| Country / Region |
| Poland |
| Year | | | 1989 |
| Format | | | DCP |
| Color | | | Color |
| Length | | | 58 min |
| Rating | | | 15+ |
A youth, randomly and brutally, murders a taxi driver. Piotr is assigned to defend Jacek, the young murderer, and this is his first case. There is no evidence and no apparent motive. Jacek is then put on trial... When sentenced to death, Jacek reveals his experiences to Piotr before he is executed, illuminating a vague portrait of his personality.
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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. |
