
            Do you know how hard it is to kill a human being? How ugly, messy, long, real and sinful? Do you see a difference between killing for crime and killing for justice? Watch this film. It's an expanded version of Kieslowski's fifth Dekalog - ''Do not kill!'' and it will mercilessly reawaken our dulled by US TV drama and mass media sensibilities concerning what is death, what is murder and what is human
    

A Short Film About Killing


            A young man in Communist-era Poland (circa 1980) is shown having three fates, all dependent on what happens when he tries to catch a train pulling out of a station. In the first scenario he makes it to the train and goes to the city, where he becomes involved with a young woman, while at the same time working with government officials who are sympathetic to an underground movement. The second scenario shows him missing the train and due to an altercation with the police, he is put on a work detail. He meets some of the underground again in this story, but with different results--he meets an old friend and his friend's sister, he meets a priest and gets baptized, and then almost consumates an affair with the sister, but she halts it when she finds out he's made a profession of Christian faith (she is Jewish). He also helps with an underground press. The third scenario he misses the train but does not get involved with the underground, the government, or the Church. Instead, he meets a young woman from his medical class, gets her pregnant, then marries her and becomes a doctor. A professor from the medical school asks him to fill in for him as a lecturer in Libya. The young man agrees to go, though his wife has some hesitation about him going (she is pregnant again). As the plane rises from the runway, it suddenly explodes, and the movie ends. We do not know why it has exploded, or who has done it, if anyone.
    

Blind Chance


            
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Matka Królów

Camouflage

Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease


            In 2005, Wiktor's wife, Helena (Halina Golanko), has just died suddenly of a stroke in Poland. Wiktor (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz), the Polish ambassador to Uruguay, arrives to see her too late. An old Russian friend, Oleg (Nikita Mikhalkov), shows up briefly at the funeral for Helena. Wiktor wants to know if Oleg was involved with Helena. Oleg must travel to Uruguay and promises to tell Wiktor everything when they meet again.Wiktor is having trouble with his consulate staff back at the embassy. He knows the Consul (Remo Girone) is filing derogatory reports about him to Warsaw and returns to the embassy to find the Consul sitting at the ambassador's desk. The two have a heated exchange.Pressures on Wiktor mount. The embassy landlord is raising the rent and they must move. Additions were made to the property, but did the Polish government have permission? The paperwork has been lost and they face heavy fines. The Consul may be conspiring with the landlord.A second Consul (Andrzej Chyra), sponsored by Wiktor, arrives with his beautiful Russian wife, Radca (Jerzy Stuhr). The Consul fails to detect kilos of cocaine hidden in the casket of a Polish man shipped back to Poland; more bungling by the Polish diplomatic staff. Warsaw sends out inspectors. They are also concerned about closing a deal with Uruguay for the purchase of helicopters.Oleg arrives in Uruguay to help win the helicopter contract for Russia. Wiktor catches Radca making copies of documents and accuses her of spying for Russia. She denies it saying she is only trying to protect herself from her husband in the future. Oleg and Wiktor meet. Their long friendship is over. Oleg rips apart an old photograph and leaves it in his jacket pocket. Wiktor pilfers the partial photo and it shows Helena with her arm around Oleg.Wiktor's only friend, his dog, has cancer and Wiktor has the dog put down. Wiktor is despondent and disappears. No ones knows where he is. Oleg arrives at the embassy and gives the Consul the second part of the photograph.Wiktor spreads his wife's ashes in the ocean and serenely returns to the embassy. The Italians, not the Polish or Russians, have won the helicopter contract. Wiktor has heard the music of the spheres and locks himself away to play it on the piano. He now has the complete photograph that show the three old friends, Wiktor, Helena and Oleg. The embassy staff find Wiktor dead by the piano.
    

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