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Wednesday 16 November 2016 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber

Dekalog - 5

Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Poland, 1990, 59 minutes

"Thou shalt not kill" - a shorter, slightly less graphic version of 'A Short Film About Killing', but the plot is essentially the same: murder followed by execution, two killings, one illegal, one legal, both hideous.

Dekalog - 6

Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Poland, 1990, 60 minutes

"Thou shalt not commit adultery" - a shorter, scaled-down version of 'A Short Film About Love', with a less complex plot and a different ending - though the basic narrative about the relationship between a lonely 19-year- old boy and the thirtysomething artist that he spies on every night is the same.

Original version Polish; English subtitles

Wednesday 23 November 2016 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber

Dekalog - 7

Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Poland, 1990, 59 minutes

"Thou shalt not steal" - but in this case the 'theft' is of a child by her real mother, who then finds herself emotionally unable to cope with the responsibility, while the stable and loving family that brought the child up are distraught.

Dekalog - 8

Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Poland, 1989, 57 minutes

"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour". A Polish-American researcher visits Warsaw and attends a lecture about ethics. Afterwards, she approaches Zofia, the lecturer, and says that she is the little Jewish girl whom Zofia refused to shelter during World War II. But Zofia has a very good reason for her apparent cowardice...

Original Polish; English subtitles

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