The Decalogue
A grey, decaying apartment complex in Poland encapsulates the depth and complexity of human condition. A rationalist father loses his child through a miscalculation on the thickness of ice. A young girl plans to seduce a man who may or may not be her real father. A man sells his kidney for stamps. A woman turns a teenger stalker into a hapless victim. An executioner murders a murderer.
In this series of ten 1-hour films by Kieslowski, we see the extraordinary happenstances in ordinary lives, the desire and despair in close-up faces, and the moral dilemmas undocumented in scriptures and laws.