Blind Chance

^director Krzysztof Kieślowski
^screenplay Krzysztof Kieślowski
^{director of photography} Krzysztof Pakulski
^music Wojciech Kilar
^with Bogusław Linda, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Bogusława Pawelec, Marzena Trybała, Monika Goździk, Jacek Borkowski, Jacek Sas-Uhrynowski, Zygmunt Hübner
^awards
 USSR Film Clubs Federation Award at Moscow International Film Festival (together with the film ‘The Great Run’), 1987
 Main Award, Silver Lions for Best Screenplay and Individual Prize, Bronze Lions for Bogusław Linda for the Best Leading Role (together with his part in the film ‘Magnat’) at the 12th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 1987

DANUTA STOK, KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI, ABOUT HIMSELF [O SOBIE], KRAKÓW 1997

We never know what coincidence our fate depends on – fate as a place in a social group, as a career, as the job we do. In the emotional sphere we have much more freedom. In the social sphere we are very much conditioned by chance. There are things that we have to do because we are what we are, because of our genes. This is what I thought when I was making ‘Blind Chance.’

ALAIN MASSON, ‘POSITIF’, DECEMBER 1988

‘Blind Chance’ is uniquely clear in its structure which resembles a philosophical fable. Witek’s life will take a given course depending on if jumps onto a train or not, whether or not he runs into a uniformed man on the platform, or whether he meets a friend of his there. (…) Actually, the fable compares three types of involvement that can be labelled as communist, Christian and stoic (by being asocial Witek wants to find what really depends on him and be free). (…) The three branches of the plot give the same impression of inevitability – the moment when a change occurs is indiscernible. In this sense, there is no chance but clear determinism.