Krzysztof Kieslowski (Warsaw 27 June 1941 - 13 March 1996) was a most-renowned documentary film maker by the 1970s to1990s. He made notable films and his unique humanism secured him a place as one of the most important modern film directors. He was a major figure in the Polish film after the generation of a representative, where he defined the so-called "Cinema of Moral Anxiety" - films in the lead person. In this test the limits of socialist film-censorship by drawing sharp contrasts between individuals and the state. Kieslowski graduated from college in Lodz Film School in 1968 and began his film career by making documentaries, which were both artistic and politically, and strive to raise social awareness. In 1973, the social and political commentary Bricklayer, where the story of the political activity will be deceived political hierarchy surrounded by party politics and return to the bud. Kieslowski's documentary Hospital (1976) was again a tribute to the highly skilled surgeons in a Polish hospital, and revealing examination of problems of the state of health care in Poland.
His early-length films were made on television; contained, among others, films Personne and Calm. Because of his films have developed documents, he began to use documentary techniques to improve and enhance the realism of fiction. Scar (1976) was the first theatrical Kieslowski, social, introducing realistic as if it were a large industrial plant. He got the attention of the film festival Camera Buffo (1979), which examines a parody of the film industry the unknown and commented on the irony of censorship. The film Blind Chance (1981), focuses on how the film may affect the role of the fate or possibly influence their own future.
In the year1984, he began writing a long-term collaboration with Krzysztof Piesiewicz. The movie was about a lawyer he spoke with and was born in the film No End (1984), and it tells how the lawyer in Poland in 1982 prevailed during the turbulent state, followed by a chaos in life, with his wife's view the man arrested, and he tried to get a strike.
Kieslowski mammoth Decalogue, written of Piesiewicz in cooperation with the series that were made for Polish television and it were 10 Commandments. Each part was always an hour long. Taken from a modern apartment hotel in Warsaw and Kieslowski creates the feeling of power in every image of excitement, a sense of hopelessness, and fear worse in front of - it occurs everywhere, in everything and in practice in all life. The film is presented in its entirety in 1989 Venice Film Festival and the film is considered a modern movie masterpiece.
Poland has been in the lack of money that drove Kieslowski seek financial support from the West, especially in France. Double Life of Veronique (1992) established Kieslowski's international reputation. The study of two women, one French, one Polish, who have the same name, birthday, heart disease, and a vague feeling of existence, and it wes a commercial and critical success factors and starring actress Irene Jacob.
Three Colors trilogy, which represents the colors of the French flag: Blue (1993), White (1994) and Red (1994) The trilogy will examine these three themes; Blue, Juliette Binoche grieves because he lost her husband and child in a car accident, and her new life and freedom can not replace a lost love. White, spoke a hairdresser trying to get back to his ex-wife, and seeks equality in one-sided relationship. Red, Irene Jacob is a model that gradually falls in love with the old man (Jean-Louis Trintignant) after she accidentally kills her dog in a traffic accident. Retired judge to arrange him to "accidentally" Irene herself looking man, and once again all is well. The film is planned to be after three months, and even though each can work independently; Films are planned to be seen after every third months each.
Kieslowski designed his retirement after the movie, even though he does not really abandoned tfilms altogether. His last project co-trio oncology Piesiewicz'in, which tentatively are planned to be Heaven, Hell, and then Purtagory as name. Kieslowski died before the trilogy was ready. The great artist died of a heart after surgery was 54 years of age. shall ideally be compiled in the trilogy, was completed in 2002 Tom Tykwer Directorate General and Cate Blanchett.
Kieslowski believed "everybody's life is worthy of scrutiny, having its secrets and dramas. In discussing the making of The Decalogue, ten films loosely based upon The Ten Commandments and set in contemporary life, he exclaimed this conviction as it is manifested in his work, by beginning each film in a way which suggested that the main character had been picked by the camera as if by random. Kieslowski's characters in the Three Colours Trilogy also seem, for the most part, to be quite ordinary, reflecting his belief that "we're tiny and imperfect, caught in a maelstrom of people and events beyond our control, and often more troubling, circumstances which are beyond our ken. It should come as no surprise that Kieslowski frequently credited the works of authors such as Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Camus and Faulkner as the sources that influenced him most, Their goal--and his, he said, was to capture what lies within us... a great subject for literature.
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