No End (film)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

No End
Film poster for Bez końca
Directed by	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Produced by	Ryszard Chutkowski
Written by	Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Starring	Grazyna Szapolowska Maria Pakulnis Aleksander Bardini Artur Barcis Danny Webb
Music by	Zbigniew Preisner
Cinematography	Jacek Petrycki
Editing by	Krystyna Rutkowska
Release date(s)	1985
Running time	109 min.
Country	Poland
Language	Polish
IMDb profile

No End (Polish: Bez końca) is a 1985 film by Krzysztof Kieślowski starring Grazyna Szapolowska.

No End was Kieślowski's first writing collaboration with the screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, who co-wrote the screenplays for all of Kieślowski's subsequent films. The film is also the first of Kieślowski's with music by Zbigniew Preisner, who provided the musical score for most of Kieślowski's subsequent films. As in later films, Preisner's score is explicitly referenced by the characters in the film itself, in this case with the main character's son playing the theme on a piano at home.

[edit] Plot summary

A Polish translator, Ulla (Grazyna Szapolowska), grieves her recently deceased lawyer husband. As she copes with her loss, the family of her husband's last client, Darek Stach, contacts her in need of legal documents and advice. Ulla struggles with caring for her son, and alternately trying to remember and to forget her husband, while Darek struggles to come to terms with his imprisonment for political dissidence. Ulla's husband's ghost observes these events, occasionally becoming visible to Ulla and Darek.

At the film's end, Darek's new lawyer wins his freedom, but the idealistic Darek is disappointed that he has been unable to effect any change in the system. Ulla uses her gas stove to commit suicide, and her spirit joins with her husband.

v • d • e Films directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski

1960s	The Face (1966) • The Office (1966) • The Tram (1966) • Concert of Requests (1967) • The Photograph (1968) • From the City of Łódź (1968)

1970s	I Was a Soldier (1970) • Factory (1970) • Workers '71: Nothing About Us Without Us (1971) • Before a Rail (1971) • Between Wrocław and Zielona Góra (1972) • Principles of Safety and Hygiene in a Copper Mine (1972) • Gospodarze (1972) • Pedestrian Subway (1973) • First Love (1974) • Curriculum Vitae (1975) • Personnel (1975) • Hospital (1976) • The Scar (1976) • The Calm (1976) • I Don't Know (1977) • From a Night Porter's Point of View (1978) • Camera Buff (1979)

1980s	Railway Station (1980) • Talking Heads (1980) • Short Working Day (1981) • Blind Chance (1981) • No End (1985) • The Decalogue (1988) • A Short Film About Killing (1988) • A Short Film About Love (1989)

1990s	The Double Life of Véronique (1991) • Three Colors: Blue (1993) White (1994) Red (1994)