The moral maze of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog

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For this episode, we’re dipping back in to the archive of writing on the Klassiki Journal for an essay on one of the masterpieces of Polish cinema: Krzysztof Kieślowski’s monumental Dekalog. Ten hour-long films inspired by the Ten Commandments, all set in the same Warsaw tower block complex, this intimate epic of everyday life arrived at the end of the communist era and asked penetrating questions about the spiritual and material direction of Polish society as transformation loomed.

Read the original piece here and watch Kieślowski’s Dekalog spin-off feature A Short Film about Love on Klassiki now.

Find out more about Poland in the eighties with our companion piece and explore Kieślowski’s career here.

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Intro music by Juliet Merchant.