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A Short Film About Killing

Original title: Krótki film o zabijaniu
  • 19881988
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 24m
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8.0/10
21K
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A Short Film About Killing (1988)
A soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man.
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A soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man.A soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man.A soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man.
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8.0/10
21K
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    • Krzysztof Kieslowski
    • Krzysztof Piesiewicz
    • Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • Stars
    • Miroslaw Baka
    • Krzysztof Globisz
    • Jan Tesarz
    • Krzysztof Kieslowski
    • Krzysztof Piesiewicz
    • Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • Stars
    • Miroslaw Baka
    • Krzysztof Globisz
    • Jan Tesarz
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    • 57User reviews
    • 48Critic reviews
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    A Short Film About Killing (1988)
    Miroslaw Baka and Krzysztof Globisz in A Short Film About Killing (1988)
    Krzysztof Globisz in A Short Film About Killing (1988)
    Miroslaw Baka in A Short Film About Killing (1988)
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    Jan Tesarz in A Short Film About Killing (1988)
    Miroslaw Baka in A Short Film About Killing (1988)

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    Miroslaw Baka
    Miroslaw Baka
    • Jacek
    Krzysztof Globisz
    Krzysztof Globisz
    • Piotr
    Jan Tesarz
    Jan Tesarz
    • Taksówkarz
    Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
    Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
    • Przewodniczacy Komisji
    Barbara Dziekan
    Barbara Dziekan
    • Bileterka
    Aleksander Bednarz
    Aleksander Bednarz
    • Kat
    Jerzy Zass
    • Naczelnik
    Zdzislaw Tobiasz
    • Judge
    Artur Barcis
    Artur Barcis
    • Mlody medczyzna
    Krystyna Janda
    Krystyna Janda
    • Dorota
    Olgierd Lukaszewicz
    Olgierd Lukaszewicz
    • Andrzej
    Leonard Andrzejewski
    Leonard Andrzejewski
    • Kumpel pijanego na postoju taksówek
    • (as L. Andrzejewski)
    Wieslaw Bednarz
      Zbigniew Borek
        Wladyslaw Byrdy
          Ryszard W. Borsucki
            Andrzej Gawronski
            Andrzej Gawronski
              Henryk Guzek
                  • Krzysztof Kieslowski
                  • Krzysztof Piesiewicz
                  • Krzysztof Kieslowski
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                • Trivia
                  Kieslowski's graphic depiction of the effects of violence so shook up the Polish authorities that they declared a five year moratorium on capital punishment.
                • Quotes

                  Jacek Lazar: I didn't listen in court, not until you called to me. They were all... all against me.

                  Piotr Balicki: Against what you did.

                  Jacek Lazar: Same thing...

                • Connections
                  Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)
                • Soundtracks
                  Opowiem ci o lwie (I will tell you about a lion)
                  Lyrics by Wanda Chotomska and music by Wlodzimierz Korcz

                User reviews57

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                10/10
                ...old idea, brilliantly executed
                Impressive and thought provoking, this film debates the age-old topic of capital punishment. Here though, there is a difference. The morality of state-killing is critiqued alongside an analysis of individual agency - when a person kills another, apparently from a desire to murder, are there other motives and factors that bring him/her to this position? Are we all, given certain circumstances, capable of killing?

                This tantalising and worrying notion has been considered elsewhere, and Camus' 'The Outsider' is a good example. Here, there are many parallels with Kieslowski's film: that a desire to kill - and killing itself - can be driven by a range of factors - some banal, some traumatic, and not all by any means within the control of the protagonist.
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                • ian_hodgson
                • Mar 19, 2007

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                • Release date
                  • August 11, 1995 (United States)
                  • Poland
                  • Zespol Filmowy "Tor" (Poland)
                  • Polish
                  • English
                • Also known as
                • Filming locations
                  • Wiertnicza, Wilanów, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
                • Production companies
                  • Przedsiebiorstwo Realizacji Filmów "Zespoly Filmowe"
                  • Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych (Warszawa)
                  • Zespol Filmowy "Tor"
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                • 1 hour 24 minutes
                  • Color
                  • Mono

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