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    Decalogue
    a.k.a. Dekalog, The Decalogue Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski Cast: Henryk Baranowski, Wojciech Klata, Maja Komorowska, Artur Barcis

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    • DVD Release Date: 08/19/2003
    • Original Release: 1988
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 10,229

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    Preface by Roger Ebert; an interview with Kieslowski; a visit to the set of The Decalogue; colleagues and collaborators comment on Kieslowski's life and career; Kieslowski’s own reminiscences about the origin of the films; a recent interview with screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz; complete cast and credits list.

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 -- Decalogue Disc 1
    2. Opening Credits [:18]
    3. Pavel's Morning: Miss Piggy Catches Kermit [2:04]
    4. A Talk About Death [3:37]
    5. A Talk About God [4:23]
    6. The Chess Game [9:11]
    7. The Classroom Lecture [4:17]
    8. Tricky Calculations [3:55]
    9. The Search for Pavel [5:30]
    10. An Unthinkable Tragedy [11:30]
    2. Opening Credits [:16]
    3. The Doctor [1:06]
    4. The Doctor Tells a Story [5:48]
    5. Patient Andrzej Geller [4:35]
    6. Dorota's Dilemma [11:57]
    7. Dorota's Decision [:29]
    8. The Doctor Continues His Story [6:19]
    9. The Prognosis [10:35]
    10. The Reprise [1:56]
    2. Opening Credits [:18]
    3. Christmas Eve [:37]
    4. Ewa's Christmas Visit to Janusz [7:36]
    5. The Missing Husband [8:18]
    6. The Affair Remembered [11:07]
    7. The Drunk Tank [14:01]
    8. Ewa's Confession [3:33]
    Side #2 -- Decalogue Disc 2
    2. Opening Credits [:20]
    3. Anka and Her Father, Michal [:49]
    4. The Letter [6:48]
    5. Words From the Past [11:54]
    6. A Search for the Truth [4:17]
    7. Feelings Long Hidden [4:28]
    8. Anka's Admission [19:35]
    2. Opening Credits [:17]
    3. Waldemar, Jacek, and Piotr [:59]
    4. Jacek Searches for a Victim [9:01]
    5. The Fated Encounter [9:19]
    6. The Murder [2:22]
    7. The Verdict [6:47]
    8. The Execution [5:21]
    2. Opening Credits [:17]
    3. A Peeping Tomek [1:24]
    4. Disrupted Romance [4:53]
    6. Tomek's Confession [4:16]
    5. Spilled Milk [5:49]
    7. Cafe Conversation [9:57]
    8. Premature Love [8:02]
    9. A Change of Heart [14:15]
    2. Opening Credits [:18]
    3. Bitter Rivalry [:50]
    4. The Escape [3:29]
    5. Wojtek Meets His Daughter [8:54]
    6. Mother to Mother [13:34]
    7. "Please Say Mother" [6:36]
    8. Final Demands [6:31]
    9. The Search [4:56]
    Side #3 -- Decalogue Disc 3
    2. Opening Credits [:17]
    3. Ethical Hell [1:01]
    4. Past Connections [17:31]
    5. Noakowski Street [4:24]
    6. The Whole Secret [9:20]
    7. The Morning After [10:10]
    8. The Tailor [3:33]
    2. Opening Credits [:18]
    3. Never Again [2:05]
    4. Other Possibilities [7:57]
    5. Searching for Evidence [8:46]
    6. Secrets [5:10]
    7. A Matter of Physics [6:09]
    8. Out of the Closet [6:06]
    9. Desperate Measures [7:13]
    2. Opening Credits [:17]
    3. The Unknown Passion of a Dead Man [1:18]
    4. The Stamps [7:29]
    5. The Austrian Rose Mercury [12:28]
    6. The Dog [5:40]
    7. The Deal [5:54]
    8. Delicate Operations [6:09]
    9. A New Series [8:42]

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    Editorial Reviews

    One of cinema's towering achievements, Krzysztof Kieslowski's epic The Decalogue comprises ten one-hour films, each one set in and around a Warsaw housing complex. Originally produced for Polish television in 1988-89, each film is modern, moral meditations on one of the Ten Commandments. The interconnected, contemporary stories tackle the commandments in oblique but startling ways. The sixth commandment, "Thou shalt not kill," for example, unflinchingly scrutinizes two murders -- a strangling by a drifter and, in turn, his execution by the state. For The Decalogue, Kieslowski worked with scenarist Krzysztof Piesiewicz and composer Zbigniew Preisner, two brilliant collaborators who also contributed to several of his later, more widely released films (such as The Double Life of Veronique and his Red, White, and Blue trilogy). Full of the artist's humane vision, moral ambiguity, and dark, seemingly unforgiving irony, The Decalogue is a masterpiece that could change the way a viewer sees the world. Chas Turner, Barnes & Noble

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    One of the Best Movies ever madeby Movie_Fan_311

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    February 09, 2009: Taken individually, or in Total, this is one of the most engrossing, thought producing Movies there is.

    Each of the Decalogue's 10 Stories corresponds to one of the Biblical Commandments, not in a religious sense, but in terms of moral dilemmas that each invoke. You find yourself sympathetic to the plight of the characters, and wondering what you would do in similar situations.

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    Deep!by Anonymous

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    September 18, 2002: I just saw Decalogue part 9 and 10 at Lincoln Plaza Cinema in New York City. I was deeply touched by the story line. Everyday-people dramatic stories are transformed by Kieslowski into touching and emotional psychological studies. In Decalogue part 9 Kieslowski concentrates on the thin line between sex and love as well as on the issue of morality. In Decalogue part 10 vanity and greed are shown as a ''value'' that overtakes human desires even at such cost as human kidney. Each story is concluded with a moral. Higly recommended for everyone, but especially for the sophisticated viewer.

    This review was written about the VHS edition.