Krzysztof Kie?lowski

Krzysztof Kie?lowski (June 27, 1941, Warsaw – March 13, 1996, Warsaw) was an influential Polish film director and screenwriter, known internationally for his film cycles Three Colors and The Decalogue.

Early life

Kie?lowski was born in Warsaw, Poland, and grew up in several small towns. At sixteen, he briefly attended a firemen's training school, but dropped out after three months. Without any career goals, he then entered the College for Theatre Technicians in Warsaw because it was run by a relative. He decided to become a theatre director, but at the time there was no specific training program for directors, so he chose to study film as an intermediate step.

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Warsaw - Poland - Firemen - Theatre director

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Leaving college and working as a theatrical tailor, Kie?lowski applied to the ?ód? Film School, the famed Polish film school that also produced Roman Pola?ski and Andrzej Wajda. He was rejected twice. To avoid compulsory military service during this time, he briefly became an art student, and also went on a drastic diet in an attempt to make himself medically unfit for service. After several months of successfully avoiding the draft, he was accepted to the ?ód? Film School on his third attempt.

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?ód? Film School - Roman Pola?ski - Andrzej Wajda - Compulsory military service

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He attended from 1964 to 1968, during a period in which the government allowed a relatively high degree of artistic freedom at the school. Kie?lowski quickly lost his interest in theatre and decided to make documentary films.

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