Dekalog

Responsibility: Janus Films ; TVP ; MK2 ; director, Krzysztof Kieślowski ; co-writers, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieślowski ; producer, Ryszard Chutowski.
Uniform Title: Dekalog (Television program)
Language: Polish, English. Soundtrack in Polish, with English subtitles.
Sound: digital; optical; monaural; Dolby Digital 1.0.
Projection: full screen (1.33:1); 24 fps.widescreen (1.70:1); 24 fps.
Video: DVD video; NTSC.
Digital: video file; DVD video; Region 1.
Edition: Five-DVD special edition.
Publication: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical description: 5 videodiscs (approximately 583 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (71 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm)
Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 837.

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Creators/Contributors

Contributor: Kieślowski, Krzysztof, 1941-1996 film director, screenwriter.; Piesiewicz, Krzysztof, 1945- screenwriter.; Chutkowski, Ryszard, film producer.; Baranowski, Henryk actor.; Klata, Wojciech, actor.; Komorowska, Maja, 1938- actor.; Janda, Krystyna, actor.; Barciś, Artur, actor.; Bardini, Aleksander, actor.; Łukaszewicz, Olgierd actor.; Olbrychski, Daniel, actor.; Pakulnis, Maria, actor.; Szczepkowska, Joanna, actor.; Biedrzyńska, Adrianna, actor.; Gajos, Janusz actor.; Baka, Mirosław, actor.; Globisz, Krzysztof, actor.; Zapasiewicz, Zbigniew, 1934-2009, actor.; Tesarz, Jan, actor.; Szapołowska, Grażyna actor.; Lubaszenko, Olaf, actor.; Iwińska, Stefania, 1928-1988, actor.; Polony, Anna, actor.; Barełkowska, Maja, actor.; Kowalski, Władysław, 1936- actor.; Linda, Bogusław, actor.; Kościałkowska, Maria, actor.; Marczewska, Teresa, actor.; Błaszczyk, Ewa, actor.; Machalica, Piotr, actor.; Stuhr, Jerzy, actor.; Zamachowski, Zbigniew, actor.; Janus Films, production company.; Telewizja Polska production company.; MK2 Productions production company.; Criterion Collection (Firm) film distributor.

Contents/Summary

Contents

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1. Dekalog: One ; Dekalog: Two ; Dekalog: Three
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2. Dekalog: Four ; Dekalog: Five ; Dekalog: Six
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3. Dekalog: Seven ; Dekalog: Eight ; Dekalog: Nine
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4. Dekalog: Ten
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5. A Short Film About Killing ; A Short Film About Love.

Summary

Originally made for Polish television, Dekalog focuses on the residents of a housing complex in post-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face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, the ten hour-long films deftly grapple with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time. Also presented are the longer theatrical versions of the series' fifth and sixth films: A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love.

Bibliographic information

Release date: 2016
Production date: 1988
Title Variation: Title on container: Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog; English title: Decalogue
Medium: 4 3/4 in.
Series: Criterion collection ; 837
Note: Originally released as a television series in Poland in 1988.; Special features include: New, restored 4k digital transfer of all twelve films; Selection of archival interviews with director Krzysztof Kieślowski, taken from a 1987 television piece on the 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 formal and thematic patterns of Dekalog by film studies professor Annette Insdorf; New and archival interview with Dekalog cast and crew, including cowriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, thirteen actors, three cinematographers, editor Ewa Smal, and Kieślowski confidante Hanna Krall; Trailers. Accompanying book includes the essay "And so on": Kieślowski's Dekalog and the metaphysics of the everyday by film studies professor Paul Coates, along with excerpts from Kieślowski on Kieślowski.
Production Credits: Cinematographers, Wiesław Zdort, Edward Kłosiński, Piotr Sobociński, Krzysztof Pakulski, Sławomir Idziak, Witold Adamek, Dariusz Kuc, Andrzej Jaroszewicz, Jacek Bławut ; editor, Ewa Smal ; composer, Zbigniew Preisner.
Participant: Henryk Baranowski, Wojciech Klata, Maja Komorowska [I]; Krystyna Janda, Aleksander Bardini, Olgierd Łukaszewicz [II]; Daniel Olbrychski, Maria Pakulnis, Joanna Szczepkowska [III]; Adrianna Biedrzyńska, Janusz Gajos [IV]; Mirosław Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Jan Tesarz [V]; Grażyna Szapołowska, Olaf Lubaszenko [VI]; Anna Polony, Maja Barelkowska, Władyslaw Kowalski, Bogusław Linda [VII]; Maria Kościałowska, Teresa Marczewska [VIII]; Ewa Błaszczyk, Piotr Machalica, Jan Jankowski [IX]; Jerzy Stuhr, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Henryk Bista [X]; Artur Barciś.
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.
ISBN: 9781681432007; 1681432005
Publisher Number: CC2673D Criterion Collection; CC2673DDVD The Criterion Collection

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