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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.
Full Product DetailsSide #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]
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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