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• Dekalog | Blu Ray | (24/06/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Krzysztof Kieslowski's Dekalog is one of the greatest achievements of the late 20th century - as much an intricate work of moral philosophy as it is a collection of psychologically riveting narratives. Each standalone story revolves around the consequences arising from a breach of one of the Ten Commandments, but this is no finger-wagging religious tract: Kieslowski was one of film history's keenest observers of human nature, and his troubled, vainglorious, self-deceiving, deeply flawed characters (many played by some of Poland's finest character actors) are universally recognisable. Special Contents: 4K restoration of all ten episodes, presented in their original broadcast aspect ratios Original uncompressed Polish mono soundtrack, with optional English subtitles The Guardian Interview: Krzysztof Kieslowski, an onstage conversation with Derek Malcolm at London's National Film Theatre on 2 April 1990 to mark the British premiere of Dekalog Dekalog: An Appreciation, in which critic Tony Rayns, a Kieslowski champion for many decades, pays tribute to his masterpiece

• A Short Film About Killing | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'A Short Film About Killing' is based on the Fifth Commandment: 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' and is a psychological vivisection of the brutal and senseless murder of a taxi-driver by a young drifter with no explanation offered and no extenuating circumstances given. Kieslowski demonstrates his skill and dexterity as a master of suspense keeping tensions rising and viewers in knots producing a searing powerful moral indictment of capital punishment. Directed by Kieslowski the direct

• Karol - A Man Who Became Pope | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  He was marked by history and he changed its course. This remarkable drama reveals the heroic true story of John Paul II a man who ""rose to become a Pope of revolutionary worldwide change."" Before he became Pope Karol Wojtyla's life was a vigorous search for love and freedom. His transformational journey led him to the theatre to profound experiences of love friendship and loyalty to scholarship to the Catholic priesthood. And finally it led him to Rome and the Chair of

• The Interrogation | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After a one-night stand with a military officer a cabaret singer is imprisoned by the secret police without ever being informed of her alleged crime. For the next five years she is subjected to harrowing torture and harassment which she doggedly withstands in a struggle to maintain her dignity and sanity. Interrogation was banned by the Polish government for being 'inflammatory and dangerous'. Years later director Bugjaski smuggled a copy out of the country and it s

• The Story Of Sin | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Passionate Melodrama surrealist erotica and the rapturous strains of Mendelssohn collide head on in Story of Sin - the story of Ewa whose betrayal in love drives her to murder and prostitution. Based on a novel placed on the Index by the Church Borowczyk's only feature to be shot in Poland meticulously recreates a time in which his country had no official existence casting a cynical eye on a corrupt society commited to exploiting the innocent and repressing the erotic.