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EPISODE
Dekalog - Season 1 Episode 08: Dekalog, osiem
Inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments, ten television drama films show one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they live in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland
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21 March 1951, Chelmno, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
31 August 1947, Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
27 June 1952, Torun, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
May 29, 1904 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
27 February 1945, Lowicz, Lódzkie, Poland
16 January 1957, Siemianowice Slaskie, Slaskie, Poland
27 January 1976, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
27 August 1964, Gryfów Slaski, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
17 July 1961, Brzeziny, Lódzkie, Poland
March 1, 1924 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
April 04, 2017
In this gripping dramatic treatment of "Thou shalt not bear false witness" Krzysztof Kieslowski examines the impact our words and deeds have upon others.
April 05, 2017
Decalogue Eight is among the more structurally interesting, self-reflexive entries.
April 04, 2017
Not only is a previous episode directly referenced, but the entire film is about the danger of applying intellectual analysis to ethical situations. Doing so, Decalogue VIII suggests, often denies the basic humanity involved.
April 04, 2017
Sounds very powerful, but the female bonding and chatty trips through the past make this episode far too weepy and sentimental.
April 04, 2017
One of the more schematic -- though no less fascinating, nor less acute -- of the series.
April 04, 2017
Part 8 is a story that talks its way through a confrontation between an American translator of Polish writing and an elderly ethics professor with whom she shared a life-threatening moral dilemma during World War II.