The Office (film)

Not to be confused with The Office (American TV series).

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1966 film

The Office

Directed by| Krzysztof Kieślowski
Written by| Krzysztof Kieślowski
Cinematography| Lechoslaw Trzesowski
Edited by| Janina Grosicka

Release date

* 1966 (1966)

Running time

| 5 minutes
Language| Polish

The Office (Polish: Urząd) is a 1966 short film by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski, produced while he was a student at the Łódź Film School. The film is included as an extra on the Region 1 and 2 releases of Kieślowski's feature film No End.

The film's runtime of 5 minutes consists entirely of interactions at a government office service window, with a clerk handling various requests by people seeking state aid. The film portrays the intense bureaucracy that existed in Polish government services at the time, with the people being turned away for various procedural violations. One request is denied because the applicant brought too many identifying documents, they were told that they needed an official nullification of one of the redundant papers. Another man encounters difficulty because a document was stamped with a square, rather than a round seal.

Chaitanya Tamhane took notations and hints from the film's composition of offices while making Court.

## External links

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* The Office at IMDb

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Krzysztof Kieślowski

Feature films|

* Personnel (1975)
* The Scar (1976)
* Camera Buff (1979)
* The Calm (1980)
* Short Working Day (1981)
* Blind Chance (1981)
* No End (1985)
* A Short Film About Killing (1988)
* A Short Film About Love (1988)
* The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
* Three Colours trilogy
* Blue (1993)
* White (1994)
* Red (1994)

Dekalog|

* One
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* Nine
* Ten (1989)

Short films|

* The Office (1966)
* Tramway (1966)
* Concert of Requests (1967)
* Curriculum Vitae (1975)
* From a Night Porter's Point of View (1977)

Screenplays only|

* The Big Animal (2000)
* Heaven (2002)
* Hell (2005)
* Hope (2007)

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