"Law should not imitate nature but rather improve it" "Law is mankind's idea to regulate the interpersonal relations" "What we are and how we live is the effect of law which we either observe or infringe" "Man is free his freedom is restricted by another person's right to freedom" "And punishment punishment is a revenge particularly if it's amied at injuring the criminal and not at preventing crime" "But in whose name dose law take its revenge" "Is it really in the name of the innocent?" "And are the law-maker really innocent?" "Mr. Piotr Balicki" "Will you come in, please?" "Throwing rage away, Mister" "They might still be of use" "Somebody threw this at me?" "And hit you?" "No" "Did you see anybody with a rag like this?" "I say, madam." "Is it a good film?" "No." "It's boring" "What it is about?" "Love." "But it's boring anyway" "Besides, there's no performance right now." "We're making a break" "What are you doing?" "Plucking the gray hairs out" "Do you happen to know where the nesrest taxi-rank is?" "In the Castle Square" "In the National Philharmonic in Warsaw a gala concert took place organized by the Ministry of Culture and Art" "Sit down, please" "I've taken so much time answering not because I don't know what to say" "But I've already been asked this question twice" "During my admission exams to the university the answer seemed very simple" "Later, four years later in this building" "I was not so confidnet any more" "Hey, Madam!" "We've brought supplies!" "Quick, Beata!" "Good morning" "Good morning" "Want a portrait like this one?" "No" "Is this the way to the Castle Square?" "Yeah." "Straight ahead" "I suppose that practising this profession one can correct the errors made by that huge machinery called administration of justice" "or at least one can try to correct them" "I find another thing interesting, too most of all perhaps that I will meet and understand people whom I would never meet if I practised another profession" "Go away!" "You scare my pigeons!" "Go away, will you?" "Cad!" "Are you fee?" "Don't you see I'm washing the car?" "Could we perhaps wait here?" "It's so cold" "We all ask ourselves whether what we're doing makes any sense" "I'm afraid finding the sense is a more and more difficult task it's more and more often that we doubt the sense of our actions" "And maybe even of our plans, too" "I believe it's a decline of criteria" "Or worse still, of values" "Hey, Madam!" "The manageress forgot to charge you for the soup vegetables" "How about a lift, Miss Beata?" "I say, Mister" "Good afternoon" "What can I do for you?" "I have here" "Are you perhaps one of the psecialists who drive pegs into the walls" "No" "I thought you might be" "I have here a photograph" "Could you enlarge it?" "But the bends will be visible" "Never mind" "All right" "Excuse me, Madam" "Is it true that you can tell form a picture whether the person is alive or dead?" "You've been listening to some nonsense" "Acting through the prisoner or to be more precise with the prisoner to influence others" "I mean, deterrence or simly frightening people" "It's mentioned among others in Article 50 of the Penal Code" "I don't think I like that irony in your voice" "The general prevention is a doubtful justification of severity of punishment" "Not in my opinion only" "Busides, it's often unjust..." "Want some?" "The wife's prepared it for us" "There, have some" "A glass of tea, please We don't serve teas here" "What do you serve?" "Coffee and cakes" "I'll take coffee and a cake then Which one?" "A cream puff" "No, not this one This one here" "From Cain no punishment has ever improved anybody or deterred him from committing offences" "And now, for the news for drivers" "To begin with, the weather forecast" "Road conditions are rather bad" "Apart from the south-eastern regions" "Occasional showers possible all over the country" "Madzio!" "Madzio!" "It is my pleasure to inform you that you have passed the esamination" "Form today on after four years of study and four years of legal training please consider yourself our colleague" "Mister" "Excuse me" "Are you perhaps going to Mokotow district?" "No." "The opposite direction" "You see, we're in a great hurry" "Mokotow, please" "Where did that fellow want to go?" "THe opposite direction" "Could you wind the window up?" "It's cold" "Turn left here" "It's easier to reach Fogel street going straight ahead" "I prefer it this way" "As you wish" "Stop the car." "It's over there" "You couldn't get through any way" "I wouldn't even try" "Christ" "The glove compartment...the money..." "My wife..." "The money..." "Give her..." "Please..." "The session is closed" "Is it all, sir" "It is" "Yes, it's me." "I lost yes, completely" "I don't know, have no idea" "Maybe I'll go for a walk" "No, don't come" "How are you?" "Slept well?" "Well, 'bye, then" "Sir!" "Jacek!" "Excuse me, Your Highness" "I know it isn't customary" "You're right." "It isn't" "But I"d like to know once it's all over now" "Would it hlep any if he had an older and renowned counsel?" "Not at all" "The things I said" "Maybe I could have said it differently" "Your speech was probably the best speech against capital punishment that I've heard in years" "But the sentence had to be what is was" "You made no mistakes whether as a lawyer or as a man" "The circumstances of your meeting were rather unpleasant but all the same I'm glad to have met you" "Goodbye, sir" "This case, could have been tried by a better judge" "All that is to happen will be my fault" "Is that no consolation to you?" "No." "You know, sir" "It may be irrelevant but remember waht that boy said about winding a rope around his hand in that coffee-bar in Krakowskie Przedmiescie street" "I was there Where?" "In that cooffee-bar at that very time, a year ago" "That day I passed my lawyer's examination" "Perhaps there was something I could have done then?" "You're too sensitive to practise the legal profession" "It's too late now" "You've grown a year older today" "The warden will see you presently" "How are thing doing?" "Rather warm, eh?" "Good morning" "The curtain doesn't work" "Tidy up, will you?" "Come in!" "Everyting's ready, sir" "Thank you" "Thank you." "I expected this" "So did I" "Yes, sir You have half an hour time" "Half an hour?" "All right" "Come in" "You wanted me, sir?" "Take this gentleman..." "Hello, counsellor" "I'm going to see him" "He wants to talk to me An unpleasant duty, that" "It is..." "I say, sir this is my first time" "Let's hope it will be the last one" "This isn't perhaps the best moment, counsellor" "But we don't see each other too often, you and me" "I heard you have a son" "Congratulations" "Yes, he was born not long ago Thank you" "You wanted to see me..." "Yes, yes" "Have you seen my mother?" "Yes" "Was she crying?" "She was" "Maybe she wanted you to tell me something, or..." "No" "She just cried" "Sit down" "Would you... could you see my mother once again?" "Of course I could" "Ater...you know, afterwards" "All right" "I'm asking because back there in the court when they were putting me into the prison van you called my name You called, Jacek yes, I called you..." "I wanted..." "I'm nearly twenty-one" "But tears rose in my eyes when you called my name" "I said during the trial" "I don't know I didn't listen too much" "Only when I heard you calling my name" "They were against me all of them it's the sme here" "Against what you did" "It doesn't make any difference" "You wanted me to see your mother" "Yes, I want her to bury me in father's grave" "It's a double grave" "Can I buried in a cemetery?" "Yes" "A priest visited me here He said it was pollible" "Yes" "Well, in that case..." "Father's grave is a double one" "Mother was to be buried there it was arranged that way" "You see, I'd like her to let me have that place" "Yes." "Yes sir, Warden" "the Warden wants to know whether you're ready yet?" "Not yet" "You were saying..." "I don't remember" "But you tole me it was a triple grave" "Yes, that's right" "Marysia's buried there...and Father and the third place is free" "They put Marysia there five years ago" "Yes." "She was run over by a tractor five years ago" "Back in our village" "She was starting the sixth form of elementary school" "This means she was twelve when she died Yes" "THis sixth form That tractor-driver he was an acquaintance" "We'd been drinking together he and I" "We'd had wine and vodka" "And then he drove away and ran her over on a meadow near the forest" "there was a meadow there, you know" "I've been thinking had shd been alive, everything would have been different" "I wouldn't have to go away" "I'd have stayed in the village" "She was my sister" "I had three brothers but only one sister" "I was her favourite" "And I liked her best, too" "Everything could have been different...perhaps" "Perhaps." "Perhaps it would never have happened" "Yes, and I wouldn't be here now" "The Warden and the prosecutor want to know if you're ready" "Tell the prosecutor I'll never say I'm ready" "You'll never say you're ready?" "Never" "We bought that grave" "Have you got the sentence?" "I've got all the papers" "Let's go" "Leave your briefcase in my office" "This way, please" "Take the prisoner out" "Yes sir" "The prosecutor requests that you end the conversation." "They give the personal belongings back afterwards" "There is among my things a receipt from a photographer's in Krakowskie Przedmiescie" "I wanted a photograph enlarged and didn't have the time to collect it" "Please collect the enlarged pictures give it back to Mother" "What is in that picture?" "It's an old picture I had" "Made during her first Communion" "I stole it from Mother when I was going away" "And I always had it with me It got so bent" "Let's go" "I say, sir." "I don't want to" "Hold him!" "Get him!" "Now, gentlemen..." "Open the door!" "Your name and Christian name?" "Lazar, Jacek" "Date of birth?" "March 17, 1967" "Parents' names?" "Jan and..." "Luc..." "Lucja" "I'll now read to you the sentence in the name of the Polish people's Rpublic of November 27, 1987." "Having examined the case of jacek Lazar accused of having performed an assault and robbery and murder of Waldemar Rykowski on March 16, 1986 in Warsaw" "Prvincial Court in Warsaw has found the defendant quilty of the act as charged and sentenced him on force of Articles 148 point 1 and 44 point 2 of the Penal Code to death penalty and deprivation of public right forever" "The Supreme court has maintained the sentence in force" "The Council of State has resigned its right to granpardon" "In this connection the penalty will be executed" "Want a cigarette?" "I'd rather have one without filter" "No !" "Get him..." "Hold on..." "Execute the penalty" "Hold him!" "All right, pull it now !" "Pull it !" "Is it O.K. Now?" "More!" "More!" "That enough ?" "No !" "More !" "I hate you" "I hate you !" "I hate you !" "I hate you !"