Blind Chance

Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski

1987 / 114min / DCP

Uncertain as to where his future lies after his father’s death robs him of his sense of vocation, medical student Witek (Bogusław Linda) impulsively decides to catch a train to Warsaw when… Kieślowski’s triptych “sliding doors” film shows three possible outcomes branching off from this pivotal moment, with our protagonist alternately joining the Communist Party, joining the anti-Communist resistance, or resuming his studies with renewed vigor, and facing further adversities (and the vicissitudes of fate) in every case. Suppressed by Polish authorities on its completion in 1981, Blind Chance would only surface six years later—in a compromised form—in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. “One of Krzysztof’s best films, perhaps even the best and the most original.” —Agnieszka Hollard

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of Moral Mazes of Krzysztof Kieślowski