Decalogue 8

Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness, feature film, 1988

DIRECTED BY: Krzysztof Kieślowski

Decalogue 8

CAST:
Maria Koscialkowska (Zofia),
Teresa Marczewska (Elzbieta),
Artur Barics (mladi čovjek),
Tadeuzs Lomnicki (krojač)

SCRIPT:
Krzysztof Kieślowski,
Krzysztof Piesiewicz

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Andrzej Jaroszewicz

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