"MADMEN" "Madmen get a better view, finer and more accurate." "Starring" "So when the last ones become the first, madmen will precede all the rest." "Madmen know more, hungry for life when the world's on the run." "So when the last ones become the first, madmen will precede all the rest." "Madmen know more, hungry for the world on the run." "Music by" "Here's madmen's story; they're hungry for life when the world's on the run." "Director of Photography" "So when the last ones become the first, madmen will precede all the rest." "Written and Directed by" "What are you waiting for?" "For the others to catch up." "The others?" "The rest of us." "The rest?" "There's just the two of us." " How come?" " What do you mean "how come"?" "There's just us?" "You sure we got away?" "Excuse me, gentlemen!" "Come here." "Taking a walk, right?" "Actually..." "We've been... jogging." "Perhaps you've seen a little black-and-tan dog?" "His name is Dingo." "Nice name." " I don't think so." " Me neither." "Teeny  weeny." "No-pedigree, but cute." "I wanted a German shepherd, but your aunt goofed up." "Don't bring it up in public." "I see!" "You didn't feed him out of spite, so he ran away." "Nonsense!" "Why should I want him starved?" "Dingo!" "Dingo, boy!" "Dingo!" "Keep jogging." "Go and knock." "Just don't kick." "You'd alarm the neighbours again." "I apologized, didn't I?" "So we're here." "Today?" "Like we agreed over the phone." "We talked about tomorrow." "I said Wednesday." "Impossible." "I wasn't supposed to be home today." "It's Tuesday, anyway." "Alright, come in." "Just keep quiet." "What will you do now?" "I'll take a train and go there." "What for?" " To give the money back." " It's a lot of money." "Are you nuts?" "Am I to hide in a madhouse for the rest of my life?" "You see what I mean..." "Yeah." "But a train may be a problem." "Who kicked at the door?" "Who?" " Who are they?" " Friends." "I see." "They live upstairs." "Good morning." "I'll give it back and will return." "We will, that is." "I have two days for that." "Why?" "Because where we're staying our colleagues agreed to cover up for us," "but only for two days." "I see." "So we're here." "To get clothes." "And some money for the trip." "Good!" "Except for the hair." "Why are you dragging this nut along?" "There's one thing I can't handle on my own." "As I was expecting you tomorrow, I don't have that money." "You don't?" "No." "You don't?" "Then I'm going with them." "I'm not letting my fiancée leave with some strangers." "I know them well enough." "And I'm not your fiancée." "We only met yesterday." "That's true." "You said we needed money." "Where are we going to get it?" "Hi!" "It's me." "Yeah." "How have you been?" "My sister!" "What's up?" "What do you mean long time?" "Two years isn't several." "He'll use up our card." "How's everything?" "Are Mom and Dad all right?" "Good." "I can't tell you right now." "Look, when you were getting married..." "No?" "Oh, I'm so sorry..." "There were those relatives nobody knew at your wedding party." "You got that white swan from them, a bit of a white elephant..." "I'm in their town at the moment, so we could drop by..." "I'm with a friend, yes." "Just like in the family." "I know, I know." "Their address is on that card that came with the swan." "In the box." "All cards are in that box in W3adek's room." "She's checking." " Let them use it up." "Let's go." " Throw in the watch and the car." "Yes, I'm here." "No need." "I'll memorize it." " May I ring?" " Sure." "Seventy eight." " We're relatives." " Sure." "Come on in." "We're relatives, who came to this town on business and were robbed." "I thought that Leon sent you to pick up the stuff." "Never mind." "As you're here, I'll tell you what happened to me yesterday and you'll tell me what you would have done if you were me." "I can't stop thinking about it." "All right?" " All right." " Yes." "So..." "My friend has a wife." "She goes away from time to time." "When she's away, he invites me over." "Occasionally." "I like it, I must say." "I went there yesterday and after a few hours, when I was about to leave, I realized that my necklace was missing." "As I had stripped that evening," "I was quite certain that my necklace had to be there." "Yet I found everything but the necklace." "So we started a thorough search of the place, all in vain." "After an hour I went back home, straight to bed." "In the morning I went to the bathroom, only to see my necklace sitting by the mirror!" "I grab the phone and call the friend to tell him." "But he says that he looked for my necklace all night." "He dismantled the sofa, removed the carpets, took off the floor, checked all the drawers." "I panicked that if I told him I had it, he could get upset and stop liking me, which I didn't want happening." "But if I didn't tell him, he'd keep thinking that the necklace was there and his wife might discover it," "so he'd live in constant anxiety." "So?" "What would you have done?" "It's a tough nut to crack." "Exactly." "And you folks have been robbed." "Right." "Relatives?" "I've never met you." "Your grandma has a sister, Krystyna." "I'm her grandson." "Krystyna must ring a bell!" "Maybe." "I'm not sure." "What do you want?" "First, to give your family my family's respects and express regret that we're seeing one another so rarely." "And beside that?" "To borrow some cash." "We've been robbed." "Yeah, right." " How much?" " One hundred and twenty." " I have one hundred." " We need another twenty." " I just have another hundred." " That's OK." "Are you sure you're relatives?" " I am." " What about him?" "He's my pal." "A friend." "Friend..." "OK." "Here you go." "So..." "You want to see that necklace?" " Two hundred." " Yes." " We have too much then." " We must spend the excess." " To arrive at the exact amount?" " Yeah." "I'll invite you to lunch." " Now?" " No." "The tram first." " Two tram tickets, please." " We have no trams here." " Bus tickets then." " Full fare?" "Don't stare like that." "Of course fool fare." "Yes, please." " How about four halves?" " No problem." "You have any change?" "We thought we would, but we don't." " Let's get our train tickets." " What about my lunch?" "Yeah, sure." "Come along!" "How are you guys doing?" "Good to see you out!" " When were you discharged?" " Have we met?" "You're pulling my leg!" "We played table tennis on the ward." "Don't you remember?" "Shit!" "What did they do to him?" "You mistook us for someone else." "I see." "So this is the case!" "You're on the run, right?" "Good luck and good bye!" "How come you didn't recognize your partner in the doubles?" "Who says I didn't recognize him?" "I never expected such inflation." "It's a shame they don't have chopsticks." "You wouldn't know how to use them." "How can you be so sure?" "They don't teach that in the hospital." "There may be things you don't realize." "You think you're so smart?" "Things may be different than they appear." "Perhaps I'm a doctor?" "Planted on purpose?" "And it's a therapy?" "You were supposed to get away?" "In order to be reintroduced into society?" "And I'm supervising the process?" "Just kidding!" "Two to Blotnica." "Fool fare." " There's no train service to Blotnica." " How can we get there then?" "I don't know." "Wait a minute." "Stay put." "Where's he gone?" "Gentlemen!" "Here I am." "Take a train to Borzecin, then catch a bus." "But I didn't say anything." "They're our competition, so don't give me away I tipped you off." "And it was to work out without a hitch." "No plan is fool-proof." "You need flexibility and improvisation." "I represent State Railroads." "Would you like to answer our nationwide questionnaire?" " Alright." " I'd rather not answer any questions." " Tell us about yourself instead." " Why?" "I have a thousand questionnaires." "You'd be the fourteenth today." "Today is my first day." " OK." " Go ahead then." "Really?" "Let me ask you the first question then." "It's about safety at train stations and on trains across the country." "On which side of the white safety line should the passenger wait?" "A) the side of the tracks;" "B) the side of the platform;" "C) right on the line?" "On which side are we now?" "You mustn't answer with a question." "I'll drop a hint: we're on the side of the platform." "Are we safe?" "Absolutely." "Mark answer B then." "Done." "The next question." "What's the color of commuter trains?" "Good." "And question 3:" "the history and the present." "What is the total length of railroad tracks in Poland, except the narrow-gauge?" " 21, 500 kilometers." " Marking." "That's correct." "This was the last question." "We appreciate your cooperation." "Have a nice trip." "You're always welcome on our trains." "State Railroads is your best friend." "Good day." "How did you know?" "She had it written." "I craned forward." "In here?" "I don't know." "OK." "Good morning!" "May I?" "Wow!" "At last!" "Alright!" "They did it!" "They hit the headlines!" "Have you read in the papers?" "Just look!" "We won." "We did it, dammit!" "Go on, read, it's in every paper!" "At long last justice was done!" "We made mincemeat out of them!" "It was worth waiting all those years." " Serves them right!" " Who won?" "Don't ask silly questions." "Myself, I didn't do too well today." "Can you spare me a minute?" "Sure." "I had an important business meeting." "Crucial for my company." "My presentation was a success." "People clapped and I heard a murmur of approval." "Then they congratulated me, handshakes and all..." "Nice and friendly." "Too good to last." "As I savored success, they started to ask me questions." "Was I ready to cut interest rates?" "Yes!" "And to negotiate prices?" "Absolutely!" "Could I speed things up?" "Sure!" "Was I willing to support a kindergarten?" "Yes!" "Five, six, or seven more questions, and I answered all of them: yes." "I kept saying: yes, yes, yes, whatever they asked." "Then I looked them in the face" "and they were all devastated." "Totally depressed." "I figured how much I had let them down." "They were so sad!" "Their eyes were filled with sadness." "Obviously it'll come to nothing." "I'm so sorry." "Thank you." "Are you travelling on business?" "No." "We got away from a madhouse." "I see." "Great!" "Congratulations!" "It was easy." "The toughest part of it is to realize that you're in such a place." "Myself, I figured several times that I was inside a madhouse." "But I made a decision and escaped." " He also ran away from a nuthouse." " We've been discussing... the condition of our society." "I'm so thirsty." "No wonder." "It's the stress." "Indeed, this world is full of walls, bars, guards, paramedics and straitjackets." "I had a dream recently, you know." "My wife was a giraffe, too big to fit into the bedroom." "I had to keep her in the garage." "Wait!" "Let me tell you something." "How could you behave like that?" "Shame on you!" "That man was so kind." "He opened the bottle for you." "Kind?" "Why?" "Did I ask him to open the bottle?" "You heard him talking." "He gave me a scare, that's all." "That newspaper thing was OK." "That wife turned giraffe - no problem, you can't control your dreams." "But what he said next - no, that was really too much!" "He's a loony!" "He had run away from a mental hospital." "But he's a real madman." "What day is it today?" "Wednesday, I think." "Unbelievable." "No service on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve," "Easter and on Wednesdays." "It may be scary here at night." "I'm not afraid." " It may be chilly, though." " Exactly." "Chilly." "Yes." "With no reservation?" "At this hour?" "What do we do?" "I couldn't care less." "You should have come yesterday." "The hotel was empty, you could pick and choose." "But no longer." "100 checkers players checked in today." "Checkers players?" "Yes." "It's a tournament." "There's nobody to be seen." "They're practicing in their rooms." "I could put just you up." "You're so silent." "Two are out of the question." "We had a guest a few years ago." "Didn't talk, just like you." "I even liked him." "After one night I liked him a bit less." "And after a longer while he appeared quite common." "Ever since we've been married, I can't bear the sight of him." "We have no vacancies." "Hey, folks!" "I heard you talk to my sister." "I was behind the door." "She won't let me converse with guests." "Why not?" "No idea." "Ask her." "OK, down to business." "You have nowhere to stay overnight, right?" "Right." "Come with me." "What's this town like to live in?" "Good." "Are the people quiet?" "Fairly." "What about medical care and education?" "It's better here than at my sister's." "I have brought two more." "Two more?" "All right." " See you later!" " You're not staying?" " No." " Why not?" "Because." "Where's the one who opened the door?" "I don't know." "He must trust us if he let us in here." "Let's check this one." "They must have a vacant room if they took us in." "This one is clearly occupied." " Excuse me, we're supposed to..." " Shhh stay here for the night." " Please, don't distract the players." " From the provinces, judging by the accent?" "Yes." "From Blotnica." "Me, that is." "Blotnica..." "I don't think we've played there yet." "No." "Don't watch!" "We're dominoes champions!" "We have cups, diplomas, medals." " May I try?" " Sure, go ahead." "Not bad for a beginner." "They play checkers." "Local champions." "Haven't you seen the posters?" "Where are you guys from?" "Dominoes?" "It's just a warm-up." "A hobby." "Do you have any hobby?" "A hobby?" "Yes." "Hobby." "Like what?" "Do you play any instrument?" "No." "Perhaps you have a fishbowl?" " No." " Do you collect anything?" "Stamps?" "I used to collect garbage." "Garbage doesn't count." "Wait!" "Where are you going?" "Where are you going to." "Where to." "Wait!" "You must be nuts!" " Somebody screamed." " Right." "And just because of that..." "Shhh..." "You promised and what came of it?" " Liar!" " I don't think she'll know us." "She will." "By the clothes." "Why can't you just forget it?" "What are you doing here?" " A girl showed us in here." " A girl?" "But first ...we took a train." " A train..." "Who is he?" "My... fiancé." " Is he OK?" " Yes." " He's dead, I think." " He's just fine." "Perhaps he's asleep and needs ...to be woken up?" " No." "He's just a bit offended... and must sit here for a while." "Look who's here!" "We'll sit together, OK?" "No?" "Then we won't." "Hey, come here for a moment!" "Stand here, OK?" "Look!" "You like it?" "How about this?" " What do you think?" " He may feel even more offended." "No..." "Listen..." "Yes?" "Good!" "We'll have a chat, OK?" "You just stay put." "We shouldn't try his patience." "Take it easy!" "He'll sit like that for another three hours or so." "I'd like him to react." "To behave" "like a real man." "He's just always offended." "That's painful to me." "What if he roused and came here?" "Great!" "I wish he would!" "You see, I really love him." "I just want him to behave like a normal person." "But I'm beginning to lose hope." "He was like that all along." "I've been trying to provoke him this way or another." "Recently I ended up with that pal of yours." "Remember?" " We first met at his place." " Right." "And all in vain." "But why did you choose me?" "The other is a nut or something." "He might misinterpret the situation." "You're wrong!" "Very wrong!" "He's of sound mind." "He was cured even before I got there." "So he's been all right for two years now." "Why do they keep him then?" " He's afraid to leave the hospital." " Why?" "I don't know." "The doctors wanted him out a long time ago." "They asked him to go, but he wouldn't." "I've heard he's no place to go to or something." "Fine." "But I'm not going to swap you guys at this stage." "A cat's cradle, Whiskas for lunch, vodka for dinner, straight, love or hate." "I've never felt better in this place:" "Mister Nice Guy." "Better expect a knife and a black eye!" "Who's jealous enough of our love to wish us the worst of all?" "Used to be at your beck and call." "Don't touch it." "You'll mess it up." "No." "This is wrong." "And now?" "More to the right." "What are you doing here?" "Looking for a friend." "What about you?" "Good!" "I live here." "In the basement?" "No, I just happen to be here." "I own this house." "But I arrived one day early and entered through the backyard so as not to embarrass anybody." "It's missing." "Not here." " Are you going upstairs?" " I guess so." " Bring me something." " What?" "From the living room, the top drawer on the left-hand side." "Pull it out and you'll see a little compartment behind it." "You'll find several trinkets wrapped in double tissue paper and a little white horse." "It's a winning horse." "Bring it here, please." " It must be good to be unhappy." " No, why?" "Unhappy people are always sad." "Never in high spirits." "But that's too bad." "Yet, when the worst is behind them, they rejoice." "The left-hand side?" "Under the window?" "Just don't tell them I'm back." "They'd be in trouble." "Good afternoon." "Good afternoon." " I don't think I've seen you before." " We haven't seen you either." " Are you comfortable sitting here?" " Not really." "We stepped out for a while to take a shower." "We're back and our room is occupied." "They locked themselves in." " That's not nice." " No." "We'll wait here." "The owner's due back tomorrow, so all of us will have to get out of here." "You too." "You mind if I tell you a story?" " He just laughs in disbelief." " Sure." "Go ahead." "One guy on TV was eyeing me from the screen." "That's OK." "They eye all viewers." "But he called me by name, said hello." "Really?" "Then he came out of the set and approached me saying:" ""I watch millions and only you seem to me intelligent, smart and trustworthy." "Let's make friends."" "He shook my hand, introduced himself." "The one from the automotive program." "And?" "Nothing." "You believe me?" "Well, yes." "He does believe me." "You go on seeing each other?" "No." "Because when he returned to the TV set, they replaced him with another." "But they may reinstate him yet." "That would be great." "The program begins in 14 hours and 5 minutes." "I hope he'll be back." "Then things changed dramatically." "One wrong move..." "What possessed me?" " Demons..." " Maybe." "I did something wrong, then it went from bad to worse." "And I took refuge in the hospital." "Do you have to return that money?" "Hello." "Care for some soup?" "I've made too much." "Have you seen my friend?" " That blond guy with a blonde?" " Yes." "No." "So how about that soup?" " I'll have some." " Have a seat." "How long have you lived here?" "Three days." "I had to run away from it all." "Frankly, I'm happy to be leaving." "It's OK during the day, but at night" "I have nightmares." "For example, I dream that I have a wife." "Do you have a wife?" "No!" "But I had one in my dream and she was kidnapped for ransom." "Just like in a movie." "I loved her, so I sold my apartment and car and with the money I went to the meeting place." "She's there with the kidnapper, approaches me and says that she fell for him." "Then she walks back to him." "And he says he's in love with her too and won't give her back." "That was in my dream." "And?" " What happened next?" " Isn't it enough?" "It's a sad dream." "Wives are a risky business." "But so are other women." "My girlfriend often says we should marry." "She's not a nag, but it's a problem anyway." "Tell her you're married." "She'll stop hinting at a wedding." "I had that idea." "But I like her so much and don't want her depressed, which could be the case if I said so." "It's no better with others." "Recently I picked up a nice one, but I got bored with her quickly, so I dumped her." "Then I felt sorry for her, so I picked her up again." "But I got bored again and dumped her one more time." "Now, if I'm lucky to pick her up for the third time, I will dump her for good, whether I'm bored or not." "Things happen, you know." "A friend of mine is in big trouble!" "He picked up a nice girl." "His wife was away at the time." "Then that girl calls him and says she left her necklace at his place." "He begins to search his apartment." "It takes forever, but all in vain." "The conclusion?" "He must sell the apartment and furniture before his wife comes back." "Why do you want to give that money back?" "I must." "Think of all your suffering in that horrible hospital." "It wasn't that bad." "It is very difficult to pretend illness." "It must have been sickening!" "You want all your effort wasted?" "There's no alternative." "Just think - it's a lot of dough!" "No." "It's stronger than me." "I had to give it a try." "What did you do all night?" "I was looking for you." "I slept." "We were there to sleep." "You locked yourself up in that room!" "No." "Someone else locked me up." "Which way do we go?" "That way." "I had a friend." "From school." "Not far from here." "One Kaczorowski." "We would call him Kaczor." " Why?" " Short for Kaczorowski." "His father sold roses." "That boy was the richest one in the village." "That's the best you can say about him." "One day after school he came over to my place and asked me to help him with some deal." "That package never made it to the destination." "Nobody knows where it is and so many would like to know." "So I had to disappear." "So where's this package now?" "In the forest." "I buried it by the brook." "This is the forest." "It's..." "You'll see yourself." "It's a unique place." "Let's go!" "I won't find the way from here." "We must set out from the village." "I'm home." " You grew up here?" " Yes." "Considering where you live now, one can say you've gotten somewhere!" "Hi, Luska!" "No, it's not her." "I used to know them all by name." "Each and every?" "Yeah." "There were fewer then." "Four." "Look who's here!" "It's been two years!" "You just vanished into thin air!" "You'd grown too big for your boots!" "Why are you back?" "You think you've been missed?" "Out of sight, out of mind!" "It just turned out this way..." "Don't stare!" "It's no museum!" " He'll leave you in the lurch too!" " We came to look around." "All right!" "Do look around!" "Our brick house, one for pigs and cows, and the smallest - for man's best friend, the dog." "Come on, girl!" "Show up!" "By the way, could we borrow a spade?" "He comes back after two years to borrow a spade!" "Dad!" "The neighbor is back to borrow a spade!" "How about a truck?" "Or a hoe?" "Alright!" "Take your pick!" "Your head has swelled in the city!" "Get off my back!" "It was your idea to go to the city, not mine!" "You were to be a star boxer!" "I was to watch you on TV!" "So?" "All right, I'll get you that spade." "I had a neighbor." "Old Mrs. Micha3owska." "She used to say that I and Gugu3a would get nowhere." "She would say," ""You two will get nowhere." That's what she'd say." "Then she died." "She came to me a few days ago." "You said she was dead." "Yes." "But she did come." "Her spirit?" "I don't know." "Maybe." "And?" "She said I should give all the money back." "So we got away from the hospital and traveled all the way because of some phantom?" "So it looks." " It's so scenic here!" " Yes." "It means we're on the right track." "My brook..." "My beach..." "My tree..." "How many steps?" "One, two, three, four..." "Five, six, seven..." "Nice trunk." "I found it." "You've no idea what people dump." "Two years!" "Two years!" "Two years, dammit!" "Two!" "Don't stare!" "The thief has been robbed." "At least the robbers left the trunk." "Yeah." "Took the money and buried the trunk again?" "Nonsense." "Wait!" "My memory's failing me because I was so jittery then, but I may have buried an empty trunk on purpose." " Why?" " Just in case." "To mislead whoever might be following me." "Yeah." "But where's the money?" "Exactly." "Probably hidden elsewhere." "But where?" "I have no recollection of that." "Relax." "You'll figure out someday." "Leaving already?" "You missed our school reunion in the spring." "Everybody else came." "Zofia made a plum cake." "And a cheese cake, although it never comes out the way it should." "Those were the days..." "Elementary school..." "What about that bag you left two years ago?" "A bag?" "You left it two years ago, remember?" "A pair of shoes, some clothes..." "Hold on, I'll go and get it." "No need to check." "I didn't take anything." "Just making sure it's mine." "Yes, it is mine!" "What about my spade?" "Your spade?" "Well..." "There may be a problem with it." "Why?" "Because..." "Take my trunk instead." "It's empty, but... real cute!" "A trunk for a spade?" "OK." "Drop me a line sometime!" "This is all there is." "Now your mission." "Mine?" "Can't you give it back yourself?" "After two years?" "I feel ridiculous." "Yeah." " That's what I thought." " So?" "Will you do it?" "Sure." "Go ahead then." "I'll wait here." "Done?" "Yes." " They weren't there?" " They were." "Did you return it?" "Yes." " Did you say it was from me?" " Yes." "What did they say?" ""Thanks."" "I had no prospects, but I knew I had that money hidden someplace." "Now the money is gone, and as to the prospects - nothing's changed." "I'm going back." "Wait!" "I'm going too." "Sure." "We must return the pyjamas." "That's right." "Madmen know more, hungry for the world on the run." "Here's madmen's story, sic transit gloria, end of glory." "They aren't damned, just hungry for life when the world's on the run." "Here's madmen's story." "Sic transit gloria." "The end, end of glory." "Cast:" "If I were a nobody, I'd find a madman to go close behind." "A madman makes a good guide, knows when to show up, when to hide." "Hey, sinful soul!" "Get out of here and save your skin!" "Madmen's shadows look just normal." "Isn't it us who took leave of our senses?" "So when the last ones become the first, madmen will precede all the rest." "Madmen know more, hungry for life when the world's on the run." "So when the last ones become the first, madmen will precede all the rest." "Madmen get a better view, finer and more accurate." "English subtitles:" "Grazyna Bialik Extracted by LeapinLar"