ATKK-PRZ-I-031

Typescript copy with the screenplay for Krzysztof Kieślowski’s film “Blind Chance” (1981). The screenplay was written by Krzysztof Kieślowski. The cinematography for this film was done by Krzysztof Pakulski. The film was produced by the Tor Film Studio. The document was prepared in June 1980 in Warsaw and is titled “Blind Chance – screenplay of a feature film”. It takes the form of an extensive prose screenplay presenting the biography of the main character, Witek Długosz, from his birth in Poznań in 1956, through childhood, school rebellions, religious and sexual experiences, family relationships, and medical studies, up to various possible versions of his later life, depending on whether he manages to catch the train to Warsaw. The text includes numerous authorial comments and describes several potential life paths for the protagonist – including involvement in official youth organizations, cooperation with the opposition (printing and distributing illegal texts), and the variant of an “ordinary” life as a doctor ending in a plane crash – which gives the document the character of a working, analytical version of the film’s screenplay, based on the motif of “chance” and parallel biographies.