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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
Sounds very powerful, but the female bonding and chatty trips through the past make this episode far too weepy and sentimental.
April 04, 2017
In this gripping dramatic treatment of "Thou shalt not bear false witness" Krzysztof Kieslowski examines the impact our words and deeds have upon others.
April 04, 2017
Part 8 is a story that talks its way through a confrontation between an American translator of Polish writing and an elderly ethics professor with whom she shared a life-threatening moral dilemma during World War II.
April 05, 2017
Decalogue Eight is among the more structurally interesting, self-reflexive entries.
April 04, 2017
Not only is a previous episode directly referenced, but the entire film is about the danger of applying intellectual analysis to ethical situations. Doing so, Decalogue VIII suggests, often denies the basic humanity involved.
April 04, 2017
One of the more schematic -- though no less fascinating, nor less acute -- of the series.