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The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.
Writer
Francis Ratay witnesses the theft of church painting "Angel with violin". The entire incident recorded by an amateur camera. The thief turns out to Benedict Weber, gallery owner and art connoisseur. Francis comes to his gallery. Blackmails him, that will provide police record, unless the image in three days back in place.
Director
A collection of short films by 16 European directors.
Scenario Writer
Sophie (Emmanuelle Béart), Céline (Karin Viard) e Anne (Marie Gillain) são irmãs. Sophie, a mais velha, mora com o marido em Paris. A caçula Anne estuda arquitetura e mantém uma relação passional com seu professor, Frédéric (Jacques Perrin). Céline é solteira e vive para cuidar da mãe inválida, até que um misterioso homem surge em sua vida. Um incidente ocorrido na infância das três fará com que elas se reúnam para discutir o passado.
Self
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslowski's happy beginnings at the Lodz film school and how his dissatisfaction with some of his early documentaries prompted the dramatic work and stylistic experimentation that led to his monumental series of films The Decalogue (1989). Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, and Juliette Binoche are among the many admirers weighing in on his hard-driving work methods and preoccupation with the ephemeral. In Polish, French, and German with subtitles.
Self
Considerado um dos melhores cineastas, e um dos mais brilhantes intelectuais do séc. XX, Kieslowski surgiu no traumático período comunista. Após um breve flerte pelas artes cênicas, ele completou a faculdade de Cinema em 1969 na legendária "Lodz Film School", na Polônia. Em seguida, ele iniciou sua carreira como documentarista. Até mesmo hoje em dia, olhando para trás, alguns podem identificar um tom satírico em seus documentários, além da maneira espontânea como ele expôs a claustrofobia típica da vida em regime comunista na Europa Oriental, no auge da "Guerra Fria".
Screenplay
Turim. Quatro inocentes morrem em um atentado. Phillippa (Cate Blanchett), uma professora de inglês, não oferece resistência e permite que a prendam. Ela não nega seu ato, sua culpa. Mas seu alvo era outra pessoa: um traficante. Um jovem policial (Giovanni Ribisi) é o único que acredita na história da inglesa, pois está secretamente apaixonado por ela. Ele desenvolve um plano que lhe devolverá a liberdade, mesmo que isto custe sua carreira ou até mesmo sua vida. Ele sabe que não deve pedir nada em troca para provar seu amor. E sabe que não pode se arrepender de sua decisão.
Writer
Left behind by a circus, a camel wanders to the house of a simple middle-aged couple in a Polish village. Although the wife is initially bewildered by the strange and unexpected animal, her husband immediately adopts it as a pet.
Self
This interview, made in January 1995, is an attempt to examine the universal messages offered by 'Decalogue', as well as it's idiosyncrasies
Self
Documentary about polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski
Self
A documentary about the showing of Krzysztof Kieślowski's film RED at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, including interviews with the director and the cast of the film.
Self
Film director Krzysztof Kieślowski examines in detail one scene from each of the films in his Three Colors Trilogy.
Screenplay
A modelo Valentine atropela um cachorro e sem saber o que fazer leva o animal para a casa do dono seguindo o endereço na coleira. O dono do animal é Joseph, um velho juiz que passa seus dias escutando as conversas telefônicas dos vizinhos. A princípio a moça sente repulsa do senhor, mas aos poucos começa a entendê-lo e uma amizade que vai fazer Valentine refletir sobre sua própria vida se inicia.
Author
A modelo Valentine atropela um cachorro e sem saber o que fazer leva o animal para a casa do dono seguindo o endereço na coleira. O dono do animal é Joseph, um velho juiz que passa seus dias escutando as conversas telefônicas dos vizinhos. A princípio a moça sente repulsa do senhor, mas aos poucos começa a entendê-lo e uma amizade que vai fazer Valentine refletir sobre sua própria vida se inicia.
Director
A modelo Valentine atropela um cachorro e sem saber o que fazer leva o animal para a casa do dono seguindo o endereço na coleira. O dono do animal é Joseph, um velho juiz que passa seus dias escutando as conversas telefônicas dos vizinhos. A princípio a moça sente repulsa do senhor, mas aos poucos começa a entendê-lo e uma amizade que vai fazer Valentine refletir sobre sua própria vida se inicia.
Screenplay
Karol, um cabeleiro polaco e Dominique, a sua esposa, mudam-se para Paris. O casamento desmorona-se e divorciam-se. Karol perde tudo após o divórcio e torna-se num mendigo, recusando actos ilícitos para ganhar dinheiro. Após conseguir finalmente regressar ao seu país, tenta refazer a sua vida, embora nunca tenha esquecido Dominique.
Director
Karol, um cabeleiro polaco e Dominique, a sua esposa, mudam-se para Paris. O casamento desmorona-se e divorciam-se. Karol perde tudo após o divórcio e torna-se num mendigo, recusando actos ilícitos para ganhar dinheiro. Após conseguir finalmente regressar ao seu país, tenta refazer a sua vida, embora nunca tenha esquecido Dominique.
Screenplay
Após um trágico acidente em que morrem o marido e a filha de uma famosa modelo (Juliette Binoche), ela decide por renunciar à sua própria vida. Após uma tentativa fracassada de suicício, ela volta a se interessar pela vida ao se envolver com uma obra inacabada de seu marido, que era um músico de fama internacional.
Director
Após um trágico acidente em que morrem o marido e a filha de uma famosa modelo (Juliette Binoche), ela decide por renunciar à sua própria vida. Após uma tentativa fracassada de suicício, ela volta a se interessar pela vida ao se envolver com uma obra inacabada de seu marido, que era um músico de fama internacional.
Author
Após um trágico acidente em que morrem o marido e a filha de uma famosa modelo (Juliette Binoche), ela decide por renunciar à sua própria vida. Após uma tentativa fracassada de suicício, ela volta a se interessar pela vida ao se envolver com uma obra inacabada de seu marido, que era um músico de fama internacional.
Screenplay
Weronika vive na Polónia. Véronique vive em Paris. Não se conhecem e não tem nenhuma relação. No entanto, são idênticas: ambas são esquerdinas, gostam de andar descalças, têm o mesmo brilho no olhar, uma voz sublime, um sentido musical absoluto e, acima de tudo, partilham o mesmo problema cardíaco dificilmente detectável. Sem o saber, uma irá beneficiar das experiências e sabedoria da outra. Como se cada vez que a primeira se magoasse com um qualquer objecto a segunda evitasse tocar no mesmo. Em França, Véronique descobre o amor na figura de um escritor e criador de teatro de marionetas...
Director
Weronika vive na Polónia. Véronique vive em Paris. Não se conhecem e não tem nenhuma relação. No entanto, são idênticas: ambas são esquerdinas, gostam de andar descalças, têm o mesmo brilho no olhar, uma voz sublime, um sentido musical absoluto e, acima de tudo, partilham o mesmo problema cardíaco dificilmente detectável. Sem o saber, uma irá beneficiar das experiências e sabedoria da outra. Como se cada vez que a primeira se magoasse com um qualquer objecto a segunda evitasse tocar no mesmo. Em França, Véronique descobre o amor na figura de um escritor e criador de teatro de marionetas...
Self
Documentary featuring a candid interview with Kieślowski and rare behind-the-scenes footage from the set of The Double Life of Véronique
Self
Documentary on Krzysztof Kieslowski's Dekalog from the BBC Arena series.
Director
Collection of documentary shorts by various acclaimed directors
Writer
Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness. The more involved the brothers get in their father’s world, the more dire and comical their situation becomes.
Director
Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness. The more involved the brothers get in their father’s world, the more dire and comical their situation becomes.
Writer
Roman and Hanka have a loving marriage, but his impotence has led to her having an affair. The unbearable situation drives Roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally, testing their love and his own will to live.
Director
Roman and Hanka have a loving marriage, but his impotence has led to her having an affair. The unbearable situation drives Roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally, testing their love and his own will to live.
Writer
Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of Jews who survived World War II. A daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades ago that directly affected the course of Elżbieta’s life.
Director
Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of Jews who survived World War II. A daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades ago that directly affected the course of Elżbieta’s life.
Writer
As a high school student, Majka bore a child, Ania, whom Majka’s mother, Ewa, has been raising as her own. Now that Majka is ready for motherhood, Ewa refuses to let go, leading Majka to kidnap her own daughter, with unexpected emotional consequences.
Director
As a high school student, Majka bore a child, Ania, whom Majka’s mother, Ewa, has been raising as her own. Now that Majka is ready for motherhood, Ewa refuses to let go, leading Majka to kidnap her own daughter, with unexpected emotional consequences.
Writer
A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtyard from his. As their private worlds merge, fascination turns to obsession, and the line between love and curiosity becomes violently blurred.
Director
A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtyard from his. As their private worlds merge, fascination turns to obsession, and the line between love and curiosity becomes violently blurred.
Writer
Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind.
Director
Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind.
Writer
A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an unopened letter from her deceased mother, it seems to justify her attraction to Michał, who may not in fact be her father.
Director
A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an unopened letter from her deceased mother, it seems to justify her attraction to Michał, who may not in fact be her father.
Writer
It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband has gone missing. During this night of recklessness and lies, the pair grapple with choices made when their affair was discovered three years ago, and with the value of their present lives.
Director
It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband has gone missing. During this night of recklessness and lies, the pair grapple with choices made when their affair was discovered three years ago, and with the value of their present lives.
Writer
Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, sweared about it in vain.
Director
Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, sweared about it in vain.
Writer
Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s aunt, lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of one day, both adults are forced to question their belief systems.
Director
Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s aunt, lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of one day, both adults are forced to question their belief systems.
Writer
Um Jovem começa a espionar com uma luneta a vida de uma mulher que mora em frente ao seu prédio. Ele fica obcecado por ela e enquanto observa sua vida sexual, na qual o amor não existe, ele esquematiza subterfúgios para se aproximar dela e, finalmente, revelar seu amor. Filme baseado no sexto episódio da série "O Decálogo", do mesmo diretor.
Director
Um Jovem começa a espionar com uma luneta a vida de uma mulher que mora em frente ao seu prédio. Ele fica obcecado por ela e enquanto observa sua vida sexual, na qual o amor não existe, ele esquematiza subterfúgios para se aproximar dela e, finalmente, revelar seu amor. Filme baseado no sexto episódio da série "O Decálogo", do mesmo diretor.
Author
Quando um jovem polonês desempregado, obcecado pela violência, mata friamente um motorista de taxi, um advogado recém-formado é designado para defendê-lo. Kieslowski demonstra através dos três protagonistas a anatomia de um crime e os meandros da justiça de um Estado totalitário.
Director
Quando um jovem polonês desempregado, obcecado pela violência, mata friamente um motorista de taxi, um advogado recém-formado é designado para defendê-lo. Kieslowski demonstra através dos três protagonistas a anatomia de um crime e os meandros da justiça de um Estado totalitário.
Author
Witek, um estudante de medicina, pede uma licença de um ano da faculdade após a morte de seu pai, para repensar sua vocação; ele decide viajar para Varsóvia, mas enquanto corre para tentar alcançar o trem na estação, três possíveis eventos acontecem.
Director
Witek, um estudante de medicina, pede uma licença de um ano da faculdade após a morte de seu pai, para repensar sua vocação; ele decide viajar para Varsóvia, mas enquanto corre para tentar alcançar o trem na estação, três possíveis eventos acontecem.
Author
Na Polônia dos anos 1980, a esposa de um advogado morto é assombrada pelo fantasma do marido e acaba se envolvendo no último caso em que ele estava trabalhando.
Director
Na Polônia dos anos 1980, a esposa de um advogado morto é assombrada pelo fantasma do marido e acaba se envolvendo no último caso em que ele estava trabalhando.
Writer
A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party. [Produced in 1981, but not commercially released until 1996.]
Director
A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party. [Produced in 1981, but not commercially released until 1996.]
Screenplay
A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a conflict on a construction job between the corrupt boss and fellow workers secretly planning a strike. He becomes a pawn in one camp while remaining true to his ideals in the other. Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years.
Director
A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a conflict on a construction job between the corrupt boss and fellow workers secretly planning a strike. He becomes a pawn in one camp while remaining true to his ideals in the other. Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years.
Writer
People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.
Director
People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.
Director
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.
Writer
Filip Mosz é um operário que resolve comprar uma filmadora 8 mm para registrar os primeiros dias da filha recém-nascida. No entanto, o que era para ser apenas um hobby se torna uma obsessão. Mosz começa a filmar tudo e todos. Pessoas do cotidiano transformam-se em "astros" de suas produções. Mas não tarda para que o "operário-documentarista" se depare com dilemas éticos, que trarão sérias consequências para ele e sua família.
Director
Filip Mosz é um operário que resolve comprar uma filmadora 8 mm para registrar os primeiros dias da filha recém-nascida. No entanto, o que era para ser apenas um hobby se torna uma obsessão. Mosz começa a filmar tudo e todos. Pessoas do cotidiano transformam-se em "astros" de suas produções. Mas não tarda para que o "operário-documentarista" se depare com dilemas éticos, que trarão sérias consequências para ele e sua família.
Director
A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war.
Writer
Each day of the week is represented by a ballerina beginning with a young child and ending with an older ballet teacher.
Writer
At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view.
Director
At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view.
Director
Each day of the week is represented by a ballerina beginning with a young child and ending with an older ballet teacher.
Writer
24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses.
Director
24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses.
Writer
The confession of a man who was the director of a factory in Lower Silesia. "He was a Party member but opposed to the Mafia-like organization of Party members which was active in that factory and region. Those people were stealing and debiting the factory account. He didn’t realize that people higher up were involved in the affair. And they finished him off.’ (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Director
The confession of a man who was the director of a factory in Lower Silesia. "He was a Party member but opposed to the Mafia-like organization of Party members which was active in that factory and region. Those people were stealing and debiting the factory account. He didn’t realize that people higher up were involved in the affair. And they finished him off.’ (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Dialogue
Bednarz é escolhido para liderar a construção de um complexo petroquímico. Firme e honesto, ele acredita que isso será o suficiente, mas Bednarz precisa lidar com o descontentamento de parte dos habitantes locais.
Writer
Bednarz é escolhido para liderar a construção de um complexo petroquímico. Firme e honesto, ele acredita que isso será o suficiente, mas Bednarz precisa lidar com o descontentamento de parte dos habitantes locais.
Director
Bednarz é escolhido para liderar a construção de um complexo petroquímico. Firme e honesto, ele acredita que isso será o suficiente, mas Bednarz precisa lidar com o descontentamento de parte dos habitantes locais.
Writer
Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw theater company where his new colleague, Sowa, is pressured to make a costume for an overbearing soloist.
Director
Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw theater company where his new colleague, Sowa, is pressured to make a costume for an overbearing soloist.
Writer
A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.
Director
A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.
Writer
A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party.
Director
A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party.
Director
"Legenda" is a document about a famous polish writer Stefan Żeromski. It serves as an interview with people who knew the artist.
Krzysztof Kieślowski
"Legenda" is a document about a famous polish writer Stefan Żeromski. It serves as an interview with people who knew the artist.
Writer
After the doctor's refusal to perform abortion on a 17-year old girl, she and her boyfriend have to cope with the new situation. They both need to learn to take responsibility for their decisions, in spite of numerous hardships facing them.
Director
After the doctor's refusal to perform abortion on a 17-year old girl, she and her boyfriend have to cope with the new situation. They both need to learn to take responsibility for their decisions, in spite of numerous hardships facing them.
Writer
A school teacher from a small town in Poland comes to Warsaw to see his estranged wife, a window dresser, in the hope that she will return to him rather than give him a divorce.
Director
A school teacher from a small town in Poland comes to Warsaw to see his estranged wife, a window dresser, in the hope that she will return to him rather than give him a divorce.
Director
Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings.
Writer
Krzysztof Kieslowski's protagonist is Joseph Malesa, a former party activist, labor leader and mason. The document talks about his career and life through ups and downs
Director
Krzysztof Kieslowski's protagonist is Joseph Malesa, a former party activist, labor leader and mason. The document talks about his career and life through ups and downs
Writer
One of the first documentary films of Krzysztof Kieslowski. It is a story about everyday life funeral in the 70s
Director
Commissioned film about the conditions of safety and hygiene in the Lubin copper mine.
Director
A commissioned film about the Lubin copper mine.
Director
One of the first documentary films of Krzysztof Kieslowski. It is a story about everyday life funeral in the 70s
Director
A group of veterans recount a horrifying experience when trapped in a minefield, resulting in each losing their sight.
Director
A documentary revolving around the Polish situation on an industrial level at the tail-end of the 1960s: it alternates between stark images at a metallurgic foundry and a board-room meeting among the various executives involved in its management.
Director
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.
Director
Ten days of preparation for the Monte Carlo rally. The two Polish drivers battle with the technical shortcomings of the Polish Fiat 125 and overwhelming bureaucracy. They did not finish the race. An allegory of the country's industrial and economic problems.
Writer
This documentary explores the changing faces of the old Polish city of Lodz, and how its modernization, both physically and culturally, affects the older, more conservative residents, many of whom lived through World War II and are confused and somewhat resentful at the changes they're seeing.
Director
This documentary explores the changing faces of the old Polish city of Lodz, and how its modernization, both physically and culturally, affects the older, more conservative residents, many of whom lived through World War II and are confused and somewhat resentful at the changes they're seeing.
Director
After looking at a photograph from the end of World War II of two young boys holding guns, celebrating the liberation of Warsaw, a documentarian for Polish television tries to find the boys and discover how their lives have went.
Writer
A young couple leave a lake campsite on motorbike at the same time as a bus full of youths. The boy accidently loses a tent along the road which is picked up by those in the bus who offer a trade of the tent for his girl.
Director
A young couple leave a lake campsite on motorbike at the same time as a bus full of youths. The boy accidently loses a tent along the road which is picked up by those in the bus who offer a trade of the tent for his girl.
The Artist
Portrait of an artist as a young manic. First, a montage of still photographs of an artist's face. Then motion. He stirs in sleep; he paints and expresses frustration. He looks for a light for his cigarette. He sketches, wads it up; makes tea; stares at his face in a mirror, then looks at canvas after canvas of self-portraits. (IMDb)
Writer
A boy leaves a party and gets on a passenger tram. Aboard, he shyly watches a girl, who soon falls asleep.
Director
A boy leaves a party and gets on a passenger tram. Aboard, he shyly watches a girl, who soon falls asleep.
Director
The insane government bureaucracy at a state pension window.
Writer
Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors Trilogy consists of the films Blue (1993), White (1994) and Red (1994).
Director
Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors Trilogy consists of the films Blue (1993), White (1994) and Red (1994).
