Born in 1941 in Warsaw. He earned international acclaim with the ten-part Polish television series Dekalog (1988), two episodes of which were re-edited into the feature films A Short Film About Killing (1988) and A Short Film About Love (1988). He followed this with The Double Life of Véronique (1991), and then completed the ‘Three Colors’ trilogy: Three Colors: Blue, Three Colors: White (1994), and Three Colors: Red (1994). Three Colors: Blue won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and Three Colors: White won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival.
From Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31
