"Tor Film Unit presents" "THE WICKET GATE" "Screenplay" "Help yourself." "Help yourself." "We'll be landing in Gdansk in a few minutes." "Production manager" "I'll help you." "Oh, I'm sorry." "Director of Photography" "Directed by" "With" "Good morning." "I have a room booked here." "My name is Zawadzki." "Just a minute." "Yes, but from Thursday." "The day after tomorrow." "That's disastrous." "Are you full up?" "Till Thursday." "There's a congress on here." "I can give you a private address." "Comfortable rooms in all parts of the city." "O.K. But not in the centre and no children please." " You're here for?" " I'd like to see the director." "He's at a rehearsal." "He'll be free in an hour." "I'm Zawadzki, the author of the play they're rehearsing." "Mr. Zawadzki is here." "He says he's the author, and wants to see the director." "Please wait a moment." "Welcome!" "What a pleasant surprise!" "Hang up your coat." "You can leave your bag here." "Well, we're rehearsing." "Waiting for you like mushrooms for rain." "Mushrooms?" "I don't know much about mushrooms, and rain is a mystery to me." "I've always admired your sense of humor." "I'm a bit tired and there was no room at the hotel." "Oh, that's awful." "Awful!" "We booked your room from Thursday." "But we'll do something about it." "It's only for one night." "I'll manage somehow." "You realize... you've taken us by surprise?" "I'll just look, listen..." " No need to make a fuss." " Naturally." "Come in." "Go on!" "We repeat the entrance." "The blind man too." "Enter!" "The first couple!" "The second... and the third..." "Where's the philosopher?" "At breakfast but he's coming." "Look, it's important how you sit down." "How you take your seats." "Everyone does it differently." "Your movements are a synthesis of your life." "Showing your attitude towards the world, and your neighbors." "We'll do the second scene over again." "Music!" "Coffee?" "No, thank you." "Every soul uses up many bodies, especially if it lives a long time." "There is no death where we are." "Where there is death, you won't find us." "Remember it's important how you cross your legs." "Everybody moves their hands differently too." "For instance the priest..." "Excuse me..." "He's giving a blessing, patting children's heads." "Giving Absolution..." "You must remember these things." "That should be an empty place, I told you so many times!" "Bring an armchair." "Or a different chair." "So they won't get mixed up." "We'll start again." "Empty the stage, quicker, please!" "I'm very glad you came." "Good afternoon." "I've come about the room to let." "Come in." "Was it you who phoned this morning?" "Mother told me." " Good evening, madam." " Good evening." "This is the room." " Chris!" " Excuse me." "May I use your phone?" "Yes, of course." "Hello." "Yes, it's me." "There was no room at the hotel." "I've got a private lodging." "About two days." "Just as I thought." "The opening will be on time." "It's hard to say." "So, so." "If there's anything..." "Just a minute." "What's the phone number here?" "20-46-05" "Phone me." "How's everything?" "Was there any mail?" "I know." "Well, good night." "Bye." "I'd like to pay for the call now." "No, later on." "Warsaw calling." "It is now 7.30 a. m." "Excuse me, here's the key." "Take it with you." "Don't give it to mother." "But..." " Please." " As you wish..." "Good morning." "Nice day." "Did you sleep well?" "What on earth?" "You're tied up?" "Chris did it." "Who is Chris?" "My daughter." "What?" "She tied you up?" "Help me please." "It hurts awfully." "What a tangle!" "All our neighbors know she ties me up so I can't go out" "or eat things from the fridge." "So I can't light the gas." "She stints money for everything." "Sugar, bread, butter." "I can't go on like this." "She's torturing me!" "Don't cry!" "Please." "Everything will be all right, but please calm down." " I can't." "I can't live like this." " Listen to me..." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "It's not easy to believe things which are beyond our vision." "It's better to study human beings than books." "I've marked this sentence." "One can't say that." "Why not?" "It's simple enough." "It's not easy to..." "I mean about studying human beings, not books." "We can skip it." "It sounds like aphorism." "But not like an aphorism suspended in the air." "If you skip it, it's as if you'd taken the rungs out of a ladder and told someone to climb up." "There's more to this play than two aphorisms." "The text is excellent." "But sometimes things don't sound so good when spoken." " Shall we skip it?" " Leave it in for the time being." "Let's go." "What are you gaping at?" "It's better to study human beings than books." "Utter boredom becomes fun." "If you take too long a step you'll tear your trousers." "Don't teach an old man to eat bananas." "Every soul uses up many bodies, especially if it lives a long time." "If you spit into the sky, it falls back on your head." "Is this lady to act Circe?" "She might be very good." "Ten minutes' break." "Till twelve!" "Excuse me." "My part in your play...." "I mean..." "Parts aren't what they used to be, right?" "That Circe changes me into a youngster." "Who courts her." "It's a metamorphosis due to a woman's influence." "Then the old man is influenced by this feminine thing, suddenly feels he has guts, so to speak." "You're right." "Be frank with me." "Will this play run to 5 performances?" "What's that?" "Fifty five!" "With the costumes, make-up, lights and all..." "You're certainly right about women" " bringing out the beast in a man!" " Excuse me." "May I?" "Last night I thought of a monologue for this scene." "When I address the old man." "I could say:" ""Venerable sire, forget about virtue"." ""Abandon the temple, forget your people"..." "It's just the beginning, of course." "I jotted it down." "I can show you." "You should put some trust in the text..." "The text?" "Yes, perhaps..." "But if my part is mute?" "I'm helpless." "But that's the whole idea." "Put the names down." "Sorry, I'm thinking aloud." "Better late than never." "I mean the scene between Circe and the suitors." "Meaning a woman can make beasts of all men." "It seems improbable to me." "It doesn't have to be probable." "The theatre can be just fun and you know it..." "Besides it seems to me... that things can be artificial and true at the same time." "You're obstinate..." "But you must come to the dress rehearsal." "I'll come." "How much are those dogs?" "The big ones are 100, the small ones 50." "I'll take this one." "Good evening." "Good evening." "Chris, will pearl buttons be all right?" "Yes." "Would you mind if I watched the News on TV?" "Of course not." "You'll see better from here." "We're landing at Orly." "Europe's third biggest airport." "Your job must be interesting." "Well, yes..." "Doesn't it bother you having lodgers?" "Why should it?" "It's just business to me." "They spend the night, say thanks and goodbye..." "But does it pay?" "You don't get much." "It's as much as half my wages monthly." "Good evening." "Henry, Mr. Zawadzki." "Hello, Henry!" "Want some tea?" "That car is one for wives to go shopping in." "Pass me the cakes, Henry." "Thank you." " Have you got a car?" " Who, me?" "No, I haven't." "Well," "I don't know how to begin." "I've heard a lot about you, read your books." "Not all of them of course, but..." "I'm ashamed to say it, but this is the first time I've met with a play of yours." "Your prose is rather different." "I've read a lot of it." "And I must congratulate you on your fine TV appearance." "You know, meetings with writers." "It was fabulous." "They put you on a small peasant cart, the peasant was driving and you spoke about your literary progress from the province to the capital." "It was very entertaining." " You're very witty." " Yes, but it wasn't me in that cart..." " Oh, I'm awfully sorry." " Never mind." "I'm really so sorry." "You're very kind." "But speaking of your play," "I confess that this dramatic form is new to me." "As an actress, I find it very interesting, but there's a lot I don't understand." "The part seems very controversial to me." "For instance I wonder if you, as the author, are making fun of me as a sorceress, or treating me seriously." "Is Circe a shrew, or a good fairy?" "Your instinct should tell you that." "My instinct, really?" "And if it doesn't tell me anything?" "You wrote it, so you should know." "Sometimes I have doubts too." "I confess that I hesitated." "An interesting title role, but so strange." "I've never acted in mime." "I even told the director that I didn't know how to eat the dish prepared by that man." "Meaning me?" "Please, don't be cross." "It's not easy to refuse a part, especially if you haven't done anything interesting for a long time." "I was depressed by this." "Stephen had told me so much about your work." "He's fascinated by this play." "But I was told you intend to build up my text?" "I think those monologues would help to make things clearer..." "It's not a matter of monologues." "I'm changing words into movement." "I would even like movement to completely replace words." "So I cross out some text." "The role expands, and the text shrinks, you understand..." "I see what you mean." "But I must confess I can't imagine such a change without..." "I just can't imagine that." "I don't create characters in my play, only dramatic situations." "The only dramatically extended role is Circe." "The rest are just figures." "BOBO BOBO BOBO" "BABY..." "Forget your flock, oh shepherd, and abandon the temple." "Forget virtue..." "Beautiful!" "Must they say it?" "Take off your garments and customs..." "How can one take off customs?" "Take off your garments..." "Be as nature made you...." "Back to the pigsty, reverend pig..." "Let me go, you bitch!" "Wanted to poison me again?" "!" "You nasty bitch!" "Help!" "Help!" "My daughter has poisoned me!" "Get off me you bitch!" "What's happened?" "Nothing." "Nothing at all." "I heard screaming." "I can't go on." "It'll never end." "Please try to be calm." "What can I do?" "It's your private affair, between the two of you." "You might blame me for interfering." "Excuse me." "May I speak to the doctor?" "Yes, doctor, it's me." "I wanted to tell you it's happened." "Of course, I'm perfectly sure." "She couldn't starve me..." "The neighbors would get to know and inform the police." "I'm telling you the soup had a bitter taste." "Don't try to tell me I'm insane!" "I see you're siding with Christine." "You can put me into an asylum but don't comfort me!" "If you say I can eat it, I'll do so." "Thank you very much for your kindness." "Please help me to get up!" "My heart hurts awfully." "Do you know what that is?" "Soup." "No, sir." "It's poison." "I must have it analyzed at once." "I'll pour it into a cup." "And you can take it, will you?" "I'm too weak to go out." "I'll bring a cup in a moment." "Sir!" "Hello!" "I'm glad to see you." "I've been thinking about you." "I'd like to take some photographs." "Would you mind?" "I could do you a sensational portrait for the press." " I already have some good ones." " There are shots and shots." "I don't want to boast but..." "You'll see for yourself." "It won't take long." "I'm in a hurry now." "Perhaps some other time." "Then it's a promise." "Do you still live there?" "I'll drop in then." "Good bye!" "Why do you ask about him?" "He wanted to do a "sensational" portrait of me." "He really is a good photographer." "Do you often have meetings with your readers?" "No, not often." "What kind of questions do they ask?" "Mainly if I'm married and how much I earn." "When you write something..." "Do you describe your experiences or draw upon your imagination?" "I don't know." "I can tell you about it but it isn't very exciting." "I'd rather know how you think I write." "I haven't thought about it." "Well," "I sit down and wait for inspiration." "If it doesn't come, I go out." "The funny thing is, it's then that it comes." "Some people say that creativity is a kind of madness." "Or a perversion." "I really don't know what to say." "I should have been a sailor." "What is your wife like?" "Wife is a wife." "That's what Chekhov said, and it's fantastic." "Why does your mother hate you so?" "It's not hatred." "She loves me." "I'm sure of that." "But sometimes I'm scared." "When did it start?" "I can't tell precisely, it started so elusively..." " She isn't old yet." " It's not only a matter of age." "If you knew how she used to be..." "Sometimes she's her old self again and we're happy for a day or two." "Why don't you send her to an asylum?" "The mother you remember only exists in your imagination." "She's a different being now." "For you she's a being, for me - my mother." "I can't put her to sleep like a cat." "You can send her to a sanatorium." "For your own sake." "Everything's organized to help such people." "What about your life?" "I won't do it." "Yes?" "Help me." "Something's happened to mother." "Mother!" "Mother, what on earth..." "I'm going to take a bath, Chris." "Come in." "I want to apologize for all this." "You ought to move from here." "Chris, where are you?" "Come here!" "I asked for a Gothic chair!" "I specifically said:" "Gothic." "Good morning!" "Bravo!" "How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter!" "Thy navel is like a round goblet which wanteth not liquor" "Thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies" "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins." "Thy neck is as a tower of ivory" "Thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon" "Sorry, it beats me..." "I'm glad you came." "We're stuck." "Give us a push, I've no strength left." "Gladly." "But why the "Song of Songs" here?" " Don't you want it?" " It's excellent." "If only I could write like that!" "But will it suit the play?" "Do you think it will spoil the play?" "Let's sit down." "Sometimes periodical involuntary psychoses... disappear by themselves." "But you can't count on it in this case." "The longer this condition lasts, the stronger the persecutive delusions get." "They have no basis in reality." "The patient must undergo a treatment." "She's been in hospital." "Now she is being treated at home." "There are compulsory situations." "I know how hard it is for a daughter to send her mother to hospital." "But it's for her own good." "There's a time in life, at a certain age, the patient becomes detached from reality." "Destroying her time and space structure." "The order built up during her life disappears." "These are often irreversible changes." "No, not like that." "Excuse me." "Come in." "A phone call." "For me?" "Hello... yes." "Why?" "Well, there are some difficulties." "It may take three days or three weeks." "You know how it is in the theatre." "They're changing the text." "Nothing's happened." "Yes." "I see." "All right." "What dress?" "No, don't come." "What?" "You're coming?" "No sense in it." "Don't come." "I may be back home tomorrow." "I may be back," "I may not." "You know how it is." "Good bye." "Good you're still here." "When are we going to take those photos?" "Remember?" "You promised!" "Everyone is a potential model to me." "I've been studying you, it'll be fine." "Ask the gentleman to sit down, Henry." "The news will be on in a minute." "Tea?" "No, thank you." "These steel giants can't be compared to beautiful sailing vessels." "A great parade of sailing ships took place at Cologne, to end Operation Sail 72, which was won by our vessel." "Chris, you didn't give me any sugar." "You forgot it, darling." "But I did." "Not enough." "Bring some more." "Thank you." "How awkward I am!" "I shouldn't be alive!" "I'll pick it up, Mom." "I didn't mean to, Chris, really!" "I was at the rehearsal today." "It's all dead." "Going to pieces." "Words, sentences." "I can't listen to it anymore." "Sometimes I have a feeling" "I'm building something durable out of my love for mother." "Isn't it an illusion?" "Life should be wonderful." " Good morning." " Good morning." " The key, please." " I don't understand." "But you do." "You've hidden the key." "I haven't." "Here it is." "Open the door then." "I must go out." " What about your daughter?" " I must go to a neighbor's you can keep the key." "I can't open the door, or give you the key." "Who are you anyway?" "What are you doing here?" "Don't you know?" "How should I know?" "You're a stranger." "Why are you interfering?" "What are you doing in my house?" "Give me the key at once." "It's my apartment." "I'm the owner." " Here." " Thank you very much." " Will you have coffee or tea?" " I'm fine, thank you." "Don't move now, please!" "Sit down in this armchair." "Relax and don't think about anything." "I'm not thinking." "Like some whisky?" "There's no whisky but there's vodka." "There were some glasses somewhere." "Probably in the kitchen." "Here." " Here's to the premiere of your play!" " To the premiere of my play." "Did you ever see one of my plays?" " No." " You were right." "Sit down." "Look over there, at that picture, and don't move." "Excellent!" "You try to reach the mind via form, we try to find the soul in form." " Do you?" " That's it." "Lift up your face." "Look at me." "Fine!" "You're tired?" "Sitting for portraits is tiring." "Yes, awfully tedious." "But it's over." "Only one more, at the desk." "Sit down here, please." "Could you read something?" "Or write..." "Or both." "I want you to look absorbed in creative thought." " In what?" " Creative thought..." "Perhaps with a book?" "Just for appearances." "Fine!" "Excellent!" "How much do you get for a play?" "If it's a flop - nothing." " But if it isn't..." " That depends." "If they take it off after 3 days..." "200- 300 zlotys." "If a theatre doesn't fulfill the contract, I sue it." "I wouldn't write if I were you." "Do you know what this means?" "I have no idea." "What do the papers pay you for a poem?" "If it's no secret... 300-400 zlotys." "And publishers pay 8- 12 zlotys per line." " But it's going to be more." " More?" "That's not bad." "How many words are there in a line?" "It's immaterial." "Do you write poetry?" "Then you will." "Everybody does nowadays." "Rest your forehead on your left hand." "Perhaps you could be writing something." "Just pretend to." "Are you there?" "Have you seen the old lady who lives there?" "No!" "What happened?" "Why are you running away?" "What's the matter?" "I just went for a walk." "I was worried about you." "Where have you been?" "At my neighbor's." "I stayed longer." "She offered me some cake." "Let's go home." "You might have had an accident." "But you won't tell Chris?" "Come on, let's go." "When I feel better I go for a walk with Chris." "I must get a lot of fresh air." "Hello." "How are you, Pauline?" "My name is not Pauline, it's Dagmara." "I'd love to go to a cafe, to have some coffee." "We should go home now." "A little Turkish coffee, all right?" "Cream cakes for me too." "I love cream cakes now." "When I was younger I didn't like sweet things." "Oh, God!" "When one can't sleep one has strange thoughts." "Sometimes I lay awake at night and think, and think..." "Don't you sleep well?" "I can't sleep." "I can't sleep at all." "All those nights you were with us," "I didn't sleep a wink." "You should move out." "The sooner, the better." "For whom?" "For everybody." " You know what I think?" " What you think..." "My daughter has a fiance." "She can marry him." "What do you want from her?" "May I?" "They're worried at the theatre." "And you're avoiding us?" "You haven't been presented to one another..." "You won't mind if I make a suggestion..." "I had another idea yesterday, while listening to the radio...." "For that last monologue..." "I've put it down." "If I may..." "It's that scene when Circe addresses her Maid..." "She can say..." "It's only a suggestion." "Where are the jars of perfume?" "Put balsam on my forehead." "Let the suitors in." "See?" "I'm trembling." "Where is it?" "I don't know." "Oh, here!" "I've got it." "Perfumes, fragrant oils..." "You've broken the alabaster jar?" "What alabaster jar?" "The Maid brings it." "Kneels down, and she may break it." "It's a fragile thing." "Chris!" "What's this?" "A surprise." "Give it to the gentleman." "Don't know which to choose." "All stiff poses." "He's making faces." "This one's good." "There's nothing in that face." "You don't look like Belmondo either." "Making a fool of me?" "He's probably got lots of kids." "Do you realize that?" "Why are you staring at me?" "I'm leaving the keys on the cupboard." "I've washed myself, Chris." "And made some soup." "All right." "May I have a little piece?" "Yes." "Where's our guest?" "He left." "Have some fresh tea, Chris." "What do you mean, he left?" "He couldn't, just like that..." "Try to remember." "Did he give you a letter, a note?" "There were some pieces of paper." "They got wet, so I threw them into the pail." "They all leave rubbish, all of them." "Have some tea, Chris." "Rub my back today, it aches terribly." "May I put out the light?" "I'm sorry, I'm going to read." "Cast"