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The Passenger
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Weekend Stories 3
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The Decalogue: Volume 4
: :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 ...
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The Decalogue: Volume 5 (IX Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife & X Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods)
: :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 ...
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Weekend Stories (4pc) (Sub)
: :If American TV was this good, would we ever go to the movies? In a series of eight loosely connected stories, Polish master Krzysztof Zanussi (Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease, The Year of the Quiet Sun) explores life in modern Poland. Like Krzysztof Kieslowski's brilliant Decalogue, which Zanussi produced, Weekend Stories comprises small, self-contained films connected by themes that weave through the series: the connections between urban and rural life, the legacy of communism echoing through contemporary life, the lovely opening image repeated in variation in each film. Zanussi's style is ...
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