Three Colors

Three Colours trilogy
Directed by	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Produced by	Marin Karmitz Yvonne Crenn
Written by	Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Starring	Juliette Binoche Zbigniew Zamachowski Julie Delpy Irène Jacob Jean-Louis Trintignant
Music by	Zbigniew Preisner
Cinematography	Slawomir Idziak (Blue) Edward Kłosiński (White) Piotr Sobociński (Red)
Edited by	Urszula Lesiak
Production company	Canal+
Distributed by	MK2 Distribution
Release date	8 September 1993 (1993-09-08) (Blue) 26 January 1994 (1994-01-26) (White) 8 September 1994 (1994-09-08) (Red)
Running time	288 minutes
Country	France Poland Switzerland
Language	Blue: French Romanian Polish White: French Polish English Russian Red: French
Box office	$6,144,162 (total)

The Three Colours trilogy (Polish: Trzy kolory, French: Trois couleurs) is the collective title of three films directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, two made in French and one primarily in Polish: Three Colours: Blue (1993), Three Colours: White (1994), and Three Colours: Red (1994). All three were co-written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz (with story consultants Agnieszka Holland and Sławomir Idziak) and have musical scores by Zbigniew Preisner.

Red received nominations for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography at the 67th Academy Awards.

Blue, white, and red are the colours of the French flag in left-to-right order, and the story of each film is loosely based on one of the three political ideals in the motto of the French Republic: liberty, equality, fraternity. As with the treatment of the Ten Commandments in Dekalog, the illustration of these principles is often ambiguous and ironic. As Kieślowski noted in an interview with an Oxford University student newspaper, “The words [liberté, egalité, fraternité] are French because the money [to fund the films] is French. If the money had been of a different nationality we would have titled the films differently, or they might have had a different cultural connotation. But the films would probably have been the same.”