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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, winning glowing critical praise and its reputation as a cinematic masterpiece remains undiminished. The ten hour-long films, loosely based on the Ten Commandments, are all equally captivating and powerful. The stories are set around the same Warsaw apartment block and focus on the complexities of human relationships. The themes are the universal ones of love, marriage, infidelity, parenthood, guilt, faith and compassion. Stanley Kubrick praised Kieslowski and his co-writer Krzystof Piesiewicz for their "very rare ability to dramatise their ideas rather than just talking about them... They do this with such dazzling skill, you never see the ideas coming and don't realise until much later how profoundly they have reached your heart." This 2 disc set features the final five films, including the hour-long version of A Short Film About Love and also an exclusive interview with Kieslowski, one of the last he ever gave.
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