“Live carefully, with your eyes open, and try not to cause pain.”
The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part collection of films, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieślowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.
1 season · 10 episodes
Inspired by the decalogue of 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, each in
S1 E1Dekalog: One
Dec 10, 19898.856 min
“I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt have no other God but me.” Ten-year-old Pawel and his father Krzysztof run their lives on their beloved home computer, while Pawel’s aunt worries that his spiritual education is being neglected. But Pawel
S1 E2Dekalog: Two
May 11, 19907.759 min
“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” An elderly doctor is approached by a woman with a complicated request. Her husband is gravely ill and may die, and she is pregnant by someone else. If her husband dies, she wants t
S1 E3Dekalog: Three
May 18, 19906.658 min
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Janusz is a taxi driver. It’s Christmas Eve, and he honours the (Polish) traditions for this (holy) day: he gives presents to the members of his family and attends Midnight Mass. Later, Ewa, a wo
S1 E4Dekalog: Four
May 25, 19907.858 min
“Honour thy father and thy mother.” Young Anka and her father have lived together since her mother’s death, and have always been more like close friends than father and daughter. One day, Anka discovers a letter from her mother whose conten
S1 E5Dekalog: Five
Jun 1, 19908.660 min
“Thou shalt not kill.” A shorter, slightly less graphic version of “A Short Film About Killing,” but the plot is essentially the same: murder followed by execution, two killings, one illegal, one legal, both hideous.
S1 E6Dekalog: Six
Jun 8, 1990961 min
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.” A shorter, scaled-down version of “A Short Film About Love,” with a less complex plot and a different ending—though the basic narrative about the relationship between a lonely 19-year-old boy and the thirty
Artur Barciś
Young Man
Olgierd Łukaszewicz
Andrzej Geller
Krystyna Janda
Dorota Geller
Aleksander Bardini
Consultant
Stanisław Gawlik
Postman
Krzysztof Kumor
Gynecologist
Henryk Baranowski
Krzysztof (uncredited)
Maciej Szary
Apartment Caretaker
Jan Tesarz
Taxi Driver
Olaf Lubaszenko
Tomek
Piotr Machalica
Roman
Katarzyna Piwowarczyk
Ania
