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A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING

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Scenario

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Direction

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Throwing away such useful rags?

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Someone dropped them on me

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A bull's-eye?

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Have you seen anyone with such rags?

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I dislike cats

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As treacherous as people

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- Is it a good film?
- No, it's boring

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What's it about?

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Love... but it's still boring

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Anyway, it's not on now.
There's a meeting here

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What are you doing?

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Pulling out grey hairs

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Where's the nearest taxi-rank?

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Castle Square

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A gala performance sponsored by
the Ministry of Art and Culture...

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Piotr Balicki. Go in, please

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Want a portrait?

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- How much?
- Two thousand

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Does it take so long?

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Don't muck about

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This isn't piece-work

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You pay for my talent

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Have you got a talent?

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Maybe you're a shoemaker?

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Or you can grow trees?

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Trees? Of course

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Then you're not lost

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- This way to Castle Square?
- Follow your nose

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I hesitate, not because I do not
know what to say

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I've been asked this question
twice before

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When taking entrance exams;
the answer seemed simple then

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Then four years ago, in this building,
I wasn't so sure

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And now...

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It's a good question: why do I want
to be a lawyer?

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Do you want me to say what I feel,
or what I should say?

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We want to hear about you

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The short answer is: I don't know

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It attracts me. I've seen many cases
in the last four years

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You could describe the work as
a social function

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I think that's very important

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But most of all...

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...if all goes well...

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...I'll have the opportunity to
meet and understand people...

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...I couldn't meet in any other
profession

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I believe that as the years pass,
the answer becomes more elusive

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Everyone wonders if what they do
makes sense

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I fear we have more and more doubts

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A delivery

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Clear off! You're scaring my pigeons

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Free?

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Not yet

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We'll shelter by the kiosk

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What, in your view...

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...deters crime?

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In general terms...

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...it is the impact of punishment
not on the criminal, but on others...

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...to discourage them...
shall I put it precisely?

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It is a deterrent through the convict...

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...or, even, the convict is
the deterrent

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It intimidates others

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Article 50 of the Penal Code

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I dislike your ironic tone

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It's a doubtful justification for
the severity of the sentences

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It is often unjust

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Could you support your argument...

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...with an authoritative, classic
opinion?

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"Since Cain, no punishment has proved
to be an adequate deterrent"

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Should I name the author?

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Madam, we didn't charge for
the vegetables

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Fancy a ride?

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Specially made by the wife

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Are you a picture-hanger?

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I thought...

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I've got a photo

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Could it be enlarged?

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The crease will still show

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Never mind

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Is it true you can tell from a photo...

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...whether a person's dead or alive?

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What nonsense

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I want the last numbers from you,
as usual

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Seventeen

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I've got seventeen

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Sixteen

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So close?

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Fifteen

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- You always write so neatly
- That's my style

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You're always lucky

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How much did you win last month?

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412

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1,200 in the autumn, 46 last week...

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You're not losing

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But it could be even better

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It is my pleasure to inform you that
you have passed the examination

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After four years of study...

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...and four years practical work

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Now you have only to be sworn in

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I've passed the examination

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I'm a barrister. I've passed

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Piotr, don't be silly

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German?

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Bulgarian?

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I'll tell your fortune. Legal papers
await you. You'll go abroad

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I'm not afraid of anything

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Give me your hand

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I'll tell you the truth

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Nothing but the truth

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- Tea
- We don't serve tea

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- What, then?
- Coffee, cakes

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Coffee and a cake, then

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- Which cake?
- A cream cake

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Your line of fortune is long
and strong

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Two children

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When?

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There are moments when you feel that
everything is possible

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The way ahead is open and you can
do whatever you wish

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I felt it after leaving high school.
I feel it again now

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An important stage is over

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Now everything is up to you

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Do you know what I think?

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I never know

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People will love you...

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...as I do now

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Going to Mokotow?

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No, Wola

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We're in a hurry

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Mokotow

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Where did he want to go?

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Wola

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Take it easy

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Something wrong?

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I think it might not be so simple

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Could you close the window?

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It's cold

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Turn left

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Straight ahead is best

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I prefer that way

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Stop. We're here

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- The road's closed further on
- It's my limit, anyway

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Money...

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Wife...

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Please...

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This is the story of a very brave
and very clever golden lion

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All the grown-up lions said that
a lion should be lion-hearted

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Can I still buy potatoes?

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Going to sleep so early, Beata?

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A snack first. It's getting cold

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Come out, I'll show you something

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Shall I put a coat on?

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No, why?

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- Is it far?
- Right here

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You wanted to travel

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Now we can

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You said one customer...

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...went to the mountains

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Her husband

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We could go to the mountains

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We can recline the seats

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I've got a blanket.
Warmer weather's coming

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Where did you get this car?

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The Court will rise

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Is it the end?

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The end

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I lost. Utterly

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I don't know

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I may go for a walk...
no, don't come

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How do you feel?

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Your Honour, I know it's not done...

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Now it's over, I would like to
ask you...

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...would an older, famous lawyer
have made any difference to the case?

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None at all

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My speech... perhaps if I had
put things differently...

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Your speech was the best against
capital punishment I've heard in years

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The verdict was inevitable

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You were faultless, as a lawyer
and as a human being

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Difficult circumstances,
but I'm glad I met you

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One could, perhaps, wish for
a better judge in this case...

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...because I am responsible for what
will happen - does that comfort you?

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No. Perhaps it doesn't really matter...

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...but on that very day...

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...when he wound the cord around his
hand in the caf�...

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...I was there

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In that very caf�, at that very time,
a year ago, after passing my exam

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I might have done something

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You are too sensitive
for this profession

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Too late now

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Now you are a year older

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The Governor will see you soon

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- How are things?
- It's warm

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The curtain's stuck

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Fix it

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Ready, sir

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Number twenty-four, to my office

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Wait a moment

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It's as I expected

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You will have half an hour

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Half an hour... very well

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Escort him

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May I leave my case here?

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Good morning, Defence Counsel

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He wants to talk to me, Prosecutor

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A difficult task

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Yes, it's my first time

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The last, I hope

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This is hardly the right moment,
but we rarely meet

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I believe that I should congratulate
you on the birth of a son

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You wanted to see me

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Have you seen my mother?

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- Was she crying?
- Yes

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Did she ask about me at all?

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She just cried

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Would you...

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...see my mother again?

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Afterwards

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Of course

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I thought so...

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...because you called me from the
window when they took me from court

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You called my name

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I wanted to...

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I don't know what I wanted

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I'm almost twenty-one...

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...but when you called me...

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...my eyes filled with tears

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I said in court...

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I didn't listen in court...

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...not until you called to me

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They were all...

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...all against me

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Against what you did

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Same thing

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You want me to see your mother

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Yes, tell her...

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...I want to be buried in
my father's grave

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Will it be possible for me to be
buried in the cemetery?

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Yes

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That's what the priest said

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In my father's grave there's
one more place...

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...for my mother

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I'd like you to ask her to
give it to me

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The Governor asks if you're ready

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Not yet

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You were saying?

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I've forgotten

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A place in the grave

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Yes, there were three places.
Marysia and father are there...

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...and one place is left

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Marysia is there... five years now

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Yes, five years ago she was run over
by a tractor, back at home

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She was still at school

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She was twelve. The school year
had just begun

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The driver of that tractor,
he was my pal

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We'd been drinking vodka and wine
before it happened

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Then he went and ran over her
in the meadow by the forest

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There was a meadow there,
by the forest

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I always kept thinking that...

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...if only she was alive, I wouldn't
have left the village, I'd have stayed

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She was my sister

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Three brothers, but she was
the only sister

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I was her favourite.
She was my favourite, too

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Perhaps everything would have been
different

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But afterwards I had to go away,
join a labour brigade

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I didn't want to leave

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Perhaps it wouldn't have come to this?

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Perhaps I wouldn't be here now

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The Governor and the Prosecutor
ask if you're ready

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Tell the Prosecutor I'll never say
that I am ready

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You'll never say that you are ready

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We bought the grave plot...

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...because Marysia loved the trees,
she loved greenery

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She was going to the forest...

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You have the sentence?

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All in order

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You may leave your briefcase here

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Bring him out

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The Prosecutor requests that
the conversation be terminated

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Amongst my belongings there is a
receipt from a photographer's

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I asked for an enlargement, but
I hadn't time to collect it

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Afterwards... I'd like mother
to have it

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What sort of photograph?

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First Communion

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I took it from mother when I left
home. I always kept it. It's creased

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Please

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I won't

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- Name?
- Jacek Lazar

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- Date of birth?
- 17th March, 1967

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Parents' names?

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Jan... Lucja

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The sentence

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In the name of the Polish
People's Republic...

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...dated 27th November, 1987

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The Warsaw Provincial Court,
in the case ofJacek Lazar...

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...accused of robbery and murder...

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...of Waldemar Rekowski on

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...has been found guilty of
said crime...

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...and in accordance with
Article 148, Paragraph 1...

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...and Article 44, Paragraph 2
of the Penal Code...

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...sentences him to death and loss of
civil rights in perpetuity

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The High Court has confirmed
the sentence

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The State Council has rejected
the appeal for clemency

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The sentence will be executed

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I'd prefer one without filter

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Execute the sentence

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Direction

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Photography

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Music

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Art direction

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Sound

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Film editing

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Made by the Tor Film Group