"Are you disposing of rags, mister Marian?" "They may come in handy." "Someone threw it at me." "And hit you?" "No." "Didn't you see anybody carry such rag?" "I loathe cats." "They're trecherous like people." "Is it a good film, madam?" "No, boring." "What about?" "About love, but boring." "Anyway, we're playing it in the evening." "Now, there's a conference here." "What are you doing?" "PIucking grey hairs." "Is there a taxi rank around?" "The castle Square." "Hi!" "Hi!" "The national PhiIharmonics in Warsaw." "gala concert today..." "Mister Peter BaIicki... inside, please." "Need a portrait?" "How much is this one?" "Two grand." "And how long does it take?" "Don't play it wise, man." "This is no piece work." "You pay for my talent." "Have you a talent?" "No." "Maybe you can make shoes?" "Or grow trees?" "Yeah." "Trees I can." "So you're not lost, man." "This way to castle Square?" "Straight on." "Go on, please." "I am thinking not because I don't know what to say, but I've been asked this question twice already." "When I enrolled in university, the answer was simple." "Four years later in the same building" "I was no Ionger so sure." "And now..." "The question is a good one:" "Why do I want to be a lawyer?" "Do you want me to say what I feel, or what I should say?" "We would Iike to know more about you." "The shortest answer is:" "I don't know." "I find it attractive." "I've seen quite many cases for the past four years." "You could call it a social function and people need it." "But most of all, if all goes well, I will have the chance to meet and understand people whom I couId not meet in any other profession." "That is why I want to..." "I believe that as years go by, the answer become more elusive." "Every man asks himself whether what he does makes any sense." "There are more and more doubts." "delivery!" "Beata!" "Hurry up." "Good morning." "Go away!" "You scare the pigeons!" "Go away!" "Bastard!" "You free?" "Can't you see?" "Maybe we could wait." "It's cold." "What's your view of the general crime prevention?" "generally, it's the impact of a punishment not on the convict, but on others to discourage them." " More precisely..." " exactly." "It is the impact through the convict." "Or even, it's the convict which is the impact." "It is deterrence, simply, a scare." "article 50 of the penal code." "I don't like your ironic tone." "The general crime prevention..." "Its a questionable justification of the severity of punishment." "Not only for me..." "it is often unjust." "could you support it with an authoritative classic opinion?" "Never since Cain has any punishment improved or deterred the world from perpetrating crimes." "Am I to name the author?" "No, thank you." "Mrs. you didn't pay for the vegetables." "You need a lift?" "Mister!" "A treat from my wife." "Want some?" "Come on, take it!" "hallo." "What can I do for you?" "I have a picture here." "Can you enlarge it?" "The cracks will show." "Never mind." "AII right." "Madam, is it true that a photo can tell if a person is alive, or not?" "Who told you this crap?" "How are you?" "Fine." "I want the final number from you, as usual." "Seventeen." "I already got it." "Sixteen." "Sixteen?" "So close?" "alright, make it fifteen." "Fifteen." "You always make it so neat." "That's my style." "You are a lucky man." "How much did you rake in last month?" "Four hundred and twelve..." "And the Iast autumn?" "It was twelve hundred, wasn't it?" "And forty-six last week." "You're breaking it even." "I am." "But one would want more." "Yeah, one would." "Legis, Legia above all!" "Mister Peter BaIicki." "It's a pleasure to tell you that you have passed the exam and now, after four years of study and four years as a trainee," "you join our company." "congratulations." "Thank you, thank you." "AII you need now is an affirmation ceremony." "I've passed the exam..." "I am an attorney at law." "I am a barrister!" "I have passed the exam!" "Peter, no kidding, please." "Why?" "Come on!" "Excuse me..." "Do you know the way to Europejski hotel?" "German?" "bulgarian?" "bulgarian?" "No, english." "Bye." "Madjo!" "Madjo!" " Let me tell your fortune." " No." "Just a few words." "Good news for a few zIotys for my kid." "No." "The court papers are in store for you." "You will go abroad..." "No." "Esh tu ke di kesh nesh ki gazhjo." "No, I am no affairs of anything." "Fortune-teIIing?" "I shall tell you the truth." "Make it the best one." " What will you have?" " Tea, please." " We don't serve tea here." " What do you serve?" "Coffee and cakes." "Coffee and a cake, please." "Which cake?" "That one." "Your line of fortune is long and strong and two kids." "When?" "There are moments in life when you feel that anything is possible, that the way is open before you and you can do what you Iike." "I felt it after graduating from high school." "I thought it wouId never repeat." "And now, again." "The feeling when you have left an important time behind, and now all is up to you alone?" "exactly." "Do you know what I think?" "I never know." "I think that people will love you Iike I do now." "Excuse me, you're going to Mokotow?" "No, WoIa district." "We are in such a hurry." "Mokotow district." "Where did that guy want to go?" "WoIa." "Take it easy, nervous man!" "Is something wrong?" "No." "I just think it may not be as simple." "could you roll up the window a little?" "It's cold." "Turn left now." "VogIa Street is straight on." "I prefer this end." "Okay." "pull up." "It's over there." "There is no road up there." "I wouldn't drive there anyway." "Oh, Jesus..." "The money box... money... my Iife... money... please... please..." "Wanna hear about a lion, a brave, golden lion." "Every day he had more muscle" "And all big lions told him that lions must be lions' hearted." "I want to be brave like him," "And if at times I am scared hold me close." "Can I still buy potatoes?" "Jack, come on..." "Hi, Beata." "Going to sleep so early?" "First a snack." "Yes, it's getting dark." "Come out." "I'II show you something." "shall I put on a jacket?" "What for?" "Is it far?" "No." "Get aboard." "You always wanted to go somewhere." "Now, we can go anywhere." "You said that one of your customers, a lady, is a mountain walker." "It's her husband." "Her husband." "We can go in the mountains." "We'II recline the seats." "I also have a blanket." "We'II be warm." "How did you get this car?" "The case is closed." "Is it the end, sir?" "The end." "It's me." "I lost." "Yes, completely." "I don't know." "I just don't know." "Maybe I'II take a walk." "No, no, no." "Don't come." "How are you?" "slept well?" "Good..." "Bye." "Mister!" "Jack!" "Excuse me, sir." "I know it's against the rule." "In fact, it is." "Now that it's all over," "I wonder if a senior lawyer... somebody with a name... would not make a difference?" "None at all." "Perhaps I should have put it differently..." "Your speech was, I think, the best case against capital punishment I have heard in many years." "And the sentence had to be what it was." "You made no mistake either as a lawyer, or as a man, in those hard circumstances." "But I am glad I've met you." "Good-bye." "Maybe you could imagine a better judge for this case." "What happened is my responsibility." "Don't you feel better?" "No. you see, maybe it is irrelevant, but when this boy today talked how he had handled a cord first in a bar in Karkowskie Przedmiescie street, I had been there..." "Where?" "In that same bar, at the same time, almost one year ago." "On that day I passed the exam to the lawyer's profession." "If I was more careful then..." "You're too sensitive." "It's not fit for this job." "Now it is too late..." "Yes." "Today, you have aged a little." "Good-bye." "Good-bye." "The warden will see you in a minute." " How is life?" " Warm." "Good morning." "The screen isn't working." "clean it up." "Come in!" "Everything is ready, sir." "Thank you." "Get me number twenty-four." "Won't be a moment." "Thank you..." "I knew it." "So did I." "Yes, Mr. barrister, you will have 30 minutes." "30 minutes, all right." "Come in." "Reporting, sir!" "Take the barrister to the prisoner." "May I leave my attache case here?" " Good morning, sir." " Good morning." "I am seeing him." "He wants to talk to me." "It's a burdensome duty." "It is." "Mister Prosecutor, it's my first time." "I wish it were your last, sir." "Maybe the moment is wrong, but we hardly see each other." "I want to congratulate you on the birth of your son, am I right?" "Yes... recently... thank you." "You wanted to see me." "Yes." "Yes." "Did you see my mother?" "Yes." "Did she cry?" "She did." "Did she want..." "did she say anything?" "No... she just cried." "Sit down." "could you see my mother again, after this?" "Of course I can, I can." "I thought you would, because you called out to me as I walked into the prison van." "You called "Jack"." "Yes, I called out to you." "I wanted..." "I don't know what I wanted." "I am almost twenty-one, but when you called out, tears welled up in my eyes." "I said... in the court." "I did not listen, until the moment you called out." "AII of them, there..." "and here, are against me." "Against what you had done." "It means the same." "You want me to see your mom." "Yes, to tell my mom to bury me in one grave with my father." "I guess I can be buried in a cemetery." "You can." "There was a priest here and he said I couId." "You can." "well, in my father's grave, there is still room for one." "My mother booked it for her... but now tell her to let me have it." "Yes, sir." "Yes, sir." "The warden wants to know if it's over?" "Not yet." "Grave?" "What do you mean?" "You said there are three places in this grave." "Yes... there... my father, little Mary and one is vacant." "Mary is there for five years." "She was run over by a tractor in our village." "She was in the sixth grade." "She was twelve." "Before that I and the trator driver, my pal, had been drinking wine and vodka." "Then he drove the tractor drunk and ran over her." "It happened in a meadow by the woods." "Here in my call, I thought that if she were alive," "I would not have left the village at all." "Maybe I would have stayed." "She was my sister." "I had three brothers, but she was the only one, the only sister." "She was... she loved me most and so did I." "Everything could have been different." "But afterwards I had to go away, join a labour brigade." "I did not want to leave." "Maybe this would not have happened." "Maybe I would not have been here." "The warden and the prosecutor want to know if it's over?" "tell mister prosecutor that I shall never say it's over." "Mr. barrister will never say it's over." "Never." "We bought that grave, because Mary loved trees, the greenery." "She was walking to the woods when it happened." "Have you the sentence?" "I have everything." "Let's go." "You may leave your attache case here, please." "Take the prisoner out." "Yes, sir." "Mister prosecuter wants the conversation over." "In my personal effects, which they give back, you'II find a receipt from the photographer in Krakowskie Przedmiescie Street." "I gave him a photo for enlargement and I didn't have time to collect it." "Do it and give it to my mother." "What's in the photo?" "I had a picture taken during the holy Communion." "I rent it from my mother when I Ieft." "It's slightly damaged." "We are going out." "No..." "Sir, I don't want to." "hold him!" "hold his hands!" "Hey, don't..." "Now pull him over." "Drag him on." "Name and surname." "Lazar Jack." "Date of birth?" "March 17, nineteen sixty-seven." "Parents' names." "Jan and..." "Lucy." "I am reading the sentence." "On behalf of the polish people's republic," "The twenty-seventh of april, nineteen eighty-seven." "The Warsaw Voivodship Court, having examined the case of Jack Lazar on the charg that on March 16, nineteen eighty-seven, in Warsaw, he had assaulted, robbed and murdered WaIdemar Rekowski, found the defendant guilty of the charges and," "under articles one hundred forty-eight, paragraph one, and one hundred forty- four, paragraph two, of the penal Code" "Sentenced him to death and deprivation of public rights forever." "The Supreme Court has upheld the sentence." "The council of state has not exercised the prerogative of mercy." "following the above, the sentence shall be carried out." "Cigarette?" "I prefer without filter." "No!" "hold him!" "Pin him down!" "hold him!" "His hands." "Execute the sentence." "Get him here!" "hold him tight!" "Up with him!" "Higher!" "hold him!" "Move him up!" "hold him!" "hold him!" "More, more, enough." "pull, pull." "More, more." "Enough?" "!" "More?" "!" "More?" "!" "Higher, Higher."