Decalogue Seven & Eight

(Dekalog, siedem & osiem, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland 1989, 57 & 56 min, DCP, Polish w/subtitles)

The Decalogue. Can love be stolen? So asks Decalogue Seven, in which two women in the same family vie for the care of a five-year-old girl. The main character of Eight, a university ethics professor, has lived an exemplary life in reparation for a lie she told during the Holocaust. One day that lie walks into her classroom and asks for an explanation.

Presented in collaboration with the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, University of Rochester.