

Three Colors: White
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $1.3M
- Language
- Polish
- france
- hairdresser
- sexual frustration
- businessman
- funeral
- love
- poland
- psychological
- french
- arthouse
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Produced in
France, Poland, Switzerland
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR10 Jun 1994
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1510 Jun 1994
- Theatrical15London16 Mar 2008
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM4 Aug 1994
BelgiumBE
- TheatricalGent17 Feb 1994
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1413 May 1994
- Theatrical (limited)14CineSesc9 Oct 2026
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical (limited)15+Film clubs only5 Sept 1994
- Theatrical1 Mar 1995
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1111 Mar 1994
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1221 Oct 1994
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP26 Jan 1994
- PhysicalVHS1 Apr 1995
- PhysicalDVD23 Nov 2001
- Digital / OTT27 Jun 2019
- TheatricalTPRe-release6 Oct 2021
- Digital / OTT12Netflix15 Nov 2021
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival15 Feb 1994
- Theatrical1224 Mar 1994
GreeceGR
- PhysicalΚ-15DVD5 Nov 2002
- Theatrical (limited)Greek Film Archive26 Aug 2021
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1510 Jun 1994
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Three Colors: White was released on 26 January 1994.
Audience reviews
2- F5/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
2/10/2023
**I liked it, but the script seems a little too far-fetched.** Of the three films in Krzysztof Kieslowski's “color trilogy”, this is perhaps the closest to comedy. The plot begins with a couple's divorce: he is Polish and went to France because of her, who is French. Both got married, set up a common life, but the truth is that the couple's sex life is nil, he is not capable of consummating the act. He's not impot…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
5/15/2023
This is my favourite of the Kieslowski trilogy - even if it might make you wonder about the efficiency of airport security in future! It all centres around "Karol Karol" (Zbigniew Zamachowski) who is facing divorce from his glamorous wife (Julie Delpy) - on the grounds of non-consummation - and that is going to reduce him to poverty. Luckily, on the Metro platform, he encounters "Mikolaj" (Janusz Gajos) and the two c…
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