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EPISODE
Dekalog - Season 1 Episode 05: Dekalog, piec
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 04, 2017
In both a micro and macro sense, then, Decalogue V isn't a call for justice, but for grace.
April 04, 2017
A lot less interesting than it sounds.
April 05, 2017
Decalogue Five is perhaps the most celebrated of the films. It is almost certainly the most artful.
April 04, 2017
Krzysztof Kieslowski's treatment of "Thou shalt not kill" affirms the preciousness of life and stands squarely against murder by individuals or by the state.
April 04, 2017
A raw, edgy, challenging work.
April 04, 2017
There are no niceties to this stark tale, which interweaves snippets of the lives of three men -- the killer, his taxi driver victim and the idealistic defense attorney who fails to save the condemned man from the gallows.

