There's even a murder, yet these are - in their way - good citizens wracked by guilt, self-doubt, and a generous dose of original sin as they break the most ancient code of behavior still in force. Residents come and go, bumping into one another as they lie, cheat, covet, steal, snoop, betray, commit adultery and otherwise find freshly updated ways to violate every one of the Ten Commandments. In a concrete Warsaw high-rise, politics have little bearing on daily life beyond a lingering mood of diffuse anxiety. Poland, the late 1980s, the last gasp of Soviet rule. In Dekalog: Five, Jacek (Miroslaw Baka) is a troubled young man from the Polish countryside whose life changes forever on the streets of Warsaw.
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