Dekalog: Episodes 8-10

Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski

1990 / 175min / DCP

Kieślowski and co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz’s monumental serial counts down the remaining Commandments with episodes Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness, Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Wife, and Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors Goods. In the first-named, an ethics professor considers the repercussions—some quite unexpected—of her failure to help a Jewish girl in grave danger during the war years; in the tragicomic …Covet They Neighbors Wife, an incurably impotent man of early middle age encourages his wife to take a lover, a bit of largesse he comes to bitterly regret; in the final chapter, the surviving sons of a recently deceased stamp collector, coming into the joint possession of their father’s collection and learning of its enormous value, take a dangerously heightened interest in the hobby they’d until recently dismissed. The capstone to one of the most majestic structures to have been erected in cinema, television origins notwithstanding.

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of Moral Mazes of Krzysztof Kieślowski