Krzysztof Kieślowski

Parallel Tales (2026)

In search of inspiration for her new novel, Sylvie spies on her neighbors in the building across the street using a telescope. When she hires young Adam to help her with her daily routine, she has no idea that he will turn her life and her work upside down ...

Dwando (2009)

Sudipta, who is unhappily married to Anik, is having an affair with Rana. When Sudipta becomes pregnant with Rana's child, then learns Anik has been stricken with a terrible illness, she is caught in an ethical storm. ...

Hope (2007)

Francis Ratay witnesses the theft of church painting "Angel with violin". The entire incident recorded by an amateur camera. The thief turns out to Benedict Weber, gallery owner and art connoisseur. Francis comes to his gallery. Blackmails him, that will p ...

Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) (2006)

A collection of short films by 16 European directors. ...

Hell (2005)

Three sisters who share a connection to a violent childhood incident reunite for the chance to come to terms with their past. ...

Heaven (2002)

A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer. ...

The Big Animal (2000)

When the circus leaves town, Zygmunt and Marysia unwittingly adopt a camel into their home. The couple quickly forms a close bond with the nameless camel, but as the bond grows stronger, their neighbors slowly begin to ostracize them. ...

Love Stories (1997)

Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a drug dealer -- and their relationships with four females. An attractive student puts the teacher in an awkwar ...

Short Working Day (1995)

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party. ...

Three Colors: Red (1994)

Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two form a bond when she returns to his house and catches him l ...

Three Colors: White (1994)

Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow ...

Three Colors: Blue (1993)

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband's mistres ...

The Double Life of Véronique (1991)

Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the up ...

City Life (1990)

A kaleidoscopic panorama of the world. A visual anthology of twelve short stories by twelve innovative directors from all over the world. ...

Decalogue V (1989)

Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark r ...

Decalogue VI (1989)

A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtyard from his. As their private worlds merge, fascination turns to obsession, and the line between love and ...

Decalogue II (1989)

Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, sweared about it in vain. ...

Decalogue IV (1989)

A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an unopened letter from her deceased mother, it seems to justify her attraction to Michał, who may not in fa ...

Decalogue VIII (1989)

Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of Jews who survived World War II. A daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades a ...

Decalogue I (1989)

Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł's aunt, lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of one day, both adults are forced to question their belief ...

Decalogue III (1989)

It's Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband has gone missing. During this night of recklessness and lies, the pair grapple with choices made when thei ...

Decalogue VII (1989)

As a high school student, Majka bore a child, Ania, whom Majka's mother, Ewa, has been raising as her own. Now that Majka is ready for motherhood, Ewa refuses to let go, leading Majka to kidnap her own daughter, with unexpected emotional consequences. ...

Decalogue IX (1989)

Roman and Hanka have a loving marriage, but his impotence has led to her having an affair. The unbearable situation drives Roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally, testing their love and his own will to live. ...

Decalogue X (1989)

Jerzy and Artur's father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness. The more involved the brothers get in their father's world, the more dire and comical their situation be ...

A Short Film About Love (1988)

19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two fina ...

A Short Film About Killing (1988)

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive. ...

Blind Chance (1987)

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life. ...

No End (1985)

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned. ...

The Calm (1980)

A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a confl ...

Talking Heads (1980)

People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life. ...

Railway Station (1980)

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, maybe they won't. The film is about people looking for something. ...

Camera Buff (1979)

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus o ...

The Card Index (1979)

A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war. ...

Seven Women of Different Ages (1979)

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

From a Night Porter's Point of View (1979)

At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view. ...

Hospital (1977)

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

I Don't Know (1977)

The confession of a man who was the director of a factory in Lower Silesia. "He was a Party member but opposed to the Mafia-like organization of Party members which was active in that factory and region. Those people were stealing and debiting the factory ...

The Scar (1976)

When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist party man has to confront the local community opposing the construction. ...

Two for the Seesaw (1976)

Jerry arrives in New York alone to escape his painful divorce and, penniless, meets Giselle, a free-spirited dancer with unfulfilled dreams. A single phone call sparks a passionate romance, but their love is tested by shifting affections and the lingering ...

Personnel (1976)

Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw theater company where his new colleague, Sowa, is pressured to make a costume for an overbearing soloist. ...

Slate (1976)

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

Curriculum Vitae (1975)

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

Legend (1975)

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

First Love (1974)

After the doctor's refusal to perform abortion on a 17-year old girl, she and her boyfriend have to cope with the new situation. They both need to learn to take responsibility for their decisions, in spite of numerous hardships facing them. ...

Pedestrian Subway (1974)

A school teacher from a small town in Poland comes to Warsaw to see his estranged wife, a window dresser, in the hope that she will return to him rather than give him a divorce. ...

X-Ray (1974)

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

The Bricklayer (1973)

Joseph Malesa is a former party activist, labor leader, and mason. The documentary describes his career and life through ups and downs. ...

Checking the King (1972)

Two men in a game of chess. One of the players is a country boy who accidentally discovered a chess talent, and the other is a former lawyer who has not played chess for twenty years. The lawyer tells the story of learning to play chess: during World War I ...

Refrain (1972)

Documentary about everyday life in the funeral business, dealing with a funeral home and targets bureaucracy, corruption and dispassionate attitudes toward sorrowful fellow citizens. ...

Workers '71: Nothing About Us Without Us (1972)

A story about Gdańsk Shipyard and its workers after so called Grudzień 1970 (1970 protests). After those events Edward Gierek replaced Władysław Gomułka as party first secretary and promised redical change in style and methods of ruling. Kieślowski s ...

Between Wrocław and Zielona Góra (1972)

A commissioned film about the Lubin copper mine. ...

The Principles of Safety and Hygiene in a Copper Mine (1972)

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

Culling (1972)

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. Celina ...

Factory (1971)

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. ...

I Was a Soldier (1971)

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

Before the Rally (1971)

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 problem ...

From the City of Lodz (1969)

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 somewhat re ...

The Photograph (1968)

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. ...

Concert of Requests (1967)

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. ...

The Office (1966)

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

Tramway (1966)

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

Sodankylä Forever (2010)

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has playe ...

My Kieslowski (2006)

Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski (2006)

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslowski's happy beginnings at the Lodz film school and how his dissatisfaction with some of his early documen ...

1966-1988: Kieslowski, Polish Filmmaker (2005)

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

Krzysiek Kieślowski (2001)

Short Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski (1996)

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 death. ...

Krzysztof Kieslowski: I'm So-So... (1995)

Director and writer Krzysztof Kieslowski shares his views on life, people, politics, and comments a little about some of his films in a very casual conversation. ...

Krzysztof Kieślowski: A Masterclass for Young Directors (1995)

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 direction o ...

A Short Film About Decalogue: An Interview with Krzysztof Kieslowski (1995)

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

Krzysztof Kieślowski: A Lesson in Cinema (1994)

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

Kieślowski Cannes 94 (1994)

A documentary about the showing of Krzysztof Kieślowski's film RED at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, including interviews with the director and the cast of the film. ...

Tren na śmierć cenzora (1992)

The film reveals the mechanisms of the communist institution of censorship. Famous filmmakers - Kazimierz Kutz, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Filip Bajon and Marcel Lozinski - talk about their contacts and experiences with censors, how their films w ...

Kieslowski: Dialogue (1991)

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

The Ten Commandments of Krzysztof Kieslowski (1990)

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

Pictures of Europe (1990)

What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce's feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between American independent and Hollywood movies and films from European directors. ...

Legend (1975)

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

Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne (1973)

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. ...

The Sun Rises Once a Day (1972)

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts. ...

Hell and Heaven (1966)

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos. ...

Don Gabriel (1966)

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict. ...

The Face (1966)

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 at hi ...