There are great films everyone celebrates, and then there are great films few people remember. Of these Krzysztof Kieslowski’s 1988 “Dekalog” is one of the greatest. The reasons this exceptional work ...

Thou shalt go see Krzysztof Kieślowski’s magnum opus, which looks more divine than ever thanks to Janus Films' 4K restoration. Ten commandments. 10 episodes. 10 hours. When it first aired on Polish ...

From the IndieWire Vault: The Polish arthouse director talks about his most famous series in wonderful, rich detail. Krzysztof Kieślowski’s criminally underseen (yet still critically beloved) ten-part ...

Did an obscure TV miniseries made in Poland at the tail end of the Communist era — and seen in the West only by art-film devotees — pave the way for the explosion of quality TV drama that produced ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In Part One of “Dekalog,” Irena (Maja Komorowska, “KatyÅ ”) fields questions posed by her ...

Watch a clip from the first installment of "Dekalog," starring Artur Barcis, Henryk Baranowski, and Wojciech Klata. Photo: Janus Films Milk circulates like blood throughout the great Polish director ...

Dekalog is being rereleased into a world where ideas of right and wrong are, paradoxically, both fluid and ironclad: We dole out judgment on a daily basis, easily identifying an ever-changing cast of ...

Poland, the late 1980s, the last gasp of Soviet rule. In a concrete Warsaw high-rise, politics have little bearing on daily life beyond a lingering mood of diffuse anxiety. Residents come and go, ...

Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s aunt, lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of one ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Krzysztof Kieslowski loved ...

In an artistic world that constantly deconstructs itself, the creators of “The Plague” and “Dekalog” turned toward digital tools, with self-filmed actors and direction from the audience. By A.J.

A Short Episode About Murder: Jan Tesarz faces the end in Dekalog: Five. “I don’t have any answers,” Krzysztof Kieslowski once said, “but [I] do know how to pose questions.” Not an uncommon stance for ...