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.

Foreign productions

Kie?lowski's last four films were foreign co-productions, made mainly with money from France and in particular producer Marin Karmitz. These focused on moral and metaphysical issues along similar lines to The Decalogue and Blind Chance but on a more abstract level, with smaller casts, more internal stories, and less interest in communities. Poland appeared in these films mostly through the eyes of European outsiders. The four films were his most commercially successful by some distance.

Related Topics:
France - Marin Karmitz

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The first of these was La double vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Véronique) (1990), starring Irène Jacob. The relative commercial success of this film allowed Kie?lowski the opportunity to raise the funding for his amibitious final films, the trilogy Three Colors (', ', '), his most acclaimed works next to The Decalogue and his first international commercial successes. The three films together garnerd a host of prestigious international awards, including the Golden Lion for Best Film and Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival, and the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival, in addition to winning three Academy Award nominations. The Trilogy is generally regarded as a major acheivement in modern cinema.

Related Topics:
The Double Life of Véronique - Irène Jacob - Three Colors - Venice Film Festival - Berlin Film Festival - Academy Award

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