| Country / Region |
| Poland |
| Year | | | 1989 |
| Format | | | DCP |
| Color | | | Color |
| Length | | | 56 min |
| Rating | | | 6+ |
Christmas Eve, a night when families are together and nobody wants to be alone. Ewa tricks Janusz, her ex-lover, out of the apartment, away from his family and condemns him to an all-night wander around the city. Janusz wants to go home, but Ewa is determined. As the dawn comes, they finally part, and their relationship falls apart, too.
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Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941-1996) is one of the great visionaries in cinema. The Decalogue, The Double Life of Veronique and the "Three Colours trilogy" earned Kieślowski his reputation as a world-class filmmaker. In a life disrupted by Hitler and Stalin and the legacy they left in Eastern Europe, his struggle to work as a filmmaker mirrors the struggle of Poland to reassert its identity. In 1989, when the Berlin Wall collapsed, his orientationgravitated towards France. Moving between Poland and France, Kieslowski created some of the most important cinematic works of the 1990s. |
