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The Decalogue: Volume 5 (IX Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife & X Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods) [VHS]
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Product Details/SpecificationsActor(s):
Jerzy Stuhr
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Maria Koscialkowska
Ewa Blaszczyk
Piotr Machalica
Creators:
Andrzej Jaroszewicz (Cinematographer)
Jacek Blawut (Cinematographer)
Piotr Sobocinski (Cinematographer)
Krzysztof Kieslowski (Writer)
Ewa Smal (Editor)
Ryszard Chutkowski (Producer)
Krzysztof Piesiewicz (Writer)
Director(s):
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Recording label: Facets EAN: 9781565802490Binding: VHS TapeISBN: 1565802497Number of items: 1Format: Color, Original recording reissued, Subtitled, NTSC, Release Date: 2000-04-11Universal product code (UPC): 736899374433Number of discs: 1Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)Amazon.com
In "Decalogue VII" ("Thou Shalt Not Steal"), Krzysztof Kieslowski turns the commandment into the devastating story of the theft of a mother's love and the emotional wounds left in its wake. Majka, a willowy young woman devastated by sadness, kidnaps her young sister Ania to set things straight in her charade of a life. The girl is in fact her daughter, raised by Majka's mother Ewa to avoid scandal, but Ewa has jealously hoarded the affection of the little one, walling the real mother off from her daughter's love. Kieslowski has never shied from painting the brutish colors of human nature, but echoing beneath the hurt and anger and selfishness of the blindly selfish Ewa and vindictive Majka is a desperate cry for love and affection. Another contentious relationship is explored in "Decalogue VIII" ("Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor"), the story of a Holocaust survivor who confronts the woman (now a renowned professor of ethics) who refused her shelter when she was a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis in 1943 Poland. The potentially explosive issue is dealt with in direct terms, but it's the undercurrent of faith questioned and regained that gives the episode its resonant beauty. This story most directly touches on other episodes of the series: an ethical problem posed in the professor's class is taken from "Decalogue II," and a neighboring stamp collector is the absent father buried at the opening of "Decalogue X." --Sean Axmaker
Running time: 115 minutesLanguage: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Polish (Original Language)
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