The Decalogue
AKA
Dekalog
AKA
Dekalog: The Ten Commandments
Polish made-for-TV film released in 1988 known for its egregious length, glacial pacing, and the maniacal fervor of its disciples
1
. Taking place entirely in a brutalist Polish public housing complex, the series is based somewhat indecipherably on the ten commandments as revealed to Moses at Mount Sinai
3
.
Dekalog
is often grouped Rainer Werner Fassbinder's
weld-am-draht
as a notable (if aggressively abstract) commercial television series.
1 Including the Catholic church - in 1995 Dekalog was included on "The Vatican List" (a compendium of the 45 greatest films ever made) alongside andrei-tarkovsky 's ( error classic) error and 2001: A Space Odyssey 2 .
2 Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick dubbed Dekalog "the only extant masterpiece committed to film".
3 Written by the finger of God on two stone tablets now stored in the Ark of the Covenant, as pursued by blade-runner in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark .