A Short Film About Killing
1988 · TMDB 7.6 · Krótki film o zabijaniu
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.
Why it matters
Krzysztof Kieslowski expands his Dekalog episode into a feature that cross-cuts between a young man's senseless murder and the state's methodical execution of him. The killing scenes are almost unbearable, and that is precisely the point: the film refuses to let us find one death...
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Released
- 1988-03-11
- Studio
- PRF "Zespoły Filmowe"
- Country
- Poland
- Language
- Polish
- TMDB score
- 7.6
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