This is a 15-minute black-and-white short film by Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski. He made it in 1980 when he already had a prolific body of work and yet was over a decade ago from his most famous works. In this short documentary, he interviews people about very general, but equally personal questions. The most interesting thing is that he starts with a newborn and then moves back in time in terms of the year in which the interviewees were born. The last one was born in 1880 already. Before her, we hear a woman who just became a widow very briefly before this was made. This was possibly the most emotional moment when she tells that there is nothing she wants from life anymore. She was probably married 50 years or longer and now she is alone. Truly sad. A good little movie and I recommend watching it because I found it interesting what people had to say about life back then. All in all, not too different maybe from what people would answer today and I am actually curious how lives went on for the people in this film. That's certainly a success. Raising interest in the audience is always a strong achievement. Watch it.
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