"A Dariusz Jab³oñski film" "Based on the book" "STRAWBERRY WINE" "Where's the police station?" "What do you need the station for?" "He's only had a few." "I'm going to the police station." "Him you can keep." "It's like this, Lubica, the womenfolk are complaining..." "This better be the last time:" "If you've got the itch to lead your neighbor into temptation, then do it in private." "Right then." "Get out of here and be good." "Distinctions, awards..." "So what's the deal?" "Honestly now:" "Who sent you?" "Regional command?" "HQ maybe?" " Personal reasons, sergeant." " But here?" "In the middle of nowhere:?" "I wanted a job as far away from the capital as possible." "Well this is about as far as it gets." "I applied for staff because I'm due for retirement next year." "But from the capital?" "Things are a bit different around here, but you'll get the hang of it soon." "Now to find you something to do..." "Area's pretty big, but sparsely populated though." "You'll see for yourself tomorrow." "You'll take the company..." "bicycle." "In the morning you'll go and patrol state property undergoing liquidation." "Right here." "We'll quarter you at citizen Lewandowski's." "Used to live there myself." "What're you staring at?" "Ain't nothing wrong with her." "How do you know?" "I can see." "Want me to carve 'er up for you, Wasylczuk?" "I'll carve 'er up myself." "Don't like killing 'em is all." "I do." "Main thing's for the critter not to get scared." "Bad job spoils the meat." "Reeks of fear..." "Stay away from my woman." "My woman doesn't need any help." "You were away a long time." "She said she did." "No." "You better get married, Semen, rather than helping out folks all over the village." "Playing matchmaker?" "I hide them if I don't know who's coming." "That'll do." "Pass me a towel." " Do you want some food?" " No." "Have to work on the cart." " Tomorrow." "Get some rest." " I'm heading off tomorrow." " You just got back." " I'm going to work." "What do you see in those woods?" "God, you live like a wolf." "What is there to see here?" "Got anything special to show me?" "You used to be different..." "That's what you think." "I'm the way I always was:" "I'm off tomorrow." "He'd better not come here." "Leave him out of this." "He's a good man." "Tell him to take his goodness somewhere else." "Done." "This'll fix anything." "So long as it's rubber." "Inner tubes, galoshes, padded boots." "Those were the days when the state farms were still around." "State farm here, one over in Ni¿na, one up in Mosczaniec ten tractors in every farm, four wheels on every tractor, trailers, too..." "Menfolk, womenfolk, kids each of 'em with two legs, galoshes on both, not counting spares." "Now it's just farmers and poor folk." "Patch 'em up themselves." "Sell me some cigarettes?" "Not yet..." "Someday." "No, thanks." "No need to thank me." "Wine's like wine." "Used to make 'em better though." "Three bottles and you were gone." "This just makes you want to piss." ""Strawberry Wine"." "That's Pop." "No... that's Ma, and that's Pop, and that's me." "Got sent down here in '77." "Doing four years costs you no tears, and leaves no smears." "I herded cows, fired bricks, dug ditches, chopped trees." " For what?" " My belief." "I believed they wouldn't nick me." "Then I got out and it was more of the same:" "Timber, animals, ditches..." "Is it bad here?" "Worse than anywhere else?" "That's Olena." "Ruthenian girl." "We got married in an Orthodox church." "This house..." "for the two of us." "Six years ago..." "That bar at 10, Grochowska street, Warsaw it still exist?" "Now have you ever seen a police station closed during the day?" "Bless you my son:" "You must be the new one." "Just like your boss." "Two weeks now and I still haven't seen you in church." "I don't go." "I don't believe in God." "Not much at any rate." "Never mind." "Views don't have to stop you coming to Mass." "Though your boss still has the same views he had under communism." "They won't let him enter a church." "He's never been..." "I..." "might come one of these days." "Nothing more I can do here." "Secular authority should not be seen fraternizing with spiritual authority." "That's the way it's always been, and it's for the better." " Surely not always?" " You might think not, but it has." "A man has to know whom to listen to in different sides of life." "But the police is getting along well with the Church now, isn't it?" "Prayer doesn't improve the clear-up rate any." "The times we had back then, my boy:" "Politics is a clash of ideas..." "You wouldn't understand today." "Seventeen years waiting for a crown." "Well?" "It's sort of..." "Come quick:" "What are you waiting for?" "Hop on:" "Stop:" "Stop:" "To the bar: : :" "Stop:" "To the bar: : :" "I'm telling you:" "Stop:" "What are you doing?" "Stop:" "You will be mine: : :" "Come on:" "Where are you going?" ":" "Turn it off, you f..." "I'm telling you, turn it off:" "Let it go:" "Shit:" "Doesn't count." "You were supposed to drive up to the counter." "But don't worry." "You'll make it next time, Janek." "Going to take my clothes?" "Back home in Slovakia when I was a girl the boys would play that game." "Everybody went down to the river to bathe and hid everyone else's clothes." "Girls would take the boys' clothes, either." "They don't anymore?" "There's no boys or girls left." "Either they've moved to the city or they're just born old." "I'm cold." "Turn around." "Ready." "What are you doing?" "Promoting you to general so you won't be afraid of anything." "I'm not even a constable." "Are you married?" "No." "Not any more." "Can you still tell?" "Do you miss her?" "No." "Not her." "Just... my daughter." "Where is she?" "She's gone." "I don't stand a chance, do I?" "It's dry." "I like it better when it's wet." "Well it's not anymore." "Tough job with her." "She's not from around here." "I know that much." "Where is she from?" "Thereabouts." "At the back of beyond." "Slovakia." "Her mother died, she ran away and came here to look for her father, a Pole who was supposed to have spent one night at her mother's place." "She's not happy here either." "One guy tried to hang himself because of her and you saw what Janek did." "They'll book him for sure." "Did she find her father?" "Maybe she did and maybe she didn't." "How come you're out here?" "Player doesn't work." "Head's busted." "Neat, huh?" "Neat." "No sweat." "It's American." "Quick-drying." "How 'bout you, you know, get around to him a bit the way you do." "It's always good to know what's going down." "You're a real pig, you know that?" "Pig or no pig..." "Hurry up or we'll be late." "I have to change." "Waste of fuel, buddy." "Well?" "All quiet?" "There was a scuffle but I calmed them down." "Took this away from them." "They wanted to cut up the tables." "We're smoking here, but we're actually exhaling thataway." "Join us, won't you?" "Mix it with soda and no one'll know." "No thanks." "Some other time." "It didn't hurt him none." "Wasylczuk." "If I'd just sat down for a while in the bar..." "Then you'd have stayed there." "When he gets something in his head there's no stopping him no matter what." "Koœciejny sure is something." "They don't make 'em like that anymore." "There was nothing you could have done." "But if I hadn't stepped outside..." "If you think he'd have let a uniform stop him you're too dumb to even be a cop." "GREAT OPENING" "Hoosteller please." "I beg your pardon?" "Cigarettes." "Carry on?" ":" "Keep it up:" "See." "Soon as you come here this tragedy happens." "Screwed up our figures." "Lucky it's not just the crime rate that went up." "The clear-up rate followed suit." "One could say you apprehended the culprit red-handed." "That counts for something." "I didn't apprehend him." "He turned himself in." "Doesn't matter." "Main thing is you were on the scene." "Irka:" "Turn them frogs off:" "They are Italians, Edek." "That's what I said." "Turn it off and play something in English." "What's the difference?" "Might be all the same to you." "It isn't to me." "When I was in da hood in Noo Yawk, we had this def gig..." "The Man sent a homey down in a chine and we cruised up" "Park into the Upper West Side where we hogged mainlines..." "What's a mainline?" "Cause you've always been a great one for hogging." "A mainline..." "is a mainline." "Five bucks a yard." "Don't they have excavators over there?" "Sure." "But that was specialized hazardous hogging." "So Zalatywój, how's business?" "What exactly is hogging?" "Ask him." "I've never been much for English." "What is it?" ":" "Ditches, shovels, digging:" "...and pigs will fly." "Buy me a wine, will you." "It's pointless." "Don't even pay for fuel." "Delivered three pairs today, got two to fix up..." "Yo:" "Zalatywój:" "I asked you how's business:" "Yo:" "Zalatywój... you Gypsy mutha..." " I'll pass by Dukla." " You do that." " What time do you get off?" " In the evening." "Then I'm out of here." "He was supposed to take you away from all this." "He did." "Took me to Dukla." "What do you want?" "I thought you wanted more than that." "Shouldn't have missed your chance." " Meet me down by the river tonight." " I'm a married woman now, Andrzej." "Winter here always like this?" "Not by a long shot." "Just off to a slow start this year." " A horse." " I don't see no horse." "Looks like yours." "Not a chance..." " Hauling timber, too." " What timber?" "Mietek?" "Does the forest ranger know about this?" "How would I know what he knows?" "Man, if you want to freeze your ass off, then I'll tell him to take it back, all right?" "But if you want it warm, then get your jacket on, we'll chop it up, and that's that." " But I'm a policeman." " Get over it..." "You'll freeze." " This the only one there was, Chief?" " I kinda like it." "It's old stock." "Back then even the Christmas decorations were official issue." "Yes... yes, yes sir." "Well..." "Koœciejny's got a pass for Christmas." "Yellow alert for us." "Well, Koœciejny?" "Home for the holidays, huh?" "How much leave'd they give you?" "Two days, three?" "For good behavior?" "So what's it like inside?" "Just wondering, you know." "Must be interesting I bet." "When I was in Grinpoint..." "Go and see for yourself." "Don't cost nothing." "Guys like me don't go." "We got this." "Cash flow, margins, accounts." "Affairs of the heart are out of style." "I got married, by the way." "She's too good for you." " That's it?" " That's it." "Quiet as a lamb." "Not going home for the holidays?" "I don't have a home." "Then..." "Merry Christmas:" "Merry Christmas:" "Merry Christmas..." "Merry Christmas:" "Merry Christmas:" "Same to you..." "Got papers for that?" "They say that tonight the lion shall lie down with the lamb, and you want papers..." "Merry Christmas:" " A Merry Christmas to you, Irena:" " Same to you, Andrzej, same to you:" "Have a seat officer." "Christmas..." "Irka:" "Get a glass over here:" "Bet they'll be locking up soon." "You know, officer, you can see a fair piece of sky from my cell." "There's an airport nearby." "When the weather's good the planes up there look like gold crosses." "Crosses?" "Like the ones you wear on your neck, you know..." "I've never been on a plane." "What about you?" "I have." " High up?" " I guess." "Above the clouds." "What's it like up there?" "Beats me." "Blue." "Like heaven kind of." "Peaceful." "Were you afraid?" "I was." "But it's a different sort of fear." "Like you were watching yourself from far away and only knew that the other you was scared." "It's like fear but it isn't." "Like looking at yourself from far off, you say?" "Something like that." "You still sore at me?" "No." "I blame myself." "That's good." "Man should blade himself for everything." "I'm here for him to tell me what it's like." "Who?" "Him." "This is from me." "Monarchs." "They can fly up to six thousand kilometers, and yet they look so fragile." "Went by the river the other day." "Frozen over." "Might thaw in the spring." "I didn't know you could make pierogi too, Mietek." "You'd be surprised at what I can do..." "So how come you never do anything?" "Don't feel like it I guess." "It's not that I'm lazy, only a bit here and a bit there don't make for anything permanent." "Same with everybody here." "It's the weather." "Work's like weather." "It changes." "I spent seven years working in one place." "Every day?" "Yup." "In an office." "Good job, you don't get dirty." "Just sleepy." "I wouldn't mind working but all I can do is drive a tractor." "Not much demand for that lately." "To each his own." "Damn it:" "On Christmas Eve?" "We didn't have electricity in ¯³obiska thirty years back." "Folks saw more then, too." "Get outta here." "I don't want to swear on a holiday, but you're talking rubbish." "They did too." "Take my granny:" "Saw something every day." "Like what?" "All sorts of things..." "Don't you believe in that?" "These things are beyond our grasp and should stay that way, otherwise they wouldn't be there at all." "My grandma knew all about it." "In broad daylight she saw things others didn't even see at night." "She stopped seeing when they hooked up the power." "Glad tidings:" "Egyptian darkness all the way down to Dukla." "Candles in windows everywhere." "And me with three pairs of boots to deliver." " On Christmas Eve?" " If it's urgent it's urgent." "Let me have a nip, I'm freezing." "Should do something about the chassis for the winter." "...you're the one," "Now you've gone and left me crying bitter tears," "When I met you, you were barely seventeen," "I remember seeing you down by the lake." "And you told me that your name was Beata," "So enchanting was the beauty of that name." "Every day that summer I would take you sailing" "And your love it did engulf me like a flame..." "Dammit just like Midnight Mass..." "I'm not seeing this." " I'm not seeing this at all." " Of course not." "It's foggy out." "Same deal as usual, Chestnut." "Mosey on down thataway, and take the second right." "I'll take the roundabout way and be back home half an hour after you." "Anybody meets you, mum's the word." "What do you know, froze to death." "So hot-blooded and all." "This is all that's left of the Orthodox church." "They took it to a museum." "This was the presbytery." "And this was the nave." "And you're standing on the threshold." "You're giving off a chill." "Froze to death, didn't I?" "But it's warm." "You should have thawed." "You only die once, can't change anything later." "Looks like you can, since you're sitting here." "I am and I'm not." "So why'd you come here?" "Wanted to talk." "You know, it's not so bad over there, can't complain, but, well..." "And the silence..." "Have you seen your wife?" "Didn't notice me then, wouldn't notice me now." " Gotta be going." " Go then." "But I have to lock up the station." "I'm a ghost, remember?" "By the way:" "You wouldn't happen to know whether there's a pigsticking in the area?" "You get around." "Pigsticking's what I miss the most over there." " And the detergents?" " What about them?" " How're they moving?" " Moving, I guess." " What kind sells best?" " Don't remember." " So what are you doing there, then?" " What are you asking stupid questions for?" "The cheapest kind sells best." "Stop that:" " What should I get for tomorrow?" " Whatever." "What is this?" ":" "You doing me a favor here?" ":" "I'm bored." "What with?" "All this." "Look out: : :" "For God's sake:" "Tried to kill me:" "Didn't even slow down." " Mietek?" " Nah." "Edek." "On the Dukla road." " Didn't even look back." " Report it tomorrow." "Can't." "I was driving my rig." "It's like I wasn't there." "I had no right to be." "Still got the shakes though." " Me too." " So, how's about we..." "Nothing here." "We'll go to the bar, sit with other people." "What do you say:?" "Money plus Lubica means a good time:" "I didn't know he could play that well." "All Gypsies can." "Well, nearly all of them." " He's a Gypsy then?" " Maybe he is." "Who cares." " I'll come by the river if you want." " I do." "I'll be there." "Tomorrow." "I'll do everything tomorrow." "Eeny meeny miny mo..." "Catch a tiger by the toe." "Lubiczka, Lubiczka..." "Must be a draft somewhere." "Lubiczko, I'd wash your feet and drink the bath-water..." "Had to pay a five grand fine for driving up those steps..." "It's not you I came back for, Janek." "Stay:" "You're all the same." "No, Janek, someone waits for me by the river." "Not enough music for you?" " What music?" " Last night's." " What do you mean?" " You know damn well what I mean." "Everybody saw you." "In broad daylight, polka-dancing with that..." "Lubica." "Chief, it was at night," "I was off duty." "Come quickly:" "I can't remember a thing..." "I don't know..." "I don't remember..." "I don't know how..." "Couldn't catch up with it." "I wanted to catch some small-fry." "She liked to come here..." "No chance of buying smokes until they open the bar, bro." "Traded them in..." "Life goes on, bro..." "Life goes on." "Who called them?" "He doesn't remember a thing." "How could he have called if he was in shock?" "If they couldn't get the knife out of his hand... how could he have made a phone call?" "It's not that obvious." "Not that obvious at all." "Someone had to make that phone call." "But who?" "We don't know." "Somebody." "That much we know." "He called because no one else could have." "How could he have done a thing like that?" "Killing a man is one thing, but a woman?" "Lubica?" "What'd she do to him?" "Where did he call from?" "Did anybody see him?" "How can he know where he called from if he can't remember a thing?" "There are only three phones in this shi... in our village." " Over here and at the priest's house:" " The village head has the third one." "It's off the hook." "What are you driving at?" "Nothing's going to bring her back to life:" "We have the victim, we have the perpetrator, we have clear-up, and you want to play cops..." "Actually I wanted to see you and thought the cemetery might be a good place." "Natural, wouldn't you say?" "Why do you have to appear to me of all people?" "Because you're not from around here." "And because you don't really believe in me." "The others would straight away." "Can't smoke either." "I went to see the priest." "He was having a pork chop." "The aroma..." "He see you?" "Not on your life." "Didn't see me, didn't hear me, nothing." "If a specialist can't see you then maybe you don't exist after all." "He's no specialist when it comes to ghosts." "Knows a thing or two about people is all." "That makes me the expert..." "So..." " Do you..." " You want to know who did it?" "Yes." "When you got here you didn't care about anything." "I'm old and tired." "I should come back..." "Lights." "The healthy kind." "From the kiosk." "You bought things from her?" "It wouldn't have been right." "I sent my housekeeper." "She stocked those..." "Publications of a pornographic nature." "But it's a freedom." "That's it." "Poor soul gone astray." "Poor lambkin." "Souls will stray when you set them free." "Quite so, quite so." " Shall I take them inside now?" ":" " Let them air a while longer." "I've been a priest for twenty eight years now." "I spent twenty six years in the mili... police force." "It has to be done." "Either way it won't hurt, even if it doesn't help, and why shouldn't it help, since it can help." "You said it." "Pass the hat." "That should do the trick..." "Mietek, it's not like we're chipping in to buy booze here." "This is serious:" "This is for me to do." "So, here you are." "I was having a nap." "They say you don't age in church." "Even if that's not true you do sleep easier." "So, here you are." "Have a look." "Saint Catherine, patron of the parish," "St. Florian, patron saint of firemen." "And over there, if you prefer, is the feretory with St. Joseph." "It's light enough if four men spread the weight." "You're young and fit..." "Yes but I've come about something else." "Official business you might say." "He's waiting..." "For it is written that:" ""It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks"." "But you might not be familiar with that." "If it's official business let's go to the vicarage." "So what did he say exactly?" "He said he was tired and wants to go back there." "It's just not right:" "Here one moment, there the next." "He could never stay put when he was alive either." "Hot-blooded he was." "And he also said we had it all wrong about the murder that it wasn't Janek." "He said he'd tell me... if I had a mass sung for him." "Put that away." "The intention's quite unusual." "You'll carry the feretory one of these days." " Well?" " Nice." "Sort of like she was getting married." "Got it?" "Pass it here, then." "Zalatywój wanted it that way..." "It's like he's here and yet he isn't, huh?" " You believe in all that?" " In all that what?" "Well, the way things are over there, that there is an over there, you know..." "I guess I do when I don't think about it." "When I start thinking about it then I don't really know." "You keep hanging there while we've got to figure things out on our lonesome." "Relax." "No one can see me." "You go on ahead." "I'll be waiting by the church." "Look, I don't even cast a shadow." "Got a watch?" "I wouldn't want to be late." "We'll make it." "It begins at six." "You call this a mass?" "Where's the people?" "Where's the organist?" "There's Mietek and W³adek..." "I don't mean buddies, I mean people." "Koœciejny, get real." "It's Saturday, where am I supposed to get people from?" "I want a proper mass, or else..." "Everybody up:" " Get up:" "I mean you:" " What for?" "You know damn well what for, don't think I forgot:" "And you, and you Radek too:" "You're all under arrest:" "Get a move on:" "Move on:" "What about the bill?" ":" "Give me:" "Come on, get moving:" "Hurry up!" "Hurry up!" "Move it!" "Hurry up!" "Run for it!" "Hurry!" "Move it!" "Hurry!" "Hurry!" " Flat, huh?" " Flat, sure." "Fifth one this week." "It's autumn." "They're flying home." "What about the spring?" "They fly to work?" "You can never really tell with geese, but when you think about it..." "Almost new:" "Time does fly..." "All right, I'll take them." "Directed by" "Screenplay by" "Cast" "Director of Photography" "Music by"