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Bookmark this pageDekalog 5: 'Thou shalt not kill' (1988)
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Kieslowski's extraordinary film depicts two acts of slaughter. Pimply country kid Yatzek (Baka) unexplainedly kills a taxi-driver. The State then kills him. Both are deaths by hanging, of different kinds, both shown in graphic detail and in real time, shocking in itself. The effect is deeply unsettling. Kieslowski shoots in a calm, heightened-realist style, using multiple filters to bleed and darken the colours of the dour locations, and gets to the heart of our inability to obey the edict 'Thou shalt not kill', thus suggesting the mystery of our deepest motives, without preaching or simplification. A raw, edgy, challenging work originally made, like the rest of the Dekalog, for TV; Kieslowski himself expanded it into an 85-minute theatrical version entitled A Short Film About Killing.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Producer: Ryszard Chutkowski
Cast: Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz full cast
Duration: 57 mins
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