Synopsis:

“I Am the Lord Thy God and thou shalt not have other gods besides me” This is the first of the ten episodes of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s TV series. Each episode portrays one of the Ten Commandments. The TV series was made for Polish television from 1988 to 1989. In the first episode we follow the ten-year-old Pawel and his father Krzysztof whose lives are run by the house computer.

color, 53 min

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Tuesday 05.12.2006 AT 20:00

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“Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of Thy Lord God in Vain” An older doctor finds himself in an awkward position when he has to counsel his pregnant patient. Her husband is very ill and it is not certain if he will survive. Even worse, the child is not his. The woman does not want to keep the child if there are good chances for her husband to survive and she asks the doctor to make a health prognosis for her husband. In that way the doctor has to decide about the baby’s life.

color, 57 min

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Tuesday 05.12.2006 AT 21:00

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“Honor the Sabbath Day” On Christmas Eve Ewa tricks her former lover and now married tram driver Janusza into spending the night with her instead of his family. While everybody else is at home with their families, Ewa and Janusz drive around Warsaw looking for Ewa’s allegedly vanished husband…

color, 56 min

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Wednesday 06.12.2006 AT 20:00

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“Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long.” Acting student Anka and her father are very close. Their relationship is friendlier than is usually the case for a father and a daughter. They have lived together since Anka’s mother died. However, their close relationship is put to a test when Anka discovers an old letter from her mom that unveils old family secrets.

color, 55 min

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Wednesday 06.12.2006 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

“Thou Shalt Not Kill!” A young and seemingly psychotic drifter brutally kills a taxi driver without any apparent reason. Soon afterwards he gets arrested and is brought to court. Young Piotr is his defender and in spite of all his efforts, the murderer is sentenced to death. This episode of Decalogue questions the (un)justification of an (il)legal murder. Later Kieślowski turned this episode into a feature film under the title Kratki film o ubijanju (Krótki film o zabijaniu, 1988).

color, 57 min

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Thursday 07.12.2006 AT 20:00

Synopsis:

“Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery” Every morning a shy nineteen-year-old milk delivery boy secretly watches his promiscuous neighbor. He is in love with her and his interest in her borders on obsession. She discovers him… This episode was also later turned into a feature film under the title Kratki film o ljubavi (Krótki film o milosci, 1988).

color, 58 min

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Thursday 07.12.2006 AT 21:00

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“Thou Shalt Not Steal” A woman named Mother kidnaps her own daughter, Ania, who she had given birth to when she was still very young. Ewa, Ania’s grandmother, in order to avoid a scandal, had adopted Ania and raised her as her own daughter. Ania believes that Mother is in fact her older sister. In a desperate attempt to build a real relationship with her daughter, Mother takes her to meet her father…

color, 55 min

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Saturday 09.12.2006 AT 20:00

Synopsis:

“Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness” Elzbieta returns to Warsaw from America in order to research the destiny of Jews who have survived the war. At a lecture about ethics she approaches the lecturer Zofia claiming that the two of them know each other from before. Elzbieta claims that when she was a little girl Zofia refused to help her and hide her from the Nazis. Zofia claims she had a good reason for such behavior…

color, 55 min

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Saturday 09.12.2006 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

“Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife” This is a drama about a married couple that faces problems: the husband’s impotence and the wife’s infidelity. After Roman finds out that he is impotent he persuades Hanka to find a lover. She is reluctant but finally gives in. However, Roman soon becomes obsessively jealous and decides to kill himself. He is not aware that Hanka plans to break up with her lover.

color, 58 min

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Monday 11.12.2006 AT 20:00

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“Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods” Two brothers, Jerzy and Artur, meet at their brother’s funeral after a long period of separation. He left them a valuable philatelist collection. The two brothers think about selling the collection because they can both use the money. First they must find several stamps that are missing from their collection.

color, 57 min

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Monday 11.12.2006 AT 21:00

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Julie is happily married to an esteemed composer, Patrice, with whom she has a daughter. The happiness disappears when Patrice and the little girl die in a car accident and Julie is severely hurt. Because of her pain, Julie is obsessed with committing a suicide. Instead, she decides to break all connection with her previous life – she puts her old mother in a retirement home, destroys all of the photographs that remind her of her lost happiness, burns all of Patrice’s scores, and mov...

color, 98'

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Wednesday 13.12.2006 AT 21:00

Tuesday 12.12.2006 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

This is the second part of the trilogy Three Colors and it deals with the topic of equality. Karol is a Polish hairdresser who lives in France. He is married to the attractive Dominique whom he loves very much. However, Dominique wants a divorce and slowly but surely she destroys Karol’s life. She takes all of his possessions and Karol ends up as a beggar in the metro. Finally, as a stowaway in a suitcase he returns to Poland…

color, 92'

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Thursday 14.12.2006 AT 19:00

Tuesday 12.12.2006 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

Valentine, a young student and model, meets a cynical retired judge who spends his life listening to other people’s phone conversations. The two of them become friends. The film follows a strange community: the relationship between Valentine and the judge and the relationship of Auguste and Karin, a couple that the judge is eavesdropping on…

color, 99'

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Thursday 14.12.2006 AT 21:00

Wednesday 13.12.2006 AT 19:00