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EPISODE
Inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments, ten television drama films show one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they live in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland
December 21, 1954
September 13, 1961 in Tomaszów Lubelski, Lubelskie, Poland
15 December 1963, Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, Swietokrzyskie, Poland
16 September 1957, Zielona Góra, Lubuskie, Poland
4 August 1935, Czechowice-Dziedzice, Slaskie, Poland
29 April 1950, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
17 November 1913, Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]
27 June 1952, Torun, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
6 December 1968, Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
27 October 1964, Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland
April 04, 2017
Somewhat roundabout on the whole.
April 03, 2017
In terms of form, Decalogue II displays a notable preference for telling insert shots, from the leaves that the wife rips off her houseplant to the torturous drips of water on the metal footboard of the husband's hospital bed.
April 03, 2017
Kieslowski goes beyond the Commandments' specifics... and turns each episode into a slice of life carved out of a community of late-Communist-era Poles living in a high-rise apartment complex in Warsaw.
April 03, 2017
In this ethically charged drama, writer/director Krzysztof Kieslowski shows the danger of taking the Lord's name in vain, either by playing God ourselves or by handing over our God-given powers to others.
April 05, 2017
Here, as elsewhere in the series, the dramatic engine is the contrast between two characters. Kieslowski connects the two with one of his signature big, fluid camera moves.
April 03, 2017
As in Dekalog 1, the film's power comes from the precise, economic delineation of character and circumstance.