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Krzysztof Kieslowski More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

27 June 1941, Warsaw, Poland

Date of Death

13 March 1996, Warsaw, Poland (cardiac arrest)

Height

6' 0½" (1.84 m)

Mini Biography

Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lodz Film Academy in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie podziemne (1974) (TV) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next film, Personel (1976) (TV) (The Staff), took the Grand Prix at Mannheim. His first full-length feature was Blizna (1976) (The Scar). In 1978 he made the famous _Z punktu widzenia nocnego portiera (1978)_ (Night Porter's Point of View), and in 1979 Amator (1979) (Camera Buff).

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Mini Biography

Mr. Kieslowski started his career shooting documentaries and later became associated with the "cinema of moral anxiety, " which grouped several Polish directors, including 'Andrzej Wajda', and aimed to depict the conditions of Poles under communism. His best known work was the three colors series "Red", "White, " and "Blue". "Red" brought him an Academy Award nomination for best director in 1995, "Blue" shared the Golden Lion at Venice in 1993, and "White" earned Mr. Kieslowski the best director prize in Berlin, 1994.

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Spouse

Maria Cautillo

(21 January 1967 - 13 March 1996) (his death) 1 child

Trivia

Was denied acceptance into film school twice. Passed on the third.

Announced his retirement from film-making after completing "Red".

Battled complications of AIDS at the time of his death (according to "Hello" magazine obituary), in addition to having had open-heart surgery.

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989

Had one daughter Marta (b. 1972)

At one point he was filming Three Color: White while editing Three Colors: Blue and writing Three Colors: Red.

He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture.

Personal Quotes

"If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my hero, although I keep on trying."

"I can identify with what Bergman says about life, about what he says about love. I identify more or less with his attitude towards the world... towards men and women and what we do in everyday life... forgetting about what is most important."

"Andrei Tarkovsky was one of the greatest directors of recent years. He's dead, like most of them. That is, most of them are dead or have stopped making films. Or else, somewhere along the line, they've irretrievably lost something, some individual sort of imagination, intelligence, or way of narrating a story. Tarkovsky was certainly one of those who hadn't lost this."

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