The Decalogue (Complete Set)
starring: Boguslaw Linda, Adrianna Biedrzynska, Joanna Szczepkowska, Grazyna Szapolowska, Maja Komorowska
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381949926
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 3
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: April 18, 2000
Running Time: 560 minutes
Sales Rank: 61394
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1988
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Krzysztof Kieslowski has fashioned a cinematic masterpiece. This collection of ten films is a work of supreme daring, imagination, and sheer brilliance, riveting and profound. Each of the films uses one of The Ten Commandments as a thematic springboard. As the films in 'The Decalogue' were completed, they awed audiences at film festivals worldwide. The best actors, cinematographers and film technicians joined Kieslowski and his co writer and long time collaborator Krzysztof Piesiewicz in these extraordinary stories. The experience of watching 'The Decalogue' is so compelling and powerful that film critic Kenneth Turan wrote that to see it was 'nothing less than a privilege.'
Amazon.com essential video:
Superlatives abound when describing Krzysztof Kieslowski's The Decalogue, a series of 10 one-hour dramas originally made for Polish TV between 1988 and 1989 and seen throughout the world in film festivals and cinematheque and museum programs. Though each episode is inspired by one of the Ten Commandments of the Bible, these are not Sunday school fables illustrating some simplistic moral lesson--the connections to the individual commandments are not always obvious and are often downright curious--but powerful, profound stories of love and loss, faith and fear. Kieslowski explores ordinary people flailing through inner torments, hard decisions, and shattering revelations, grounding his stories in the faces of their deeply human characters.
Each episode is self-contained, from 'Decalogue I' ('I Am the Lord Thy God'), the touching story of a boy who starts asking the hard questions of life from his rationalist father and religious aunt, to 'Decalogue X' ('Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods'), a comic tale of estranged brothers who bond through a winding ordeal involving their father's priceless stamp collection. There are stories of tragedy and triumph, both expansive and intimate, some profoundly moving and others delicately shaded--but all are warmed by Kieslowski's sympathetic direction and his eye for resonant, fragile imagery. Initially drawn together by location--the series is set in a dreary Warsaw apartment complex--a web of associations forms as characters pass through other stories, sometimes only briefly, and themes reverberate through the series. The Decalogue is ultimately a personal spiritual investigation into the soul of man, a work of quiet attention and deep emotion marked by astounding images and vivid characters. Each volume is also available individually on VHS. --Sean Axmaker
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- Good seriesArt that can claim greatness deals with complex issues in complex ways. If the answers or questions ... Read More
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- Engages The MindHad it not been for a friend who has the time and the intellectual curiosity to seek out films like ... Read More
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- The mark of good films? They stay with youAt the present time, there are upwards of sixty reviews of this series of 10 films made for Polish television ... Read More
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- A Meditation on MoralityKrzysztof Kieslowski's "Decalogue" is a series of ten short films set in a block of towering flats in modern Warsaw. ... Read More
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- This might be the pinnacle of achivement in all film historyI once read a quote from (Bronx born film maker) Stanley Kubrick reagarding the Decalogue, in which he refers to these ... Read More
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