Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie podziemne (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personel (1975) (The Staff), took the Grand Prix at Mannheim Film Festival. His first full-length feature was Blizna (1976) (The Scar). In 1978 he made the famous documentary Z punktu widzenia nocnego portiera (1979) (Night Porter’s Point of View), and in 1979 – a feature Amator (1979) (Camera Buff), which was acclaimed in Poland and abroad. Everything he did from that point was of highest artistic quality.
