Screenplay: Krzysztof Piesiewicz

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Artur Barcis · Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Olaf Lubaszenko · Piotr Machalica

Plot TV Mini-Series (1989-1990). 10 Episodes. Originally made for Polish television, 'Dekalog' focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Grazyna Szapolowska · Olaf Lubaszenko · Stefania Iwinska · Artur Barcis

Plot 'Thou shalt not commit adultery' is a shorter, scaled-down version of 'A Short Film About Love', with a less complex plot and a different ending - though the basic narrative...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Henryk Baranowski · Wojciech Klata · Maja Komorowska · Artur Barcis

Plot Ten-year-old Pawel and his father Krzysztof run their lives on their beloved home computer, while Pawel's aunt worries that his spiritual education is being neglected. But Pawel is too busy...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Grazyna Szapolowska · Olaf Lubaszenko · Stefania Iwinska · Piotr Machalica

Plot "A Short Film about Love" is the feature length version of a film in Kieslowski's "Decalogue". It tells the story of a young man (Tomek) and his obsession with an...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Irène Jacob · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Jean-Pierre Lorit · Frédérique Feder

Plot The final installment of Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's 'Three Colours' trilogy, 'Red' stands for Fraternity (of Liberty and Equality) in the French flag and national motto. Valentine Dussaut (Irène Jacob),...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Miroslaw Baka · Krzysztof Globisz · Jan Tesarz · Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Plot "Thou Shalt Not Kill" - a shorter, slightly less graphic version of 'A Short Film About Killing', but the plot is essentially the same: murder followed by execution, two killings,...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Adrianna Biedrzynska · Janusz Gajos · Artur Barcis · Adam Hanuszkiewicz

Plot "Honour thy father and thy mother". Young Anka and her father have lived together since her mother's death, and have always been more like close friends than father and daughter....

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Jerzy Stuhr · Zbigniew Bielawski · Henryk Bista · Olaf Lubaszenko

Plot "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods" - especially not when it leads to the conclusion of this black comedy about two brothers who inherit their father's valuable stamp collection...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Miroslaw Baka · Krzysztof Globisz · Jan Tesarz · Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Plot A youth randomly, and brutally, murders a taxi-driver. Piotr has just passed his law exams and been admitted to the bar. He is to defend Jacek, the young murderer. There...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Ewa Blaszczyk · Piotr Machalica · Artur Barcis · Jan Jankowski

Plot "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife". Roman, after discovering his impotence, urges his wife Hanka to take a lover. She reluctantly complies, and Roman, despite his earlier words, becomes...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Juliette Binoche · Benoît Régent · Florence Pernel · Charlotte Vêry

Plot Three Colors: Blue is the first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Anna Polony · Maja Barelkowska · Wladyslaw Kowalski · Boguslaw Linda

Plot "Thou shalt not steal" - but in this case the 'theft' is of a child by her real mother, who then finds herself emotionally unable to cope with the responsibility,...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Irène Jacob · Halina Gryglaszewska · Kalina Jedrusik · Aleksander Bardini

Plot Veronika lives in Poland. Veronique lives in Paris. They don't know each other. Veronika gets a place in a music school, works hard, but collapses and dies on her first...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Zbigniew Bielawski · Julie Delpy · Janusz Gajos · Jerzy Stuhr

Plot Part two in Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowskis THREE COLOURS astounding trilogy, WHITE represents Equality (of Liberty and Fraternity) in the French flag and the French national motto. Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski),...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Maria Koscialkowska · Teresa Marczewska · Artur Barcis · Tadeusz Lomnicki

Plot "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...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Krystyna Janda · Aleksander Bardini · Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Artur Barcis

Plot "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain". An elderly doctor is approached by a woman with a complicated request. Her husband is gravely ill...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Maria Pakulnis · Joanna Szczepkowska · Artur Barcis

Plot "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." Janusz is a taxi driver. It's Christmas Eve, and he honours the (Polish) traditions for this (holy) day: he gives presents to...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Grazyna Szapolowska · Jerzy Radziwilowicz · Aleksander Bardini · Maria Pakulnis

Plot It's 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief,...

Direction Tom Tykwer

Cast Cate Blanchett · Giovanni Ribisi · Remo Girone · Stefania Rocca

Plot A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest...

Direction Danis Tanovic

Cast Emmanuelle Béart · Karin Viard · Marie Gillain · Guillaume Canet

Plot Sisters Sophie (Emmanuelle Béart), Celine (Karin Viard) and Anne (Marie Gillain) are haunted by the disgrace and death of their accused paedophile father, and have trouble with their personal relationships....