Title:
Dekalog
Author:
Kieślowski, Krzysztof, 1941-1996, film director, screenwriter.
Edition:
Special edition.
Publication Information:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (approximately 583 minutes) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus disc.
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Originally made for Polish television, Dekalog focuses on the residents of a housing complex in post-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face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.
General Note:
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.
Language:
Polish
Contents:
Dekalog, Jeden / Dekalog, Dwa / Deklaog, Trzy
Dekalog, Cztery / Dekalog, Piec / Dekalog, Szesc
Dekalog, Siedem / Dekalog, Osiem / Dekalog, Dziewiec
Dekalog, Dziesiec / A short film about "Dekalog".
A Short Film About Killing -- A Short Film About Love.
Subject Term:
Added Author:
Added Uniform Title:
Dekalog (Television program)
ISBN:
9781681432007
Format :
DVD