"WALKOVER" "Christine!" "Barbara!" "What's up?" "Going on holiday?" "No... just to have a look round..." "Why?" "Anything interesting round here?" "Yes, starting on Monday I'm going to be a V.I. P in the combine." "What's happened over there?" "Well... perhaps I'll put in an application..." " Don't hesitate..." " What... right away?" "Why not?" "Anybody qualified is welcome here..." "Hanka... we must have met somewhere before..." "Possibly... only my name has never been Hanka..." "Now, I have to make a phone call..." "Pretty, isn't she?" "And that one under the train quite pretty, too..." "I am an official and here is the paper..." "Official or no official you can't have the scales..." "You'd better read this paper..." " Are those watches for sale?" " No!" "No point for you to keep asking..." "I wouldn't give that scales even to the Minister of Justice himself." "Oh, she's pretty that girl of yours..." "What's the matter with you?" "Left anything in the train?" "It hasn't gone yet." "Well... if she had been a man I'd have..." "Oh, so she's like that..." "But what can you do to a woman?" "Yes... at one..." "all right boss..." "I don't know what I am here for." "After so many years or after something like youth or love." "Let us now put down the first part of the song." "A man who says:" "I don't know what I am here for." "After so many years or after something like youth or love..." "And now to follow the suit:" "With my hand on the neck" "I want to mend everything or fix my tie..." "There's a dance here tonight." "At least something for us to do..." "Well, and until then?" "I thought you were going to ask what then." "Andrew!" "Andrew!" " Someone's calling you." " OK." "A dance." "But what then?" "Now I've got to see the director at one... introduce myself, have a chat." "You know what?" "You could also..." "I'll think it over... then a dance..." "nd then you'll become a V.I. P... as usual..." "The chap who was calling you is coming up here." "I'm not going to lend it to you!" "Oh, it's not you!" "There's been a chap who tried to take away the scales..." " Doggie... come on here!" " Feeding him on cake every day?" "Oh, no..." "This is his last birthday, probably he won't live until they pull down to put up a new block of flats." "I expect compensation, otherwise I'd have shut down the place long ago." "Aren't you afraid they might pinch you things?" "What could they pinch?" "Not interested in buying," " why should they steal?" " Well, and the scales?" "I won't give it and I won't sell it either!" " Well... and so what?" "Andrew Leszczyc." " Look at the date of birth." "Not until tomorrow..." "At dawn as a matter of fact." "In the night..." "Andrew, so you're going to be thirty?" "I was born in the night, what a lovely night..." "Listen man, what's playing so?" "Oh, well aren't the people ingenious, how much do you want for that?" " I don't sell anything either." " I quite approve though it's a pity." " I'd give you 3OO zloties." " 3OO?" "It costs a 1 OOO or over." "Oh, see you've already started bargaining, a dealer will know another dealer right away..." "I can sell you a watch." "A genuine watch." "Hi skipper..." "how about that scales?" " Listen, what's your name?" " Theresa." " Is it your motorbike?" " Are you going to the factory?" "I am." "Years ago goats used to graze over this field here." " It looks not so bad." " Oh... everybody says that now." " Going this way?" " Yes." " So why have we made such a detour?" " The lady wanted." " The Manager's expecting me." " That's just his car." "Sir, this is my friend from the college." "Please come in, it's one minute to one and we had our appointment at one sharp." "We've got one minute to get to my office, this way please." "Turn off the wireless." "They always have dirty boots..." "Coffee?" "Shall I get you come coffee, boss?" " Turn it off!" " He doesn't mind, look what he's got inside his ear!" "Warn me before you start throwing things!" "Well, cable all your friends and tell them to come here with their wives, husbands, fiancés and everything... we want to start our own laboratory here and so you're going to be..." "The Chair's going to be represented only by myself" " while this friend of mine..." " We used to study together." "How's that?" "Going to speak for your project yourself?" " Yes, myself." " Yourself!" "The office has sent a strong team, the model's here already, and they're kicking up fuss about it." "You've got some hard work to do defending your effort." "These are reasons for the Chair to state research, while me," "I'm just standing for the team." "The team is placing their strongest competitor first at the chessboard..." "yes, pretty young, but the young people are devilishly clever these days..." "Our Manager is the youngest manager of a large industrial combine in the whole country." "You were to send a few people." "Will you manage by yourself then?" " I certainly will." " Going in for any sport?" " Not really." " Look out, sir!" "It's going to be quite a match, you fighting the projecting office." "We'll provide the grounds and you deal with the rest by yourselves." "You get steady jobs' you'll sign a contract on Monday..." "and off you start work." "You'll get a flat right away since we still have some spare ones in those new blocks." "What's your line?" "Do you smoke?" "No thank you." "I haven't made up my mind yet..." "Well... if you haven't, please take a look out of the window and decide right away." "It's a test for engineers." "Aren't we intruding?" "The trouble is, I am not an engineer." " So have some coffee at least." " Last year I failed my graduation exams and this year somehow I couldn't sit them." "So you two couldn't have been in the same year?" "Well... we started together with Theresa... but that was some 1 O years ago..." "then I got kicked out... and then I did my military service, then back at the college and somehow..." "Hello?" "Yes... yes... of course..." "We are waiting..." "Yes." "We mean to get some young scientists together... so you'll have to graduate first just the same." "Well, at the moment I've got other plans..." "Without a degree it'll be hard to get in just now." "You might be given some sort of an auxiliary job... only it'll be rather difficult to get a flat, we've got some spare ones reserved only to graduated scientists." "Yet there are workers' hostels..." "just a minute..." "No... at my office I'd rather see some flowers... not what you have outside." "Just enough to put a mirror there and I'll have exactly the same here." "Well, at last!" "You're going to be my closest work partners." "This is the team of the Projecting Office..." " and this is the new engineer..." " Theresa Karczewska." "Miss Karczewska of the Warsaw Mechanics College." "And will you please come over to the models right away, there are not enough armchair for everybody here." "Please this way..." "Will you please allot a flat for Miss Karczewska as soon as possible." "A single-room flat?" "Someone who is examining his fingernails orjust looking at the ceiling while saying:" "I've gone so far..." "and now I'm still further on with... a glass of water and a cigarette... while the eternity is drinking water out of the bathroom tub, long... and when it is too late for everything, it is still not too late" "for insuring your life at the State Insurance Company." "The Lady's said you were to help her with her coat..." "The helmet!" "Put on the helmet, one ought to be careful here!" "Hallo, Theresa!" "Oh... a stork's just passed overhead!" "Caution!" "That's what I always say - caution!" "Caution at every step..." " smoking absolutely prohibited!" " We know all this very well..." " It's barrel with gunpower!" " I'll take you here at night..." " it just looks so lovely illuminated." " Oh, really?" "Shall I carry you across this mud on my back?" "There's the guard watching..." "I may be a bore but we've got to be very careful." "Careful... careful..." "Look out!" " Is it right here?" " What do you mean here?" " Well... this garage... is it here?" " Well..." "I don't know..." " You're staying here a while?" " No, I am not..." "A chap asked me to carry the scales..." "Will you watch it?" " I won't." " Well, I'll just leave it here." "Just a moment... will you help me put the scales together." "You'll be the first to weigh, you won't have to wait." "You're taking me as one who's to fight here?" "Well, you've got a suit on, and a shirt... you're not the one who'd come to enter the competition, are you?" "I can't wear a suit?" "Look... they're all coming here to put down their names just as if they were going to get married or for some sort of a festival." "Simple people, you know, put on their suits to enter their first sports competition in life." "It's something..." "And you've got a lady's coat and a radio set in your pocket... some highbrow all right..." "Aren't you going to manage by yourself?" " Hardly." "It's heavy." " Well..." "I'll try." "I'll weigh you in return for the favour." "Well, sonny..." "you got fatter?" " Didn't he want to enter?" " No... but one may..." "Didn't you want to enter the "First Step"?" " No." " Please weigh him, if he is to enter the Medium and let him put down his name..." "No, no, Mr. Rogala." "I'm far too old for such games." "Weigh yourself." "The Medium Weight's short..." "I've only got three chaps." " You'll be the fourth." " He'll just get into the Medium, his clothes will weigh some three kilos." " We'll start at seven." " No, no, Mr. Rogala." "Well, if you're scared, don't come." "I shan't use force on you." "Come on, boys." " Is it here?" " What?" " The boxing..." " Yes... right here..." " You're in the Light Weight?" " Well... sure." " You've trained long?" " Some four months." "Gentlemen... the scales for boxing... in here?" " Here..." " Sports Club "Combine"." "Those chaps from town have been training much longer... you know there's a sports club "Forwards"" "and besides there'll be some unassociated..." "Don't be scared, just keep fighting in line." "Gentlemen... a group of engineers have passed this way." " Those foreigners?" " No, our people..." "We haven't seen them." "But please, understand that the first fireproof screen is forming a cloud wholly absorbing..." "Let's stop building castles in the air!" "Such a steam bath will do our complexion a lot of good, besides it will allow us to build up the space that has so far been unused..." "Yet the human life is so brittle... any wind may blow off the screen and then what?" "Well... the average strenght of wind over the last 15 years shows that there's been no wind strong enough to be able to blow off a screen of a pressure we can obtain." "Fifteen years is not a long spell of time as far as statistics are concerned, since sixteen years ago there might have been a much stronger wind..." "At the Technological College I've been taught..." "So you've been at the College?" "How long?" "Half a year, a year?" " Five years..." " Five years in the first term?" "I haven't graduated... you may be aware of the fact that one happens to fall in love, get married, have a child..." "But we've got to believe in statistics, haven't we?" "Some very important investments have been based on it!" "The power station..." "Suppose the river runs dry aginst statistics and the power station needn't have been built' it's still a lesser calamity than if just one life should be lost in a fire here..." "What are you doing here, man?" "Oh, you're an engineer, too?" "It was to be just a preliminary talk and not..." "What?" "I've been grazing my goat here... in the office hours it's been grazing on its own..." "It used to be a meadow here and now?" "She's got be right or else she wouldn't be able to yell like that." "Some girl got under the train today." "And over there, near that cross..." "it used to be crossroads..." "What are you following me for?" "Me following you?" " I've got your coat." " Give it here..." "Anything else?" "I couldn't find you, and I've still got your note..." "It says "remember" and an exclamation mark." "Signed Teresa Karczewska." "Perhaps it's for you?" "The local post-office stamp." " What's wrong with you?" " Oh, nothing..." "I've just remembered the miracle with the chicken..." "See?" "Over there, between the trees..." "What?" "I used to be right at the top of my class at school and yet I ran away just a week before the final leaving exams." "And what has that chicken to do with it... and that miracle?" " Nothing..." "I'll show you later on..." " The miracle?" "There was a fellow there..." "I thought if I leave the place so will he." "If I had finished quite the normal way," "I'd have been just one of them..." "but when I ran away, he was bound to take notice." "This will put it to sleep." "Just an axe will do." "Whichever of us was to help in the kitchen on Sundays she was allowed to kill the chickens..." "I always used to sell off my turn for a lipstick or..." " And then you've become a big activist." " What do you know about me?" "That later on you became a big activist at the college." "We had to walk about with a book on the head to keep straight." " Been waiting for me?" " No, I've just..." "Speak, there's a need in you of speaking 'bout yourself... here you have no name, you can talk 'bout yourself without being yourself at all, or talk about someone else just as if you were talking about yourself," "because in this way you will probably admit your fault..." "What do they usually admit to?" "To disbelieving or to have caused someone's death and you..." " and you..." " What me?" "Think, what must you confess?" "How far have you gone in your life to be so lonely now..." " Sometimes I am lonely..." " All the time..." " Yes..." " Yes... because you hit back..." "why do you do so?" "Suppose you accept the blow and turn the other cheek then you won't be alone anymore... you'll be with the man who hesitated before he struck you" " for the second time." " That would have been a knockout." "Remember what I'm going to tell you, remember." "The most essential thing is..." "Have you tricked him into confessing... such are his games..." "a miracle with the chicken and tricking people into confessing..." "He's no priest at all..." "He used to hide round here in wartime after he had blown up some train, disguised as a priest in a soutane and then he went off his head a bit, see?" "Could you give us a lift?" "Hallo!" "Stop now, will you?" " It's pretty hard to get away from here." " Well, I'm not in a hurry..." " I see you have Wawele cigarettes..." " But you don't smoke, do you?" " How do you know?" " I've just noticed you weren't smoking." " Well, you have an observant eye..." " Possibly I have..." "I need the cigarettes, scissors and a lipstick..." "Well..." "I've got no scissors..." "pincers will do?" "Light it... all right..." "pincers'll do as well." " We'll go in any kind of car you choose." " The light..." "No, I don't smoke..." "Well, you like this one?" "It's all right." "Ok, watch me..." "Stop now!" "Stop!" "Inspector, I know this is not right, but please don't be a nuisance to me..." " How did you manage with her?" " Oh, she's hard stuff... but I'll..." "For the time being you, sit at the back, driver..." "It's all right, Inspector," "I can understand a man who's had a few drinks... and there's another pub on our way... quite a modern one..." "It's not difficult..." "I've learned it in the army..." "I used to be the best driver in my campaign." "I'm going to tell you a story... some fellow was just going to be thirty and he didn't even stand a bottle at his birthday..." "My birthday's in the early morning, so it actually is tomorrow." "You never know what'll happen tomorrow..." " Tomorrow's Sunday..." " A bottle of the same stuff, please..." " And then it is Monday..." " Wait a moment until I..." "You won't mind..." "lighting a fag?" " Look, there are empty tables over there!" " Yes, quite... there are some." "Darling, give something to Miecio, Miecio's tired whilst his talent's going all to waste." "My wife's been maltreating me..." "I've been getting a 1 OO zloty note every day provided I swallow my Antabuse in the morning... and she's got plenty of dough... oh!" " Such a pile all in fivers..." " Thank you." " Thank you." " And for Miecio, dearie?" "A combine with no wheeler-dealer..." "cha, cha, cha..." "And how about you buying a watch, tick, tack?" "I've got one." "Well, you're lucky... you know I know a lot of languages... but none of them's a foreign one... good, eh?" " Haven't you ordered a chop, sir?" " Listen..." "Do you know I could fight in a war for you or else you may make me learn the whole dictionary by heart or drink a billion glasses of water, after getting down three tumblers I'd be nearer to you... nothing can ever be reversed." "Only once you can manage such a thing." "I didn't pass over to the next class and I was crying and hitting out my fists, full of hate, and then everything was reversed and turned out to have been a dream." "But now one can't do anything... and so all I do is to shout out I love you!" "So that you should hear one's able to fall for you." "We recommend the chop..." "I've got one vacant right here." " What is it?" " The bill..." "It's easy to forget to pay..." "I might be in the kitchen and so you just leap over the banister, and away you are." "Oh, no..." "Miecio would see to it... everything'll be OK." "I, too, once tried to stop drinking but I didn't manage." "Mister Stanislawski..." "get me that chop, will you?" "Will you first let me see the dough, Miecio?" "Miecio's swallowed his Antabuse and got his 1 OO zloties." "But you've been boozing since early morning." "All the chaps are like that round here?" "Like what?" "There are some, too, who work..." "Me, I meant to work too, some time ago but I just didn't manage!" "They say the earth's round, but your soles get worn out which way?" "I've seen a psychologist..." "the chat and everything's OK, but when they gave me an apple and I peeled it and ate the skin and chucked the apple away then they got a surprise of their life!" "Hallo... hallo!" "Stop!" "You, you've lost your watch!" "Listen, sir..." "Oh, it's you... well will you take that scales?" "No, I'd like to sell you this wireless..." "You know, the cake you should have got at the public shop, those private shopkee-pers always will sell you some trash..." "The dog didn't like it?" "He didn't eat it up?" "He did... he eat it all... and then died." "Right on his birthday." "Yes... the birthday's just the right time to start remembering the death." "What did you say, you wanted for this wireless?" "Three hundred?" "No, you've said that but it's OK with me..." "Well, look here, what kind of dealing is this?" "Why aren't you bargaining with me?" "You've got to mention your price, I'll give you 32O..." "OK?" "All right... take it." "No, sir..." "I haven't been bargaining for such a long time and you're spoiling the whole pleasure, you've got to name your price..." "I'm paying hardly enough!" " Well..." "OK... 5OO then!" " Three hunderd fifty..." " No... 5OO..." " 38O..." " 49O..." " 4OO... my last word!" "48O." "Amen!" " 39O..." " No!" " 42O..." " No... no... no!" "42O..." "that's what I give... that's what I four hundred... and twenty!" "Thank you!" "Stop!" "You two!" "You've got to explain." "Name?" " Andrew Leszczyc." " Age?" "Twenty-nine." "What, don't you remember your age?" "Identity paper!" "I've been wondering what to say 'cause in a few hours' time" "I shall be 3O..." "I didn't know what to say... twenty-nine or..." "I want to know what your age is right now... so how old you are just at the moment?" "!" "It is said in there..." "I am twenty-nine years, 364 days and 15 hours..." "Stop joking, will you?" "Why have you run away from the spot of accident?" "Just a moment." "What accident?" "I was running along to the shop and I never ran away from any spot of any accident..." " It this your watch?" " Yes... it's mine." "So let me see then what else you hold in your pockets." "What's your occupation Leszczyc?" "I failed my graduation last year at the Technological College..." "Failing exams can hardly be called an occupation... so you have been changing your domicile." "Inspector... he was frightening kids in the street." "I've been carrying this to the Biology Laboratory, as I had borrowed it for home use..." "I didn't see any kids..." "It's all a pack of lies..." "OK..." "OK..." "Later on you'll check up who's it been pinched from..." "Yes, sir." "He'll get half a year's sentence per piece and that'll teach him." ""Pobieda", "Blonie", "Pobieda" and another "Pobieda"." "So you were just hurrying to the shop?" "You see an accident and you don't even stop and try to help, just carry on towards that shop of yours..." "I just wasn't interested and that's why I didn't stop." "And what was your hurry about?" "I hate the sight of blood and that's why." "Yes... but you don't mind the sight of watches?" "A few quick moves and off you run..." "Witnesses, will you state who had his watch stolen?" " I had mine stolen..." " What make?" "An alarm clock, from a window." "We live in the ground floor..." "What did you buy in that shop of yours, let me see..." "You see, at the combine they are staging..." "I meant to borrow a scales... there's a boxing competition at the Combine, the First Step, and there's a coach I know, Mister Rogala... he's got a kind of assistant, a sports official who can't even find a scales... so I meant to help him" "because that fellow Rogala once used to teach me boxing..." "I tried to borrow that scales from the old man..." "And as for those watches I'd won them at cards... is it an offence?" "Now as his dog's dead he might let you have it." "What's dog got to do with it?" "Where can I find this Rogala right now?" "Take that hand away... this is not a pub..." "So you've been boxing, haven't you?" " I have..." " Keep up... keep up!" "The left hook... well well..." "over the target... here..." "Oh, well help him along with that scales now... take it along to the Combine in the jeep, will you?" "Hi, Andrew!" "You've got a slow train for Warsaw at 5.5O pm." " Please, a chop for me..." " And then an express at ten at night..." "A chop for me, too, two chops altogether..." "There's an express in the morning again and a slow train in the afternoon..." "Well... so how many of these chops then?" "Thank you... it's been all paid for..." "Miecio asked me to greet you." "I meant to give you a birthday present..." "Tell me, please, do you think I can exercise authority?" "It's not this way to the station..." "I just went to collect some dough, I had it in my suitcase." "What should I do at the station?" "Well, you've been inquiring about trains so I though you may..." "I've got an idea for my birthday:" "A crowd of people greeting me..." "That's the way to celebrate..." "Sometimes things have to be made clear... they look at me..." "I turn around and there's no one behind... this means authority?" "Some ten years ago some friend of mine kicked me out of the College just to gain authority..." "Ten years ago I was just seventeen..." ""Friends..." "as for Leszczyc... my own authority as well as that of the organization... since I've been elected, so that I should purge our ranks of such..."" "Oh, I remember you very well, you Teddy boy..." "They've been trying to square various accounts but few remember what a Teddy boy really used to mean, and the name sticks to you and even after ten years it is still..." "Say it again... it's so nice... you must have learned it by heart, haven't you?" "You're invited to our Studio of sound postcards." "Only here you can have your wishes recorded together with a tune and send it to your relatives... cheap-rate meals and meaning of laddered stockings on the spot, too." "Welcome to our Studio..." "Please, sir..." "I've got some silly request to make..." " perhaps you could slaughter it for me..." " Hand it over here..." "Excuse me, sir..." " No... no..." " Please, do let me..." "I'll get perfect likeness." " How much do I owe you?" " Twenty..." "How much?" "Well..." "I've just told you..." "ten zloty..." "Please, sir... the Youth Housing Estate, block 15..." "which way would it be?" "You ask at that shop..." " How long will it take?" " Is it for you?" "Oh... birthday wishes..." "so you are already thirty?" " Will it take long?" " Not very long." "Two minutes, won't you stand missing her for two minutes?" "Want to listen?" "You've got to hurry..." "you've just got a minute." "Perhaps you could pop in at night to record something?" "Hallo... hallo..." "Here's the sound recording studio..." "you are all welcome here..." " I wanted..." " Will you please call tonight." " I've got to have it fixed first." " How's that?" "I was sure one comes here, has his voice recorded and gets it ready." " You've got to fix it specially?" " Yes, specially." "What can you say in two minutes?" "When I got off the train today... first I didn't know why and later on I understood I could hate you... but then, when I saw you making fool of yourself, at those models in the Combine, shouting like hell," "when it turned out you were so weak, and that's why you're trying to run away..." "I'm going to show you now how to fight for anything at all..." "For this reason or another one has no job, no plans that are worth struggling hard... then one should fight for anything, just as hard and obstinately and I am going to show it to you." "And then, no matter what will happen between us, since we are likely to go dancing and... what then?" "And if I were to see you surrender without a fight" "I'd think it's impossible to hate you..." "The recording's at the end..." "you can get it tonight." "Where's your wireless?" "You can sell tickets for the balcony seats..." "What are they going to show?" "The newsreel?" "As a matter of fact I'd never had any home of my own..." "What's wrong with you?" "Nothing... it's called fighting the shadow..." "When I was in the army I started training boxing, and at once I got transferred to a club, and I was made fight in some local tournaments and only later on when I got back to the College" "I suddenly realized that the only moment of real happiness..." "Lift up your foot and self-contentment and self-expression... what is it?" "You were standing on a piece of chalk..." " Well... and what's this going be?" " A divan..." "Seems a bit narrow..." "Never mind..." "It's a divan for just one..." "Some people have such a protruding bone in that place?" "These are outstanding people..." "It is called the Pretuberantium Actlvatus Majus and one comes across it only once in a..." "And what about your so-called moment of happiness?" "That happened when I used to win in the ring and the crowd used to applaud and my friends used to cheer me... never again did I believe in myself so..." " What's the time?" " I've got to hurry now..." " Haven't you got a watch?" " Oh, yes I've got one, but it isn't a good one..." "Tick-tack..." "it doesn't go at all..." "But Miecio sold it pretty cheap to me... he's a remarkable expert in watches..." "There are some fights at the moment at the Combine..." "I've come to talk over the cleaning..." "There's no caretaker here and the occupants of the house have to do all the work by themselves, this week I am doing it while the text week you'll have to do it." "That is to say I'm doing it today and tomorrow... and it's just good, because my husband's got his namesday and so the guests will muddy everything... but you come just after my turn..." "it's it OK with you?" "All right..." "Why you've become so good to me quite on a sudden." "Oh, well, I was just trying to be funny..." "But you haven't bought the electric bulbs..." " Where you ought to be just now?" " What?" "Well, you've said you meant to atch some sports event at the Combine..." "No..." "I am going to fight myself in the ring..." " So you're going to beat someone?" " You don't say beat, you say fight." "Yes... a thrirty-year old president would have been the youngest in the world but a thirty-year old boxer is about to end his career and so I meant to." "To test yourself for the last time find a moment of happiness and self-satisfaction... you're just a thirty year old good-for-nothing..." "Well..." "I've entered for the fight..." "I can't run away now..." "To give the fight up as a walkover is the greatest shame for a boxer..." "What does it give you..." "such boxing?" "I can catch a fly in mid air..." "Well... you're twenty decagram overweight..." " You've got to sweat a bit..." " OK... the next one..." "Stop breathing..." "OK... the Light-Medium weight..." "Attention... we wish to remind you once again" " that smoking is not allowed..." " He'll soon be finished..." "He's going to leave the ring on all his four..." "He's on the fifth floor already..." "He won't last more than another two rounds..." " At most..." " He'll be finished in the third..." "In the Light Medium the second fifth will include Piekarczyk from the Combine versus Siennicki - unassociated." "Well..." "let's see!" "OK now..." "The Medium Weight." "Go to Rogala..." " Here, in case you'd get bored..." " While you're beating?" "Yes... while I am fifhting..." "Are those two gentlemen scrambling over there fighting, too?" "Yes... to the last." "Even when they just crave for the bell to go." "It's such a lovely sound which you often expect like salvation... but then aftera break it picks you up..." " Even a dead man would jump up..." " What's the time?" "We'll be just in time for the dance... and shall celebrate the victory there..." "If I win today I shall fight in the finals tomorrow..." "But you may lose your fight as well..." "Piekarczyk won the fight by a technical knockout..." " Oh... dirty luck." " This is your adversary" "Do you remember, sir, me driving you in the morning?" "What have I taken my old people along here for?" "Chin, up, Pawlak... that chap is just a boxer like you, get me?" "There are no sirs in the ring." "In the medium weight are to fight:" "Pawlak from the combine, and Andrew Leszczyc." "Will you please, shake hands..." "Mind your heads." "Thank you... now start fighting..." "Stop!" "Don't avoid the fight..." "get to it..." "Stop!" "First warning for avoiding fight..." "Come on..." "start fighting..." "Get at it, you skunk..." "or I'll sack you from your job!" "But you are a scoundrel..." "Pretending to be an engineer just to scare him and avoid being hit..." "Are you scared of such a skunk?" "Want some water?" "Three... four... five..." "six... seven... eight... fight on now..." "We wish to remind you that smoking is strictly forbidden in here..." " Well... well..." " Well... well... what well?" "A good boxer..." "It's obvious... but we'll fix it up for sure..." "she's sitting across there..." "Well, we'll invite them we'll simply invite them..." "How about a watch..." "Tick-tack, Oh... pardon me." "He's busy again..." "Leszczyc has won by 3 to 2." "In the last fight of the day in the Medium weight" "Wielgosz is fighting against Perelka of the "Forward" Club." "Why have I been scared of him?" "!" "Oh... if I hadn't been scared in the first round I'd have won!" "Son of a bitch!" "What are you howling for..." "you silly ass!" " What?" " What are you yelling like that for?" "Wielgosz won the fight by a knockout in the first round." "See, Perelka, he finished you with his first a blow..." " It's a fact." " Wake up..." "It's all over now." "Perelka..." "Perelka, wait a moment... it's over..." "it's me Maniek!" " And who's won?" " He has, he knocked you out." "Have you seen the way I finished him off?" "Wielgosz, you don't even need a shower, the very first blow and it's all over." " It's a fact." " Well, that blow was quite a success..." "It's a fact..." "smash and it's all over..." "Give it here..." "I'll undo it for you..." "Mister Rogala... his name is Wieigosz... he's had some hundred fights to his credit... he has no right to fight here... this is supposed to be the "First Step" event!" "Mister Leszczyc... your name's Leszczyc and you have some 5O fights to your credit and you have no right to take part in the First Step, either, but there's a way to deal with people like you two... and that's to make them fight each other..." "And so I wish you luck tomorrow and I hope Wielgosz won't hurt you too badly..." "Well... he can knock him out..." "it's a fact." " See you later Rogala." " See you tomorrow." "I'm not quite crazy yet..." "He'll finish me off with his first blow..." "I've got a train at ten and I'm taking it." "There's nobody left here..." "everybody's left..." "So will you turn off the lights, Wielgosz, please?" "I can turn them off..." "it's a fact." "Be quick..." "you are late as it is..." "So I'm going away in the morning..." "I'm not off my head to let him kill me..." "You may just as well look for suckers somewhere else Mr. Rogala." "I haven't been looking for you!" "Wherever there is a boxing "First Step" there you turn up, too, and there we meet again..." "I think it's time we stopped running across each other..." " Well, this has been the dance..." " What do you mean?" "Well, it looks just awful..." "Haven't we got still some kind of a train today?" "But you've won your fight and tomorrow's the final." "You said the gong was such a lovely sound... so mobilizing..." "Oh... one is apt to say a lot of things That a walkover is nothing but a walkover... and I heard people say you were saving your breath for tomorrow's match..." " I don't care what people say anyway..." " Oh, you do care a lot for that, that's your main care..." "and nothing much besides..." "You know..." "I never used to like getting up in the morning, and later on after my army service" "I used to ask my mother to wake me in the mor-ning counting me out just the way the umpire does in the ring... one, two, three... and then I got so used to it that" "I jumped out of bed before she counted up to ten." "Well... so what?" "Well... nothing." "What are you doing here?" "And you?" " Well... exactly..." " Tourist..." "None of your business..." "Where's that chap with the goat?" "It got into..." "We've quite forgotten about the postcards... those recordings..." "I've recorded wishes for you." "We were to get it... and now I'm afraid it's too late..." "Dreams are irreversible, waking up will not reverse what you've once dreamed and even if you wake up at a station, on a platform... too late... since your life is going off exactly the way things run off a mirror," "once one opens one's eyes... because even then it is not too late o insure your life of yours..." " We can sit here for few hours..." " Excuse me... let's make some discs of the general - military type." "Here you are..." "perhaps something like this?" "The first hit's for free the other one is next, the customer pays a hundred... well... no?" "I beg your pardon." " Watches on sale?" " No." "Here you are... anybody may practise marksmanship and a steady hand..." "Look over there." "That chap who was calling you this morning is coming along." "Give me the receipt." "Hi, Andrew, you're not recognizing friends any more?" " What are you doing here?" " And you?" "On business, and you an engineer..." " And you?" " They didn't let me repeat again... you don't have to be an engineer..." "Not everybody must be locked up right away..." "Generally speaking not everybody has to exist at all..." "OK, OK..." "come on now... come on." "We'll meet again..." "have a chat." "To cheat me on weight..." "It's like a quarter of a kilogram of candy..." "I have a balance here..." "I can weigh everything, seventy seven kilos, medium heavy weight..." " seventy six... medium weight." " And me?" "Ninety..." "very heavy weight..." " Good morning..." " What?" "Let's get going..." "Mister, once I was a child, so small, and I didn't know everything I know now, but I knew things that were necessary... you're a man of science, you just tell me how is it?" " Where am I to look for it?" " Meee..." "Aim at it... now fire!" "Well... so add something to the common household and we might get a divan for two..." "Do you believe in that?" "You always believe in what you want to believe?" "When you were in the convent you used to believe in God..." "When you were kicking me out of the College you believed I was the people's enemy... and here you must have believed in your project just as much as loud you yelled..." "All your life you've been hitting at random just to get what you want..." "Were you there?" "You heard it?" "I was standing outside the window..." "Well... why don't you hit back?" "I've been beating at random and you?" "You've learned to hit... and you've been hitting hard all the weaker ones the scientific way, and whenever you come across anyone who's stronger, you just run away!" "Oh, you..." "I am thirty." "You're not going to hit me, since this set, that suitcase and coat... that's all I possess in the world..." " Come in..." " You're heartily welcome..." "George?" "Adam?" "Charles..." "I think we know one another..." "What?" "Ah..." "Well..." "One... two... three... four, five... six... seven... eight... nine... ten." "This could have been a nice house." "Haven't you seen my gloves?" "Have you ever had a house of your own?" "All right... we'll put the divan over there... and here we'll hang up our wedding photo..." "Two tickets to Warsaw..." "Yes... two... second class, yes... two..." " Two?" "What do you mean two?" " Thank you, Sir!" "Well... cheerio..." "See you soon..." "You're seeing her off, aren't you?" "I had to see off my old people, too..." "You can hear it from here the way they fight it out in the middle heavy weight." "I took the second class." "So what?" "You're not going to fight?" " No!" " So why did you... yesterday." " I'd like to leave my motorbike." " Is the tank empty... quite?" "Oh... there might be some few drops left, half a litre maybe." "So drain it..." "How am I to drain the stuff right here?" " I don't know." " How can I drain the stuff now?" "I won't accept it with petrol in the tank." "But why should you be scared?" "What of?" "Of the fire?" "Listen... be human... where can I go now just to drain a few drops?" "For God's sake!" "Come to the Combine... there is boxing going on there just now!" "A thief!" "A thief!" " Got a light?" " No." "Pull the emergency brake!" "We may still be on time!" "I'll take you there on my bike!" "Come on!" "You silly ass!" "What are you scared of?" "!" "All that can happen to you is a knockout!" "You ought to spit in his face lady!" "He's a coward!" "The brake!" "Pull it on!" "Please..." "pull the brake, lady!" "May I have your attention, please." "In the last fight of tonight's tournament" "Leszczyc and Wielgosz were to fight, but owing to the absence of..." "When you're out of the ring you're going to be punched on the nose!" " Well..." "I'm ready to fight." " To fight who?" "On Medium weight the final has been won by Andrew Leszczyc owing to the absence of his adversary." "As a prize he is getting a wrist watch... and a special prize for the technically best fighter of the tournament - a radio set "Eltra"." "Well... what?" "You've made it up with Wielgosz, haven't you?" " You were to..." " I was to be punched on the nose." " Engineer!" " Stop making a fool of yourself..." " What'a your name?" " Maniek..." "Marian..." " I'm Andrew..." " Andy then..." "No... just Andrew." "I am far too old now for endearments like this." " So you have won?" " Well... yes!" "Too old?" "Twenty and a bit perhaps... so what?" "It's a fact... so what?" "I've just been celebrating my birthday." "Birthday?" "Well... so..." "I saw your fight last night..." "I believe in sports people..." "you seemed to me bit strange... but still I believe in sports people... so you'll plough through this workers' hostel and then we shall see." "I beg your pardon..." "but we have just been..." "Tell me please, haven't you seen Theresa anywhere by any chance?" "We've just come along with the flowers..." "Well... she's somewhere around here I suppose." "Well..." "let's look for her then." "Listen... are you going to stay at the workers' hostel?" "Yes." "Listen, could you sell this somewhere?" "I've no dough at all and I shouldn't like to come and join you with empty hands." "OK... we'll manage..." "it's your birthday... if you're to stay at the hostel there's a vacant bed just next to mine... so the radio could be put just in between, ok?" "Say... what's the make?" "It's the "Pobieda"." "I just wanted to show my kids to you..." "Very pretty..." "but what am I do with it all?" "Come on, Charlie!" "You know... some time ago I even planned to stop pinching things..." "And what..." "didn't you manage?" "Well... just a little joke..." "a sort of experiment... so that you needn't wind up the thing so much... well... hit me now..." "that was my act of courage... well come on have a go." ""Blonie" or "Pobieda"?" "It's the "Pobieda"." "OK, give it to me, it may just as well be a "Pobieda"..." "The radio set you may keep..." "since I hate music... it's a fact..." "But I've no watch..." "You've already sold it?" "Well so let me have the set then..." "No." "Listen... you wouldn't have come out and join me in the ring..." "When I saw you running along I just hid." "Are you a chum?" "So that you should get radio..." "since the watch was mine anyhow..." "I would have knocked you down with my first hook." "Rogala has been thinking anyhow that we'd put it all up." "SCRIPT AND DIRECTION" "PHOTOGRAPHY" "PRODUCTION"