Dekalog / Janus Films ; TVP ; MK2 ; director, Krzysztof Kieślowski ; co-writers, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieślowski ; producer, Ryszard Chutowski.
Edition:
Five-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
5 videodiscs (approximately 583 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (71 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm).
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, 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 [IX]; Jerzy Stuhr, Zbigniew Zamachowski [X]; Artur Barciś. Title from title container. 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.
Contents:
disc 1. Deklaog, Trzy / starring Daniel Olbrychski, Maria Pakulnis, Joanna Szczepkowska ; director of photography Piotr Sobociński. Dekalog, Dwa / starring Krystyna Janda, Aleksander Bardini, Olgierd Łukaszewicz ; cinematography by Edward Kłosiński -- Deklaog, Trzy / starring Daniel Olbrychski, Maria Pakulnis, Joanna Szczepkowska ; director of photography Piotr Sobociński. disc 2. Dekalog, Szesc / starring Grażyna Szapołowska, Olaf Lubaszenko ; cinematography by Witold Adamek. Dekalog, Piec / starring Mirosław Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz ; cinematography by Sławomir Idziak -- Dekalog, Szesc / starring Grażyna Szapołowska, Olaf Lubaszenko ; cinematography by Witold Adamek. disc 3. Dekalog, Dziewiec / starring Ewa Błaszczyk, Piotr Machalica ; cinematography by Piotr Sobociński. Dekalog, Osiem / starring Maria Kościałowska, Teresa Marczewska ; cinematography by Andrzej Jaroszewicz -- Dekalog, Dziewiec / starring Ewa Błaszczyk, Piotr Machalica ; cinematography by Piotr Sobociński. disc 4. A short film about "Dekalog". starring Jerzy Stuhr, Zbigniew Zamachowski ; cinematography by Jacek Bławut -- A short film about "Dekalog". disc 5. A Short Film About Love. 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.
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