SOURCE: "Working with Kieslowski," in Sight and Sound, Vol. 6, No. 5, May, 1996, pp. 16, 18.

In the following essay, Macnab and Darke talk to three former colleagues of Kieslowski about working with the director.

We were in the same school. Krzysztof was one year ahead of me. We didn't really work at school together because the system was to team up directors with cameramen who were one year up. It was incredibly difficult to get into Lodz film school. Exactly like Krzysztof, I applied three times before I was accepted. There were at least 25 candidates for each place. And usually half the places were taken up by people who had some kind of leverage, sons of ministers or whatever. It was very fashionable to be in the film school. There were a lot of people posing as filmmakers. I first really met Krzysztof just after school, when I went to work...