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Dekalog = The Decalogue / Telewizja Polska ; Sender Freies Berlin ; screenplay, Krzyzstof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz ; producer, Ryszard Chutkowski ; director, Krzysztof Kieślowski.
LIBRA VHS/PAL PN1997 .D42152 1992 v.1-2 / tape 1-4
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Ten commandments--Drama.
- Ten commandments.
- Made-for-TV movies.
- Motion pictures, Polish.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 4 videocassettes (555 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Decalogue
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Artificial Eye ; Beverly Hills, CA : Fox Video, distributor, 1992.
- Language Note:
- In Polish with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS - PAL.
- digital
- optical
- VHS
- PAL
- Summary:
- Presents 10 short films, inspired by the Ten Commandments. Each story corresponds to a commandment and centers on different residents of the same modern Warsaw apartment complex. The themes are the universal ones of love, marriage, infidelity, parenthood, guilt, faith and compassion and focus on the complexities of human relationships.
- Contents:
- Dekalog 1. The Ten Commandments ( part 1-5) I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other God but me ; dekalog 2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain ; dekalog 3. Honour the Sabbath Day ; dekalog 4. Honour thy father and thy mother ; dekalog 5. Thou shalt not kill
- The Ten Commandments (part 6-10 ) dekalog 6. Thou shalt not commit adultery ; dekalog 7. Thou shalt not steal ; dekalog 8. Thou shalt not bear false witness ; dekalog 9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife ; dekalog 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods.
- Participant:
- Dekalog 1 / Henryk Baranowski, Wojciech Klata, Maja Komorowska ; dekalog 2 / Krystyna Janda, Aleksander Bardini, Olgierd Lukaszewica ; dekalog 3 / Daniel Olbrychski, Maria Pakulnis, Joanna Szczepowska ; dekalog 4 / Adrianna Biedrynska, Janusz Gajos ; dekalog 5 / Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Glovisz, Jan Tesarz ; dekalog 6 / Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko ; dekalog 7 / Anna Polony, Maja Barelkowska, Wladyslaw Kowalski ; dekalog 8 / Maria Koscialowska, Teresa Marczewska ; dekalog 9 / Ewa Blaszczyk, Piotr Machalica, Artur Barcis ; dekalog 10 / Jerzy Stuhr, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Henryk Pista.
- Credits:
- Photographers, Wiesław Zdort (dekalog 1), Edward Kłosiński (dekalog 2), Piotr Sobociński (dekalog 3), Krzyztof Pakulski (dekalog 4), Sławomir Idziak (dekalog 5), Witold Adamek (dekalog 6), Dariusz Kuc (dekalog 7), Andrzej Jaroszewicz (dekalog 8), Piotr Sobociński (dekalog 9), Jacek Bławut (dekalog 10); editor, Ewa Smal; music, Zbigniew Preisner.
- Notes:
- Originally made for Polish television in 1988-1989.
- "The Ten Commandments, parts 1 to 5, features the hour long version of A short film about killing ; Ten commandments parts, 6 to 10, features the hour long version of A short film about love."-- Containers.
- Awards: Cannes special jury prize ; European film award ; Fipresci award, Venice film festival ; San Sebastian special jury prize ; Sao Paolo critics award ; Chicago film critics, best foreign language film.
- OCLC:
- 63666952
- Publisher Number:
- 5021866102429 (Part 1-5)
- 5021866102436 (Part 6-10)
- ART 024A Artificial Eye (part 1-5)
- ART 024B Artificial Eye (part 6-10)
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