and hygiene in the Lubin copper mine....

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After looking at a photograph from the end of World War II of two young boys holding guns, celebrating the liberation of Warsaw, a documentarian for Polish television tries to find the boys and discover how their lives have went....

The insane government bureaucracy at a state pension window....

Film director Krzysztof Kieślowski examines in detail one scene from each of the films in his Three Colors Trilogy....

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In this meta-film, the film students of the Department of Film at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki collectively make fun of themselves, their film studies and the state of Finnish cinema. Legendary director Krzysztof Kieslowski...