Dekalog: Episodes 1-4

Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski

2026 / 228min / DCP

The first four episodes of Kieślowski and co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz’s serial masterwork—each episode inspired by one of the Ten Commandments, focused on a resident or residents of a single late-Communist era housing complex, and exploring the difficulties that arise in following ancient proscriptions in a complex contemporary world—introduce us, in turn, to a scientist who places inordinate faith in his personal computer (I Am the Lord Thy God), a doctor at an intensive care unit who’s confronted with an insoluble moral dilemma (Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of Thy Lord God in Vain), a young man whose Christmas Eve celebration with his wife and child is interrupted by the resurfacing of a former lover (Honor the Sabbath Day), and a woman whose understanding of her relationship to her parents is called into question with the appearance of a letter from her late mother (Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother).

Distributor: Janus Films

Introduction by Annette Insdorf, Columbia University Film Professor and author of “Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski" on Sunday, April 12th

Part of Moral Mazes of Krzysztof Kieślowski