Krzysztof Kieślowski

"The Decalogue" (1989) consists of ten one-hour films, each loosely inspired by one of the Ten Commandments. The films were originally produced for Polish television and are set in and around a bleak housing estate in Warsaw, with characters and storylines that occasionally intersect.

The trilogy consists of "Blue" (1993), "White" (1993), and "Red" (1994), named after the colors of the French flag and thematically tied to the French Revolution ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. Each film is set primarily in a different European city—Paris, Warsaw, and Geneva—and the characters briefly cross paths across the three stories.

Yes, Kieślowski began filmmaking with documentaries in the late 1960s and 1970s at the Łódź Film School, focusing on the daily lives and social conditions of ordinary Poles under communist rule. He transitioned to fiction features with films like "Camera Buff" (1979) and "Blind Chance" (1981), though his documentary sensibility deeply informed his later fictional work.

Kieślowski wrote screenplays for a trilogy titled "Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory" before his death in March 1996. "Heaven" was directed by Tom Tykwer and released in 2002 starring Cate Blanchett, while "Hell" (L'Enfer) was directed by Danis Tanović in 2005; "Purgatory" has not been filmed.