Dekalog - Season 1 - Eps 8: Dekalog: Eight
“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…
About Dekalog
Title: Dekalog
First Air Date: 1989-12-10
Last Air Date: 1990-07-06
Status: Ended
Rating: 8.5/10 (from 90 votes)
Language: PL
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 10
Network: TVP1
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: Sender Freies Berlin, Telewizja Polska, Zespół Filmowy "Tor"
Synopsis
Dekalog (pronounced [dɛˈkalɔk]) is a 1989 Polish drama television miniseries directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner. It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the decalogue of 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. Each installment explores characters facing one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they reside in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human.