"A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING" "Scenario" "Direction" "Throwing away such useful rags?" "Someone dropped them on me" "A bull's-eye?" "Have you seen anyone with such rags?" "I dislike cats" "As treacherous as people" " Is it a good film?" " No, it's boring" "What's it about?" "Love... but it's still boring" "Anyway, it's not on now." "There's a meeting here" "What are you doing?" "Pulling out grey hairs" "Where's the nearest taxi-rank?" "Castle Square" "A gala performance sponsored by the Ministry of Art and Culture..." "Piotr Balicki." "Go in, please" "Want a portrait?" " How much?" " Two thousand" "Does it take so long?" "Don't muck about" "This isn't piece-work" "You pay for my talent" "Have you got a talent?" "Maybe you're a shoemaker?" "Or you can grow trees?" "Trees?" "Of course" "Then you're not lost" " This way to Castle Square?" " Follow your nose" "I hesitate, not because I do not know what to say" "I've been asked this question twice before" "When taking entrance exams;" "the answer seemed simple then" "Then four years ago, in this building, I wasn't so sure" "And now..." "It's a good question: why do I want to be a lawyer?" "Do you want me to say what I feel, or what I should say?" "We want to hear about you" "The short answer is:" "I don't know" "It attracts me." "I've seen many cases in the last four years" "You could describe the work as a social function" "I think that's very important" "But most of all if all goes well I'll have the opportunity to meet and understand people I couldn't meet in any other profession" "I believe that as the years pass, the answer becomes more elusive" "Everyone wonders if what they do makes sense" "I fear we have more and more doubts" "A delivery" "Clear off!" "You're scaring my pigeons" "Free?" "Not yet" "We'll shelter by the kiosk" "What, in your view deters crime?" "In general terms it is the impact of punishment not on the criminal, but on others to discourage them..." "shall I put it precisely?" "It is a deterrent through the convict or, even, the convict is the deterrent" "It intimidates others" "Article 50 of the Penal Code" "I dislike your ironic tone" "It's a doubtful justification for the severity of the sentences" "It is often unjust" "Could you support your argument with an authoritative, classic opinion?" ""Since Cain, no punishment has proved to be an adequate deterrent"" "Should I name the author?" "Madam, we didn't charge for the vegetables" "Fancy a ride?" "Specially made by the wife" "Are you a picture-hanger?" "I thought..." "I've got a photo" "Could it be enlarged?" "The crease will still show" "Never mind" "Is it true you can tell from a photo whether a person's dead or alive?" "What nonsense" "I want the last numbers from you, as usual" "Seventeen" "I've got seventeen" "Sixteen" "So close?" "Fifteen" " You always write so neatly" " That's my style" "You're always lucky" "How much did you win last month?" "412 1,200 in the autumn, 46 last week..." "You're not losing" "But it could be even better" "It is my pleasure to inform you that you have passed the examination" "After four years of study and four years practical work" "Now you have only to be sworn in" "I've passed the examination" "I'm a barrister." "I've passed" "Piotr, don't be silly" "German?" "Bulgarian?" "I'll tell your fortune." "Legal papers await you." "You'll go abroad" "I'm not afraid of anything" "Give me your hand" "I'll tell you the truth" "Nothing but the truth" " Tea" " We don't serve tea" " What, then?" " Coffee, cakes" "Coffee and a cake, then" " Which cake?" " A cream cake" "Your line of fortune is long and strong" "Two children" "When?" "There are moments when you feel that everything is possible" "The way ahead is open and you can do whatever you wish" "I felt it after leaving high school." "I feel it again now" "An important stage is over" "Now everything is up to you" "Do you know what I think?" "I never know" "People will love you as I do now" "Going to Mokotow?" "No, Wola" "We're in a hurry" "Mokotow" "Where did he want to go?" "Wola" "Take it easy" "Something wrong?" "I think it might not be so simple" "Could you close the window?" "It's cold" "Turn left" "Straight ahead is best" "I prefer that way" "Stop." "We're here" " The road's closed further on" " It's my limit, anyway" "Money..." "Wife..." "Please..." "This is the story of a very brave and very clever golden lion" "All the grown-up lions said that a lion should be lion-hearted" "Can I still buy potatoes?" "Going to sleep so early, Beata?" "A snack first." "It's getting cold" "Come out, I'll show you something" "Shall I put a coat on?" "No, why?" " Is it far?" " Right here" "You wanted to travel" "Now we can" "You said one customer went to the mountains" "Her husband" "We could go to the mountains" "We can recline the seats" "I've got a blanket." "Warmer weather's coming" "Where did you get this car?" "The Court will rise" "Is it the end?" "The end" "I lost." "Utterly" "I don't know" "I may go for a walk..." "no, don't come" "How do you feel?" "Your Honour, I know it's not done..." "Now it's over, I would like to ask you would an older, famous lawyer have made any difference to the case?" "None at all" "My speech... perhaps if I had put things differently..." "Your speech was the best against capital punishment I've heard in years" "The verdict was inevitable" "You were faultless, as a lawyer and as a human being" "Difficult circumstances, but I'm glad I met you" "One could, perhaps, wish for a better judge in this case because I am responsible for what will happen - does that comfort you?" "No." "Perhaps it doesn't really matter but on that very day when he wound the cord around his hand in the café I was there" "In that very café, at that very time, a year ago, after passing my exam" "I might have done something" "You are too sensitive for this profession" "Too late now" "Now you are a year older" "The Governor will see you soon" " How are things?" " It's warm" "The curtain's stuck" "Fix it" "Ready, sir" "Number twenty-four, to my office" "Wait a moment" "It's as I expected" "You will have half an hour" "Half an hour... very well" "Escort him" "May I leave my case here?" "Good morning, Defence Counsel" "He wants to talk to me, Prosecutor" "A difficult task" "Yes, it's my first time" "The last, I hope" "This is hardly the right moment, but we rarely meet" "I believe that I should congratulate you on the birth of a son" "You wanted to see me" "Have you seen my mother?" " Was she crying?" " Yes" "Did she ask about me at all?" "She just cried" "Would you see my mother again?" "Afterwards" "Of course" "I thought so because you called me from the window when they took me from court" "You called my name" "I wanted to..." "I don't know what I wanted" "I'm almost twenty-one but when you called me my eyes filled with tears" "I said in court..." "I didn't listen in court not until you called to me" "They were all all against me" "Against what you did" "Same thing" "You want me to see your mother" "Yes, tell her I want to be buried in my father's grave" "Will it be possible for me to be buried in the cemetery?" "Yes" "That's what the priest said" "In my father's grave there's one more place for my mother" "I'd like you to ask her to give it to me" "The Governor asks if you're ready" "Not yet" "You were saying?" "I've forgotten" "A place in the grave" "Yes, there were three places." "Marysia and father are there and one place is left" "Marysia is there... five years now" "Yes, five years ago she was run over by a tractor, back at home" "She was still at school" "She was twelve." "The school year had just begun" "The driver of that tractor, he was my pal" "We'd been drinking vodka and wine before it happened" "Then he went and ran over her in the meadow by the forest" "There was a meadow there, by the forest" "I always kept thinking that if only she was alive, I wouldn't have left the village, I'd have stayed" "She was my sister" "Three brothers, but she was the only sister" "I was her favourite." "She was my favourite, too" "Perhaps everything would have been different" "But afterwards I had to go away, join a labour brigade" "I didn't want to leave" "Perhaps it wouldn't have come to this?" "Perhaps I wouldn't be here now" "The Governor and the Prosecutor ask if you're ready" "Tell the Prosecutor I'll never say that I am ready" "You'll never say that you are ready" "We bought the grave plot because Marysia loved the trees, she loved greenery" "She was going to the forest..." "You have the sentence?" "All in order" "You may leave your briefcase here" "Bring him out" "The Prosecutor requests that the conversation be terminated" "Amongst my belongings there is a receipt from a photographer's" "I asked for an enlargement, but I hadn't time to collect it" "Afterwards..." "I'd like mother to have it" "What sort of photograph?" "First Communion" "I took it from mother when I left home." "I always kept it." "It's creased" "Please" "I won't" " Name?" " Jacek Lazar" " Date of birth?" " 17th March, 1967" "Parents' names?" "Jan..." "Lucja" "The sentence" "In the name of the Polish People's Republic dated 27th November, 1987" "The Warsaw Provincial Court, in the case ofJacek Lazar accused of robbery and murder of Waldemar Rekowski on ...has been found guilty of said crime and in accordance with Article 148, Paragraph 1 and Article 44, Paragraph 2 of the Penal Code sentences him to death and loss of civil rights in perpetuity" "The High Court has confirmed the sentence" "The State Council has rejected the appeal for clemency" "The sentence will be executed" "I'd prefer one without filter" "Execute the sentence" "Direction" "Photography" "Music" "Art direction" "Sound" "Film editing" "Made by the Tor Film Group"