DEKALOG

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• Release Year: 1989
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: This masterwork by Krzysztof Kie lowski (Three Colors) is one of the twentieth century s greatest achievements in visual storytelling. Originally made for Polish television, Dekalog focuses on the residents of a housing complex in post-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Using the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, Dekalog s ten hour-long films deftly grapple 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 (The Double Life of Véronique) 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 Dekalog s fifth and sixth films: A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love.; ; FIVE-DVD SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR S SET FEATURES; - New 4K digital restoration; - New high-definition digital restorations of A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love; - Selection of archival interviews with director Krzysztof Kie lowski, culled from footage from the 1987 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; - New program on the visual rhyming of Dekalog by film studies professor Annette Insdorf; - New and archival interviews with Dekalog cast and crew, including cowriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, thirteen actors, three cinematographers, editor Ewa Smal, and Kie lowski's confidante Hanna Krall; - Trailers; - PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay and film analyses by film scholar Paul Coates and excerpted reprints from Kie lowski on Kie lowski
• Cast: Artur Barcis; Olgierd Lukaszewicz; Olaf Lubaszenko; Piotr Machalica; Jan Tesarz; Katarzyna Piwowarczyk; Henryk Baranowski; Krystyna Janda; Aleksander Bardini; Stanislaw Gawlik; Krzysztof Kumor; Maciej Szary; Miroslaw Baka; Adrianna Biedrzynska; Ewa Blaszczyk; Maria Koscialkowska; Daniel Olbrychski; Anna Polony; Jerzy Stuhr; Grazyna Szapolowska; Maja Barelkowska; Janusz Gajos; Krzysztof Globisz; Wojciech Klata; Teresa Marczewska; Maria Pakulnis; Zbigniew Zamachowski; Henryk Bista; Stefania Iwinska; Maja Komorowska; Wladyslaw Kowalski; Joanna Szczepkowska; Adam Hanuszkiewicz; Jan Jankowski; Boguslaw Linda; Tadeusz Lomnicki; Zbigniew Zapasiewicz; Krystyna Drochocka; Bozena Dykiel; Barbara Dziekan; Maria Gladkowska; Jolanta Pietek-Górecka; Maciej Stuhr; Andrzej Blumenfeld; Ewa Kania; Rafal Imbro; Aleksandra Kisielewska; Tomasz Kozlowicz; Jerzy Trela; Elzbieta Kilarska; Aleksandra Majsiuk; Jan Piechocinski; Magdalena Mikolajczak; Helena Norowicz; Wojciech Asinski; Aleksander Bednarz; Renata Berger; Krystyna Bigelmajer; Stefania Blonska; Malgorzata Boratynska; Zbigniew Borek; Maciej Borninski; Agnieszka Brustman; Wladyslaw Byrdy; Jolanta Cichon; Janusz Cywinski; Karol Dillenius; Ewa Ekwinska; Jerzy Fedorowicz; Zygmunt Fok; Iwona Glebicka; Anna Gornostaj; Cezary Harasimowicz; Elzbieta Helman; Dariusz Jablonski; Jacek Kalucki; Marek Kepinski; Barbara Kolodziejska; Helena Kowalczykowa; Daniel Kozakiewicz; Maria Krawczyk-Wazyk; Slawomir Kwiatkowski; Maciej Maciejewski; Sylwester Maciejewski; Henryk Majcherek; Miroslawa Maludzinska; Borys Marynowski; Andrzej Mastalerz; Jan Mayzel; Janusz Mond; Wlodzimierz Musial; Jerzy Zygmunt Nowak; Marian Opania; Elzbieta Panas; Bronislaw Pawlik; Dariusz Przychoda; Ewa Radzikowska; Krzysztof Rojek; Malgorzata Rozniatowska; Zdzislaw Rychter; Wlodzimierz Rzeczycki; Piotr Rzymyszkiewicz; Wojciech Sanejko; Jerzy Schejbal; Piotr Siejka; Ewa Skibinska; Maciej Slawinski; Anna Smal-Romanska; Igor Smialowski; Dorota Stalinska; Wojciech Starostecki; Karol Stepkowski; Hanna Szczerkowska; Zdzislaw Tobiasz; Aleksander Trabczynski; Jerzy Turek; Grzegorz Warchol; Bozena Wróbel; Wanda Wróblewska; Piotr Wyrzykowski; Anna Zagórska; Jerzy Zass; Hanna Chojnacka; Tomasz Gradowski; Krzysztof Koperski; Jaroslawa Michalewska; Emilia Ziólkowska; Krzysztof Kieslowski; Krzysztof Piesiewicz
• Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
• Runtime: 9:51
• Company: Telewizja Polska (TVP), Zespol Filmowy 'Tor', Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), MK2, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Series