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Filip buys an eight-millimetre movie camera when his first child is born. Because it’s the first camera in town, he’s named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie-making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.

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Based on reportage of the 1976 strike in Radom, which ended with the regional Party Committee headquarters set aflame, Kieslowski’s made-for-TV hybrid film merges archival materials with a dramatization of organized opposition during a single day of conflict. Shot during the Solidarity period and finished just before the imposition of martial law in 1981, A Short Working Day was not broadcast until 1996, three months after Kieslowski’s death from complications of heart surgery.

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Short Working Day was Kieślowski’s final film for television before Dekalog. It’s his only intended period piece, being set mainly five years before it was made, in 1981. Kieślowski completed it and Blind Chance near the end of the year, just as General Jaruzelski, in the wake of strikes and unrest and the rise of the Solidarity union, declared martial law in Poland. Both of Kieślowski’s films were banned by the authorities, as were other challenging works like Ryszard Bugajski’s Interrogation and Agnieszka Holland’s A Woman Alone. This caused Bugajski and Holland to leave the country and to work abroad. Kieślowski remained in Poland. With no possibility of films being made under martial law, he tried to find a job as a taxi driver, unsuccessfully due to his short sight and his not having had a driving licence for long enough.

Cowritten with Hanna Krall, Short Working Day was a film Kieślowski was always disparaging about. This may have been because it was an intentionally not uncritical but also not unsympathetic look at a Party official. The latter was a no-no amongst the artistic circles Kieślowski moved. Shot in 35mm with a view to a cinema release (which never happened) as well as a television showing, Short Working Day does feel an endpoint in Kieślowski’s work. I’ve said that the earlier television films in this boxset show Kieślowski’s roots in documentary, and parts of them could indeed be parts of a documentary along the lines of the ones he made about the workings of a railway station or a hospital. There’s less of this in Short Working Day, which is realistic to a fault. This may be in part due to the use of 35mm, as handheld camerawork is much less overt. The interest in inexplicable happenings and the workings of fate are more or less absent. He left that to his cinema work: Blind Chance can be read as his only excursion into science fiction, even if it plays as political parable – the same way as films with a similar premise, such as Sliding Doors and Alain Resnais’s pair of Alan Ayckbourn adaptations, Smoking and No Smoking play their SF themes for, respectively, romantic comedy and narrative gameplaying. The central figure of No End is a ghost. The major disruptions of traditional narrative in Short Working Day occur during the very well-staged protest sequences. On a half-dozen occasions during the film, Kieślowski freeze-frames the face of a protestor and a short blue-tinted flashforward shows us the aftermath: a beating at the hands of the police, a trial, and so on.

It took a long time for Short Working Day to be disinterred. In the interview in the book included in this boxset (see below), Kieślowski implies that he opposed its being shown. It was finally broadcast on Polish television after his death, on 27 June 1996.

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Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

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In 1976 Kieslowski produced Hospital, the 1977 winner of the Festival of Short
Films in Krakow. The film deals with Warsaw orthopaedic surgeons who are portrayed working long, 32-hour shifts. The camera follows them in the operating theatre, admittance room and smoky offices. They are portrayed as struggling with faulty equipment and overcoming fatigue. The film focuses on everyday hospital situations without any voice-over comments, with the passage of time carefully indicated every hour. The surgeons are portrayed as skilled workers in this, to use Kieslowski’s words, ‘film about some brotherhood’.
– Marek Haltof, The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski – Variations on Destiny and Chance, 2006

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“We tried to draw a broad picture showing that the class which, theoretically at least, was said to be the ruling class, had somewhat different views from those which were printed on the front page of the Trybuna Ludu.”
— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Robotnicy – Nic o nas bez nas tells a story about Gdańsk Shipyard and its workers after so called Grudzień 1970 (1970 protests). After those events Edward Gierek replaced Władysław Gomułka as party first secretary and promised redical change in style and methods of ruling. Kieślowski shows the skepticism of workers and their attitude to party members. He also pictures conflicts inside the party (PZPR) and usual work in shipyard. The political criticism of this movie made it a target of censorship – it was suspended and cut against the will of director.

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The most playful and also the grittiest of Kieślowski’s Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce (her reason: their marriage was never consummated) and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. White, which goes on to chronicle Karol Karol’s elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a sublime reverie about twisted love.

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In the devastating first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. But Blue is more than just a blistering study of grief; it’s also a tale of liberation, as Julie attempts to free herself from the past while confronting truths about the life of her late husband, a composer. Shot in sapphire tones by Sławomir Idziak, and set to an extraordinary operatic score by Zbigniew Preisner, Blue is an overwhelming sensory experience.

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