A Short Film About Love

Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski

1988 / 87min / DCP

Tomek (Olaf Lubaszenko), a desultory, puffy-faced 19-year-old postal clerk temporarily staying in his godmother’s apartment in a Warsaw housing project, spends his idle hours brushing up on his Portuguese and peering through a telescope at Magda (Grażyna Szapołowska), a beautiful older woman in a neighboring building—but after a while voyeurism alone isn’t enough, and Tomek begins meddling in the affairs of the object of his obsession with consequences that will put both in peril. “A taut, sombre little masterpiece” [Sight & Sound], expanded from the script of the seventh episode of the Dekalog (Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery).

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of Moral Mazes of Krzysztof Kieślowski