Decalogo 1

Alfonso Garza

DEKALOG, JEDEN (Decalogo 1)

FICHA TECNICA
director

Krzysztof Kieslowski
guión

Krzysztof Kieslowski & Krzysztof Piesiewicz
reparto

Henryk Baranowski, Wojciech Klata, Maja Komorowska
fotografía

Wieslaw Zdort
musica

Zbigniew Preisner
producción

Ryszard Chutkowski
año 1989 país

Polonia

Krzysztof Kieslowski 27 junio 1941 - 13 marzo 1996 Warsaw,Polonia

Kieslowski comenzó su carrera filmando documentales, mas tarde se asoció con “El Cine de Ansiedad Moral”, grupo en el que participaban diferentes directores polacos, incluyendo Andrzej Wajda y que aspiraba a retratar las condiciones de los polacos bajo el comunismo. Su obra más conocida fue la serie de tres colores “Rojo”, “Blanco” y “Azul”. “Rojo” le otorgó una nominación en los premios de laAcademia por mejor director en 1995, “Azul” compartió el Leon de Oro en Venecia en 1993 y “Blanco” fue galardonada a mejor director en Berlin en 1994.
Filmografia

1.! rois couleurs: Rouge (1994) T

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2.! rzy kolory: Bialy (1994) T 3.! rois couleurs: Bleu (1993) T ! 4.! Double vie de Véronique, La (1991) ! 5.! "Dekalog" (10 episodes, 1989-1990) ! 6.! City Life (1990) ! 7.!Krótki film o milosci (1988) ! 8.! Krótki film o zabijaniu (1988) ! 9.! Siedem dni w tygodniu (1988) ! 10.! Przypadek (1987) ! 11.! Bez konca (1985) ! 12.! Krótki dzien pracy (1981) (TV) ! 13.! Spokój (1980) (TV) ! 14.! Gadajace glowy (1980) ! 15.! Dworzec (1980) ! 16.! Amator (1979) ! 17.! Siedem kobiet w róznym wieku (1979) ! 18.! Z punktu widzenia nocnego portiera (1979) ! 19.! Szpital (1977) ! 20.!Nie wiem (1977) ! 21.! Blizna (1976) ! 22.! Personel (1976) (TV) ! 23.! Klaps (1976) ! 24.! Zyciorys (1975) ! 25.! Pierwsza milosc (1974) (TV) ! 26.! Przejscie podziemne (1974) (TV) ! 27.! Przeswietlenie (1974) ! 28.! Murarz (1973) ! 29.! Refren (1972) ! 30.! Podstawy BHP w kopalni miedzi (1972) ! 31.! Miedzy Wroclawiem a Zielona Gora (1972) ! 32.! Fabryka (1971) ! 33.! Bylem zolnierzem (1971) !34.! Robotnicy 1971 - Nic o nas bez nas (1971) ! 35.! Przed rajdem (1971) ! 36.! Z miasta Lodzi (1968) ! 37.! Zdjecie (1968) (TV) ! 38.! Koncert zyczen (1967) ! 39.! Urzad (1966) ! 40.! Tramwaj (1966)
CRITICA - Steven D. Greydanus, Decent Films Guide

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"What is the true meaning of life? Why get up in the morning? Politics doesnʼt answer that." — Polish director KrzysztofKieslowski The Decalogue, Kieslowskiʼs extraordinary, challenging collection of ten one-hour films made for Polish television in the dying days of the Soviet Union, doesnʼt answer those questions either. What it does is pose them as hauntingly and seriously as any cinematic effort in the last twenty years. "Everyone seems to accept the Ten Commandments as a kind of moral basis," Kieslowski has said, "andeveryone breaks them daily. Just the attempt to respect them is already a major achievement." The Decalogue is not easy to keep, and The Decalogue is not easy to watch. Although the films explore moral questions, they do so in the context of disordered, sometimes dysfunctional lives of a modern, generally areligious urban populace. Kieslowski never preaches, and seldom even seeks explicitly toclarify lines between right and wrong, but the prevailing mood is somber and downbeat, the general sense of something having gone wrong unavoidable. Like much of the Old Testament, The Decalogue is a chronicle of human failure. But unlike the Old Testament, The Decalogue chronicles human failure without seeking to put it all in context, to persuade its audience to live morally, or even to define whatthat means. There is no apologia here for the Ten Commandments; characters break the commandments, but there is generally no particular effort to persuade the viewer of the wrongness of doing so, or to show the harmful consequences that follow. That doesnʼt mean the morality of the situation is neither here nor there — far from it — only that the film challenges the viewer to grapple with the...