AMATOR

Αmajor film director and scriptwriter, he was born οn 27 June 1941 in Warsaw. After graduating from the State Film School in Lodz (1968), he worked as a lecturer at film schools in Katowice (Poland), Berlin, Helsinki, and Switzerland. He was a leading director of documentaries, television and feature films from the 1970s to the 1990s. The social and moral themes of contemporary times became the focus of his many significant films and his unique humanist treatment of those themes secured his place as one of the greatest modern film directors. He was a prominent member of the Polish film generation that defined the so-called “Cinema of Moral Anxiety” – films which tested the limits of socialist film censorship by drawing sharp contrasts between the individual and the state. Although Krzysztof Kieslowski is mostly known for feature films like the Decalogue, The Double Life of Veronique and the Three Colors trilogy, he has created lesser known, but equally unique documentaries, which, staying true to the philosophy of the rest of his work, reveal the gamut of his anxieties and sensibilities. He died on March 13, 1996 at the age of 55.