"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 aimed at injuring the criminal ...and not at preventing crime" "But in whose name does 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?" "Is it a good film?" "No, it's boring" "What is it 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 nearest taxi-rank is?" "In the Castle Square" "A gala concert took place, organized by the Ministry of Culture and Art..." "In fact..." "I've taken so much time answering not because I don't know want to say" "But I've already been asked this question twice" "During my admission exams to the University, the answer seemed very simple" "Four years later, in this building" "I was not so confident any more" "Hey, Madam!" "We've brought supplies" "Quick, Beata!" "Good morning" "Want a portrait like this one?" "No" "Is this the way to the Castle Square?" "Yeah, straight ahead" "I suppose that practicing 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 practiced another profession" "Go away!" "You scare my pigeons!" "Go away, will you!" "Cad!" "Are you free?" "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" "But..." "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" "The manageress forgot to charge you for the soup vegetables" "How about a life, Miss Beata?" "I say, Mister!" "Good afternoon" "What can I do for you?" "I have here..." "Are you perhaps one of the specialists 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 from a picture... whether the person is alive or dead?" "You've been listening to some non sense" "Acting through the prisoner, or to be more precise, with the prisoner to influence others" "I mean deterrence or simply 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 presentation ...is a doubtful justification of severity of punishment" "Not in my opinion only Besides, 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 a cake..." "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 driver 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!" "It is my pleasure to inform you that you have passed the examination" "From today on, after four years of study and four years of legal training, please consider yourself our colleague" "Eh, Mister..." "Excuse me" "Are you perhaps going to Mokotow district?" "NO, the opposite direction" "You see, we're in a great hurry" "Motokow, 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" "I wouldn't even try" "Christ..." "The glove compartment..." "The money..." "My wife..." "The money..." "Give her..." "Please..." "Let me tell you about a lion A brave golden lion" "He got braver and braver every day" "All big lions kept telling him" "That a lion should have a lion's heart" "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?" "Yes..." "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 help 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 it was" "You made no mistakes, whether as a lawyer or as a man" "The circumstances of our meeting were rather unpleasant, but all the same I'm glad to have met you" "Good-bye, sir" "This case... could have been tried by a better judge" "All this to happen will be my fault Is that no consolation to you?" "No, you know, sir" "It may be irrelevant, but remember what that boy said, about winding a rope around his hand in the coffee bar in Krakowskie Przedmiescie street" "I was... there" "Where?" "In that coffee-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 practice the legal profession" "It's too late now" "You've grown a year older today" "The warden will see you presently" "How are things doing?" "Rather warm, eh?" "Good morning?" "The curtain doesn't work" "Tidy up, will you?" "Come in!" "Everything'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, counselor" "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, counselor" "But we don't see each other too often, you and me..." "I heard you have a son Congratulations" "Thank you" "You wanted to see me?" "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" "After... you know, afterwards..." "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 same 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 be buried in a cemetery?" "Yes" "A priest visited me here He said it was possible" "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 told 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 age" "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" "The sixth form" "That tractor-driver, he was an acquaintance" "We'd been drinking together" "We'd had wine and vodka" "And then he drove away, and ran her over ...on a meadow near that forest" "There was a meadow there, you know" "I've been thinking" "Had she 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 things a receipt from a photographer's in Krakow" "I wanted a photograph enlarged and ...didn't have the time to collect it" "Please collect the enlarged picture and 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!" "A medical certificate of death" "Your name and Christian name?" "Lazar, Jacek" "Date of birth?" "March 17, 1967" "Parent's names?" "Jan and..." "Luc..." "Lucja" "I'll now read to you the sentence... in the name of the Polish People's Republic ...of November 27, 1987" "Having examined the case of Jacek Lazar, accused of having an assault and robbery ...and murder of Waldemar Rykowski on March 16, 1987 in Warsaw" "Provincial Court in Warsaw ...has found the defendant ...guilt 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 rights forever" "The Supreme Court has maintained the sentence in force" "The Council of State has resigned it's right to grand pardon" "In this connection, the penalty will be executed" "Want a cigarette?" "I'd rather have one without filter" "The hands" "Execute the penalty" "Hold him!" "All right, pull it now!" "Pull it!" "Is it O.K. Now?" "More!" "More!" "I hate you!" "I hate you!"