Krzysztof Kieslowski-Dekalog 7 (1988)

"Thou shalt not steal" - but in this case the 'theft' is of a child by her real mother, who then finds herself emotionally unable to cope with the responsibility, while the stable and loving family that brought the child up are distraught. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0094989/plotsummary)



In this particular episode, involving the commandment "Thou shalt not steal," a young mother tries to reclaim her true daughter from her grandmother-cum-legal mother, and the drama that develops as they try to work out what was hidden long before to avoid scandal. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0094989/usercomments)



Of course a huge issue involves who rightfully should be mother to the young girl… is it by blood, legality, comfort, choice? Any of those? And who stole from whom here, anyway, the grandmother from the mother, the mother from the grandmother, or even simply societal decency? Furthermore, what else is really being taken here? There's also issues of pride, a missing childhood, and an entire relationship ruined. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0094989/usercomments)



The filial love pushed to the extreme is the main point of one of the most despairing episodes of the whole series. Painted in soft tones of a warm color photography "Dekalog 7", a sorrowful appeal against the theft of maternal affections, a touching scream of desperation against every form of domestic psychological abuse, describes the emotional journey of lonely souls towards a past immersed in voids of time and memory, thwarted by walls of self-referential egoism and full of wrong choices due to scarce sense of consciousness. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0094989/usercomments)











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170 Miche...one di una donna (1982)

171 Erick... rêvée des anges (1998)
172 Mikló...ép ('Red Psalm') (1972)
173 F.W. ...onie des Grauens (1922)
174 Werne...hantom der Nacht (1979)
175 Peter... & Her Lover (1989)
176 Yasuj... ('Tokyo Story') (1953)
177 Abbas...aste of Cherry') (1997)
178 Bertrand Bonello-Le Pornographe (2001)
179 Franç...imait les femmes (1977)
180 György Pálfi-Hukkle (2002)
181 Gillo...taglia di Algeri (1966)
182 Paolo...e di San Lorenzo (1982)
183 Aleksandr Dovzhenko-Arsenal (1928)
184 Béla ...eister harmóniák (2000)
185 Jean-Claude Lauzon - Léolo (1992)
186 Otar Iosseliani-Pastorali (1975)
187 Chris Marker-Sans soleil (1982)
188 Krzysztof Kieslowski-Dekalog 4 (1988)
189 Krzysztof Kieslowski-Dekalog 7 (1988)