Cover image for Blind Chance [DVD video] = Przypadek
Title:
Blind Chance [DVD video] = Przypadek
Publication Date:
1981

2015
Publication Information:
[Poland] : Studio Filmowy TOR, 1981.

[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, 2015.

© 1981, 2015.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Abstract:
"A compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek, a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; the movie dramatizes Witek's journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government." -- cataloger's summary of container.
General Note:
Cataloged container.

"This is the 1981 version of the film with censored fragments restored" -- opening screens, English subtitle.

Special features: "Blind chance" unshelved (interview with Polish film critic Tadeusz Sobolewski discussing the film); Agnieszka Holland (interview with filmmaker Agnieszka Holland from 2003 discussing the film); Censored (nine sections from the film originally censored in Poland). Insert includes an essay by film critic Dennis Lim and a 1993 interview about the film with director Krzysztof Kieślowski.

"New, restored 4k digital transfer of the original uncensored film, approved by cinematographer Krzysztof Pakulski" -- container.
Performers:
Bogusław Linda, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Bogusława Pawelec, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Jerzy Stuhr, Jacek Borkowski, Adam Ferency, Jacek Sas-Uchrynowski, Marzena Trybała, Jacek Kaczmarski, Irena Byrska, Monika Goździk, Zygmunt Hübner, [and others].
Technical Details:
DVD, NTSC, region 1, Dolby Digital stereo, widescreen (1.66:1 aspect ratio).
Language:
Polish
Additional Language:
In Polish with optional subtitles in English.

In Polish with optional English subtitles.
Audience:
Not rated.
Holds: