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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 1,699,686 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Krzysztof Kieślowski is the 29th most popular film director (up from 35th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Poland (up from 44th in 2019) and the 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 29 out of 1,581. Before him are Leni Riefenstahl, Pedro Almodóvar, Bernardo Bertolucci, Michelangelo Antonioni, Konstantin Stanislavski, and David Lynch. After him are George Lucas, Fritz Lang, Quentin Tarantino, Billy Wilder, Roberto Rossellini, and John Ford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 12. Before him are Joan Baez, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Mattarella, Charlie Watts, Richard Dawkins, and Cesária Évora. After him are Martha Argerich, Plácido Domingo, Bruno Ganz, Fethullah Gülen, Lee Myung-bak, and Nick Nolte. Among people deceased in 1996, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 7. Before him are Baba Vanga, François Mitterrand, Marcello Mastroianni, Thomas Kuhn, Tupac Shakur, and Carl Sagan. After him are Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Marguerite Duras, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Ella Fitzgerald, Joseph Brodsky, and Babrak Karmal.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 31 out of 1,454. Before him are Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Arthur Rubinstein (1887), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), and Maximilian Kolbe (1894). After him are Kurt Lewin (1890), Irena Sendler (1910), Marie Leszczyńska (1703), Bronisław Malinowski (1884), Leonid Kravchuk (1934), and Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 1. After him are Andrzej Wajda (1926), Dziga Vertov (1896), Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Walerian Borowczyk (1923), and Jerzy Hoffman (1932).

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Filmography

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