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Computer printout with the treatment for Krzysztof Kieślowski’s film “Three colors. White” (1994), produced among others by Tor Film Studio and MK2 Productions. The cinematography was by Edward Kłosiński. The film was made from a screenplay written jointly by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz as part of the “Three Colors” trilogy. The document takes the form of a prose narrative without division into scenes: it describes the plot step by step, from the divorce hearing of the main protagonist, Karol, in the Paris Palais de Justice, through his downfall and return to Poland, to his elaborate plan for revenge and the paradoxical “reconciliation” with his former wife, Dominique. The text contains dialogues embedded in the narration and detailed descriptions of characters, locations (Paris, Warsaw, the metro, the railway station, the cemetery), and the film’s guiding motifs (equality, humiliation, money, love). Connections with the other parts of the trilogy also appear. The printout is a working, developed literary version of the screenplay, with no visible division into scenes and without technical shot lists.