The Decalogue (1989)

Directed by

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Genre

drama film

Country

Poland

Runtime

9h 32m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Ten one-hour films each take inspiration from one of the Ten Commandments. The stories follow different residents of a housing project in 1980s Poland as they face difficult moral and ethical dilemmas.

thoughtfulsobermorally complexslow-pacedearnestrestrainedsombercontemplative

What happens

Dekalog (pronounced [dɛˈkalɔk], also known as Dekalog: The Ten Commandments and The Decalogue) is a 1989 Polish psychological drama television miniseries directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner. It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments. Each installment explores characters facing one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they reside in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland. Exhibited in its entirety at the 46th Venice International Film Festival, the series, Kieślowski's most acclaimed work, was said in 2002 to be "the best dramatic work ever done specifically for television" and has won numerous international awards, though it did not receive wide release outside Europe until the late 1990s. It is one of fifteen films listed in the category "Values" on the Vatican film list. In 1991, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick wrote an admiring foreword to the published screenplay, wherein he stated that Dekalog was the only film masterpiece he could think of. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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