Three Colours

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Three Colours (Polish: Trzy kolory) is the collective title of three films directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, two made in French and one primarily in Polish: Trois couleurs: Bleu (Three Colours: Blue) (1993), Trzy kolory: Biały (Three Colours: White) (in French: Blanc) (1994), and Trois couleurs: Rouge (Three Colours: Red) (1994). All three were co-written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz (with story consultants Agnieszka Holland and Sławomir Idziak) and have musical scores by Zbigniew Preisner.

Blue, white, and red are the colours of the French flag in left-to-right order, and the story of each film is loosely based on one of the three political ideals in the motto of the French Republic: liberty, equality, fraternity. As with the treatment of the Ten Commandments in The Decalogue, the illustration of these principles is often ambiguous and ironic. As Kieślowski noted in an interview with an Oxford University student newspaper, “The words [liberté, egalité, fraternité] are French because the money [to fund the films] is French. If the money had been of a different nationality we would have titled the films differently, or they might have had a different cultural connotation. But the films would probably have been the same.”

The films were Kieślowski's first major successes outside Poland, and are his most acclaimed works after The Decalogue.

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The Three Colors trilogy at the Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films list
IMDb entries:
- Trois couleurs: Bleu at the Internet Movie Database
- Trzy kolory: Bialy at the Internet Movie Database
- Trois couleurs: Rouge at the Internet Movie Database
Roger Ebert on The Three Colors trilogy
Three Colors trilogy at Rotten Tomatoes

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)