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Dekalog ( pronounced [dɛˈkalɔg], also known as Dekalog: The Ten Commandments and The Decalogue) is a 1989 Polish drama television miniseries directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski [2] and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner. [3] It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the decalogue of the ...
The Decalogue is the Ten Commandments, the list of ethical principles in Exodus 20 :1–17 and Deuteronomy 5 :6–21. Decalogue may also refer to: Ritual Decalogue, also called the Ten Commandments by some, the laws listed in the Book of Exodus, 34:11–26. Dekalog, a 1989 series of ten films by Krzysztof Kieślowski based on the Ten Commandments.
The Decalogue Collection is a profound and thought-provoking anthology of ten one-hour films, each inspired by one of the Ten Commandments. Created by acclaimed Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski, this cinematic masterpiece explores complex moral and ethical dilemmas faced by the residents of a housing complex in late 20th-century Poland.
This masterwork by Krzysztof Kieślowski is one of the twentieth century’s greatest achievements in visual storytelling. Originally made for Polish television, Dekalog focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly ...
Feb 25, 2016 · Introduction. The Ten Commandments, found in Exodus 20:1–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21, are a list of prohibitions and, to a lesser extent, commands. The name “Decalogue,” literally “ten words” ( deka logous ), reflects the Greek translation of Exodus 34:28. Decalogue is also the designation for the twelve commandments in Exodus 34:12–26.
Feb 9, 2023 · The Decalogue was not originally part of the Sinai theophany but was added later, both in Exodus and Deuteronomy. Its origins lie in wisdom literature. A close-up of the Decalogue, Exodus 20, in a Torah scroll. Wikimedia. Myriads of generations of Jews and Christians from antiquity to the present view the Decalogue—a term deriving from the ...
Forrest Cardamenis 16 Nov 2016 2. The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part epic masterpiece, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieslowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.
