Blind Chance
Before he stunned the cinematic world with the epic series The Decalogue and the Three Colors trilogy, the great Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski made his first work of metaphysical genius, Blind Chance, a compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek (the magnetic Bogusław Linda), a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; Kieślowski dramatizes Witek’s journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice does. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government, Blind Chance is here presented in its complete original form.
Special Features
- New, restored 4K digital transfer of the original uncensored film, approved by cinematographer Krzysztof Pakulski, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with Polish film critic Tadeusz Sobolewski
- Interview with filmmaker Agnieszka Holland from 2003
- Nine sections from the film originally censored in Poland
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Dennis Lim and a 1993 interview about the film with director Krzysztof Kieślowski
New cover by Gérard Dubois
Special Features
- New, restored 4K digital transfer of the original uncensored film, approved by cinematographer Krzysztof Pakulski, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with Polish film critic Tadeusz Sobolewski
- Interview with filmmaker Agnieszka Holland from 2003
- Nine sections from the film originally censored in Poland
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Dennis Lim and a 1993 interview about the film with director Krzysztof Kieślowski
New cover by Gérard Dubois
Cast
- Bogusław Linda
- Witek
- Tadeusz Łomnicki
- Werner
- Bogusława Pawelec
- Czuszka
- Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
- Adam
- Jerzy Stuhr
- Party organizer
- Jacek Borkowski
- Marek
- Adam Ferency
- Stefan
- Jacek Sas-Uhrynowski
- Daniel
- Marzena Trybała
- Werka
- Jacek Kaczmarski
- Singer
- Irena Byrska
- Witek’s aunt
- Monika Gozdzik
- Olga
- Zygmunt Hübner
- The dean
Credits
- Director
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Producer
- Jacek Szeligowski
- Screenplay
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Cinematography
- Krzysztof Pakulski
- Editing
- Elzbieta Kurkowska
- Sound
- Michał Zarnecki
- Production design
- Andrzej Rafał Waltenberger
- Set decoration
- Borzysława Chmielewska
- Music
- Wojciech Kilar
- Costume design
- Agnieszka Domaniecka
- Makeup
- Teodor Grymaszewski
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