| Country / Region |
| Poland |
| Year | | | 1989 |
| Format | | | DCP |
| Color | | | Color |
| Length | | | 59 min |
| Rating | | | 12+ |
Nearly twenty-year-old Tomek moves into an apartment and he is obsessed with Magda, a promiscuous woman across the street. He spies on her, first through binoculars, then through a stolen telescope. His thirty for love imperceptibly turns into a deeper feeling. Finally, Tomek gains courage and declares his love. Magda, however, initiates him into the basic fact of life - there is no love, only sex. Tomek, shattered, ran back home and tries to commit suicide...
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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. |
