Przypadek
Subtitle: Blind chance
By: Studio Filmowe TOR ; Film Polski ; scenariusz i reżyseria, Krzysztof Kieślowski
Contributors: Szeligowski, Jacek, film producer; Linda, Bogusław, actor; Łomnicki, Tadeusz, 1927-1992, actor; Zapasiewicz, Zbigniew, 1934-2009, actor; Pawelec, Bogusława, 1954- actor; Trybala, Marzena, 1950- actor; Ferency, Adam, 1951- actor; Byrska, Irena, actor; Goździk, Monika, actor; Hübner, Zygmunt, actor; Stuhr, Jerzy, actor; Iwińska, Stefania, 1928-1988, actor; Pakulski, Krzysztof, director of photography; Kilar, Wojciech, composer (expression); Waltenberger, Rafal, production designer; Kurkowska, El̇żbieta, editor of moving image work; Domaniecka, Agnieszka, costume designer; Kaczmarski, Jacek, actor, singer; Sobolewski, Tadeusz, 1947- interviewee (expression); Holland, Agnieszka, 1948- interviewee (expression); Lim, Dennis, 1973- writer of supplementary textual content; Zespół Filmowy TOR; Film Polski; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: DVD special edition.
Series: Criterion collection -- 772; Criterion collection -- 772.
Published: 2015
Language: pol
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Politics and government; Drama; Polish DVDs 2012; Medical students; Voyeurism; Happiness; Infatuation
Other titles: Blind chance
Description: A compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek, a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; the movie dramatizes Witek's journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1981.

"This is the 1981 version of the film with censored fragments restored" --Opening screens, English subtitle.

New, restored 4k digital transfer of the original uncensored film, approved by cinematographer Krzysztof Pakulski.

Special features: "Blind chance" unshelved (interview with Polish film critic Tadeusz Sobolewski discussing the film); Agnieszka Holland (interview with filmmaker Agnieszka Holland from 2003 discussing the film); Censored (nine sections from the film originally censored in Poland). Insert includes an essay by film critic Dennis Lim and a 1993 interview about the film with director Krzysztof Kieślowski.

Producer, Jacek Szeligowski ; director of photography, Krzysztof Pakulski ; music, Wojciech Kilar ; production designer, Rafał Waltenberger ; editor, Elżbieta Kurkowska ; costume design, Agnieszka Domaniecka ; guest singer, Jacek Kaczmarski.

Bogusław Linda, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Bogusława Pawelec, Marzena Trybała, Jacek Borkowski, Jacek Sas-Uchrynowski, Adam Ferency, Irena Byrska, Monika Goździk, Zygmunt Hübner, Jerzy Stuhr, Kazimiera Nogajówna, Stefania Iwińska, Bogdan Niewinowski, Piotr Skarga, Piotr Loretz, Jacek Kaczmarski, Maciej Maciejewski, Kazimierz Jaworksi, Mirosław Siedler.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.66:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.

In Polish with optional subtitles in English.