Despite its documentary look, The Underground Passage (Przejscie podziemne) (1973, 30 mins, Beta SP) is actually Kieslowski's narrative debut. A man and a woman are reunited by chance in a pedestrian underpass, but the gulf between them may have grown too large to allow true contact. Curriculum Vitae (Zyciorys) (1975, 45 mins, 35mm) is a fascinating merger of truth and fiction; Kieslowski created a fictional character, a Party member brought before a “Party Control Committee,” to expose the intrusions of government into the personal sphere. The “character” is played by a man with a nearly identical background to his, however, and the committee is real. Hospital (Szpital) (1977, 21 mins, 35mm) deals with the insane workload of a Warsaw hospital staff, and their perseverance in the face of thirty-hour shifts. It's an Iron Curtain E.R.: underfunded, overcrowded, and held together with cigarette smoke.