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EPISODE
Dekalog - Season 1 Episode 08: Dekalog, osiem
Ten television drama films inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments which are a set of biblical laws relating to ethics and worship
December 4, 1959
31 August 1947, Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
12 March 1934, Kochlowice, Ruda Slaska, Slaskie, Poland
14 March 1942, Lencze, Malopolskie, Poland
23 September 1939, Dabrowa Górnicza, Slaskie, Poland
7 September 1953, Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
13 February 1955, Pszczyna, Slaskie, Poland
April 04, 2017
Not only is a previous episode directly referenced, but the entire film is about the danger of applying intellectual analysis to ethical situations. Doing so, Decalogue VIII suggests, often denies the basic humanity involved.
April 04, 2017
One of the more schematic -- though no less fascinating, nor less acute -- of the series.
April 04, 2017
Part 8 is a story that talks its way through a confrontation between an American translator of Polish writing and an elderly ethics professor with whom she shared a life-threatening moral dilemma during World War II.
April 04, 2017
Sounds very powerful, but the female bonding and chatty trips through the past make this episode far too weepy and sentimental.
April 05, 2017
Decalogue Eight is among the more structurally interesting, self-reflexive entries.
April 04, 2017
In this gripping dramatic treatment of "Thou shalt not bear false witness" Krzysztof Kieslowski examines the impact our words and deeds have upon others.