Decalogue X
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| Directed by | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| Produced by | Ryszard Chutkovski |
| Written by | Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz |
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Zbigniew Zamachowski Jerzy Stuhr |
| Music by | Zbigniew Preisner |
| Cinematography | Jacek Blawut |
| Edited by | Ewa Smal |
| Distributed by | Polish Television |
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55 minutes |
| Country | Poland |
| Language | Polish |
| Budget | $10,000 |
Dekalog: Ten (Polish: Dekalog, dziesięć) is the tenth part of the television series Dekalog by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski, connected to the tenth imperative of the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt not covet." In contrast to the bleak tone of the other episodes in the series, Dekalog X is a black comedy.
Two brothers (Jerzy Stuhr and Zbigniew Zamachowski) inherit a valuable stamp collection from their deceased father and soon become consumed and obsessed with their windfall. The brothers find themselves entangled in a series of misadventures as they attempt to understand, protect, and expand their newfound fortune.
The story begins at a concert of punk group "City Death". There is a crowd of young people listening to the loud music and the group frontman/singer, Artur (Zbigniew Zamachowski). A man making his way through the crowd, Jerzy (Jerzy Stuhr), waves urgently to Artur, who is subsequently revealed as Jerzy's older brother. Jerzy informs Artur that their father Czesław "Root" Janicki has died. The brothers, whose relationship with their father was distant and strained, handle the funeral proceedings with ambivalence.
Attending to the disbursement of his possessions, the brothers arrive at their father's flat, which, although dirty and austere, is steel-doored, multi-locked and heavily alarmed. They find out that there is a large collection of stamps inside the flat. They are also approached by a conspicuous neighbor who says that their father owed him a lot of money. The man suspiciously offers to take "something from the flat" to even the debt, but Jerzy cautiously dismisses him and promises to pay him later.
Neither brother has any knowledge of stamp collecting or the items in their fathers collection. They decide to attend a local stamp fair to get an appraisal. At his brothers suggestion, Jerzy unthinkingly takes a series of Weimar Republic Flugpost Polarfahrt 1931 Zeppelin stamps to give to his son. Artur goes to a stamp collectors' show and there meets the president of the association who recognizes the son of "Root" Janicki; he meets both brothers at their father's apartment and tells them that the entire collection is worth an exorbitant amount of money. Jerzy soon finds out that his son traded the Zeppelin stamps for hundreds of worthless stamps. He tracks the stamps down to a local stamp store owner who, despite acquiring the stamps through an unfair trade, now owns them legally and rebuff's Jerzy's recuperation attempts.
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