Krzysztof Kieślowski

Krzysztof Kieślowski, born in Warsaw on 27 June 1941, the son of an engineer and an office worker, went through a firefighters' school and then a theatre technical school, worked as a dresser at the Teatr Współczesny and in 1964, at his third attempt, entered the film school in Łódź. He began with documentary, moved to fiction, taught directing in Katowice, Berlin, Helsinki and Łódź, and announced in 1994 that he was giving up cinema. He died in Warsaw on 13 March 1996.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaThe DecalogueDekalogKrzysztof Kieślowski · 1989Cinema
• CinemaThe Double Life of VéroniqueLa Double Vie de VéroniqueKrzysztof Kieślowski · 1991Cinema