Krzysztof Kieślowski

Known for: Dekalog (1988), the Three Colors Trilogy (1993–1994)

Krzysztof Kieślowski began his career making documentaries in Communist Poland before moving to fiction with the television series Dekalog (1988), ten one-hour films each loosely based on one of the Ten Commandments. The Double Life of Véronique (1991) and the Three Colors Trilogy — Blue (1993), White (1994), Red (1994) — won major prizes at Cannes, Venice, and Berlin. He announced his retirement after completing the trilogy and died of a heart attack two years later.