Dekalog
Dekalog

Dekalog

(1989)
TV-MA
8.5/10
100 votes
55 min/ep
December 10, 1989
"Live carefully, with your eyes open, and try not to cause pain."

Overview

The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part collection of films, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieslowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.

Network

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries
Miniseries

Miniseries

10 EpisodesAir Date: December 10, 1989

Inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time, each installment explores characters facing one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they reside in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human.

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