Decalogue VIII

  • Maria Kościałkowska: Zofia
  • Teresa Marczewska Elzbieta
  • Jerzy Schejbal: Ksiadz
  • Artur BARCIS: Young man
  • Tadeusz Łomnicki: Schneider
  • Wojciech Asiński
  • Marek Kępiński
  • Janusz moon
  • Marian Opania
  • Bronisław Pawlik
  • Krzysztof Rojek
  • Wojciech Sanejko
  • Ewa Skibinska
  • Wojciech Starostecki Student
  • Hanna Szczerkowska
  • Anna Zagórska

Decalogue, Eight is a Polish television movie from the year 1988. As the eighth part of the film series of the director Krzysztof Kieslowski Decalogue of the film deals with the Eighth Commandment Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Content

Two women, an elderly professor of ethics at a Polish university and a younger Jew from the U.S., will meet in the university. The Jew comes to a scientific visit, because it has many of the texts translated professor and participates in their teaching. A present student told at the beginning of the hour the story of the doctor and the pregnant woman is the subject of part 2 of the Decalogue.

Want to know the professor not know who really is the Jewish translator. But as this tells to class a story that recognizes the professor that the Jew tells its own story and that it is that time six years old girl that she should help in World War II, to hide from the Nazis, which, however, again sent away, ostensibly for religious reasons ( Thou shalt not bear false witness leave ). The moral implication of the situation in World War II is being discussed among the students of the course.

The two women go together to the place where they met in 1943, and there will be a debate. It is in the room that the professor has taken the time to death of the girl approvingly. The professor tells her how it came to the situation and regretted the situation very much because - formulated the professor - " nothing is more important than a child's life ." The two characters of the plot approaching slowly and meet directly related to the current reality of life for both people.

Another visit to the Jewish woman with a man who would save her after the professor 's life is equally blocked by this. He does not want to talk about the situation and refuses to take the thanks of the young woman.

Criticism

" A complex ethical discourse on truth and lies on the border between theory and practice, faced with contexts that are too complicated to classify the behavior of people in a specific situation as right or wrong can. "

1988 in film Screenplay Krzysztof Piesiewicz Film score Decalogue I Decalogue II Decalogue III Decalogue IV Decalogue VII Decalogue IX Decalogue X
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