The Decalogue

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The Decalogue ★★★½ 1988

Originally produced for Polish TV, Kieslowski's 10-hour epic offers moments from the lives of residents of a late-Communist era Warsaw apartment complex. Each of the segments is a modern retelling of the Ten Commandments as the individuals confront morality, ethics, betrayal, and a variety of human frailities and crises. Polish with subtitles. 584m/C VHS, DVD . PL Krystyna Janda, Aleksander Bardini, Maja Komorowska, Daniel Olbrychski, Janusz Gajos, Maria Pakulnis, Jerzy Stuhr, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Boguslaw Linda, Artur Barcis, Henryk Baranowski; D: Krzysztof Kieslowski; W: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz; C: Wieslaw Zdort, Edward Klosinski, Krysztof Pakulski, Slawomir Idziak, Witold Adamek, Dariusz Kuc, Andrzej Jaroszewicz, Piotr So-bocinski, Jacek Blawut; M: Zbigniew Preisner. TV

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