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Piesiewicz's career in electoral politics began in 1989, when he began working in the Social Movement for Solidarity Electoral Action (RS AWS) party, originally the political wing of the Solidarity union and the leading party in the center-right
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Piesewicz returned to his law career, but remained in touch with Kieślowski and three years later persuaded him to create a series of films based on the
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Kieślowski decided to explore the issue through fiction instead, and the two collaborated for the first time as writers on the feature film
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and began practicing in 1973. Through the late 1970s he became increasingly involved in political cases, defending opponents of the
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political ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity in the same way they had previously dramatized the Ten Commandments.
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dilemmas in contemporary social and political life, and achieved (belated) critical acclaim around the world.
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Piesiewicz was credited as co-writer on all of Kieślowski's projects after
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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He has been described as having "lobbied hard against
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Krzysztof Kieślowski
[ˈkʂɨʂtɔfpjɛˈɕɛvit͡ʂ]
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