Le cinéma polonais, de l'après-guerre à Solidarnosc Retrospectives 2003

Blind Chance

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Krzysztof Kieslowski

Poland

1981 Fiction 1h58

Witket Dlugosz is 24 years old. He is looking for direction... even if his is partly imposed on him by the weight of family traditions. When his father dies, he interrupts his studies to experience, for the moment, the unknown of another life, and he decides to leave for Warsaw. Arriving late at the train station, he doesn't know that his destiny may perhaps depend on the train he is chasing...

With : Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Screenplay : Krzysztof Kieslowski
Image : Krzysztof Pakulski
Music : Wojciech Kilar

Production : Zespoly Filmowe
Distribution: MK2

Blind Chance describes Witek's three possible destinies. The same character, with the same personality, lives at the same time three variants of the same existence. "Blind Chance was an important step for Kieslowski. He moved beyond realism and turned towards the philosophical fable. But this film, so close to the truth it becomes painful, wasn't completed by December 13, 1981, and missed finding its audience. Then cold-war communism was reinstated. Kieslowski made his film 10 years too early" (T. Sobolewski).