The Ten Commandments

– The Decalogue is a 1989 Polish television drama series directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and co-writ..

Type:
TVSeries
Rating:
9.10 / 10
Duration:
9 Hours and 32 Minutes
Release Year:
1989
Original Name:
Dekalog
The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (1989) - Also known as Dekalog

The Decalogue is a 1989 Polish television drama series directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner. It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the Ten Commandments. Each short film explores one or several moral or ethical issues faced by characters living in modern Poland.

The series is Kieślowski's most acclaimed work, has been said to be "the best dramatic work ever done specifically for television" and has won numerous international awards, though it was not widely released outside Europe until the late 1990s. Film-maker Stanley Kubrick wrote an admiring foreword to the published screen-play in 1991.

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Release Date:

10 Dec 1989

Language:

Polish

MPAA Content-Rating:
TV-MA – Unsuitable For Children

This program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults and therefore may be unsuitable for children under 17 years old. It contains content that is unsuitable for children.

Dekalog

Dekalog
Plot:

This is a series of ten shorts created for Polish Television, with plots loosely based upon the Ten Commandments, directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. Two of these, Dekalog 5 and 6, are shorter cuts from the feature-length films--Krotki film o zabijaniu (A Short Film About Killing) and Krotki film o milosci (A Short Film About Love), respectively. They deal with the emotional turmoil suffered by humanity, when instinctual acts and societal morality conflict.

Awards:

9 wins & 1 nomination.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
9.0/10
Metacritic:
100%

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