DVD Description
Krysztof Kieslowski, the director of the ‘Three Colours’ trilogy, expanding two episodes of his BAFTA winning cycle of short films based on the Ten Commandments, Dekalog into full-length features. The results are the haunting A Short Film About Love and this brutal story based upon the Commandment ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’. A disaffected young man murders a taxi driver and is put on trial by the state. Though defended by an idealistic lawyer, he is finally sentenced to death by hanging for his crime. Disturbing, thought provoking and graphically filmed in harrowing detail, A Short Film About Killing won numerous awards including the Jury Prize at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.
Product Description
Krzystof Kieslowski took several years to complete his mammoth project of filming his Dekalog, each infused with a very personal motivation and dealing with conflicting opinions relating to the imperfections in both the ancient and modern legal codes. 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.
Special Features
- Interview with Director of Photography Slawomir Idziak
- Interview with Kieslowski collaborator Annette Insdorff
- Interview with filmmaker Agnieska Holland
- Examination of the film by Antonin Liehm
- A Night Porter’s Point of View - short film by Kieslowski
- Kieslowski filmography
DVD Technical Information:
- Language: Polish
- Subtitles: English
- Audio: Dolby Digital Mono
- Colour
- Enhanced for widescreen TVs
- Running Time: 81 minutes
- Region Code: 2
