Criterion collection #837

Title from container; credits from container and accompanying booklet

Disc one (290 min.). Dekalog: One ; Dekalog: Two ; Dekalog: Three ; Dekalog: Four ; Dekalog: Five -- Disc two (294 min.). Dekalog: Six ; Dekalog: Seven ; Dekalog: Eight ; Dekalog: Nine ; Dekalog: Ten -- Disc three (171 min.). A short film about killing ; A short film about love -- Disc four. Supplements

A series of ten made-for-television films with themes drawn from the Ten Commandments, presenting the intertwined lives of the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland

Videodisc release of the 1989 Polish television drama 10-episode series

Special features include new and archival interviews with cast and crew, a program on the series' formal and thematic patterns by film studies professor Annette Insdorf, and Kieślowski's 1988 theatrical versions of the series' fifth and sixth episodes (171 min.) : A short film about killing, and, A short film about love

Cowriters, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieślowski ; producer, Ryszard Chutkowski ; editor, Ewa Smal ; composer, Zbigniew Preisner

Dekalog: One: Henryk Baranowski, Maja Komorowska, Wojciech Klata, Artur Barciś; Dekalog: Two: Krystyna Janda, Aleksander Bardini, Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Artur Barciś, Stanisław Gawlik, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Ewa Ekwińska; Dekalog: Three: Maria Pakulnis, Daniel Olbrychski, Joanna Szczepkowska, Artur Barciś; Dekalog: Four: Adrianna Biedrzyńska, Janusz Gajos, Artur Barciś, Aleksander Bardini, Andrzej Blumenfeld, Tomasz Kozłowicz, Elżbieta Kilarska; Dekalog: Five, and, A short film about killing: Mirosław Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz, Artur Barciś, Krystyna Janda, Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Aleksander Bednarz, Maciej Maciejewski, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz; Dekalog: Six, and, A short film about love: Grażyna Szapołowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwińska, Stanisław Gawlik, Artur Barciś, Piotr Machalica ; Małgorzata Rożniatowska; Dekalog: Seven: Anna Polony, Maja Barełkowska, Władyslaw Kowalski, Bogusław Linda, Katarzyna Piwowarczyk, Artur Barciś; Dekalog: Eight: Maria Kościałowska, Teresa Marczewska, Artur Barciś, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Bronisław Pawlik; Dekalog: Nine: Ewa Błaszczyk, Piotr Machalica, Jan Jankowski, Artur Barciś, Jolanta Piętek-Górecka, Katarzyna Piwowarczyk.; Dekalog: Ten: Jerzy Stuhr, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Henryk Bista, Maciej Stuhr, Cezary Harasimowicz, Henryk Majcherek, Jerzy Turek, Olaf Lubaszenko

Blu-ray, region A; 1.33:1, 1.70:1; monaural; requires Blu-ray player

In Polish with optional English subtitles