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Krótki Film o Zabijaniu (1988)

Drama | 84 minutes
3,75 197 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 84 minuten

Alternative title: A Short Film about Killing

Country: Poland

Directed by: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Stars: Mirosław Baka, Krzysztof Globisz and Jan Tesarz

IMDb score: 8,0 (23.536)

Releasedate: 11 March 1988

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Krótki Film o Zabijaniu plot

A taxi driver works around an apartment building in a desolate district of Warsaw, who irritates one of the residents. The resident has him drive to a remote place where he kills the driver. He is sentenced to death and a lawyer who has just passed his bar exam talks with him for a moment.

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avatar van Movsin

Movsin

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Very depressing movie with a shocking murder and death penalty scene.

The latter has rarely been seen so brutally and penetratingly.

Kieslowski chose to ignore scenes about the arrest or about the trial itself, which rarely happens in a classically constructed story, in the end it seems to increase the intensity of what follows. Especially where the person of the lawyer comes to the fore.

Quite different from the "Trois Couleurs" triptych or "La Double Vie de Véronique".

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avatar van Woland

Woland

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The title covers the load pretty well: a short but intense film about a murder and a death penalty, dripping with gloom. Kieslowski brings Warsaw to life with sepia-like filters, which made the depressing Eastern Bloc atmosphere even more gray. Given the subject and the way in which the impersonality and barbarity of the killing is shown, it fits me well.

The first half of the film follows the various main characters in a rather detached manner. We see the frustrated, strangely behaving Jacek roaming the city and taking it out on all sorts of strangers. We see the ultimate victim, a taxi driver who is not exactly a sympathetic figure himself - although that has little to do with his death in the end. And we see the lawyer, although he only becomes really crucial in the second half . And all of this culminates in a drawn-out, brutal murder that comes across as extremely realistic. What is also striking is how impersonal and random the murder ultimately is.

Kieslowski makes the unconventional but good choice to go straight to the sentencing and what follows, leaving the investigation and trial for what it is. In the conversations that follow in this second half, we get to know Jacek better, not only as a murderer and thrashing bastard, but also as a traumatized boy and insecure figure. In more amateurish hands, this could lapse into sentimentality , but here this build-up works to make Jacek more human, after we just got to see him as a fairly anonymous anti-social time bomb in the first half. Of course, this only makes the end of the film more violent, when the execution takes place in a brutal, amateurish way. In any case, Kieslowski's point about the barbarity of killing is clear.

Let's look up some more from Kieslowski.

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avatar van Fisico

Fisico (moderator films)

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The film title does indeed cover the load, but I was less enthusiastic about it than most here. Kieslowski couleur trilogy really appealed to me, but I'm not so sure about his other work. The decor is a created raw portrait, dejected and gray. A dilapidated Eastern Bloc vibe of a poky bit of Warsaw.

We each follow three people, the main protagonists of the film. The perpetrator, the eventual victim and the lawyer. Kieslowski chooses to be very direct after introducing the characters. Without fuss the murder with all its horror followed by the final execution. From one shot to the next. Interrogation and trial have been omitted.

Depressing and senseless violence. As if it could happen to anyone, being a victim I mean...

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