Krzysztof Kieslowski - Dworzec aka Railway Station (1980)

Description: Kieslowski's later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour. It opens with the main television news at 7:30PM, providing information about the communist party leader, Edward Gierek. The recurrent image, Orwellian in spirit, of security cameras watching people, organises the film. In the last scene the camera moves inside the surveillance room and presents various images of the station on multiple screens. Its political, Orwellian touches aside, Station is chiefly admired for its attention to detail, its portrayal of tired, almost inanimate faces, "people looking for something", the reality that has nothing to do with the optimism of the television news.

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Krzysztof Kieslowski - Przypadek AKA Blind Chance (1987)

Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blind Chance was originally titled Przypadek. Boguslaw Linda plays a middle-aged man at a crossroads of his life; whatever choice he makes for his future has the potential of ending in disaster. A sudden accident forces Linda to choose immediately. In keeping with the transcendental nature of his best work, director Kieslowski contrives to permit Linda to sample each of three possible "futures" from three different points of view. Like many of Kieslowski's films, Blind Chance was officially banned when completed in 1982 (the plot was set in motion by the government clampdowns of 1981) and not permitted a public showing until 1987. The film is also known as The Accident.








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Krzysztof Kieslowski - Kieslowski On Kieslowski (1993)

Kieslowski on Kieslowski

Edited by Danusia Stock

Published by Faber and Faber, 1993 (268p.)

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From Danusia Stok on the genesis of the book:

This book is largely based on interviews recorded with Kieslowski in Paris in December 1991 and May 1992 when he was working on the scripts of the triptych Three Colours. A third set of interviews, covering the triptych, was recorded in Paris in the summer of 1993 once Three Colours had been shot.

Excerpts from Kieslowski's reflections written for the monthly cultural magazine Du (Zurich, Switzerland) have been worked into the text. The passages are my own direct translation of Kieslowski's original words.

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From chapter 2:

When I was still at film school, my friends and I often played a game which was very simple but required integrity. On the way to school in the morning, we had to collect points. If you saw someone without an arm you got one point, without two arms two points, without a leg two points, without two legs three points,without arms or legs, a trunk that is, ten points, and so on. A blind person was five points. It was a great game. Then, at school we'd meet at about ten in the morning for breakfast and see who had won. We'd usually all get about ten or twelve points, on average. If anyone got fifteen, he was almost sure to have won that day. That shows you how many people there were in Lodz who didn't have arms or legs or who were mere trunks without both arms and legs. This was a result of the extremely backward, ancient textile industry there, where people were forever having limbs torn off. It was also the result of very narrow streets where trams went right up next to the buildings. You just had to take one inadvertant step and you'd find yourself under a tram. Anyway, that's the sort of town it was. Horrifying yet at the same time fascinating because of this.

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Krzysztof Kieslowski - Murarz AKA Bricklayer (1973)

a description by one of IMdB members:
A bit of color for once, all the better to see the red flags with, not to mention the obvious aerial file footage of Warsaw. The story concerns Jozef Malesa, the mason or bricklayer of the title. He was once the darling of the party, the son of two old party activists, a worker of heroic reputation, his own commitment to The Movement unquestioned. He was chosen to be destined for great things, specially educated and pushed forward to positions of responsibility in the Party. Eventually he decides, because of the ethical pressures which he feels from the obstructionism of the bureaucracy from above, he asks to return to be a simple bricklayer. He is disturbed with the way the Party deals with people, especially their lack of direct contact. He thinks workers know better than the leadership many times but that's not the way power flows. He is uncomfortable with the compromises to his idealism. He remains committed to social justice and joins his friends for the May Day rally where his comfort and confidence in his place in society cause him to defer to no man, certainly no rat faced men in overcoats with red armbands. His great pleasure in life moreover is laying brick. He finds the work satisfying and fulfilling which is why he was such an obviously superior worker in the first place.









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Krzysztof Kieslowski - Z punktu widzenia nocnego portiera AKA From a Night Porter's Point of View (1978)

a description by one of IMdB members:
This is quite simply a weirdy. It would be in anyone's opus but in Kieslowski's it's even stranger. Simply the monologue of a Night Porter (or Night Watchman might be a better translation). It is filmed very simply and straight forwardly and in some scenes the whirring if the camera's motor can be heard.

The night porter is going on about his theory of life and at first its a bit bathetic because its clear that the man is somewhat stunted and narrow in his ambitions. I saw this on the same bill as SPOROJ and it was made around the same time. There is a connection in the men's similar overweening modesty which recalls such mythical characters as Gimple the Fool. They are men who describe their own lives within strictly constricted parameters.

The narrative however takes a decidedly sinister turn as the Porter pours forth on his social ideas. Out comes a stream of hideous opinions on subjects like public executions, the idea that laws and enforcing them are more important than people, that students who demonstrate deserve nothing more than the back of the hand, etc. He disclaims any ideology but claims to be self defined and more interested in laws than ideology. He is, in fact, a blind supporter of State Power above all. He is seen training his dog, a guard dog, a German shepherd (ein schutzhund) in fact. He seems to be a rather benign and patient trainer as he puts a young dog through its paces but one still has to wonder what he would do with the rest of us.

The strange incongruity is that to look at him one might take him to be a proper Catholic and a conservative one at that. That he was serving a Socialist State and an authoritarian one gives him not the slightest pause. No doubt if it had been a conservative authoritarian government in power his opinions wouldn't change one iota except to embolden him to aggressively to carry out his opinions on other people.

For Kieslowski there were perhaps two reasons to make this film- 1. As a formal experiment; to just have a monologue with no visual inflection. 2. To show a type outside of political ideology, one who becomes one of the minions in the 'evil man's' army in a James Bond flick. This is a type who exists whatever the government.









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Krzysztof Kieslowski - Pierwsza milosc AKA First Love (1974)

a description by one of IMdB members:
A pretty 17 year old girl is told she's pregnant by a doctor who also says that she is not a candidate, for some unexplained reason, for an abortion. Instead she is going to marry her boyfriend. The boyfriend, 20, is going to get an exemption from the draft for this. Someone say 'silver lining'?

This is an exposition of their experience which ends in the actual birth (taken from a less revealing angle, for once, than has become de rigor for this type of film. It is basically this couples life which is a continuous relationship with a great variety (but the meme genre) of bureaucrats from policeman inspecting their 'room', to school boards who essentially fail her for having gotten pregnant in the first place, with the woman member being an absolute bitch about it. Still there are tears in the young husbands eyes when his daughter is born. It was said (in the notes from the recent Lincoln Center (NY) retrospective) that Kielslowski knew he wanted to move to fiction films because of the limitations of of the documentary while working on this picture. Something about capturing the more intimate moments. When he did go to make fiction films he never left reality or humanity behind. H3 didn't jump to a type of fiction as represented in one of the Lethal Weapon films for example. There was one where Mel Gibson and Rene Russo are in the hospital and she is in labor on a gurney being wheeled into the delivery room and Gibson decides to marry her and simply grabs the first clergyman in the hallway to marry them then and there. No filling out forms, no license, no fees, no waiting. Its a different world operating on different principals like a Bugs Bunny cartoon. It may be the place millions of people want to go to but Kieslowski can only show the place where millions of people actually live.

Its both sad an happy to watch these young lovers. Its sad to watch the teenager grow into a middle age woman virtually overnight. We can see her face visibly thicken. We see the shape of future conflicts. He mentions at dinner, in all good humor, that he usually prefers fried food and she tells him, with a look which bodes ill, that maybe he should go fry it himself, a remark whose import he is totally oblivious. I would really like to see a film made of this couple now 30 years+ on, 7UP/28Up style. The daughter is now nearly double the age of the teen age girl at the start of the documentary. I'm very curious as to how everything worked out between them.











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Krzysztof Kieslowski - Z miasta Lodzi AKA From the City of Lodz (1968)

a description by one of IMdB members:

This is something like a school assignment from when Kieslowski was a film student in Lodz. It is a simple visual celebration of the passing of old Lodz (what was left of it from the war) as new building replace the old and new people replace the old. The old are really resentful at being displaced. This expresses itself in the music. The old people, long time workers at the factory, are upset because the factories traditional mandolin band is being, well, disbanded, to be replaced by pop music. Believe me when I tell you that the pop music, taking on all sorts of forms from the kind of euro rock derived from misheard American and British bands to rumba rhythms with corny lyrics. Really the old stuff was great and now its gone. The women of the factory are being pensioned off one by one and they're all reluctant to leave but leave they must. Of course Lodz is something of an interesting case. A village which was chosen to be the Manchester of the Russian empire it became known as The Promised Land because of the availability of work in the huge textile plants and became the second largest city in Poland. The Polish population was further shaken by the war and virtually no one lives where either their parents or grand parents lived. The turnover has be the one constant of this synthetically created place. Kieslowski is unable to display his nostalgia except reflected from the hard surface of this little gem.











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Krzysztof Kieslowski - Refren AKA Refrain (1972)

a description by one of IMdB members:

Though this film illustrates how death has been reduced to 'The Numbers' it is implied at the end that both life and death have been reduced to the numbers. This film is uniquely shot from the point-of-view of the bureaucrats whose job it is to deregistrant the living to give their survivors permission to buy things like graves, coffins etc. The first image is of tearing out the pictures from identity books. It seems to be some weirdly arcane quasi-religious ritual whose purpose is at once obvious and inexplicable.

The frisson of this film is having the usual bureaucratic rigmarole, petty rules and arbitrary specifications implemented by some not so very terrible people, come up against people at their most vulnerable and emotional condition. These people have just had a loved one die and they are being dealt with by the book, by the numbers.

Background music, when its heard, is a harpsichord concerto.






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Krzysztof Kieslowski - Przeswietlenie AKA X-Ray (1974)

a description by one of IMdB members:
With X-Ray I feel Kieslowski beginning to repeat himself. While his investigations of collective decision making at the workplace are superficially similar, he is mining deeper and deeper at a particular face exposing certain anomalies in Democratic Centralism. Here he collects the stories of men in a tubercular sanitarium which repeats, to a lesser effect, the methodology of Bylem zolnierzem (I Was a Soldier) (1970). After everyone has told their story, and are seen in a long shot sitting on a terrace attended by a very pretty nurse, Kieslowski delivers the punchline- a bus descends into a nearby town whose factories fill the valley with smoke containing who knows what health destroying toxins. Its all as simple as one, two, three.

On the one hand Kieslowski is getting regular work with Polish television but does he feel he has about reached the end of what he can do in documentaries? After a point, watching say World in Action every week, it becomes numbing to watch people getting it in the neck. Week after week after week. About all one can do is note suffering and constantly indict the system for creating and facilitating the mechanism for suffering but always staying on the outside of the individual. The idea of exploring the inner life via fiction films seems to be a call growing ever stronger in Kieslowski's ear.







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Krzysztof Kieslowski - Szpital AKA Hospital (1976)

a description by one of IMdB members:
A very raw and intense look at a group of doctors who work their weekly 24 hour shifts. Starting in the morning the film follows the doctors as they treat various patients and accident victims. Laced with cynicism towards the Polish medical system, Hospital shows the non-stop grind and extreme pressures the doctors are put under. If you are squeamish, be warned.











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