Decalogue, nine

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Movie
German title Decalogue, nine
Original title Decalogue, dziewięć
Country of production Poland
original language Polish
Publishing year 1990
length 58 minutes
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Director Krzysztof Kieślowski
script Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
production Ryszard Chutkowski
music Zbigniew Preisner
camera Piotr Sobociński
cut Ewa Smal
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Decalogue, Eight

Successor  →
Decalogue, ten

Dekalog, Neun is a Polish television film from 1990. As the ninth part of the Dekalog series by director Krzysztof Kieślowski , the film deals with the ninth commandment - you shouldn't covet your neighbor's wife on the basis of a woman who cheats on her impotent husband.

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Roman learns that he is impotent. His doctor and former colleague advises him to part with his handsome wife. On the way home he comes off the road in his car, but remains unharmed. He comes home helpless and hesitantly tells his wife Hanka about the diagnosis in bed. Hanka thinks that biological matters play a subordinate role in a relationship. The next day, when Roman is driving to work, a young man appears in front of the apartment. For some time now, Hanka has been cheating on her husband, whom she loves dearly. This love is reinforced by the diagnosis.

A male voice calls Roman at home. He manipulates the phone in his room so that from now on he can listen to all conversations. Hanka decides to end her affair with the young physics student. Roman sneaks into the apartment where they meet and watches Hanka as she tells Mariusz that it is over. When Mariusz left, Hanka notices that her husband is hiding in the closet. Her husband forgives her and they try a fresh start by temporarily not seeing each other.

Hanka goes skiing in the mountains, where she suddenly meets her former lover, who has followed her without her knowledge. On the pretext of having forgotten something, Hanka abruptly breaks off her trip and drives back to Warsaw. When her husband hears from a phone call to Mariusz's mother that the lover has also gone to the mountains, Roman believes she is cheating on him and throws himself off a bridge on his bike to kill himself. Hanka finds her husband's farewell letter at home and collapses. Then the phone rings: It is her husband calling from the hospital.

criticism

“A melodrama staged story of inappropriate, exaggerated emotions, a reflex about false desire and the inability to be satisfied with what one has; excellently photographed, sometimes with strange accents, without disturbing the serious basic tone. "

- film service

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