TV series

Dekalog

1989–1990 · 1 season

Quietly devastating moral parables that ask you to sit with ordinary people facing impossible choices and their consequences.

Tagline: Live carefully, with your eyes open, and try not to cause pain.
Overview: 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 collection of films, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieślowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.
How it feels: Melancholic, earnest, tense and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Morality, faith, guilt, identity
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: morality
faith
guilt
identity
fate
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: anthology
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild