All language subtitles for Excerpts from the 1995 documentary - A Short Film About Dekalog_track3_[eng]

YOU AEGAN VOTING
on tivo huge jmofecis:

me tan nins of Dekallog,

A MOCHA MMlAjMHALION
of ihe Tan Commeanchnents,

and ie \nres Colors wilogy,

a modem initejoretadon
of the symbols

Of MEATY,
meedom, and egualliiy.

Are you attracted by the Challange

Ak ESO NUGE (MOJSCIS TAMESCME?

OmSTineimonversiimo yg
your stlisitte interests

aVvalane tuncing?

The question or iuncling
Wasxalifficrentinxeachkcase™

DEKAOG WAS ThaACe
fOMOXACtIVASO OROOO}

AN 10 ‘filmes.
hWVonnadktineatiicaliteleasess

The wnole operation
the Polish equivalent of $100,000.

noni
ANNU GEIEOMMENC/AUISUECESSS

Kt was financec! low loti
the Ministry of Culture and television

ane] MACE Over whree Million collars,
or 30 to 4,

SO yes, that was 2 Good return,

BUt We Waren t Expecting tine.

We tthhougint itt woulle! loe
é local project, just for Polish TV,

Wwinieh we might possiloly sell]
tOFAREMWAOING MCOUMIMIESS

We never tigured It woul
Up evernwhere,

OUT It WAS

Or almost evernnwinere.

We click’ unett,
We hacl no such plans.

aut Why SUC UGE (MO;ECIS?)

| COM KNOW
that they were that huge.

Buigtinene nallemeennas
to reinteroret

nese universal ane! wellkknown
wore or slogans

OMmeOmmancimentss
2s in the of Dakalog.

I's a challenge
to look att these things

@ lon chintearentihy
tan has een clone so far,

SOMMUCENASHOSS AVN ECE In
aloourt tine Ten Commandments,

NOWUSainneMniSt’anmlitenatune
our Juceo-Clhristian too.

UT ii S NOt alll

There are cliftarent
oliilosoplhical interorstations too.

SO mucn nas been written

inert Itt WOUEIAE itt
on tne shelves in tinis room.

We thought It would! be Interesting
to approach it completely clitiarentily,

SCAUSE that huge anrount
Ofalitenatwne

OManemienkGoOminanadhnemnts
ancl tine Bilole...

in essences looils clown

tio scholarly interorstations.

BU WS Came UO witin tne Iiceal

or tuming every Commeancme»nt

imtorancirallemec)
for a human being.

Aincicankalnumaniiocing
that challenge?

ls it even possilole?

Is it possilole to achhere
COMMESEICOMmMan Gime mits

and trully aloicle loy tine?

IMSUCieAIComolicatedksituation

inet aloicling ly the Commancments
is practically impossible?

We clicdn’t go tor relativism,
becauiSebtiraliwasinntéiinesiSSuer

k was aloout our increasingly
Complicatecklivessocays

our situation tocery,

Anal iit isn't just tociayy

R WAS Prosaly tne Same
in days past, anc even ages ago.

Is a human being strong enough?

lr 2 person knows
what they sinoulel co,

winy clo they clo something else?

tt souncs like relativism,

oun We hoped we'e] SucESee!
ett avoiding ethical relativism.

/ Gan’t think the Dekaloeg mms
ee ve cocumenterion GOCUMENMAULES?

lout iin Poland they were ertidckzec

ror having nothing to clo Vuhin TeEliy,

So they ra not cocumentaries ex alll,
anc what's more,

many Poles tnoug|nt
they were unloelievalole.

They sale events in the til
could never have reallly happened.

SO ERS AS WO SiSpS:

Onemi«sSomethinopicallvaltaooeme cl
iteStandocuimentanys

Two Is Greciilolligy.
Coulchit{havelraoweneag

Personally || tink evan tine
minor elements in every episoce

could! reallly have lhappenec,

Out many critics In Polane
tak completely the opposite,

tinal Or ik Was Mace UP.

OF iif You Want to use
more pejorative terms...

SES
7

lackinakereciilsiliinyz

Falogicated
ancl tinereifore not erectiole.

‘iihat's clearly more pejorative,

BUM OURcanbalSonloortaigit
from anotiher perspective.

Nou Coulle] Saty...

i's a cocumentanxiike recore.

Despite tine tact
iNEEStOnleS¥aliehictional

Amcltivene nanactens
are played! oy actors...

ane] ine tears
are olycerinsincluced,

is a Sort of recorel of tine times,

@ RaCore!
of the temperature of tihe times,

of how people lived! at that moment.

= In Poland in tne GOs?
= Yes. And tirom that point of view,

vou coull! saty thet Darlag)

is a recore of a coriain periocl in time,

a given moment of tine in Poland.

OF course, It clealls
Wit MOKELUIMIMEKSALISSUeS

raiiner than tine everyday events

hinalt PSople lhave tto cleall witin

K's the really of a panicular time,
placemaniclooliticalisystenns

K's a recore
Of EMMOESTOMAIS OCCA

tine or record] that [Ken Loach
iSsamouswominnglanck

In a way, Daeralag ls like tet.

ts 2 recorel of human litte

in a Given time ane place.

SONG TE CRMACGAS
polies

nad to Go wtih marital law,

Prom a roacker perspeciive,

we completely elimineree! politics
as a theme or activity,

as something having any imporance.

We knew it was imrpoorniant,

loun Since we coullel clo
DOtMin alo ouitaits

we ceciced it wasn't imporant att alll.

What is Imporant in Dekkallog?

| had the imoression
ine fouolnt

2 sanes of lonely struggles
Win everyday prollanmns.

YES, Of COURSE.

everyining's imporant except politics.

Fomelinesst siimoontamt.
SO iis love, and tite lack of lowe.

fiitersensckounclolessmesom
evervining.

Politics Is not,
pecause it doesn’t play a role.

Kt only emerges
inkceltalnkabsunclinc Gents

or very seconcany imporance.

let's harolly Holkties

OUR rainer the Consequences
of political ineptitucle.

We tnere’s No water,
or elevators cont work.

Minekesse mtialSxordlife
pecomne prololematic.

li You exclude pomies as a motive
ror any way of acting or thinking),

YOU BkSO @xahuncle

evaryining irom te iin that

iy ragaraed irom
2 stereotypical point of

CONSUMES
ine stereotyoe of Pes

In tine @YES
of Westie VIBWWAF3 OF Teaders.

When you eliminaie polltiics,

tS SIMTEOKYoe Of (PALES

Is Insianihy
and absolutialy eliminated,

So theyre no longer Poles.

Winey Ive in Pokene,
ney speak Polish,

anne] NAVE (PONS PASSVOME.
Passpoms evan igure th Sim.

Bot han just (Poles,
ney Te Also wno talon,

ane] Suiiter anc] rejoice over matters

thet are UNCATStooe

DO YOU tik (nas WiNY DBKANVOG)
es so wal-recaivad In the West?

| think proloaloly so,

| loslieve Westen auciences

ar {6) UP
with the Polish stereotype.

The complaining Pole,
the marivr drowning in politics,

wie Pols tominentec loy tae
due to his country’s poor location.

People in tine West
are getting tired! of that image.

AN the same time,
people in the West,

like PSOple around the wonrildl,

Glaclly WetIeh OWNERS
WOES Maliehthe im oredicament

Oligeitanactens
ACMIMAES IMIlAMmSItUAtOnE

hey ace Gholces ancl proolems

wiat EVERYONE iacSs,
no matier where they are.

Alin Enolisn Viewer doesnt Get
imoression i's Poland,

inant tne mincset is Polisi,

Or tha It WAS Tlinec
in Ursynow in Warsaw =

Acwallly, it wasnt Ursymow.
twas filmed in Dzika.

= || WAS SUIS It WAS.
- No, it wasn’t.

kt Was Gnosen tor very cletinite
photographic reasons.

Mewioe you know Ursynow.

K's very cispersed,

Very SPrEAac! OU.

K's loig),
with a lot of open space.

YOu can never capwire It
iimanclosedbiralmes

Well, mays, lout fit's very lnarel.

Tina's wii we niovec tio Dike.

inet was Our Iase!

Kt wasn't alll shot there,
buitethakdoesimiimattenr

kt was aloout the atmosphere;

ne Daika area was lounikt
more iin the style

used lnctiore the War,

Vine builcings seal of the horizon:

Ui VOU KOW te Eee,

ine bullcIings are positioned)
ln such € Way

A WNGMTEVAT
YOU Camera)

YOU gat 2 Glosed snot,

ywnieh GIVES the impression
heaVre’S MO WAY

SOACS GIWVAYS (MOVICES 2 WAY OUR

Ine AMANCANS Shoot
MMOSCHNUGE, SDACES

WmoaolinoviesioaWestems

There's always
thiSESemMSCLOMmilieed om

You can always get out,
because lit's so big.

SUN tihent UGE alSolimeans

VOU Gan che OF Mirst
iintinalxdesent

OF imeeze To cleanin.

SUN YOU Cal Get OUIL.

A Glosedi tirame @ Sense
of the inevitability of being there.

K's a sulsconscious tieeling,
OME OURS?

Out fis winy we lookec!
ior neightborhooes like that,

like Daika = or was it Dzielna?

Winieln was it?)

A tiriene! of mine lives there,
[ can tell you exactly.

Dzikal

ik or my best Icleas
OgDekalog

uO
chirerant GinemaAognaynnanrs.

Becauservalllftineknilinns
Wene as one production,

OMmexattemtinexotited
SOMELIMESIEVE MOVE OINGE

SOMEetIMESMVEMVE ERS MOOting
three clifferent tilms in one cary.

'Iinat allowee! us tio keep
from Getting too bored.

Becaliserauleastiiomine:

ine actual jolo of clirecting
is very boring.

Working with a new cinemetographer
IinStamntWacralngeszalllatinats

ie lorings a trast new approach
to the whole process.

Ane it wasn't just me.

Tine winole Mmecded
something new ancl interesting

aier WOKING ON tine Project
for three Months or tive montis.

NEWFACIORSROM VIOUS INzacced
an interesting element,

DSCAUSS GAG EPISOCE
featunectoifferenigactorsy

OU Ik WAS Also
the clififerent cinematographers.

They'd change everything),
from lighting to camera movements,

So evernihing else woul change too.

SOlincimensnacktomiecminie
NOWAUINEY, sound.

Maye there were no shacows
on the set betiore, ancl now there are.

Tha Means the Sounciman
face sramneWacwallemges

And tif there's a challenge,
the work gets interesting.

Nou know whet was reallly tunny?

EAcn Glhemetographer
nad a very cliiierent temperament

ancl ciinterent work experiences

and in general a clinerent wey
of telling a story on fil.

everyone tals a Stony
their own wely.

Yet lin tine ened,
tine tilms were shot in a similar wary.

They lhacl complete tireecion.

| cleln't chetane winat lens
or what lighting to use.

Mitakwackaltiteimbusinesss

Koemenalll ¥XcomislOoke
through the viewrinder.

BulikinowAinattars notauil Mlookdlike
i the camera’s in a certain position

using, Sély, a SOsminn lens.

| migint le oir
by hala centimeter.

| can clo tine same with a 35-=mm lens
ancl oe wrong loy this much, not more.

| know alll tits,
lout | don't look through the finder.

So they lhacl a lot of tireeciom
to tell the story thelr wety.

/ read In an interVlew You Gave
that while making Dekallog)...

you ane Mr. PiesiewlezZ
asked yourselves

lOtStoifexiSiemtialeWestionst

a VinatliSiiraopinessr,
What is love?

Winatt is tiraeclom?”
= That's right.

Do you tintinkk
there’s one universal morality,

or are tinere chinerant moraliiies

clepenciing on the people
ancl tine times?

| belleve People Know
what's good and what's evil,

itpoucallEtivatinerallity

Actually, | con't like
aso wand “moval word “moral ty

as I'M SUPE you've real.

i’ | agreed! to tihatt worel,

el be setting myself up
as a morallist,

Aas someone wino knows.

Bur li Someone
wino doesn? reallly know,

SOMKotratnemaskqquestiomns
than provicle answers.

| Know wihat questions tio asi,
more or less.

SO | concem myseli
with ethics rather than morality.

TO me It's loroacler!

Ane! |] avolel “nnorallizing,”
ashilesxeallleor

Sy tinat || mean Preacning),
lecturing, anc pointing out

WiNatrs Fight ancl wrong.

| believe everyone
has¥akboaliometeminside

inert tells them tine clifierence
benween trun ancl lies,

good ane] evil

ANG] PSOE TOllow
that barometer iif they can.

WEWROItemmneksitUration
means they can’t,

lout Given tine chance, tiney will.

DIGhOuUmfiincltivexanswensr,

They cont exist. No one’s
found them, anc no one willl.

hers why tine questions
are interesting.

IE UKE HO NGA more
ALOU tne CONCH of Chance.

on ahah = 0g
(S¥aaVOnlokomenanee

el like to focus on Darallogr Ive,

Wwinere tinls iciea Is orougint ronwarel
beautiitully, in my opinion.

LOU OF ShUAUONS IN tne Til
Ores the Gharacters to Goose:

Ko Go this Instead of tat

CO SOMBWUNG GSE,
GO SOMBWNRE GIS.

Ine td chiver cout] nave
pleked yp the young counle

or ine chunks In ie STeat

ane hi MIKE TEE
an GnAMGe?

/ tai i's everyiuing.

Ks destiny, or fate if youl preter,

irs also Ghance.

Ane! to a great extent,
our own free will.

The wax! Giriver Nac] A GAOIGS.
Fie cleciclec! of his own free will

WO plek up tihe couple
and not the drunk.

Anotner clrivar Wwoullel awe
been killed, out not infin.

Ane! winetever JACSK COSs,
ine It VEWACONSCIOUSIVE

Fle does winatt he wants.
Why is another matter.

But wineeaver IN ClOes,
ics of his own ree will.

Winy Ine Coes Itt is another meatier.

| DSlEVES tNOSSe wArSe Wings
are Connecisal

Cnance, ate, ancl tira willl.

They iniiluencs our lives
to chftarent cegrees, of course.

kt Cepencis on every person's lire
Ane] ON Whe Moment.

SOmetiine spitesxomes
SOMmetine SuileStanother

SOnnetimechissnemamneer
SOMetinne Swe eRWill||™

oushing us where ft will.

We con't know winat It is,
put something's pushing us.

But | cont know winiy I'in consicerec|
such an expert on chances.

iOoalolVpoccause
| @ ffl lov that title.

BUN take any other til =
any tila you like.

Take One we lotin KmMow.

vou Ghanes ples
@ loig role in every ‘film.

KS In ity iii too,

oun Iii Seen
asrars peciallisionnenamnee®

though in my other tilms,
ChancellShmanenmailneSSuer

Wy last question meayy be
& lat (MOVOCHIIVE.

| Get the reeling
you're quite inclitierent

KO Feviews oF your tilims.

= [hats Not true.
= [Ss NO?

ls erttical opinion
ais important to you

€s we audience's Opinion
Omaspy OU SOnalksatiSfacionr,

| care very mucin
aloout tine auclience’s opinion.

Or Gourse || co,

= But Go tie Chics COUN too?
= Of Course.

PIrSt, WEY TS PAIR
OfatherauGiencentoo:

Second, lif they re Gooe! critics,

ney also express tine opinion
of part of the auclence.

NO cloulot aloourt Mu

Burt || Nave No =

YOu sail tits was a Provocative
question. | don’t Why.

YOU Cen Saly you con't now
why you're called

ONE OF te Greatest
European film clirectors,

Winch In fact you are.

Tarts 2 Chirerant meer.
Koomlduined enstanellita

oun | Guess tine people
win© afout such things clo.

ht Cossn't meter tat | clon‘t!

| Just say winett | ieell.
= Then you must be vary modest.

No, lin quite nomneall.

- Well, thank you vary mucin.
= You've very weleone.