Blind Chance (1987) on Netflix
In 1981 Poland, medical student Witek Długosz loses his father and steps away from his studies. He runs for a train to Warsaw, and his life divides into three versions.
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Plot summary
Witek Długosz is studying medicine in Poland in 1981 when his father dies. He asks the university for a year's leave to decide whether medicine is his calling, then sets out for Warsaw. At the Łódź Fabryczna station he runs for the train, and the outcome splits the story three ways. In one, he catches it, meets Werner, an old Communist, and joins the Party; he also runs into Czuszka, his first love. In another, he crashes into a man drinking beer, knocks a railway guard down and is sentenced to thirty days of unpaid community work, falling in with the anti-Communist resistance and his childhood friend Daniel. In the third, he misses the train, finds Olga on the platform, and goes back to his medical studies and to her.
Cast
- Zygmunt Hübneras Dziekan
- Kazimiera Nogajównaas Kasia, znajoma ojca Witka
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Blind Chance (1987)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Blind Chance was completed in 1981 but suppressed by Polish authorities for several years; it was released in Poland on 10 January 1987 only in a censored form.
- In interviews on the DVD, Agnieszka Holland and film scholar Annette Insdorf identify Sliding Doors as influenced by Blind Chance; both films hinge on whether the protagonist catches a train, but Sliding Doors presents only two scenarios.
