OPENING NIGHT
Blind Chance (Przypadek)
Part of
Ways to Freedom: Polish Film and the Rise of Democracy
Thursday, November 13, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 13, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Introduced by Annette Insdorf, followed by reception
Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski. 1981, 114 mins. DCP. Kieslowski shows three possible outcomes for a medical student running to catch a train: in one he becomes a Communist party activist, in another he joins the opposition, and in a third, he gets married and lives non-politically.
Preceded by From the Point of View of a Night Watchman (Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1977, 17 mins. DCP), a documentary portrait of an officious night porter.
Annette Insdorf is Director of Undergraduate Film Studies at Columbia University, a Professor in the Graduate Film Division of the School of the Arts, and author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski.
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