Krótki film o zabijaniu, 1988, 84 min.
| Director | Krzysztof Kieslowski | |
| Screenplay | Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz | |
| Cinematography | Slawomir Idziak | |
| Music | Zbigniew Preisner | |
| Art Direction | Halina Dobrowolska | |
| Producer(s) | Ryszard Chutkowski |
| Jacek | Miroslaw Baka | |
| Piotr | Krzysztof Globisz | |
| Taxi driver | Jan Tesarz | |
| Committee chairman | Zbigniew Zapasiewicz | |
| Librarian | Barbara Dziekan | |
| Dorota | Krystyna Janda | |
| Andrzej | Olgierd Lukaszewicz |
Expanded to feature length from Decalogue #5 “Thou Shalt Not Kill”, A Short Film About Killing presents its case with a cold logic and a grim symmetry that only deepens the human tragedy at its core. In the first half, an aimless youth, seeking cash, stalks a series of taxi drivers before fate delivers a victim whose murder is as senseless as it is grisly; in the second half, the killer is caught, tried, convicted, and hung. Not only a powerful statement against capital punishment, Kieslowski’s film is a harrowing look at “that which exists behind the scenes of a human being’s soul, behind the scenes of a murder.”