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EPISODE
Dekalog - Season 1 Episode 02: Dekalog, dwa
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
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 03, 2017
In terms of form, Decalogue II displays a notable preference for telling insert shots, from the leaves that the wife rips off her houseplant to the torturous drips of water on the metal footboard of the husband's hospital bed.
April 03, 2017
In this ethically charged drama, writer/director Krzysztof Kieslowski shows the danger of taking the Lord's name in vain, either by playing God ourselves or by handing over our God-given powers to others.
April 05, 2017
Here, as elsewhere in the series, the dramatic engine is the contrast between two characters. Kieslowski connects the two with one of his signature big, fluid camera moves.
April 04, 2017
Somewhat roundabout on the whole.
April 03, 2017
As in Dekalog 1, the film's power comes from the precise, economic delineation of character and circumstance.
April 03, 2017
Kieslowski goes beyond the Commandments' specifics... and turns each episode into a slice of life carved out of a community of late-Communist-era Poles living in a high-rise apartment complex in Warsaw.

