#837: KIEŚLOWSKI, Krzysztof: Dekalog (1988)
KIEŚLOWSKI, Krzysztof (Poland)
Dekalog [1988]
Spine #837
Blu-ray
583 minutes
The Booklet
Seventy-six page booklet featuring an essay and capsules on the films by cinema scholar Paul Coates, along with excerpts from Kieślowski on Kieślowski.
Commentary
None.
Selection
Of archival interviews with director Kieślowski, taken from a 1987 television piece on the production of Dekalog: Two, excerpts from the 1995 documentary A Short Film About “Dekalog,” and a 1990 audio recording from the National Film Theatre in London.
Program
On the formal and thematic patterns of Dekalog by film studies professor Annette Insdorf.
New and archival interviews
With Dekalog cast and crew, including cowriter Piesiewicz, thirteen actors, three DPs, editor Ewa Smal and Kieślowski confidante Hanna Krall.
Trailers
Extras Rating (0-40):
Dekalog [1988]
Spine #837
Blu-ray
This masterwork by Krzysztof Kieślowski is one of the twentieth century's greatest achievements in visual storytelling, Originally made for Polish television, Deakalog focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time. Shot by nine different cinematographers, with stirring music by Zbigniew Preisner and compelling performances from established and unknown actors alike, Dekalog arrestingly explores the unknowable forces that shape our lives. Also presented are the longer theatrical versions of the series' fifth and sixth films: A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love.
583 minutes
Color
Monaural
in Polish
1:33:1/1:70:1 aspect ratios
Criterion Release 2016
Monaural
in Polish
1:33:1/1:70:1 aspect ratios
Criterion Release 2016
Director/Writers
Written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz and Krzysztof Kieślowski.
Kieślowski was 47 when he directed Dekalog.
Other Kieślowski films in the Collection:
#772: Blind Chance (1981)
#837: A Short Film About Killing/A Short Film About Love (1988)
#359: The Double Life Of Véronique (1991)
#588: Three Colors: Blue (1993)
#589: Three Colors: White (1994)
#590: Three Colors: Red (1994)
The Film
Other Kieślowski films in the Collection:
#772: Blind Chance (1981)
#837: A Short Film About Killing/A Short Film About Love (1988)
#359: The Double Life Of Véronique (1991)
#588: Three Colors: Blue (1993)
#589: Three Colors: White (1994)
#590: Three Colors: Red (1994)
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Seventy-six page booklet featuring an essay and capsules on the films by cinema scholar Paul Coates, along with excerpts from Kieślowski on Kieślowski.
Commentary
None.
Selection
Of archival interviews with director Kieślowski, taken from a 1987 television piece on the production of Dekalog: Two, excerpts from the 1995 documentary A Short Film About “Dekalog,” and a 1990 audio recording from the National Film Theatre in London.
Program
On the formal and thematic patterns of Dekalog by film studies professor Annette Insdorf.
New and archival interviews
With Dekalog cast and crew, including cowriter Piesiewicz, thirteen actors, three DPs, editor Ewa Smal and Kieślowski confidante Hanna Krall.
Trailers
Extras Rating (0-40):
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