[Susan Foreman]

Arrow Academy:

"***DEKALOG FINAL ART + SPECS***

The time has come for us to reveal the final art and specs for our upcoming release of Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog and Other TV Works. Check out the full details below and, if you haven't already, pre-order your set via the links below.

Pre-order your copy direct here: Dekalog and Other TV Works Dual-Format Blu-ray & DVD
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Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog is one of the greatest achievements of the late twentieth century – as much an intricate work of moral philosophy as it is a collection of psychologically riveting narratives. Each standalone story revolves around the consequences arising from a breach of one of the Ten Commandments, but this is no finger-wagging religious tract: Kieślowski was one of film history’s keenest observers of human nature, and his troubled, vainglorious, self-deceiving, deeply flawed characters (many played by some of Poland’s finest character actors) are all too universally recognisable.

Dekalog is merely the highlight of a box set that compiles virtually all of Kieślowski’s television work, starting with his first professional short fiction film and continuing with four feature-length pieces that are in every way as probing and incisive as his better-known cinema films.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
• 4K restoration of all ten episodes, presented in their original broadcast aspect ratios
• Original Polish mono soundtrack (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays), with optional English subtitles
• Pedestrian Subway (1973, 29 mins, HD), Kieślowski’s professional fiction debut, about a man trying to repair a failed marriage
• First Love (1974, 52 mins, SD), a docudrama about a teenage couple coping with an unwanted pregnancy
• Personnel (1975, 67 mins, SD), Kieślowski’s first feature-length fiction film, a partly autobiographical piece about a Warsaw theatre company
• The Calm (1976, 82 mins, SD), one of Kieślowski’s most powerful early films, about a man rebuilding his life in mid-70s Poland after a short prison sentence
• Short Working Day (1981, 73 mins, HD), Kieślowski’s study of a political strike, controversially told
from the viewpoint of a Communist functionary trying to keep order
• Still Alive (2007), an affectionate 82-minute portrait of the director by his former student Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, including interviews with dozens of friends and colleagues
• The Guardian Interview: Krzysztof Kieślowski (93 mins), an onstage conversation with Derek Malcolm at London’s National Film Theatre on 2 April 1990 to mark the British premiere of Dekalog
• Dekalog: An Appreciation (78 mins), in which critic Tony Rayns, a Kieślowski champion for many decades, pays tribute to his masterpiece
• KKTV (75 mins), Polish cinema expert Michael Brooke explores Kieślowski’s small-screen output in the context of his work as a whole
• 128-page collector’s book featuring a lengthy essay on Dekalog and Kieślowski by Father Marek Lis, plus Kieślowski’s own intensely self-critical discussion of all the films in this set and Stanley Kubrick’s famous eulogy to Kieślowski and co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz"