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Krzysztof Kieślowski

Master of moral and metaphysical cinema.

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Krzysztof Kieślowski, a Polish film director and screenwriter, was born on 27 June 1941 and passed away on 14 March 1996.[1]

Life and work

Kieślowski was born in Warsaw to Barbara and Roman Kieślowski and moved between small towns due to his father's tuberculosis treatment.[2] He was raised Roman Catholic and retained a personal relationship with God, and at sixteen dropped out of firefighters' training school after three months.[3] His television film Workers '71 was shown only in a drastically censored form.[4] He abandoned documentary filmmaking after the censorship of Workers '71 and an incident during Station (1981).[4]

He died at age 54 during open-heart surgery following a heart attack and was interred in Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.[5] After employment as a theatrical tailor, his third application to the Łódź Film School's directing department succeeded in 1964.[6] City dwellers, workers, and soldiers going about their daily routines were the subjects of his early documentary work.[4] The Mannheim Film Festival's first prize was won by his debut non-documentary feature, Personnel (1975).[7]

A ten-episode series titled Dekalog (1988), each episode nominally based on one of the Ten Commandments and set in a Warsaw tower block, was produced for Polish television with financial support from West Germany.[8]

What the cited sources add

The Guardian article notes that Hell was adapted from a screenplay in a trilogy by Kieślowski and co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz, inspired by Dante's Inferno.[9] The same source states that Tanovic, who studied with Kieślowski, was more intrigued by Purgatory, about a photographer killed in the Bosnian war.[9] The Oxford University Student interview reports that Kieślowski said the fictional composer "Van den Budenmayer" was created by him and his composer Zbigniew Preisner.[10] In that interview, Kieślowski stated his conviction that worthwhile culture touches on subjects linking people, not dividing them.[10][11]

The BFI's Sight & Sound 2002 mini-poll ranked Kieślowski at number two among modern film directors.[12]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Krzysztof Kieślowski" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Stok 1993, p. xiii.; "Krzysztof Kieślowski", IMDb (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Krzysztof Kieślowski" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Mikrokosmos w naszym Davos - Dolnośląskie ślady Krzysztofa Kieślowskiego", Twoje Sudety, 3 December 2005 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Krzysztof Kieślowski" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Holden, "Krzysztof Kieślowski: I'm So-So...", The New York Times, 5 August 1998 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Krzysztof Kieślowski" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Perez, "The Essentials: Krzysztof Kieslowski", indiewire.com, 13 March 2013 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Krzysztof Kieślowski" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Annette Insdorf, "Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski", Miamax, 15 May 2002, p. 182 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Krzysztof Kieślowski" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jazdon, "Krzysztof Kieślowski: migratory filmmaker", Europeana (CC By-SA), June 2019; Jazdon, "Krzysztof Kieślowski: migratory filmmaker", Europeana (CC By-SA), June 2019 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Krzysztof Kieślowski" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979)", MIFF (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Krzysztof Kieślowski" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Krzysztof Kieslowski: Interviews", University Press of Mississippi, 2016 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Goodman, "Lanie Goodman meets director Danis Tanovic", The Guardian, 14 April 2006. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  10. Abrahamson, "Kieślowski's Many Colours", Oxford University Student, 2 June 1995. facts only, no text reused. musicolog.com
  11. Wikipedia, "Krzysztof Kieślowski" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Abrahamson, "Kieślowski's Many Colours", Oxford University Student, 2 June 1995 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  12. "Sight & Sound | Modern Times", BFI, 25 January 2012. facts only, no text reused. old.bfi.org.uk

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Krzysztof Kieślowski (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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