Three colors: red

Movie
German title	Three colors: red
Original title	Trois couleurs: rouge
Country of production	France ; Poland ; Switzerland
original language	French
Publishing year	1994
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Krzysztof Kieślowski
script	Krzysztof Kieślowski ; Krzysztof Piesiewicz
production	Marin Karmitz
music	Zbigniew Preisner; Bertrand Lenclos
camera	Piotr Sobociński
cut	Jacques Witta
occupation
	Irène Jacob : Valentine Dussaut (student, photo model); Jean-Louis Trintignant : Joseph Kern (judge); Frédérique Feder : Karin; Jean-Pierre Lorit : Auguste Bruner (law student); Samuel Le Bihan : photographer; Marion Stalens : Veterinarian; Teco Celio : barman; Bernard Escalon : record dealer; Jean Schlegel : Neighbor; Elżbieta Jasińska : woman; Paul Vermeulen : Karin's friend (architect); Jean-Marie Daunas : theater manager; Roland Carey : Drug dealer;
chronology
	← Predecessor ; Three colors: white

Three colors: Red is the last feature film by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski from 1994 and the last part of a trilogy about the three colors of the French flag , which symbolize freedom , equality and brotherhood . The trilogy began with Three Colors: Blue in 1993 and was continued with Three Colors: White in 1993.

action

Valentine, a student in Geneva who earns her money as a photo model, is currently in a relationship crisis. On her way home from a photo session, she runs into a retired judge's sheepdog. While searching for the owner of the injured animal, she meets an old, cynical man who has apparently withdrawn from the world. He maintains his contact with the outside world by listening to, recording and manipulating his neighbors' phone calls. When Valentine notices this, she is initially shocked. Soon, however, the fascination that the self-proclaimed fateful man exudes on her prevails. A strange relationship begins between the two, which blurs the lines between chance and fate.

Auguste, one of the neighbors, is about to take his judge's exam; when the book accidentally falls over him, it turns to the page he needs to know to pass the exam. The same thing happened to Valentine's boyfriend, the retired judge, in his youth - from further parallels, in particular a breach of loyalty by his girlfriend, it follows that Auguste, the young right-wing candidate, is a reincarnation of the resigned old judge. The paths of August and Valentine cross almost every day, they meet without ever getting to know each other.

Fate only brings them together on a trip to England: a violent storm leads to a fatal catastrophe on the crossing - the ferry sinks; historical examples are the 1993 Baltic decline in January Heweliusz and the 1987 Channel wrecked Herald of Free Enterprise , come footage of its demise should. In this finale you meet the protagonists of the entire trilogy again. Among the seven rescued are Valentine and Auguste (three colors: red) Karol and Dominique ( three colors: white ) and Julie and Olivier ( three colors: blue ) .

Reviews

The film-dienst celebrated Kieślowski's film in its contemporary film review as a brilliant conclusion to its three-color trilogy. Three colors: Red casts "a formally brilliant, sometimes in its perfection somewhat smooth-looking, but always profound and multi-layered panorama of human forms of communication and alienation, permeated by skepticism and at the same time shaped by a humane interest in the fate of fellow human beings."

Awards

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

1994 awarded the BSFC Award for the best foreign language film

Camerimage

1994 nominated for the Golden Frog
awarded the Silver Frog for the script

Cannes International Film Festival 1994

1994 nominated for the Palme d'Or

Vancouver International Film Festival

1994 awarded the audience prize

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

1995 awarded the CFCA Award for the best foreign language film

Oscar

1995 nominated for three Oscars (best director, best camera, best screenplay)

BAFTA Award

1995 nominated for four prizes (best actress, best foreign language film, best screenplay)

Bodil

1995 awarded the Bodil for the best non-American film

César

1995 awarded the César for best film music
nominated for Césars for the best leading actor, the best leading actress, the best director, the best film, the best sound and the best script

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