Krzysztof Kieślowski

Blind Chance

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.

Film Info

  • Poland
  • 1981
  • 123 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.66:1
  • Polish
  • Spine #772

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

Purchase Options

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
Blind Chance
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

Current

Blind Chance: The Conditional Mood
Blind Chance: The Conditional Mood

Krzysztof Kieślowski’s political and philosophical rumination, which marked an important turning point in the director's career, imagines a young man's life branching off in three possible directions.

By Dennis Lim

From the Kieślowski Archives
From the Kieślowski Archives

On what would have been his seventy-sixth birthday, we look back at the incandescent, richly cinematic reveries of one of the most acclaimed Polish filmmakers of his generation.

Blind Chance by Gérard DuBois
Blind Chance by Gérard DuBois

The combination of deep-rooted anger and intellectual trickiness in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s film called for an artist with an unusual combination of skills.

By Eric Skillman