Dekalog
Dekalog
The Decalogue: A Synopsis
"For 6,000 years, these rules have been unquestionably right. And yet we break them every day. People feel that something is wrong in life. There is some kind of atmosphere that makes people now turn to other values. They want to contemplate the basic questions of life, and that is probably the real reason for wanting to tell these stories."
-Krzysztof Kieslowski on The Decalogue
A woman worries about her nephew's spiritual education, as his life and his father's are run on their home computer.
A woman with a gravely ill husband and pregnant of her lover faces a dilemma: if her husband dies, she'll keep the baby; if not, she'll abort.
On Christmas Eve, a taxi driver's ex-lover asks him for help to look for her missing husband.
When her father is away on business, a young woman discovers a letter from her dead mother reading, 'Open after my death'.
A soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man.
A teenager spies on his older neighbour through binoculars.
Raised as sisters, one is in fact the other's mother. Unwilling to continue living a lie, the mother tries to get her daughter back from her parents.
A researcher meets a professor and reveals herself as the child to whom she refused to shelter during World War II.
Following the discovery of his sexual impotence a man urges his wife to take a lover.
After their father's death, two brothers inherit a valuable stamp collection.
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Artur Barcis | Man in the Sheepskin |
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Olgierd Lukaszewicz | Andrzej Geller |
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Aleksander Bardini | Consultant |
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Krystyna Janda | Dorota Geller |
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Piotr Machalica | Roman |
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Olaf Lubaszenko | Tomek |
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Stanislaw Gawlik | Postman |
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Jan Tesarz | Taxi Driver |
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Krzysztof Kumor | Gynecologist |
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Maciej Szary | Apartment Caretaker |
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Katarzyna Piwowarczyk | Ania |
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Henryk Baranowski | Krzysztof |
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Daniel Olbrychski | Janusz |
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Zbigniew Zamachowski | Artur |
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Andrzej Blumenfeld | Michal's Friend |
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Jerzy Stuhr | Jerzy |
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Jerzy Trela | Mikolaj |
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Andrzej Chyra | Theatre Student |
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Wladyslaw Kowalski | Stefan |
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Janusz Gajos | Michal |
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Marek Kasprzyk | Student |
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Miroslaw Baka | Lazar Jacek |
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Barbara Dziekan | Cashier |
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Grazyna Szapolowska | Magda |
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Andrzej Mastalerz | Jacek's Brother |
| Director | Krzysztof Kieslowski |
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| Writer | Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieslowski | |
| Producer | Andrzej Buhl, Ryszard Chutkowski | |
| Musician | Zbigniew Preisner | |
| Photography | Piotr Sobocinski, Jacek Blawut, Edward Klosinski, Krzysztof Pakulski, Slawomir Idziak, Witold Adamek, Dariusz Kuc, Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz, Wieslaw Zdort | |
| Nr Discs | 3 |
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| Screen Ratios | Academy Ratio (1.37:1) Widescreen (1.77:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Mono [Polish] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Distributor | Arrow Academy |
| Regions | Region B |