Krzysztof Kie%C5%9Blowski

Krzysztof Kielowski June 1941 March 1996 was an influential Polish arthouse film director and screenwriter known internationally for The Decalogue , The Double Life of Vronique , and The Three Colors Trilogy . Kielowski received numerous awards during his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize , FIPRESCI Prize , and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury the Venice Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize , Golden Lion , and OCIC Award and the Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear . In 1995 he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Writing. In 2002 Kielowski was listed at number two on the British Film Institutes Sight amp Sound Top Ten Directors list of modern times.

Kielowski was born in Warsaw, the son of Barbara and Roman Kielowski. He grew up in several small towns, moving wherever his engineer father, a tuberculosis patient, could find treatment. He was raised Roman Catholic and retained what he called a personal and private relationship with God. At sixteen, he attended a firefighters training school, but dropped out after three months. Without any career goals, he then entered the College for Theatre Technicians in Warsaw in 1957 because it was run by a relative. He wanted to become a theatre director, but lacked the required bachelors degree for the theatre department, so he chose to study film as an intermediate step.

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