| The Decalogue: Volume 5 (IX Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife & X Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods) [VHS] | ![The Decalogue: Volume 5 (IX Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife & X Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BF4Z7CZQL.jpg) | Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Actors: Jerzy Stuhr, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Maria Koscialkowska, Ewa Blaszczyk, Piotr Machalica
Studio: Facets
Category: Video
List Price: $19.95
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Seller: CineCafe
Sales Rank: 481,291
Format: Color, Original recording reissued, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Polish (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1565802497
UPC: 736899374433
EAN: 9781565802490
ASIN: B00004DS3Y
Release Date: April 11, 2000
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In "Decalogue VII" ("Thou Shalt Not Steal"), Krzysztof Kieslowski turns the commandment into the devastating story of the theft of a mother's love and the emotional wounds left in its wake. Majka, a willowy young woman devastated by sadness, kidnaps her young sister Ania to set things straight in her charade of a life. The girl is in fact her daughter, raised by Majka's mother Ewa to avoid scandal, but Ewa has jealously hoarded the affection of the little one, walling the real mother off from her daughter's love. Kieslowski has never shied from painting the brutish colors of human nature, but echoing beneath the hurt and anger and selfishness of the blindly selfish Ewa and vindictive Majka is a desperate cry for love and affection. Another contentious relationship is explored in "Decalogue VIII" ("Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor"), the story of a Holocaust survivor who confronts the woman (now a renowned professor of ethics) who refused her shelter when she was a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis in 1943 Poland. The potentially explosive issue is dealt with in direct terms, but it's the undercurrent of faith questioned and regained that gives the episode its resonant beauty. This story most directly touches on other episodes of the series: an ethical problem posed in the professor's class is taken from "Decalogue II," and a neighboring stamp collector is the absent father buried at the opening of "Decalogue X." --Sean Axmaker
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