Movies: Krzysztof Kieślowski

Documentary featuring a candid interview with Kieślowski and rare behind-the-scenes footage from the set of The Double Life of Véronique...

Left behind by a circus, a camel wanders to the house of a simple middle-aged couple in a Polish village. Although the wife is initially bewildered by the strange and unexpected animal, her husband immediately adopts it as a pet....

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Each day of the week is represented by a ballerina beginning with a young child and ending with an older ballet teacher....

Documentary about polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski...

A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student....

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

A young couple leave a lake campsite on motorbike at the same time as a bus full of youths. The boy accidently loses a tent along the road which is picked up by those in the bus who offer a trade of the tent for his girl....

Chief Forester Szymon from the observation tower sees a professor in the forest, walking through his district. Szymon and his wife Celina later engage in a disagreement due to his indifference and refusal to react on the professor’s illegal hunting. ...

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24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses....

A documentary revolving around the Polish situation on an industrial level at the tail-end of the 1960s: it alternates between stark images at a metallurgic foundry and a board-room meeting among the various executives involved in its management....

A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate....

Documentary on Krzysztof Kieslowski's Dekalog from the BBC Arena series....

A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party....

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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....

Collection of documentary shorts by various acclaimed directors...

A group of veterans recount a horrifying experience when trapped in a minefield, resulting in each losing their sight....

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