Product Description

Comprises ten short films, each based on a broken commandment, set in and around an apartment block in Warsaw. The stories describe experiences and emotions and are characterized by the significance they give to choices made. This book includes "A Short Film about Love".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #427564 in Books
• Published on: 1991-04-22
• Original language: Polish
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Customer Reviews

Brilliant collection of scripts to acclaimed TV works
The Decalogue (aka Dekalog/The Ten Commandments) remains one of the greatest things I've seen on TV- up there with The Singing Detective, Twin Peaks, My So-Called Life & Nuts in May- & evidence that great TV is possible & relatively low-budget filming (the scripts & films are all located on the same Warsaw housing block)can be mindblowing...

This book, with a nice brief foreword by the late Stanley Kubrick and a more detailed intro from Kieslowski, reads like a novel- Kieslowski and co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz write in wonderful descrpitive/novelistic detail and in small sections- great examples of effective screenwriting that any aspirational writer should read. Of course, the complete series and the extended features that came out of them (The Short Films about Killing & Love)should all be seen- but these scripts work as brilliant drama and a sign of what Kieslowski intended- it's interesting to compare the script to the final versions. My only quibble is that the Ten Commadments given at the start don't match up with the order of the films, e.g. Six: Thou Shalt Not Kill matches what would become A Short Film About Love.

A brilliant screenplay collection, regardless...