Probably coincidence
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Probably coincidence |
| Original title | Przypadek |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| script | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| production | Jacek Szeligowski |
| music | Wojciech Kilar |
| camera | Krzysztof Pakulski |
| cut | Elżbieta Kurkowska |
| occupation | |
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The Chance Possibly (original title: Przypadek ) is a 1981 feature film by the Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski , but it was not released until 1987.
action
The action takes place against the political background of Communist Poland at the time, the dispute between the party and the opposition members who were active in the underground. Using three versions of the protagonist Witek Długosz's biography as an example, the director examines the role of chance and determinism as factors in human fate.
Witek was born in Poznan in June 1956 , when his father was taking part in the workers' uprising. Both move to Łódź , where Witek goes to school and starts studying medicine. When the father dies, his last words are “you don't have to do anything”. Witek takes a semester off and decides to go to Warsaw. He goes to the train station. From now on, three different versions will be played through, depending on whether he can still reach the train or not. In the first version he succeeds and he begins a career as a communist functionary and politician in Warsaw , in the second version he clashes with a railway policeman in the train station and he begins a career as an oppositionist. In the third version he misses the train, but meets a college colleague with whom he falls in love and marries her. His life is entirely private and far from politics.
Witek is supposed to fly to Libya on business , for private reasons he decides to take a different flight than initially planned. The plane explodes when it takes off.
About the final scene, Kieślowski said in an interview:
“ The plane is waiting for all three. All three lives come to an end on the plane. The plane is always waiting for him. It's actually waiting for all of us. "
criticism
"In the formally outstanding film, in addition to the astute analysis of the political upheaval in Poland at the beginning of the 1980s, there is an analysis of the existential problem of morally correct behavior."
background
Experts consider the work to be one of the best and most original by Kieślowski. Already in 1981 film shot was the imposition of martial law in Poland by the Solidarity -Unruhen 1981 because of its uncomfortable contents from the Polish censorship banned and not even shown to the audience. Broadcasting abroad was also not approved.
In real socialist Poland, the film was for years a " shelf film ", i. H. because of its dangerousness for the regime of that time only suitable for the shelf of the censorship office. It wasn't until six years later that the film was released and was first shown at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival outside of regular competition. The then festival director did not allow the film to start in the competition because he was of the opinion that it would not be understood by the audience. Thereupon Kieślowski cut out some incomprehensible political scenes and sent the prepared film again to Cannes with the remark “for French censorship”, but the festival director did not make a more favorable decision.
effect
The main idea of this film - what if ... - was later copied directly by many filmmakers, so in She loves him - she doesn't love him (Sliding Doors) by Peter Howitt and in Lola runs out of Kieślowski fan Tom Tykwer , both films 1998, two years after Kieślowski's unexpected death. Agnieszka Holland - Kieślowski's professional colleague who was also close friends with him - stated in an interview that she and her team had been thinking about a remake that would no longer be set in the particular political situation of Poland, which is something for the international audience Original film made difficult to access, but should be more universal. However, due to the fact that mediocre copies of this film had appeared in the meantime, which from Holland's point of view meant intellectual theft and even achieved some commercial success, the idea was dropped again.
The animated series The Simpsons also takes up the theme of chance and determinism in the episode trilogy of the same story ( 12th season , 2001), in which it shows one and the same day one after the other from the perspective of three people, with the three actions intersecting and overlapping .
In the film, Kieślowski demonstrates, in addition to the role of chance , the various options for life in the People's Republic of Poland, without evaluating them too strongly. The scene on the station track also reminds of the tragic death of the Polish film legend Zbigniew Cybulski in the Wrocław train station in 1967. In his later films, Kieślowski repeatedly deals with the role of chance in life.
Awards
Bogusław Linda and Krzysztof Kieślowski won awards from the Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych in Gdynia .
useful information
The German title contains an allusion to the film Der Teufel possibly by Robert Bresson .
literature
- Jan Mateusz Wiglinzki: Aspects of cinematic realism in Krzysztof Kieślowski's films: Personel (1976), Amator (1979) and Przypadek (1987) . Master thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2016 ( othes.univie.ac.at [PDF; 576 kB ]).
Web links
- Blind Chance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Coincidence possibly in the online film database
- Review with photos at Filmpolski.pl (Polish)
Remarks
- ↑ Kiéslowski's rare interviews (1979–1994) ( Memento of September 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), archived
- ↑ Milos Stehlik: Interview with Agnieszka Holland about Kieslowski. ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Chicago Public Radio / WBEZ-FM (in English).
- ↑ a b Agnieszka Holland in an interview on "Blind Chance" (English title by Przypadek ) on the DVD Blind Chance by Artificial Eye (in French with English subtitles).
