FILM DIRECTOR

Krzysztof Kieślowski

1941 - 1996

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Krzysztof Kieślowski (Polish: [ˈkʂɨʂtɔf kʲɛɕˈlɔfskʲi] ; 27 June 1941 – 13 March 1996) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is known internationally for Dekalog (1989), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), and the Three Colours trilogy (1993 –1994). Kieślowski received numerous awards during his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize (1988), FIPRESCI Prize (1988, 1991), and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (1991); the Venice Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize (1989), Golden Lion (1993), and OCIC Award (1993); and the Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear (1994). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krzysztof Kieślowski has received more than 1,791,825 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Krzysztof Kieślowski is the 39th most popular film director (down from 29th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Poland (down from 31st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Film Director.

Krzysztof Kieślowski is most famous for his trilogy of films that he made in the late 1980s and early 1990s: "The Decalogue," "The Double Life of Veronique," and "Three Colors: Blue, White, Red."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 39 out of 2,041. Before him are Quentin Tarantino, Andrzej Wajda, Tinto Brass, Tim Burton, Ken Loach, and John Ford. After him are James Cameron, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Billy Wilder, Vittorio De Sica, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 12. Before him are Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Sergio Mattarella, Bernardo Bertolucci, Cesária Évora, and Václav Klaus. After him are Robert Forster, Plácido Domingo, Bruno Ganz, Richard Dawkins, Lee Myung-bak, and Martha Argerich. Among people deceased in 1996, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 8. Before him are Marcello Mastroianni, Tupac Shakur, Baba Vanga, Thomas Kuhn, Carl Sagan, and Marguerite Duras. After him are Dzhokhar Dudayev, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Joseph Brodsky, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Whittle, and Tadeusz Reichstein.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 49 out of 1,694. Before him are Bronisław Malinowski (1884), Arthur Rubinstein (1887), Casimir Funk (1884), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Rudolf Virchow (1821), and Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768). After him are Casimir III the Great (1310), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Donald Tusk (1957), Emil von Behring (1854), Klaus Kinski (1926), and Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 2. Before him are Andrzej Wajda (1926). After him are Billy Wilder (1906), Dziga Vertov (1896), Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), and Krzysztof Zanussi (1939).

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Filmography

Three Colors: Blue
Director
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 mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
Sep 8o 19937.7 / 10
Three Colors: Red
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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 listening to his neighbors’ phone calls.
May 12o 19947.9 / 10
Three Colors: White
Director
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 Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
Jan 26o 19947.459 / 10