Decalogue 6: Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery

Produced for Polish television as part of DECALOGUE, a series of ten films each based on the Ten Commandments, this is the original version of what director Krzysztof Kieslowski released theatrically in a longer, somewhat different version as A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE (1988).

Nineteen-year-old Tomek (Olaf Lubaszenko) works at the post office. At night, he peers through a telescope at Magda (Grazyna Szapolowska), an older woman who enjoys a succession of casual lovers. Infatuated, Tomek invents other ways to get closer to her without her knowledge. After one such trick causes Magda some trouble, Tomek reveals himself and tells her what he has been doing. Angry, she...