"I like war films Westerns, shooting, fighting" "Love films aren't for me" "Aggression, fighting... that's for me" "That pleases me" "FROM A night PORTER'S point OF view" "Down!" "Down!" "Spread those legs or I'll knock you out!" "What did you say?" "Nothing" "We'll check that bag" "Who told you what to do?" "That was better." "The man ran, the watchman was after him" "Got a little tired but started inspection correctly and initiated initial procedures" "People go in, people go out." "Next, please" "No one's allowed to leave early" "Not even the Colonel, not even a General." "No one leaves early" "Bags for inspection, please" "When I'm there, he has to stamp his card lf he doesnt: "Why don't you stamp it?"" "Press, please lf he doesn't, Chief Watchman writes a report and the bloke is punished" "A commission decides the matter" "A trustworthy man, the factory board the Party secretary, they all consider the matter" "Such a man is practically finished" "You're taking that dog?" "Identity card, please" "These are instructions for dog owners" "And a vaccination certificate" "Everybody has a hobby I like this control I like to control my colleagues, the anglers I can confiscate their rods;" "some have no fishing permits lt is, so to speak, my hobby I'm used to it" "I confiscate the equipment, I give a receipt a date to collect the equipment and a time lf he comes at the wrong time, he won't get it back" "I can buy the equipment I confiscate lf it's worth 5OO zloties, we can buy it for 15O zloties" "We can buy the whole lot" "I've given thirty years service" "A medal and an award, 5OO-6OO zloties in an envelope lt's called an honorarium I'm doing things for nothing, honorary" "Normally, you see, the foreman does it" "He seals it with his own seal, in the workshop" "The storehouse has to be sealed" "All must be sealed lf it isn't, we write a report about the foreman" "When the Director reads about it in the book bang goes three months bonus" "Please sit down, young man" "You want to apply for a permit?" "A question: how many rods can you use?" "Only one." "You must never fish for fry" "Now another very tricky question" "Has bass a protected size?" "No." "You see how clever he is." "He has passed" "is there anyone else?" "We could go to Serock, for instance" "By car, fifteen or twenty of us" "We also check at night" "We take dogs" "Stay!" "You must stay!" "Now come to me!" "They come to us from a school asking for help to check the cinemas" "Kids go to cinemas instead of going to school" "Please get out" "We catch them in parks, too, in summer" "Youngsters sitting" "Two, three girls and boys" ""ldentity cards." "Clear off, or you'll land in jail"" "We take their school identity cards" "The child, scared, promises never to do it again" "We write a letter and the child goes to a house of correction lt leaves there it leaves as an exemplary child" "Sometimes I think they have too much freedom" "The leash should be shortened" "They should be reined in" "For instance, I don't like their long hair trousers too wide or too narrow moustaches, beards, sideburns, even though I have them myself" "But if someone becomes aggressive I really hate it" "Don't strangle me" "Take it easy" "Now you can put it through..." "Now you tighten it..." "Undo it, something went wrong I'm very fond of them I don't like to harm them I take care of them I had fish in an aquarium, and my daughter went to the tap and took hot water which cooked them, so I had to get rid of them" "I had parrots, but they died, too" "My son let them out into the room and one of them drowned in some broth lt wasn't well, anyway" "Regulations are more important than people lf someone doesn't observe regulations, he is lost like a lost seal, that's how people are" "Children must observe regulations, too" "And grown-ups, the whole beautiful world is for them all" "In my opinion, the death penalty is quite right lt would even be better for offenders to judge them properly build gallows and give them a proper trial and hang them in public" "Hundreds could witness it" "Criticizing the government, to my way of reasoning I don't like it, it's wrong I don't like this wave of criticism I would rather destroy it" "Stand properly, stand in line" "Duty roster, 13th May, 1977," "Gluchowski, Waclaw, already on duty" "Osuch, Marian" "One dreams of having a responsible position" "Yes, I'd like that very much" "Here is a very smartly dressed gentleman" "Look at his beautiful cap." "What do we call such a gentleman?" "Does Joaska know?" "Can Krzysztof tell us?" "We call him..." "Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski" "Photographed by Witold Stok"