THE CINEMA OF KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI
Variations on Destiny and Chance
Marek Hiltof



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Acknowledgements
Preface

1 Documenting the Unrepresented World

2 Film-Essays: Kieslowski and Polish Cinema in the 1970s and
During the Solidarity Period
i Pedestrian Subway: A Short Film About Marriage
ii Personnel: Art and Politics
iii The Scar: Managers and Their Dilemmas
iv The Calm: Life as It Is
v Camera Buff: Meditations on Film-making
vi Short Working Day: Mechanisms of Power

3 Choices, Chances and Politics
i Blind Chance: Variations on Fate
ii No End: Requiem for Solidarity

4 Entomological Observations and Metaphysics in Decalogue

5 The Double Life of Kieslowski: European Art Film and the
Polish Context
i The Double Life of Véronique: Doppelgängers and Puppeteers
ii The Three Colours Trilogy: The Long Films About Love

Afterword

Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index