Dekalog: Parts 1-5 (2 Disc Set)
(1988) [M]

Parts one to five of a ten part series made for Polish television. Each programme focuses on the inhabitants of an apartment block and the ethical dilemmas that they face each day. Dekalog, from the acclaimed director of the Three Colours trilogy, was premiered at the 1989 Venice Film Festival,...  More

Dekalog: Parts 6-10 (2 Disc Set)
(1988) [M]

Parts six to ten of a ten part series made for Polish television. Each programme focuses on the inhabitants of an apartment block and the ethical dilemmas that they face each day. Dekalog, from the acclaimed director of the Three Colours trilogy, was premiered at the 1989 Venice Film Festival,...  More

Knife In The Water
(1962) [M]

A couple driving along a deserted road to a lake almost run over a young man, a student, who flags down the car almost too closely. The driver is a self absorbed husband, the woman his pretty, irritated wife. They take him along and the husband, out of the sheer patronizing will, invites him to...  More

A Short Film About Love
(1988) [M]

A Short Film About Love is the Rear Window style successor to Krzysztof Kieslowski's brilliant A Short Film About Killing, and is another episode in the cycle of films based on the Ten Commandments, Dekalog, Kieslowski's epic project which has taken him several years to complete. Contrary to its...  More

A Short Film About Killing
(1988) [MA]

Expanded from an episode in Kieslowski's 10-part "Dekalog" TV series (from the Ten Commandments), A Short Film About Killing is a powerful rebuke to a world that fights violence through ritualized capital punishment, but still dramatizes, sensationalizes and perpetuates it. The film's powerful...  More

The Kieslowski Collection, Disc 3 : No End
(1985) [M]

It's 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and Antek continues to appear to her. She seeks to free herself in her work, in her relationship with her son, in...  More

The Kieslowski Collection, Disc 1 : The Scar (Blizna)
(1976) [PG]

1970. After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is put in charge of the construction. He used to live in the small town where the factory is to be built, his wife used to be a Party...  More

The Kieslowski Collection, Disc 2 : Camera Buff (Amator)
(1979) [M]

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic...  More

The Kieslowski Collection, Disc 4 : Blind Chance (Przypadek)
(1987) [M]

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life. One: he catches the train, meets an honest Communist and himself becomes a Party activist. Two: while running for the train he bumps into a railway guard, is...  More

Katyn
(2007) [MA]

Directed by multi-award winning veteran Polish director Andrzej Wajda and nominated for Best Foreign Film at this years Academy Awards, Katyń investigates the murder of thousands of Polish officers by the Soviet Secret Police during World War II. Among those killed was Wajda’s own father....  More