Blind chance

Bialystok Cultural Centre – DKF „GAG” invites to film Blind Chance by Krzysztof Kieślowski as a part of Cinema Classic. We will present  the directors’ cut of the film suplemented by scenes delated by sensorship!

BLIND CHANCE

Lecture before the film: Adam Kruk – film critic, journalist and film expert

Blind Chance
dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
Poland 1981, 122’

Witek, a medical student from Łódź in central Poland, decides to leave university for a year and go to Warsaw after his father’s death. He arrives late at the station – the train has already started moving. From here, his story plays out in three different ways. Version I – he catches the train and meets an old communist whose influence makes him begin a career as an activist for the communist youth organization. Version II – he misses the train and scuffles with a railway guard who tries to stop him. He’s soon sentenced to a month of community service, where he meets many dissidents and gets involved in an anti-communist conspiracy. In both of these incarnations, as a communist and as an anti-communist, he will face accusations of betrayal. Version III – he misses the train and no one stops him. He goes back to the medical academy, works as a doctor, marries, has a son, and stays away from politics. The dean of his faculty gives him the opportunity to travel to Libya for a series of lectures. He gets on the plane, which, a few seconds after take off, explodes…  about film