Dekalog - Season 1 - Eps 2: Dekalog: Two
“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 and may die, and she is pregnant by someone else. If her husband dies, she wants to keep the child, but not otherwise, and she wants the doctor to give him an honest verdict on his chances. But the doctor is disturbed by her request, because his answer will directly affect the life or death of another human being. Is he entitled to play God?
About Dekalog
Title: Dekalog
First Air Date: 1989-12-10
Last Air Date: 1990-07-06
Status: Ended
Rating: 8.5/10 (from 91 votes)
Language: PL
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 10
Network: TVP1
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: Sender Freies Berlin, Telewizja Polska, Zespół Filmowy "Tor"
Synopsis
Dekalog (pronounced [dɛˈkalɔk]) is a 1989 Polish drama television miniseries directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner. It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time. Each installment explores characters facing one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they reside in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human.
