Krzysztof Kieslowski - Biography

Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Le passage souterrain (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personel (1976) (The Staff), took the Grand Prix at Mannheim Film Festival. His first full-length feature was La cicatrice (1976) (The Scar). In 1978 he made the famous documentary Le point de vue du gardien de nuit (1979) (Night Porter's Point of View), and in 1979 - a feature Amator (1979) (Camera Buff), which was acclaimed in Poland and abroad. Everything he did from that point was of highest artistic quality.