Decalogue IV
- Adrianna Biedrzyńska: Anka
- Janusz Gajos: Michal
- Andrzej Blumenfeld: Michals friend
- Artur BARCIS: Young man
- Adam Hanuszkiewicz: Professor
- January Tesarz: Taxi driver
- Tomasz Kozłowicz: Jarek
- Elżbieta Kilarska: Jarek's mother
- Helena Norowicz: Doctor
- Aleksander Bardini
- Igor Smialowski
Decalogue, Four is a Polish television movie from the year 1990. As the fourth part of the Decalogue series director Krzysztof Kieślowski treated of the film the fourth commandment Thou shalt honor father and mother.
Content
The 20 -year-old drama student Anka grows up with her father Michal. Her mother died shortly after her birth. As Michal going on a trip, Anka finds a letter addressed to her, but she in turn is allowed to open only after death Michals. She starts to open the letter, but finds a second letter in the first with the handwriting of her mother. When she then looks at her mother's things in the basement, she finds an empty envelope and prepared an identical looking envelope as the inner in the letter. As Michal returning from the trip, she confronts him about it, that would stand in the inner letter that he was not her biological father. As it turns out, Anka knew for five years from the letter and the truth has long suspected. Michal, in turn, wanted to give her the letter, ever since she was 10 years old, but managed not initially ("... at 10 you were too small and 15 too big ..."). He took it for years always with when he was traveling, so they did not find him, but he knew that she knew of the letter for a long time. And so he let him this time "accidentally" are so they can find it and read it. There will be uncommonly frank discussions between the two, in which both time and again their roles of " father / daughter " to " man / woman " switch. It seems that the relationship in the relationship is " father / daughter " gone forever. Gradually, Anka and Michal reconciled. The next morning Michal goes out of the house and Anka runs after him, "Father, father," calling behind and tells him that she has the letter only fake, and shows him to prove a still sealed letter to her mother. Together, they burn the letter. A small remnant of the first sentences of the letter remains. He begins almost literally exactly as the letter Anka Michal presented.
Kieslowski is in this film the fourth commandment a taboo subject contrary, namely, the love between father and daughter. Freud's insights play an equally important role as the realization that today's reality is now much more complex than the authors of the commandments could imagine that.
Criticism
"The story contains elements of a classic one-act play, is played intense but strongly constructed. "