Upon first glance, the most striking quality of Polish master Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog is its monumental scope. Originally presented on Polish television in the twilight of the Communist era, this suite of ten hour-long films navigates the intersecting lives of tenants in a Warsaw housing complex, exploring the web of existential and ethical dilemmas that shape their destinies: the anguish of spiritual doubt, the elusive nature of time, and the daily struggle of living in a politically repressive society. But in spite of the series’ thematic gravity and the influence of the Ten Commandments on its narrative structure, Kieślowski rejected the idea that his crowning achievement was intended as a moral treatise.
“These will simply be films about life,” the director says in an interview included on our just-released edition of Dekalog. Recorded in Poland in 1987 and ’88 on the set of the series’ second installment, the above segment, courtesy of Telewizja Polska, features Kieślowski introducing the concept behind this ambitious project and discussing the stylistic variation among its individual episodes.
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