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EPISODE
Dekalog - Season 1 Episode 08: Dekalog, osiem
Ten one-hour films describe the moral problems at austere housing project in 1980s Poland
5 January 1930, Milanówek, Mazowieckie, Poland
29 April 1950, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
27 June 1952, Torun, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
4 August 1935, Czechowice-Dziedzice, Slaskie, Poland
17 July 1961, Brzeziny, Lódzkie, Poland
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.
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 05, 2017
Decalogue Eight is among the more structurally interesting, self-reflexive entries.
April 04, 2017
One of the more schematic -- though no less fascinating, nor less acute -- of the series.
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 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.