FILM DIRECTOR

Krzysztof Kieślowski

1941 - 1996

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Krzysztof Kieślowski (Polish: [ˈkʂɨʂtɔf kʲɛɕˈlɔfskʲi] , 27 June 1941 – 14 March 1996) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is known internationally for Dekalog (1989), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), and the Three Colours trilogy (1993–1994). Kieślowski received numerous awards during his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize (1988), FIPRESCI Prize (1988, 1991), and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (1991), the Venice Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize (1989), Golden Lion (1993), and OCIC Award (1993), and the Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear (1994). In 1995, he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Krzysztof Kieślowski is the 40th most popular film director (down from 39th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Poland (down from 49th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Film Director.

Krzysztof Kieślowski is most famous for his trilogy of films that he made in the late 1980s and early 1990s: "The Decalogue," "The Double Life of Veronique," and "Three Colors: Blue, White, Red."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 40 out of 2,041. Before him are Michael Mann, Billy Wilder, Vittorio De Sica, Quentin Tarantino, Emir Kusturica, and James Cameron. After him are John Ford, Isao Takahata, Tinto Brass, Tim Burton, Roberto Rossellini, and Ken Loach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 18. Before him are Riccardo Muti, Lee Myung-bak, Fethullah Gülen, Robert Forster, Richard Dawkins, and Bernie Sanders. After him are Bruno Ganz, George Smith, Vivienne Westwood, Martha Argerich, Harry Nilsson, and Václav Klaus. Among people deceased in 1996, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 12. Before him are Tupac Shakur, Tadeusz Reichstein, Thomas Kuhn, Carl Sagan, Gladwyn Jebb, and Mohammad Najibullah. After him are Marguerite Duras, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Frank Whittle, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly, and Joseph Brodsky.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 60 out of 1,694. Before him are Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), Donald Tusk (1957), Billy Wilder (1906), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Jakob Böhme (1575), and Sigismund I the Old (1467). After him are Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Irena Sendler (1910), Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), and Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Krzysztof Kieślowski ranks 2. Before him are Billy Wilder (1906). After him are Andrzej Wajda (1926), Dziga Vertov (1896), Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), and Krzysztof Zanussi (1939).

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