Fri August 15, 2014
A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski; Poland, 1987)
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Disturbing and deeply pessimistic, A Short Film about Killing has inspired anguished debate wherever it has shown. This absolutely uncompromising attack on capital punishment "follows the movements of three apparently unconnected characters: an unemployed adolescent, a taxi-driver, and a young lawyer whose paths mysteriously cross as they become protagonists in an intense drama of life and death. The film is organized around two different crimes: first, the killing by the youth, and second, the killer's execution carried out by prison authorities with equal attention to detail, leaving the young lawyer to consider his own complicity in a death sanctioned by the penal code. Intricate detailing of the flow of events leading to these two irrevocable acts adds a human dimension, rendering the characters as vulnerable to a crime as to its punishment" (Dimitri Eipides).
• Written by Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz. Photographed by Slawomir Idziak. With Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz. (86 mins, In Polish with English subtitles, Color, DCP, From Milestone Films)
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Disturbing and deeply pessimistic, A Short Film about Killing has inspired anguished debate wherever it has shown. This absolutely uncompromising attack on capital punishment "follows the movements of three apparently unconnected characters: an unemployed adolescent, a taxi-driver, and a young lawyer whose paths mysteriously cross as they become protagonists in an intense drama of life and death. The film is organized around two different crimes: first, the killing by the youth, and second, the killer's execution carried out by prison authorities with equal attention to detail, leaving the young lawyer to consider his own complicity in a death sanctioned by the penal code. Intricate detailing of the flow of events leading to these two irrevocable acts adds a human dimension, rendering the characters as vulnerable to a crime as to its punishment" (Dimitri Eipides).
• Written by Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz. Photographed by Slawomir Idziak. With Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz. (86 mins, In Polish with English subtitles, Color, DCP, From Milestone Films)
Digital Restoration!
Disturbing and deeply pessimistic, A Short Film about Killing has inspired anguished debate wherever it has shown. This absolutely uncompromising attack on capital punishment "follows the movements of three apparently unconnected characters: an unemployed adolescent, a taxi-driver, and a young lawyer whose paths mysteriously cross as they become protagonists in an intense drama of life and death. The film is organized around two different crimes: first, the killing by the youth, and second, the killer's execution carried out by prison authorities with equal attention to detail, leaving the young lawyer to consider his own complicity in a death sanctioned by the penal code. Intricate detailing of the flow of events leading to these two irrevocable acts adds a human dimension, rendering the characters as vulnerable to a crime as to its punishment" (Dimitri Eipides).
• Written by Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz. Photographed by Slawomir Idziak. With Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz. (86 mins, In Polish with English subtitles, Color, DCP, From Milestone Films)
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Disturbing and deeply pessimistic, A Short Film about Killing has inspired anguished debate wherever it has shown. This absolutely uncompromising attack on capital punishment "follows the movements of three apparently unconnected characters: an unemployed adolescent, a taxi-driver, and a young lawyer whose paths mysteriously cross as they become protagonists in an intense drama of life and death. The film is organized around two different crimes: first, the killing by the youth, and second, the killer's execution carried out by prison authorities with equal attention to detail, leaving the young lawyer to consider his own complicity in a death sanctioned by the penal code. Intricate detailing of the flow of events leading to these two irrevocable acts adds a human dimension, rendering the characters as vulnerable to a crime as to its punishment" (Dimitri Eipides).
• Written by Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz. Photographed by Slawomir Idziak. With Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz. (86 mins, In Polish with English subtitles, Color, DCP, From Milestone Films)
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