BIBFRAME Work

Title

Kieslowski's Decalogue

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Sicker, Philip (author )

Subject

• ea654c7b-9b55-46fa-8640-61aaad60d55a

Genre Form

• Television criticism and reviews (LCGFT)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 791.45/72 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: PN1992.77.D44 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography

Summary

"Written and produced under martial law in 1980's Communist Poland, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue presents a collective portrait of a demoralized nation populated by gloomy individualists" who respond to other people with antagonism or indifference. Feeling betrayed by a history of brutal invasions, the series' characters struggle to cast off a legacy of a bitterness that has arisen because their national hopes have been so frequently shattered. Yet the central questions that animate The Decalogue are not political but ethical and ontological: How should one live? And why should one live at all in an atomized civilization? In exploring these questions in relation to the Ten Commandments, the series' unifying principle is, paradoxically, disintegration: Kieslowski's protagonists break the Commandments in a fractured world drained of meaning. Disintegration functions as a multidimensional principle-moral, historical, social, and psychological -informing The Decalogue's conception, organization, and style. In analyzing these features the study draws on a wide range of philosophical, literary and psychoanalytic inter-texts"-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Sicker, Philip. Kieslowski's Decalogue

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• Date: 2026-09-11T20:17:05.986296+00:00
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• Derived from: 23966497

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• Date: 2026-09-11
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