Krzysztof Kie lowski 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: Kie lowski 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 Kie lowski 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), Kie lowski 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), Kie lowski s first feature-length fiction film, a partly autobiographical piece about a Warsaw theatre company

The Calm (1976, 82 mins, SD), one of Kie lowski 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), Kie lowski 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 Kie lowski (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 Kie lowski champion for many decades, pays tribute to his masterpiece

KKTV (75 mins), Polish cinema expert Michael Brooke explores Kie lowski 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 Kie lowski by Father Marek Lis, plus Kie lowski s own intensely self-critical discussion of all the films in this set and Stanley Kubrick s famous eulogy to Kie lowski and co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz