Three Colours: Red

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Three Colours: Red
Theatrical release poster
French	Trois couleurs: Rouge
Directed by	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Written by	Krzysztof Piesiewicz Krzysztof Kieślowski
Produced by	Marin Karmitz
Starring	Irène Jacob Jean-Louis Trintignant Jean-Pierre Lorit Frédérique Feder
Cinematography	Piotr Sobociński
Edited by	Jacques Witta
Music by	Zbigniew Preisner
Production companies	mk2 Productions SA France 3 Cinéma CAB Productions SA TOR Production Canal+ Télévision Suisse Romande
Distributed by	mk2 Diffusion (France) Rialto Film (Switzerland)
Release dates	12 May 1994 (1994-05-12) (Cannes) 27 May 1994 (1994-05-27) (Poland) 31 August 1994 (1994-08-31) (Switzerland) 14 September 1994 (1994-09-14) (France)
Running time	99 minutes
Countries	Switzerland France Poland
Language	French
Box office	$4 million[1]

Three Colours: Red (French: Trois couleurs: Rouge, Polish: Trzy kolory: Czerwony) is a 1994 drama film co-written, produced and directed by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski. It is the final installment of the Three Colours trilogy, which examines the French Revolutionary ideals; it is preceded by Blue and then by White. Kieślowski had announced that this would be his final film, planning to retire claiming to be through with filmmaking;^[2] he would die suddenly less than two years later. Red is about fraternity, which it examines by showing characters whose lives gradually become closely interconnected, with bonds forming between two characters who appear to have little in common.

Red was released to universal critical acclaim and was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Director for Kieślowski. It was also selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was disqualified for not being a majority-Swiss production; its precedent however, submitted by Poland, was accepted although it did not secure a nomination.^[3] Since then it has been widely regarded as the best film of the trilogy, Kieślowski's magnum opus, one of the best movies of all time, as well one of the greatest French-language films ever made.