Dekalog 7-10 (1988)

Decalogue

Dekalog 7
“Thou shalt not steal.” But in this case the “theft” is of a child by her real mother, who then finds herself emotionally unable to cope with the responsibility, while the stable and loving family that brought the child up are distraught.

Dekalog 8
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” A Polish-American researcher visits Warsaw and attends a lecture about ethics. Afterwards, she approaches Zofia, the lecturer, and says that she is the little Jewish girl whom Zofia refused to shelter during World War II. But Zofia has a very good reason for her apparent cowardice…

Dekalog 9
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife.” Roman, after discovering his impotence, urges his wife Hanka to take a lover. She reluctantly complies, and Roman, despite his earlier words, becomes obsessively jealous. Spying on her, he learns of her affair, and vows to kill himself—not knowing that Hanka was in fact breaking off the relationship…

Dekalog 10
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s goods.” Especially not when it leads to the conclusion of this black comedy about two brothers who inherit their father’s valuable stamp collection and end up paying rather more than they bargained for…

Dekalog is a profound and thought-provoking anthology of ten one-hour films, each inspired by one of the Ten Commandments, presented over three parts; go here for Dekalog 1-3 and here for Dekalog 4-6.

Rating

Unclassified

Duration

236 min

Cast

Anna Polony, Maja Barełkowska, Władysław Kowalski, Maria Kościałkowska, Teresa Marczewska, Artur Barciś, Ewa Błaszczyk, Piotr Machalica, Jerzy Stuhr, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Henryk Bista

Director

Krzysztof Kieślowski