Dekalog - Season 1

Dekalog - Season 1

Season 1

Originally made for Polish television, “The Decalogue” focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.
Network
Episodes10
DatesDec 10, 1989 - Jul 6, 1990

Episodes

I Am the Lord Thy God; Thou Shalt Have No Other God But Me
Season 1Episode 155 min

I Am the Lord Thy God; Thou Shalt Have No Other God But Me

“I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt have no other God but me.” Ten-year-old Pawel and his father Krzysztof run their lives on their beloved home computer, while Pawel’s aunt worries that his spiritual education is being neglected. But Pawel is too busy enjoying life, not least thanks to his father’s Christmas present of a pair of ice skates, because the computer has calculated that the frozen lake is safe to skate across…
Dec 10, 1989
Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of the Lord Thy God in Vain
Season 1Episode 255 min

Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of the Lord Thy God in Vain

“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” An elderly doctor is approached by a woman with a complicated request. Her husband is gravely ill and may die, and she is pregnant by someone else. If her husband dies, she wants to keep the child, but not otherwise, and she wants the doctor to give him an honest verdict on his chances. But the doctor is disturbed by her request, because his answer will directly affect the life or death of another human being. Is he entitled to play God?
May 11, 1990
Remember the Sabbath Day, to Keep It Holy
Season 1Episode 355 min

Remember the Sabbath Day, to Keep It Holy

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Janusz is a taxi driver. It’s Christmas Eve, and he honours the (Polish) traditions for this (holy) day: he gives presents to the members of his family and attends Midnight Mass. Later, Ewa, a woman who he had betrayed his wife with three years earlier, asks him to help her. Her husband is missing, and she asks him to help her search for him. Should Janusz stay home to keep the day holy? Or should he help Ewa, who says she needs his help, to keep the day holy? Is it his duty to help her? This episode seems to be about both…
May 18, 1990
Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother
Season 1Episode 455 min

Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother

“Honour thy father and thy mother.” Young Anka and her father have lived together since her mother’s death, and have always been more like close friends than father and daughter. One day, Anka discovers a letter from her mother whose contents make her question her whole relationship with her father… if that’s indeed who he is.
May 25, 1990
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Season 1Episode 555 min

Thou Shalt Not Kill

“Thou shalt not kill.” A shorter, slightly less graphic version of “A Short Film About Killing,” but the plot is essentially the same: murder followed by execution, two killings, one illegal, one legal, both hideous.
Jun 1, 1990
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
Season 1Episode 655 min

Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery

“Thou shalt not commit adultery.” A shorter, scaled-down version of “A Short Film About Love,” with a less complex plot and a different ending—though the basic narrative about the relationship between a lonely 19-year-old boy and the thirty-something artist that he spies on every night is the same.
Jun 8, 1990
Thou Shalt Not Steal
Season 1Episode 755 min

Thou Shalt Not Steal

“Thou shalt not steal.” But in this case the “theft” is of a child by her real mother, who then finds herself emotionally unable to cope with the responsibility, while the stable and loving family that brought the child up are distraught.
Jun 15, 1990
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbour
Season 1Episode 855 min

Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbour

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” A Polish-American researcher visits Warsaw and attends a lecture about ethics. Afterwards, she approaches Zofia, the lecturer, and says that she is the little Jewish girl whom Zofia refused to shelter during World War II. But Zofia has a very good reason for her apparent cowardice…
Jun 22, 1990
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour's Wife
Season 1Episode 955 min

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour's Wife

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife.” Roman, after discovering his impotence, urges his wife Hanka to take a lover. She reluctantly complies, and Roman, despite his earlier words, becomes obsessively jealous. Spying on her, he learns of her affair, and vows to kill himself—not knowing that Hanka was in fact breaking off the relationship…
Jun 29, 1990
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour's Goods
Season 1Episode 1055 min

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour's Goods

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s goods.” Especially not when it leads to the conclusion of this black comedy about two brothers who inherit their father’s valuable stamp collection and end up paying rather more than they bargained for…
Jul 6, 1990

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