"Amarás a Dios sobre todas las cosas". Después de haberse separado de su mujer, un profesor universitario vive con su hijo Pavel al que procura transmitir su racionalidad y ateísmo. También le ha parecido conveniente enseñarle a usar el ordenador. Primero de los diez mediometrajes realizados por el director Krzysztof Kieslowski y el guionista Krzysztof Piesiewicz. Primera parte del "Decálogo", que se inspira en cada uno de los Diez Mandamientos.
A Polish writer is arrested by the Nazis in 1942 and sent to the notorious Pawiak prison in Warsaw. He will spend the next 111 days fighting for survival.
Rysiek is an escapee from a reform school. Julek escapes the anger of a voluntarily fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. In search for food Rysiek breaks into a villa and discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They team together in Warsaw and decide to go on a rampage through the city.
The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of young inexperienced terrorists fighting against Tsarist oppression. The story follows the passing of this bomb from anarchist to anarchist as several attempts are made on the life of Tsarist governor general, until, at the end, it is effectively and harmlessly defused by a bomb expert. The presence of the bomb has a destroying effect on all of the Polish revolutionaries, they either die or breakdown.
