Krzysztof Kieslowski Dekalog and Other Television Works REGION B

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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), Kieslowski'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), Kieslowski's first feature-length fiction film, a partly autobiographical piece about a Warsaw theatre company

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

KKTV (75 mins), Polish cinema expert Michael Brooke explores Kieslowsk'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 Kieslowski's own intensely self-critical discussion of all the films in this set and Stanley Kubrick's famous eulogy to Kieslowski and co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz

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