Decalogue 1

Dekalog, jeden

When Roger Ebert taught Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog (The Decalogue, 1989) at the University of Chicago, he had difficulties pairing the Ten Commandments with the ten films. According to Ebert, “there was no ...
Decalogue 5

Dekalog, pięć

The lawyer (and future Polish senator) Krzysztof Piesiewicz met the director Krzysztof Kieślowski while the latter was shooting a documentary on the courts under Polish martial law. Piesiewicz, who would go on ...

East of Eden

“East of Eden is more personal to me; it is more my own story. One hates one’s father; one rebels against him; finally one cares for him, one recovers oneself, one understands him, one forgives him, and one say...

Fever

An adaptation of socialist writer Andrzej Strug’s 1910 novel The Story of a Bullet (1), Agnieszka Holland’s Goraczka. Dzieje jednego pocisku (Fever) – which shifts emphasis to the “life” or “biography” of a bom...