Leaving college and working as a theatrical tailor, Kieślowski applied to the Łódź Film School, the famed Polish film school which also has Roman Polanski and Andrzej Wajda among its alumni.

Kieślowski had also planned to shoot a full-length version of Episode 9 under the title A Short Film About Jealousy, but exhaustion eventually prevented him from making what would have been his thirteenth film in less than a year.

He is also the subject of a biographical film, Krzysztof Kieślowski: I'm So-So ( 1995 ), directed by Krzysztof Wierzbicki.

The large cast includes both famous actors and unknowns, many of whom Kieślowski also used in his other films.

Krzysztof Kieślowski was interested in the philosophical challenge and also wanted to use the series as a portrait of the hardships of Polish society, while deliberately avoiding the political issues he had depicted in earlier films.

It also includes a booklet featuring essays by Jonathan Romney, Slavoj Zizek, and Peter Cowie, and a selection from Kieślowski on Kieślowski.

* Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television, also named Katowice Film School or Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice

Krzysztof Kieślowski also made use of the studio, producing his renowned television miniseries The Decalogue here in 1988.

Written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, the film explores the themes of identity, love, and human intuition through the characters of Weronika, a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, a French music teacher.

Written by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, the film is about a young post office worker deeply in love with a promiscuous older woman who lives in an adjacent apartment building.

Just under two years after announcing his retirement, Krzysztof Kieślowski died on 13 March 1996 at age 54 during open-heart surgery following a heart attack, and was interred in Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.

Kieślowski later said that he abandoned documentary filmmaking due to two experiences: the censorship of Workers ' 71, which caused him to doubt whether truth could be told literally under an authoritarian regime, and an incident during the filming of Station ( 1981 ) in which some of his footage was nearly used as evidence in a criminal case.

The relative commercial success of this film gave Kieślowski the funding for his ambitious final films, the trilogy Three Colors ( Blue, White, Red ), which explores the virtues symbolized by the French flag.

Typically for Kieślowski, the tone of most of the films is melancholic, except for the final one, which, like Three Colors: White, is a black comedy, and features two of the same actors, Jerzy Stuhr and Zbigniew Zamachowski.

After World War II, despite censorship, filmmakers like Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Agnieszka Holland, Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Żuławski impacted the development of the cinematography.

In the 1990s, Krzysztof Kieślowski won a universal acclaim with productions such as The Decalogue ( made for television ), The Double Life of Véronique and the Three Colors trilogy.

* June 27 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director ( d. 1996 )

* March 13 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director ( b. 1941 )

There is no strict division in Poland between theatre and film directors and actors, therefore many stage artists are known to theatre goers from films of Andrzej Wajda, for example: Wojciech Pszoniak, Daniel Olbrychski, Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, and from films of Krzysztof Kieślowski, actors such as Jerzy Stuhr, Janusz Gajos and others.

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César.

However, the long production of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf had forced her to turn down several significant roles in international productions including The Double Life of Véronique by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Cyrano de Bergerac by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Night and Day by Chantal Akerman and Beyond the Aegean an aborted project with Elia Kazan.

Kieślowski was listed at number two on the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound Top Ten Directors list of modern times.

Kieślowski was born in Warsaw and grew up in several small towns, moving wherever his engineer father, a tuberculosis patient, could find treatment.

Kieślowski quickly lost his interest in theatre and decided to make documentary films.

Kieślowski retired from film making with a public announcement after the premiere of his last film Red at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.

Though Kieślowski believed the film's message was anti-authoritarian, he was criticized by his colleagues for cooperating with the government in its production.

During this period, Kieślowski was considered part of a loose movement with other Polish directors of the time, including Janusz Kijowski, Andrzej Wajda, and Agnieszka Holland, called the Cinema of Moral Anxiety.

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.

Co-written by Kieślowski and Piesiewicz, the ten one-hour-long episodes had originally been intended for ten different directors, but Kieślowski found himself unable to relinquish control over the project ; in the end, each episode featured a different director of photography.

Kieślowski remains one of Europe's most influential directors, his works included in the study of film classes at universities throughout the world.

The 1993 book Kieślowski on Kieślowski describes his life and work in his own words, based on interviews by Danusia Stok.

After Kieślowski's death, Harvey Weinstein ( then head of Miramax Films, which distributed the last four Kieślowski films in the US ) wrote a eulogy for him in Premiere magazine.

Though he had claimed to be retiring after Three Colors, at the time of his death Kieślowski was working on a new trilogy co-written with Piesiewicz, consisting of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory and inspired by Dante's The Divine Comedy.

It was originally intended as a narrative work to be written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz and directed by Kieślowski, but it became a memorial to Kieślowski after the director's death.

The film's three scenarios are reminiscent of the 1981 Krzysztof Kieślowski film Blind Chance ; following Kieślowski's death, Tykwer directed his planned film Heaven.

Having met film director Krzysztof Kieślowski in the mid-1970s, he continued to work with him until Kieślowski's death in 1996.

Krzysztof Kieślowski (; 27 June 1941 – 13 March 1996 ) was an influential Polish film director and screenwriter known internationally for The Decalogue ( 1989 ), The Double Life of Véronique ( 1991 ), and The Three Colors Trilogy ( 1993 – 1994 ).

Kieślowski received numerous awards throughout 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 ).

It received César Award nominations for Best Film, Best Actor ( Jean-Louis Trintignant ), Best Actress ( Irène Jacob ), Best Director ( Krzysztof Kieślowski ), Best Writing ( Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz ).

* Krzysztof Kieślowski ( 1941 – 1996 ), film director

He appeared as himself in Camera Buff ( 1979 ), a film about an amateur film maker, directed by his friend Krzysztof Kieślowski.

Miramax produced his next film, Heaven ( 2002 ), based on a screenplay by the late Polish filmmaker, Krzysztof Kieślowski.

Co-screenwriter Krzysztof Kieślowski intended for it to be the first part of a trilogy ( the second being Hell and the third having been slated to be titled Purgatory ), but died before he could complete the project.

He furthered his education by attending and graduating from the Łódż Film School ( 1955 ), renowned for other famous graduates such as Roman Polanski and Krzysztof Kieślowski.

The Three Colors Trilogy () is the collective title of three films – a trilogy – directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, two made in French and one primarily in Polish: Trois couleurs: Bleu ( Three Colors: Blue ) ( 1993 ), Trzy kolory: Biały ( Three Colors: White ) ( in French: Blanc ) ( 1994 ), and Trois couleurs: Rouge ( Three Colors: Red ) ( 1994 ).

Kieślowski had earlier used the idea of exploring different paths in life for the same person, in his Polish film Przypadek ( Blind Chance ), and the central choice faced by Weronika / Véronique is based on a brief subplot in the ninth episode of The Decalogue.