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DVD

Three colors, white = Trois couleurs, blanc

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

DVD special ed.

Languages

In French and Polish, with English subtitles.

Performers

Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr, Aleksander Bardini, Grzegorz Warchoł, Cezary Harasimowicz, Jerzy Nowak, Jerzy Trela, Cezary Pazura, Juliette Binoche, Florence Pernel.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2011]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Karol Karol is a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife sues him for divorce (her reason: the marriage was never consummated) and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. Karol then concocts an elaborate revenge plot. The second of a trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski, preceeded by Blue and followed by Red.

Notes

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1993.

Issued as part of the box set: Three colors (Blue, White, Red) by the Criterion Collection.

Special features: cinema lesson with director Krzysztof Kieślowski ; video essay by film critic Tony Rayns ; two interview programs, one with Three colors cowriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz and one with White actors Zbigniew Zamachowski and Julie Delpy ; short documentary on the making of White.

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