Three Colors: White

Film Info

France, Poland
1993
91 minutes
Color
1.85:1
French, Polish
Spine #589

The most playful and also the grittiest of Kieślowski’s Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce (her reason: their marriage was never consummated) and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. White, which goes on to chronicle Karol Karol’s elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a sublime reverie about twisted love.

Cast

Karol Karol	Zbigniew Zamachowski
Dominique	Julie Delpy
Mikolaj	Janusz Gajos
Jurek, Karol’s brother	Jerzy Stuhr
Notary lawyer	Aleksander Bardini
Elegant man	Grzegorz Warchoł
Inspector	Cezary Harasimowicz
Old farmer	Jerzy Nowak
Monsieur Bronek	Jerzy Trela
Tall man	Piotr Machalica
Madame Jadwiga	Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska

Credits

Director	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Producer	Marin Karmitz
Screenplay	Krzysztof Piesiewicz and Krzysztof Kieślowski
Original music	Zbigniew Preisner
Cinematography	Edward Kłosiński
Editing	Urszula Lesiak
Sound	Jean-Claude Laureux
Sound mixer	William Flageollet
Production design	Halina Dobrowolska and Claude Lenoir
Set decorator	Magdalena Dipont
Assistant directors	Teresa Violette Buhl and Emmanuel Finkiel
Production manager	Ryszard Chutkowski
Executive producer	Yvon Crenn
Screenplay consultants	Agnieszka Holland, Edward Zebrowski and Edward Kłosiński
Dialogue translator	Marcin Latallo
Casting	Margot Capelier and Teresa Violetta Buhl
Script continuity	Geneviève Dufour
Set photographer	Piotr Jaxa
Costume design	Elzbieta Radke, Teresa Wardzala, Jolanta Luczak and Virginia Viard
Hair and makeup	Jean-Pierre Caminade, Jolanta Pruszynska and Jadwiga Cichocka

Disc Features

New high-definition digital restoration (with 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
Cinema lesson with director Krzysztof Kieślowski
New video essay by film critic Tony Rayns
Two new interview programs, one with Three Colors cowriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz and one with White actors Zbigniew Zamachowski and Julie Delpy
Short documentary on the making of White
Two short documentaries by Kieślowski: Seven Women of Different Ages (1978) and Talking Heads (1980)
Original theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation