Decalogue I

  • Henryk Baranowski Krzysztof
  • Wojciech Klata Pawel
  • Maja Komorowska: Irena
  • Maria Gładkowska: Girls
  • Aleksandra Kisielewska: Woman
  • Aleksandra Majsiuk: Ola
  • Magda Sroga - Mikołajczyk: Journalist
  • Agnieszka Brustman: Chess players
  • Artur BARCIS
  • Maciej Borniński
  • Maciej Sławiński
  • Anna SmaI Romanska
  • Bozena Wrobel
  • Piotr Wyrzykowski

Decalogue, one is a Polish television movie from the year 1989. As the first part of the Decalogue series director Krzysztof Kieślowski of the film the first commandment treated Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Content

The eleven-year old Pawel shows interested in fundamental questions of life: Why do people die? Is there a soul? In his thoughts he receives different answers. Due to the to a rational point of view of his father Krzysztof and secondly because of the religious perspective of his sister, Irena.

Krzysztof deals as a scientist with the development of " artificial intelligence ". He therefore interprets life in the context of rational explanations. Irena, however, opens up the things of existence because of their religiosity. Both respect the view of the other and let the sides interested Pawel decide, for example, if he wants to participate in religious instruction.

As Pawel prematurely receives his Christmas gift, he wants to try this, the longed- skates, necessarily at the nearby lake. His father is calculated several times the carrying capacity of the ice. He checked on site and the strength is ultimately certain: the ice can not break.

Nevertheless, it leads to disaster. Pawel breaks into the ice and dies.

Interpretation

Pavel's father seems to offend against the first commandment ( " Thou shalt have no other gods before me "). He has in effect created a god, his computer. But it is not so easy. Although Pavel's father admits the science a high priority and tends to trust the computer in any way, yet he goes at night on the ice to check the carrying capacity. In this respect, " he did not lift themselves "; he trusts not only his computer. One can not be regarded as a punishment for the arrogance of his father Pavel's death so. Kieslowski, the question of the meaning of what is happening (eg When the dog 's death, from which the conversation between Pawel and his father developed over death ), to suggest without a definite answer and not speaking about "guilt". Neither the father nor the boy are " guilty." Whether one interprets the boy's death as chance, fate or act of God, does not change the cruelty of the experience for those involved. Not because someone suffers a misfortune, because he is a sinner. The question of God is the center of the film, set in a modern and helpless in many ways society. Neither Pavel's aunt nor his father, who demonstrated his anger in overturning the altar on the action of God, have an answer. For Pavel's father this concept of God is at least a reference point. Kieslowski represents all people, believers and non-believers the question: "What does your 'philosophy' in the face of a dead child? What do you say? How do you live with that? "

Criticism

"The film unfolds between the poles computer and altar, science and faith. This involves more than the unmasking of the computer as false idols and a hard lesson for an unbeliever; Main subject is the question of the recognition of characters. Questions about God and the meaning of life can not be answered by Kieslowski, but asked insistently. "

1989 in film Screenplay Krzysztof Piesiewicz Film score Decalogue II Decalogue III Decalogue IV Decalogue VII Decalogue VIII Decalogue IX Decalogue X
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