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 Krzysztof Kieślowski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Krzysztof Kieślowski (June 27, 1941, Warsaw – March 13, 1996, Warsaw) was an influential Polish film director and screenwriter, known internationally for his film cycles Three Colors and The Decalogue.
Piesiewicz was a trial lawyer whom Kieślowski met while researching political trials under martial law for a planned documentary on the subject; Piesiewicz co-wrote the screenplays for all of Kieślowski's subsequent films.
Krzysztof Kieślowski died on March 13, 1996 during open-heart surgery following a heart attack, and was interred in Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Krzysztof_Kieslowski   (1775 words)

  
 Arts and Faith -> [Decalogue] Biography of Krzysztof Piesiewicz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Krzysztof Piesiewicz was born in Warsaw on October 25, 1945.
Piesiewicz and Kieslowski met for the first time in 1982 when Kieslowski wanted to make a documentary on political trials under the martial law.
It was Piesiewicz's idea to make The Decalogue (Dekalog), which he says is "an attempt to return to elementary values destroyed by communism".
artsandfaith.com /index.php?showtopic=841   (332 words)

  
 Warsaw Voice - Fighting the Tide from the Left
Krzysztof Piesiewicz, a lawyer, author and scriptwriter author, who wrote the script for the award-winning The Decalogue cycle by the late movie director Krzysztof Kieślowski, initiated the concept for the Senate 2001 Bloc.
Piesiewicz, who was linked with the democratic opposition in Poland for years under communism and then worked for Solidarity, said that only a joint election list of all the parties making up the so-called post-August camp can challenge the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD).
Piesiewicz's idea, which was at first received coldly both among the leaders of the right-wing Solidarity Election Action-Right (AWSP) and Law and Justice (PiS), and among the creators of the liberal Civic Platform (PO), has finally gained recognition.
www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/1714   (760 words)

  
 Krzysztof Kieslowski HomePage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Krzysztof Kieslowski was born in Warsaw on June 27, 1941.
A recent interview by his co-writer, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, confirmed however, that currently they are working on a new film project.
Zbigniew Preisner was born in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, in 1955.
www-personal.engin.umich.edu /~zbigniew/Kieslowski/kieslowski.html   (1302 words)

  
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Dissertation: Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colours Trilogy By: Gerard Sampaio, gerard@src.gla.ac.uk Note to the Reader This dissertation is intended for people who have watched The Three Colours Trilogy once or twice and are interested in finding out more about what is a very interesting and densely packed text.
The Director and Co-Writer, Krzysztof Kieslowski Krzysztof Kieslowski was born in Warsaw in June of 1941.
Biography of Krzysztof Piesiewicz Krzysztof Piesiewicz was born in Warsaw on the 25th of October 1945.
www.petey.com /kk/docs/kiesdiss.txt   (9471 words)

  
 Krzysztof Kieslowski -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Starting with No End, Kieślowski's career was closely associated with two frequent collaborators, the screenwriter (Click link for more info and facts about Krzysztof Piesiewicz) Krzysztof Piesiewicz and the composer (Click link for more info and facts about Zbigniew Preisner) Zbigniew Preisner.
Piesiewicz was a trial lawyer whom Kieślowski met while researching political trials for No End (which was originally meant to be a documentary); he co-wrote all of Kieślowski's subsequent films.
Krzysztof Kieślowski died on March 13, 1996 during open-heart surgery following a heart attack, and was interred in (Click link for more info and facts about Powazki Cemetery) Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/kr/krzysztof_kieslowski.htm   (1503 words)

  
 Krzysztof Kieslowski biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Krzysztof Kieślowski (June 27, 1941–March 13, 1996) was an influential Polish film director and screenwriter, known internationally for his film cycles Three Colors and The Decalogue.
Starting with No End, Kieślowski's career was closely associated with two frequent collaborators, the screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz and the composer Zbigniew Preisner.
Krzysztof Kieślowski died on March 13, 1996 during open-heart surgery following a heart attack, and was interred in Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland.
krzysztof-kieslowski.biography.ms   (1373 words)

  
 Talking Without Shouting
Krzysztof Piesiewicz arrives on the stage of the Town Hall Theatre brandishing a packet of cigarettes.
Piesiewicz had been a barrister, specialising in criminal defense and family law.
Piesiewicz draws a distinction between the kind of documentary that Kieslowski made and the 'reality' programmes which are the obsession of the day.
www.filmireland.net /92/talking.htm   (307 words)

  
 Krzysztof Pieczynski @ Filmbug
Krzysztof Piesiewicz was born in Warsaw in 1945.
Piesiewicz represented Solidarity in the political trials that took place between 1981 and 1987.
Together with Krzysztof Kieslowski, he co-authored the Kieslowski films Bez Konca (1984), Krotki Film O Zabijaniu (1987) and Krotki Film O Milosci (1988) as well as the ten-part miniseries Decalog which served as a basis for the latter two films,.
www.filmbug.com /db/307214   (191 words)

  
 Three Colors: White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Co-written, produced, and directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, White is the second in the Three Colors trilogy, following Blue and preceding Red.
Writer/director Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy was made back-to-back beginning in 1993.
Krzysztof Kieslowski's skill in weaving a story he co-wrote, is evident again in "White".
www.city-search.org /th/three-colors:-white.html   (992 words)

  
 Metaphilm - The Decalogue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
As a thread of continuity between the scripts, Kieślowski and Piesiewicz designed a character originally intended to be present in every scene (but appearing fleetingly in episode VII and not at all in X)[7].
Her coffee goes cold, just as Krzysztof’s milk went sour in Decalogue I. That which is good, the sacramental drink between two communing friends, is spoiled here.
Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Decalogue: The Ten Commandments, trans.
metaphilm.com /philm.php?id=332_0_2_0_M   (6353 words)

  
 eye - Ten singular sensations - 01.11.01
BY While the Ten Commandments are the basis for the dramatic situations in Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's The Decalogue, the unifying image is not one of Moses ambling down Mount Sinai.
There's an air of bleakness tempered by hope, a fascination with voyeurism and surveillance, a subtle but precise ability to create a narrative and a take on the world that is influenced by staunch social realism but finds room for the fantastic and even the miraculous.
Kieslowski and Piesiewicz's stories touch on a wide range of social, philosophical, ethical and -- since it was made during the protracted end of communist rule in Poland -- political issues.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.11.01/film/decalogue.html   (920 words)

  
 Kieslowski's Red brilliantly concludes French trilogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Krzysztof Kieslowski (left) directs Jean-Louis Trintignant and Irene Jacob in a scene from Red.
Those unfamiliar with Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's style may be put off a bit at first.
This article may be freely distributed electronically, provided it is distributed in its entirety and includes this notice, but may not be reprinted without the express written permission of The Tech.
www-tech.mit.edu /V114/N65/red.65a.html   (627 words)

  
 Polish Directors - Krzysztof Kieslowski
DVD set includes an introduction by film critic Roger Ebert, three short documentaries about director Krzysztof Kieslowski: "On the Set of The Decalogue," "Kieslowski Meets the Press," and "Kieslowski Known and Unknown," and a printed booklet with an introduction by Kieslowski, an interview with scriptwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz and more.
Krzysztof Kieslowski's powerful portrait of life under martial law in Poland is a film "burning with a passionate engagement with the system" (Time Out).
Director Krzysztof Kieslowski's superb cinematic representations of the three colors of the French flag, Blue (1993, 98 mins.), White (1994, 92 mins.) and Red (1994, 99 mins.), are collected in an impressive 3-DVD box set.
www.multilingualbooks.com /foreignvids-polish-kieslowski.html   (1833 words)

  
 Arts & Faith Top100 Film
Krzysztof introduces his small son, Pawel, to the mysteries of the personal computer, a machine which he believes is infallible.
Krzysztof runs to the church in protest and despair, falls against an altar.
Candle wax splashes over the face of the fl Madonna and dries on her cheeks as tears.
www.artsandfaith.com /t100/decalogue.html   (1190 words)

  
 Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - The Decalogue - Complete Set
The video release will give viewers the opportunity to revisit each episode and discover characters from the other films that pop up in the background of the current story and might also help to better explain the mysterious presence of Artur Barcis, a quiet onlooker who might be an angel or a devil.
Kieslowski, collaborating with cowriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, has made a series of films that feel small and intimate yet are actually epic commentaries on modern human existence, making THE DECALOGUE a lasting work of art.
Kieslowski's cowriter, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, suggested the Ten Commandments concept to the director, who initially had conceived the series as a way for young directors to make their first films.
www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=53014784   (607 words)

  
 Krzysztof Kieslowski @ Filmbug UK
Four years after his death on March 13, 1996, Krzysztof Kieslowski is still one of the most prominent and influential European filmmakers.
In the mid-1980s, Kieslowski and his author Krzysztof Piesiewicz came up with the idea of making an unusual version of the Ten Commandments: ten sixty-minute films for television, brought together under the name Dekalog, that told stories of daily life in Poland.
At the age of 54, Kieslowski died unexpectedly of a heart attack on March 13, 1996, in Warsaw.
www.filmbug.co.uk /db/2904   (368 words)

  
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Short and gentle, Valentine walks through life with an air of light expectation, as though she were waiting for something to arrive -- a catalyst, a lover, a reason to move.
Perhaps that is what prodded Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski and his writing collaborator, Krzysztof Piesiewicz (himself a lawyer), to create Three Colors: Red, a movie about a judge racked by guilt, regret and his need to keep eavesdropping on other people's crimes and pain.
Krzysztof Kieslowski's film Red is all about collisions -clashes of will, of personality, and of world view - but this physical collision is perhaps its most important for it brings Valentine togetherwith the dog's owner, a bitter retired judge who is every bit as anti-social as Valentine is outgoing.
www.petey.com /kk/docs/red.txt   (3420 words)

  
 CINEASTE
One of the most intriguing aspects of these films is embedded in Kieslowski’s and his coscreenwriter, Krzysztof Piesiewicz’s, conviction that "the relationship between the films and the individual Commandments" is a ‘tentative’ one." Consequently, many of the episodes self-consciously overlap and major characters from one episode occasionally make cameo appearances in others.
Even though some critics have found the intertwined paradoxes of this segment heavy-handed, the moral conundrum raised by Kieslowski and Piesiewicz can be viewed as an integral part of a project that conjoins ancient moral laws with existential dread–as well as a more salutary invitation to engage in crucial existential choices.
Conversely, one can argue that Majka’s neuroses have been manufactured by her mother’s overweening desire to avoid scandal; the daughter, whose reputation Eva wants to preserve, has actually been destroyed by a tissue of lies.
www.cineaste.com /deca.htm   (2381 words)

  
 Chicago Reader Movie Review
Henryk Baranowski, Krystyna Janda, Aleksander Bardini, Daniel Olbrychski, Maria Pakulnis, Adrianna Biedrzynska, Janusz Gajos, Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz, Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Anna Polony, Maria Koscialkowska, Teres a Marczewska, Ewa Blaszczyk, Piotr Machalica, Jerzy Stuhr, and Zbigniew Zamachowski.
Since the recent death of the 54-year-old Krzysztof Kieslowski during open-heart surgery, one of the key points of speculation about him is whether he knew when he announced his retirement a couple of years ago that he had a heart condition.
And prior to his last heart attack he'd begun work with his longtime collaborator, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, on a script for a new trilogy structured around the themes of heaven, hell, and purgatory--not necessarily in that order.
www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/0396/03296.html   (2341 words)

  
 Kieslowski: Feature Films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The film ends with Romek sitting in front of a blank sheet of paper on which he is to denounce his friend, a fellow tailor who was sacked through the maliciousness of one of the performers.
His intentions and convictions, however, conflict with those of the townspeople who are primarily concerned with their short-term needs.
Elzbieta, researching the fate of Jewish war survivors, is visiting from New York and sits in on lectures in ethics at the University of Warsaw.
www-personal.engin.umich.edu /~zbigniew/Kieslowski/KFeatures.html   (2977 words)

  
 OFFOFFOFF film review THE DECALOGUE (Dekalog 1 through Dekalog 10) Polish movie by Krzysztof Kieslowski written by ...
Director Krzysztof Kieslowski's "The Decalogue" —; a sometimes brutal, often profound series based on the Ten Commandments —; challenges you to figure out how to be a moral person in a world with no easy answers.
Now it's been rediscovered, shown at several venues over the last six months and released on video, and there's no reason to miss this profound, beautiful and sometimes painful series of films.
Krzysztof Kieslowski — the late director of "Blue," "White," "Red," and one of my very favorite films, "The Double Life of Veronique" — said little about the intention of "The Decalogue," but it has been seen as an attempt to rethink moral questions in the declining years of communism.
www.offoffoff.com /film/2001/decalogue.php3   (924 words)

  
 Review: Three Colors: Blue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
One moment, Julie (Juliette Binoche) had everything; the next, her husband and daughter have been killed in a car accident and her own face is a patchwork of lacerations.
Blue, the first of Krzysztof Kieslowski's "colors" trilogy (White and Red have recently been completed, marking the director's farewell to the industry, as he has announced his retirement), is a powerful motion picture - both in terms of its dramatic impact and in its method of presentation.
Reminiscent of Fearless in the manner that it handles the transformation of an individual through a life-altering tragedy, Blue delves deeply into the psyche of Julie and leads us to examine our own perspectives on life, loneliness, and liberty as we watch her cope with her new, and dramatically different, existence.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/blue.html   (530 words)

  
 Movie Review - Double Life of Veronique, The - eFilmCritic
Krzysztof Kieslowski, of the Blue, White, and Red trilogy, emanates no sense of direction in his narrative.
Kieslowski shares the writing credit with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, and the script itself is mostly where the trouble resides.
Veronique was done no justice, and the state of its undevelopment led to a state of limbo.
efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=4369&reviewer=172   (743 words)

  
 Preisner: Requiem For My Friend (Full Score) at Musicroom.com - Sheet Music for Musicians
Krzysztof Kieslowski would be the director, Krzysztof Piesiewicz was responsible for the script, and I was planning to compose the music.
We thought it might be the first of a series of musical performances, to be developed in various interesting places around the world in the next few years.
But it was life that authored a different ending: Krzysztof Kieslowski died in March of 1996.
www.musicroom.com /se/ID_No/0026758/details.html?kbid=1296   (225 words)

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