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A Polish Film Institute
Co-financed Production.

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POLISH FILM INSTITUTE

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This story is not based
on anyone's biography.

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MAZOVIA WARSAW FILM COMMISSION

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WARSAW, 1953

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PROPELLER
presents

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starring

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MISTER T

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The Secret Police have called me in.

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Can I leave it here?

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"DOLLS FOR ADULTS
Wałach & Sons"

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The Devil showed up in Warsaw today.

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He said he was a substitute,
but never said for whom.

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All applications and requests
should be filed with him:

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that's what he claimed
with a cheerful smile.

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We formed a long queue,
each with their own painful issue.

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We were full of hope.

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Anyone could touch our heart and face
with one warm glance.

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None of us suspected
what we were waiting for.

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ONE MONTH EARLIER

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"THE BALL OF MODEL WORKERS
IS THE CELEBRATION OF THE WHOLE NATION"

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And now it's time
for the highlight of the evening.

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Please welcome

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the true hero of our times.

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The living legend.

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The First Secretary
of the Central Committee

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of the Polish United Workers' Party:

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Comrade Bolesław Bierut!

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BO-LEK! BO-LEK!

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Citizens and comrades!

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Model workers from towns and villages!

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Creators and builders
of the Polish People's Republic!

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I warmly welcome all of you
to the first carnival party this year.

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It is a new socialist tradition
to exchange greetings today,

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and not on New Year's Day,
an imperialistic holiday.

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I wish you all the best

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as we direct our thoughts
and feelings to Poland,

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the Homeland and Mother of us all,

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the recipient of our constant effort
and everyday arduous work.

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BO-LEK! BO-LEK!

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I don't want favours from the authorities
or crumbs from their vulgar table.

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I prefer my trembling at dawn

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and my meagre lunch
I'm not sure I can afford.

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This diary is my final battle,

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but I'm not going to throw stones.

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I'm trying to survive,
sleep, and stand by.

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I might succeed...

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Go to bed, come on!

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- I bought some paper.
- We'll talk tomorrow.

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- Would you lend me your typewriter?
- I said I would. Go to sleep!

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But paper matters most.

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What can I write without paper?

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Bloody nothing.

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And I must be like you.

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- Are your ambitions really so low?
- Low?

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A journalist who's famous.

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And unemployed.

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Fuck that.

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Open up! Militia!

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Open up!

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Good morning!

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Good morning...

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I missed you.

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Anything else?

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It's terribly cold.

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I'm free until noon.

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What are you writing?

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A narrator.

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What is that?

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The voice that delivers information
in a literary work.

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In novels or poems?

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Poems.

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Christ, the way you look at me...

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Focus!

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I know it!
In novels, there's a narrator.

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In poems, there's a persona.

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I have to write an essay on Positivism.

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Then write it.

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Will you dictate it for me
or shall I get an F?

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Forget it.

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"Manchuria".

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Is this a good title for an epic poem?

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It's perfect, Tadzio.

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"HOUSE OF WRITERS AND ARTISTS"

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- How's it going, Reporter Filak?
- I bought some typing paper.

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- You told me.
- From before the war. That thick!

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- You think you might lend me...?
- Do I have a choice?

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For a few days. I'll practise my fingers
before I buy my own.

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The march of progress.

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A fountain pen?
It's no fucking school!

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I'm going to lunch.

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Enjoy your meal!

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"Manchuria".

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Is this a good title for an epic poem?

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Not bad.

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"READ BOOKS FROM THE USSR!"

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Has any of my fellow colleagues
lost one zloty?

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- What can I get you?
- I'll have the usual. The Chef's set.

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Tomato soup and dumplings.

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Perfect. And what is the price
of this feast?

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You always ask,
but it's always the same: seven zlotys.

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I always hope
it will be cheaper one day.

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He complains they won't publish him.

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As if there was anything to publish.

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He only cares about parties and women.
He leaves literature to us.

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I can't blame him.

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Now I'd bet on shagging too.
But in the past, on poetry!

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May I join our leading reactionary?

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How are things, Kazio?

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Quite busy.

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I'm having a new book published.
Another one will be turned into a film.

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I'm going to the Cannes Festival.

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And how are you?

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A new scarf? I'm sure it's French.

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No. The 1940 Kriegsmarine.

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Ah.

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- I have an offer for you.
- Well?

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Come to my place tonight.

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You'll meet a few ladies in nylon.

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We'll have a drink.

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"DOLLS FOR ADULTS
Wałach & Sons"

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Define a noun.

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Go on! You know it!

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Kasia, what is a noun?

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The teacher wants to see
what you know.

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Dad took a long time
to explain to you what a noun is.

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A noun is...

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She knows that!

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- Tell me or you won't get dinner!
- Honey, don't get upset.

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Dad has a heart condition.

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A noun is...?

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She's an idiot at school
and she can't even speak!

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She can! She's simply upset.

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It always happens with a new teacher.

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Kasia, say anything.

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The teacher should hear
you can speak at all.

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If you don't speak,
he won't teach you.

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I'm very sorry,
but I won't take this job.

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However,

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may I possibly use your bathroom
to wash my socks?

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Dear colleagues, let me remind you
that the term "substance"

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has been used to define many concepts
of the Absolute Being.

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According to Parmenides,

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the Being is primordial,

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unchanging, complete, and indivisible.

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While Spinoza adds
it's eternal and supremely perfect.

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Bollocks!

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The term "substance" has long lost
its original meaning.

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Not to fucking mention its attributes.

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Are you sure they're fine?

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More than fine.

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The morning shift is always taken
by retired philosophy professors,

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while the night one by doctors.

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If you want to hear
about the kidneys or the prostate,

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come back after 10 p.m.

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Your lines are brilliant.

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They might get published.

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The Czytelnik Publishing
House has a new director.

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New meaning better?

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A lady comrade with two MA
degrees, who loves motor sports.

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I guess I stand
a chance, don't I?

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With your ear for rhythm?
You always do.

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Just keep believing.

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How's your writing
for the drawer going on?

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- I've got a certain idea.
- That's good.

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I'm not so sure.

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It's revolutionary and long.

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Even 500 pages.

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Perfect bedtime reading.

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More like toilet reading.

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Zbigniew, can you lend me
a fifty for flowers?

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I got a C for Positivism,
but I could've got an A!

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- If you had written it for me.
- Boots!

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- Why aren't you at school?
- Too cold.

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Did you write the overdue essay
on Słowacki?

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A long time ago.

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Show me.

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I don't have my notebook on me.

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- But I spent all night on that crap.
- So you must remember it perfectly.

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Tell me.

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You think I learnt it by heart?
Are you mad?

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Get out.

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"DOLLS FOR ADULTS
Wałach & Sons"

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Good evening.

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Mister T is punctual as usual.

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You shouldn't have gone
to all this expensive trouble.

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The second issue published yesterday.

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Sensational news, trivia...
That's what I like.

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Not overly educational. Bravo, Kazio!

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How did you manage to publish it?

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The communists have realized
they can't be boring

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when talking to young people.

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We just need to find a compromise

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between what young people want
and what we want them to want.

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You can earn a lot of money.

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There are bright prospects

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for talented people
who speak foreign languages.

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Even little rebels...
A guy like you can't waste his talent.

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You think I am?

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You're not realising your full potential.

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In this country, everyone has to screw up.

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To varying degrees. That's life.

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"Looking for the Kon-Tiki God"

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Here, I'd put...

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Here, I'd put
a photo of a woman,

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Black or Asian,
wearing very few clothes.

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Or even completely naked.

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A pioneering idea.

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Young people will appreciate

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internationalism
with a human face and arse.

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Hello!

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- What's wrong?
- My private students are dropping out.

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A watch is just a watch, but...

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I wouldn't say no to your pen.

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My pen is not for sale. Not yet.

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Watches are hard to sell now.
I won't buy it.

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Please...

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- Two hundred.
- Fine.

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It will be fine when
I get your pen.

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How about a typewriter?

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I'm scared.

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Even though I pretend I'm not.

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I'm a master
at keeping up the pretence

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so that I can live in this system.

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I have no achievements or prospects.
I feel like an anonymous castaway.

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I miss real writing,
but all I can afford is these scribbles.

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And I'm ashamed

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to be waiting for success,
like a light on the horizon.

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It's fucking freezing in here!

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The heating turns on at 5 p.m.
How's Kraków?

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The heating turns on at 5 a.m.

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We've got both:
socialism and tile stoves.

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But you guys have only
socialism and deep shit,

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in which you have started
to settle down.

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- Gherkins.
- Thank your wife for me.

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- How's the "Tygodnik Powszechny" team?
- Poorly. They're starving.

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But they're looking
into the future,

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preserving the idea of secular Catholicism
for Varsovians like you.

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Dear Stefan, is there a future at all?

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We are not analysing
the political situation

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with unauthorised people.

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But you're planning to publish
some banned books.

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Yes, like "Winnie-the-Pooh".

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So perhaps I might stand a chance
of publishing my Kraków essays?

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You know, maybe they were good
a while ago...

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But now we aim at lighter literature.

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This is what the Politburo
and society expect.

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- I'll have a perfect book for you.
- Will you indeed?

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A crime action novel
about fighting terrorists

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in Warsaw rising from the ruins.

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Terrorists?

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In the Polish People's Republic?

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It's your fevered imagination talking.

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Is that bad?

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This is not a relevant subject.

258
00:30:46,125 --> 00:30:47,582
And what do they do?

259
00:30:48,458 --> 00:30:49,874
Those terrorists?

260
00:30:50,583 --> 00:30:52,374
They plan to seize power.

261
00:30:53,666 --> 00:30:55,874
- In our country?
- And they prepare an attack.

262
00:30:55,958 --> 00:30:57,957
They want to blow up the Palace.

263
00:30:59,833 --> 00:31:00,833
The Palace?

264
00:31:01,666 --> 00:31:02,666
What Palace?

265
00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:17,957
You are mad.

266
00:31:19,125 --> 00:31:21,957
- Not at all.
- You want to blow up...

267
00:31:22,916 --> 00:31:24,124
our Palace?

268
00:31:25,708 --> 00:31:26,790
Yes!

269
00:31:38,791 --> 00:31:40,999
Do you have any idea...

270
00:31:41,625 --> 00:31:43,624
what Comrade Bierut
will think about it?

271
00:31:44,166 --> 00:31:45,707
He might like it.

272
00:31:46,625 --> 00:31:47,625
No!

273
00:31:48,625 --> 00:31:50,124
No...

274
00:32:44,958 --> 00:32:46,915
For the real aim of literature

275
00:32:47,041 --> 00:32:51,207
is to present great
undertakings of Socialism,

276
00:32:51,625 --> 00:32:53,665
portraits of Party leaders,

277
00:32:53,875 --> 00:32:56,332
and heroic model workers.

278
00:32:57,458 --> 00:32:58,874
As the name suggests,

279
00:32:59,041 --> 00:33:03,124
socialist realism reflects reality...

280
00:33:06,041 --> 00:33:09,249
...and shows people
as they really are:

281
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,957
beautiful and happy.

282
00:33:12,250 --> 00:33:15,374
And the world
that surrounds them is also...

283
00:33:16,041 --> 00:33:17,707
Beautiful!

284
00:33:17,916 --> 00:33:22,540
...beautiful, with no wars,
conflicts, suffering or sadness.

285
00:34:21,833 --> 00:34:24,249
Oi, Iruś, Iruś...

286
00:34:26,333 --> 00:34:28,832
Where do you get so much saliva from?

287
00:34:29,291 --> 00:34:30,291
You know...

288
00:34:30,666 --> 00:34:32,540
I do, I do...

289
00:34:40,583 --> 00:34:43,332
There's something
that bothers me, honey.

290
00:34:44,250 --> 00:34:45,250
Yes?

291
00:34:45,416 --> 00:34:51,249
I've learnt someone wants
to blow up the Palace.

292
00:34:54,041 --> 00:34:55,207
The royal one?

293
00:34:58,125 --> 00:34:59,125
No.

294
00:35:01,208 --> 00:35:02,707
This one.

295
00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:09,790
Darling, what the fuck
are you talking about?

296
00:35:44,791 --> 00:35:46,415
I wasn't...

297
00:35:47,791 --> 00:35:49,457
alert enough.

298
00:35:49,958 --> 00:35:53,957
As a result, my article
on an alleged decrease

299
00:35:54,125 --> 00:35:57,249
in the pig and cattle population...

300
00:35:57,791 --> 00:35:59,915
contained judgement.

301
00:36:00,208 --> 00:36:01,624
Louder, please!

302
00:36:01,833 --> 00:36:05,540
...contained false judgement,

303
00:36:05,708 --> 00:36:09,915
which betrays
the proper principles of the Party

304
00:36:10,083 --> 00:36:12,415
and challenges its authority.

305
00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:16,624
In consequence, it delays...

306
00:36:17,875 --> 00:36:20,707
our march to the bright future.

307
00:36:21,750 --> 00:36:25,707
I can't find any excuse for myself.

308
00:36:28,833 --> 00:36:30,665
And I ask you, Comrades...

309
00:36:31,083 --> 00:36:33,457
for the heaviest punishment.

310
00:36:41,291 --> 00:36:43,832
And you, Comrade Filak?

311
00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:46,165
What would you like to say?

312
00:36:49,083 --> 00:36:51,332
Go on, don't be shy!

313
00:36:52,208 --> 00:36:54,582
Why do you want to be a journalist?

314
00:36:59,750 --> 00:37:01,707
I'd like my dad...

315
00:37:03,666 --> 00:37:05,290
to be proud of me.

316
00:37:09,166 --> 00:37:10,166
Well...

317
00:37:12,041 --> 00:37:13,624
That's fine. Sit down.

318
00:37:14,250 --> 00:37:16,874
Let me remind you
that the political decision-makers

319
00:37:17,041 --> 00:37:19,957
have announced a novel competition.

320
00:37:20,333 --> 00:37:24,415
The first prize
is a Warszawa passenger car.

321
00:37:24,625 --> 00:37:29,790
Non-drivers can win a holiday
in the People's Republic of Bulgaria.

322
00:37:31,208 --> 00:37:35,415
You can obviously get additional points
for the peasant or worker background.

323
00:37:35,625 --> 00:37:39,790
Therefore, Comrades, try hard!
Golden Sands are waiting.

324
00:37:40,166 --> 00:37:42,124
Hooligans are everywhere.

325
00:37:42,666 --> 00:37:45,915
Even old women get raped and pestered.

326
00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:48,874
And our Militia, where are they?!

327
00:37:49,583 --> 00:37:51,540
At a Health and Safety training.

328
00:37:52,125 --> 00:37:54,249
Why don't you write about it?

329
00:37:54,958 --> 00:37:57,499
I haven't been writing for a year!

330
00:37:57,958 --> 00:37:59,124
Really?

331
00:37:59,291 --> 00:38:02,624
And even if I did, they
wouldn't run it anyway.

332
00:38:03,250 --> 00:38:04,915
Bad times...

333
00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:07,499
How's your daughter?

334
00:38:07,666 --> 00:38:09,707
When are you going to be a grandpa?

335
00:38:09,875 --> 00:38:11,665
At the beginning of April.

336
00:38:11,833 --> 00:38:14,499
You should also settle down.

337
00:38:14,666 --> 00:38:16,207
Start a family.

338
00:38:16,416 --> 00:38:18,957
Adopt a dog at least.

339
00:38:19,666 --> 00:38:21,665
Great idea, Mr Zygmunt!

340
00:38:21,833 --> 00:38:24,915
A dog! This is exactly what I need.

341
00:38:25,083 --> 00:38:27,832
- Thank you for the washbasin.
- You're welcome.

342
00:38:28,375 --> 00:38:29,375
And?

343
00:38:30,041 --> 00:38:31,249
It sucks.

344
00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:33,749
I spent all day on this.

345
00:38:33,875 --> 00:38:37,749
You have to catch the readers' attention
with the first paragraph.

346
00:38:37,875 --> 00:38:41,415
Seduce them, lure them with foreplay.

347
00:38:42,125 --> 00:38:43,415
With what?

348
00:38:44,791 --> 00:38:47,040
This is a totally incredible story.

349
00:38:47,208 --> 00:38:50,290
If I hadn't been standing
behind that door,

350
00:38:51,250 --> 00:38:53,165
I wouldn't have believed it myself...

351
00:38:53,375 --> 00:38:55,540
This is the opening paragraph.
You see?

352
00:38:55,750 --> 00:38:58,790
Don't lay all your cards
on the table at once.

353
00:38:59,250 --> 00:39:00,915
Why the door?

354
00:39:03,958 --> 00:39:05,249
I don't know.

355
00:39:05,791 --> 00:39:10,457
But it sounds promising,
while a promise is an essential element

356
00:39:10,625 --> 00:39:14,124
of the affair
between the reader and the writer.

357
00:39:14,541 --> 00:39:16,332
There's no better pocketknife!

358
00:39:16,541 --> 00:39:19,540
It's so easy: take his life!
Only a fiver!

359
00:39:20,041 --> 00:39:22,749
How come you've got nothing
to write about?

360
00:39:22,875 --> 00:39:24,749
The subjects are there for the asking.

361
00:39:24,916 --> 00:39:27,707
- Like toothbrushes?
- Precisely.

362
00:39:27,958 --> 00:39:31,165
About the communist system
persecuting our teeth.

363
00:39:31,791 --> 00:39:33,165
Let's look at the facts.

364
00:39:33,333 --> 00:39:37,499
The only type of toothbrush
produced in Poland hurts your gums.

365
00:39:37,750 --> 00:39:41,999
So, to brush your teeth according
to the self-preservation instinct,

366
00:39:42,166 --> 00:39:44,540
you have to buy toothbrushes
from shady sellers.

367
00:39:44,666 --> 00:39:47,582
Where do they get this stuff?
It's smuggled.

368
00:39:47,708 --> 00:39:52,040
People risk spending years in jail
to bring a bit of nylon into Poland.

369
00:39:52,208 --> 00:39:54,707
And they want us to pay... how much?

370
00:39:55,333 --> 00:39:58,582
Eighty apiece, my fellow countrymen.

371
00:39:58,833 --> 00:40:02,749
If you buy three, I can give you
a helmet from Monte Cassino.

372
00:40:03,250 --> 00:40:04,499
See?

373
00:40:05,041 --> 00:40:08,957
That equals ten lunches
in a factory canteen.

374
00:40:09,166 --> 00:40:11,374
- Are you sure it's a good subject?
- Isn't it?

375
00:40:11,583 --> 00:40:15,124
From a toothbrush to the system,
to the human nature.

376
00:40:15,333 --> 00:40:17,749
A good metaphor
always helps you gain popularity.

377
00:40:17,958 --> 00:40:19,707
- Where?
- In the West.

378
00:40:19,875 --> 00:40:24,124
They like such figures of speech.
You just need to learn languages.

379
00:40:24,458 --> 00:40:26,415
But I suck even at Polish.

380
00:40:27,041 --> 00:40:29,207
Read more poetry.

381
00:40:45,208 --> 00:40:46,208
Boots!

382
00:40:49,333 --> 00:40:50,957
How's school?

383
00:40:53,916 --> 00:40:56,415
It's the big freeze,
classes have been called off.

384
00:40:57,208 --> 00:41:00,040
Again? But we're having a thaw.

385
00:41:00,708 --> 00:41:03,832
But the night's cold stays in the walls.

386
00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:08,082
- Are you joking?
- I swear the school's closed.

387
00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:11,207
So you should have gone home to study.

388
00:41:11,416 --> 00:41:13,415
But I already know everything.

389
00:41:13,625 --> 00:41:16,332
Do you? When did Marcel Proust live?

390
00:41:22,291 --> 00:41:25,165
- You're leaving.
- It's pointless.

391
00:41:25,916 --> 00:41:28,790
That's not how I imagined
lessons with a famous author.

392
00:41:28,916 --> 00:41:32,790
- It's your problem.
- I thought my problems were yours.

393
00:41:35,875 --> 00:41:37,999
- Let go of me!
- You have to learn, girl!

394
00:41:38,166 --> 00:41:42,415
That's why you come here!
Other things happen along the way.

395
00:41:42,666 --> 00:41:43,832
Don't shout.

396
00:41:45,791 --> 00:41:49,415
That's not how you speak to a student.
Any student.

397
00:41:49,833 --> 00:41:53,999
Especially a student
who's fallen in love with her teacher.

398
00:41:59,041 --> 00:42:00,499
What's going on?

399
00:42:04,041 --> 00:42:05,874
I'm late.

400
00:43:15,166 --> 00:43:17,707
"DOLLS FOR ADULTS
Wałach & Sons"

401
00:43:47,833 --> 00:43:49,999
Who said you could sit down?

402
00:44:13,541 --> 00:44:15,374
Now you can sit down.

403
00:44:21,708 --> 00:44:26,332
Filak, who got you a room
in the House of Writers?

404
00:44:27,333 --> 00:44:28,333
A room...

405
00:44:30,875 --> 00:44:32,499
A room...

406
00:44:34,625 --> 00:44:38,207
The key. For fuck's sake,
I forgot or lost it.

407
00:44:38,958 --> 00:44:42,624
- I apologise.
- Who got you the key to that dump?

408
00:44:45,041 --> 00:44:46,041
You did, Comrade.

409
00:44:46,291 --> 00:44:49,957
Do you know what you should be and do
to settle in Warsaw?

410
00:44:50,125 --> 00:44:52,624
- I do.
- You don't know shit.

411
00:44:53,541 --> 00:44:56,374
How about your job at "The Tourist"?

412
00:44:58,291 --> 00:44:59,540
It was also you, Comrade.

413
00:44:59,958 --> 00:45:02,540
So, did I make a bad choice for you?

414
00:45:03,250 --> 00:45:05,124
Or maybe you prefer "Kultura Paryska"?

415
00:45:05,333 --> 00:45:07,290
- No. No...
- See?

416
00:45:07,833 --> 00:45:11,832
No one reads this "Tourist" crap,
but the money keeps coming in.

417
00:45:12,708 --> 00:45:15,624
Is it appropriate in a socialist state?

418
00:45:18,916 --> 00:45:20,707
Is it or is it fucking not?!

419
00:45:20,958 --> 00:45:22,332
I guess not.

420
00:45:22,541 --> 00:45:25,790
Then why are you trying
to fuck me like a cheap whore?

421
00:45:25,916 --> 00:45:28,374
Why don't I know everything
about your neighbour?

422
00:45:28,541 --> 00:45:30,624
What he eats and how often he shits?

423
00:45:30,791 --> 00:45:33,540
Comrade, I'd have to follow him
everywhere.

424
00:45:33,708 --> 00:45:36,874
To the loo, the Writers' Club,
the SPATiF Club...

425
00:45:37,416 --> 00:45:39,707
That would make him suspicious.

426
00:45:39,875 --> 00:45:42,040
We have our people at SPATiF.

427
00:45:42,333 --> 00:45:44,957
Focus on the wardrobe and your ear.

428
00:45:46,166 --> 00:45:48,665
I give you one month.

429
00:45:49,375 --> 00:45:51,749
If you don't bring me specifics,

430
00:45:52,458 --> 00:45:55,915
I'll find a prospective owner
of the key

431
00:45:56,208 --> 00:45:57,832
that you've lost.

432
00:45:58,166 --> 00:46:01,332
And you'll go back to your shithole.

433
00:46:02,541 --> 00:46:04,540
Or you won't.

434
00:46:07,833 --> 00:46:11,332
You'll go even further.
I'll make it happen.

435
00:46:15,208 --> 00:46:19,207
The little bitch that comes to his place,
does he shag her?

436
00:46:19,583 --> 00:46:22,415
Nah... He teaches her for her finals.

437
00:46:24,583 --> 00:46:29,457
Hasn't it crossed your mind
he recruits all these girls as spies?

438
00:46:47,166 --> 00:46:48,166
"Manchuria".

439
00:46:48,416 --> 00:46:50,624
Is this a good title for an epic poem?

440
00:46:50,916 --> 00:46:52,749
It's perfect, Tadzio.

441
00:46:53,750 --> 00:46:55,832
Get over here, mister!

442
00:46:56,166 --> 00:46:59,040
"QUIET HOURS: 10 p.m. - 6 a.m."

443
00:46:59,208 --> 00:47:00,208
Hello.

444
00:47:00,291 --> 00:47:02,832
The administrators ask
if you're writing anything.

445
00:47:03,250 --> 00:47:05,374
- It's not their business.
- On the contrary.

446
00:47:05,541 --> 00:47:08,415
This hotel is only for those who write.

447
00:47:10,250 --> 00:47:12,957
- I pay the rent.
- No need to.

448
00:47:13,166 --> 00:47:16,290
All you need is write.
The administrators will accept it.

449
00:47:16,791 --> 00:47:18,415
But to pay and not write...

450
00:47:18,625 --> 00:47:21,915
They think it's a fucking disgrace.
So do I.

451
00:47:22,791 --> 00:47:24,582
Are you being serious?

452
00:47:25,750 --> 00:47:28,790
I'm just warning you.
You can do what you want.

453
00:47:29,250 --> 00:47:33,415
People did get evicted
for being bums...

454
00:47:56,708 --> 00:47:59,957
Filak, no more beating
around the fucking bush.

455
00:48:05,083 --> 00:48:08,374
I'll tell you
what your buddy, Mister T is planning.

456
00:48:08,625 --> 00:48:10,374
Go to the window.

457
00:48:22,625 --> 00:48:24,415
Peek under the roller blind.

458
00:48:28,833 --> 00:48:30,290
What do you see?

459
00:48:35,916 --> 00:48:38,915
- The world...
- Meaning?

460
00:48:40,166 --> 00:48:43,207
Buildings... Streets, people...

461
00:48:43,708 --> 00:48:45,290
Right.

462
00:48:46,708 --> 00:48:48,915
And in the distance?

463
00:48:50,500 --> 00:48:53,249
- More buildings...
- Focus, will you?!

464
00:49:04,375 --> 00:49:06,665
The Palace... Can you see it?

465
00:49:07,333 --> 00:49:09,874
- The gift from the Soviet nation.
- I can see it.

466
00:49:10,083 --> 00:49:11,083
Right.

467
00:49:11,458 --> 00:49:15,249
Then how is Mister T linked
to this magnificent gift?

468
00:49:18,250 --> 00:49:20,624
Maybe he'd like to...

469
00:49:27,541 --> 00:49:29,915
He'd like to...

470
00:49:32,458 --> 00:49:34,707
He'd like to live there.

471
00:49:51,500 --> 00:49:53,874
The Editor-in-Chief
is a demanding Commie,

472
00:49:54,291 --> 00:49:56,499
but he lets us be.

473
00:49:59,750 --> 00:50:02,749
So, you're gonna write something.

474
00:50:03,166 --> 00:50:05,540
Some catchy action
so that people like it.

475
00:50:05,875 --> 00:50:08,040
And "The Tourist" belongs to us!

476
00:50:09,958 --> 00:50:13,249
So you write your name
and I write about mountains?

477
00:50:13,541 --> 00:50:15,749
Mountains or...

478
00:50:18,916 --> 00:50:22,957
And we split the money fifty-fifty.
Gotta pay the bills, right?

479
00:50:23,083 --> 00:50:25,707
Especially now,
with a child on the way.

480
00:50:31,458 --> 00:50:33,374
You were talking loudly...

481
00:50:33,583 --> 00:50:35,915
I heard you through the... wall.

482
00:50:37,541 --> 00:50:39,915
Can you hear other things too?

483
00:50:40,708 --> 00:50:41,749
No.

484
00:51:09,375 --> 00:51:11,874
"LENIN IN PORONIN"

485
00:51:16,166 --> 00:51:20,874
"On the sightseeing trail
of the great revolutionaries"

486
00:51:43,958 --> 00:51:46,582
You didn't even hear me come in.

487
00:52:03,541 --> 00:52:04,874
Look at me.

488
00:52:12,416 --> 00:52:13,707
You know...

489
00:52:14,958 --> 00:52:17,207
It was a false alarm.

490
00:52:19,125 --> 00:52:21,249
You don't have to worry.

491
00:52:24,791 --> 00:52:25,791
So?

492
00:52:26,916 --> 00:52:29,665
As a reward,
can I go to the Press Ball?

493
00:52:30,916 --> 00:52:34,290
First, I want to see
your end-of-term report.

494
00:52:34,958 --> 00:52:37,249
Can't we arrange it differently?

495
00:52:40,041 --> 00:52:41,415
No.

496
00:52:42,583 --> 00:52:45,499
And who creates the world in a novel?

497
00:52:46,041 --> 00:52:47,165
The narrator.

498
00:52:47,291 --> 00:52:48,874
What kind of narrator?

499
00:52:49,291 --> 00:52:51,624
Omniscient like God.

500
00:52:54,291 --> 00:52:55,957
Come on, I know it.

501
00:52:56,541 --> 00:53:01,874
The first-person narrator belongs
to this world and is the protagonist.

502
00:53:03,208 --> 00:53:06,124
- Am I making any progress?
- Hardly any.

503
00:53:06,458 --> 00:53:08,332
Don't be so grumpy.

504
00:53:09,166 --> 00:53:13,374
You're underestimating me.
I'm your destiny.

505
00:53:13,791 --> 00:53:16,790
Don't use words you don't understand.

506
00:53:17,583 --> 00:53:21,749
You once said it yourself
right before the orgasm.

507
00:53:41,250 --> 00:53:43,249
Your hands are terribly dirty.

508
00:53:43,791 --> 00:53:46,082
What do you expect
after eight classes?

509
00:53:46,250 --> 00:53:49,207
Wash yourself.
The tap's already working.

510
00:53:49,791 --> 00:53:53,540
You want to remake me
like Pygmalion remakes Gonorrhoea.

511
00:53:54,041 --> 00:53:56,040
Galatea.

512
00:53:56,375 --> 00:54:00,249
You don't care about my feelings.
You're an arrogant pervert.

513
00:54:00,500 --> 00:54:02,207
And an old freak!

514
00:54:04,041 --> 00:54:05,207
Oh?

515
00:55:13,458 --> 00:55:15,499
I don't understand you, mate.

516
00:55:16,458 --> 00:55:18,957
You're sculpting a wonderful woman.

517
00:55:19,416 --> 00:55:20,957
But not for yourself.

518
00:55:24,500 --> 00:55:26,457
You have to write more.

519
00:55:26,833 --> 00:55:30,499
It will increase your economic status
and recognition.

520
00:55:30,666 --> 00:55:32,499
That's my dream.

521
00:55:32,791 --> 00:55:33,832
You see?

522
00:55:34,500 --> 00:55:38,165
They don't publish me,
so I keep staring at the ceiling.

523
00:55:38,500 --> 00:55:41,082
It's also a sort of pleasure though.

524
00:55:43,125 --> 00:55:47,957
If I didn't know you,
I'd think you were a classic agitator.

525
00:55:49,666 --> 00:55:50,999
I beg your pardon?

526
00:55:51,833 --> 00:55:54,124
You know I'm joking.

527
00:55:55,208 --> 00:55:57,290
They're going to break me one day.

528
00:55:57,458 --> 00:56:01,790
Not with beating, but with speaking,
soft and warm like rotting.

529
00:56:01,958 --> 00:56:05,290
God, if You exist,
set me free from my need

530
00:56:05,458 --> 00:56:10,290
for privileges and luxuries
or take me without delay.

531
00:56:11,458 --> 00:56:13,374
Now, please welcome...

532
00:56:14,541 --> 00:56:17,540
The guardian spirit of Polish literature

533
00:56:18,375 --> 00:56:20,332
and its first reviewer.

534
00:56:20,958 --> 00:56:23,707
An exceptionally sensitive

535
00:56:24,375 --> 00:56:26,124
and diligent reader,

536
00:56:26,958 --> 00:56:29,499
who can notice the mistakes

537
00:56:30,666 --> 00:56:32,665
that theoretically don't exist.

538
00:56:32,916 --> 00:56:35,540
An admirer of innovation in poetry

539
00:56:36,083 --> 00:56:38,749
and tradition in prose.

540
00:56:40,833 --> 00:56:42,707
Dear Journalists!

541
00:56:43,166 --> 00:56:44,540
Honourable Artists!

542
00:56:45,083 --> 00:56:48,749
Experts on the phrase, rhymes
and adjectives!

543
00:56:49,250 --> 00:56:50,749
Please welcome

544
00:56:51,041 --> 00:56:54,374
the First Secretary
of the Central Committee

545
00:56:54,541 --> 00:56:57,207
of the Polish United Workers' Party:

546
00:56:57,791 --> 00:56:59,999
Comrade Bolesław Bierut!

547
00:57:00,583 --> 00:57:05,207
"POLISH JOURNALISTS SUPPORT
THE PEASANT AND WORKER GOVERNMENT"

548
00:57:18,583 --> 00:57:21,249
Artists and journalists,
writers and poets

549
00:57:21,375 --> 00:57:24,499
should forge an alliance
with the working class.

550
00:57:24,958 --> 00:57:26,790
This is our current goal.

551
00:57:26,958 --> 00:57:30,082
Therefore write, Comrades! Write!

552
00:57:30,541 --> 00:57:34,999
The Polish People's Republic
needs your imagination.

553
00:57:35,500 --> 00:57:38,790
Write the novel of the century,
better than anything else so far.

554
00:57:38,875 --> 00:57:43,040
The worker and peasant government
wishes you good luck.

555
00:57:43,166 --> 00:57:45,415
Go and join the letters,

556
00:57:45,875 --> 00:57:49,332
while we build bridges,
roads and factories.

557
00:57:49,833 --> 00:57:56,624
Our socialist realism will bloom
only if we toil together.

558
00:58:11,166 --> 00:58:15,332
I want to drink so fucking badly,
but I can't.

559
00:58:18,791 --> 00:58:20,290
I beg your pardon?

560
00:58:21,375 --> 00:58:22,832
The doctor's orders.

561
00:58:25,166 --> 00:58:26,874
Fucking cirrhosis.

562
00:58:27,083 --> 00:58:28,124
It's hereditary.

563
00:58:30,958 --> 00:58:32,624
But this...

564
00:58:33,083 --> 00:58:36,082
No prick will take it away from me.

565
00:59:03,625 --> 00:59:05,040
It kicks arse, doesn't it?

566
00:59:05,375 --> 00:59:07,165
Bloody weed...

567
00:59:07,916 --> 00:59:09,124
it is strong.

568
00:59:09,333 --> 00:59:12,499
I got it from the First Secretary
of Uzbekistan.

569
00:59:12,708 --> 00:59:16,415
They plant it as part
of their national tradition.

570
00:59:21,375 --> 00:59:23,249
So I've been thinking...

571
00:59:24,375 --> 00:59:27,499
Maybe I should issue a decree
to do the same.

572
00:59:30,750 --> 00:59:34,999
To seed the area
around Warsaw with weed.

573
00:59:35,208 --> 00:59:38,207
That would secure you
a place in history.

574
00:59:38,333 --> 00:59:42,082
Instead of one fucking thousand schools
for one thousand years of our state.

575
00:59:42,250 --> 00:59:45,749
- Why not link these two?
- Yes!

576
00:59:46,583 --> 00:59:48,082
For Poland.

577
00:59:49,833 --> 00:59:52,332
For our beloved homeland.

578
00:59:54,958 --> 00:59:58,040
Everyone thinks I hate it.

579
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,415
I'm not everyone.

580
01:00:03,458 --> 01:00:05,207
Well said.

581
01:00:07,416 --> 01:00:09,874
I'll keep it in mind, Comrade.

582
01:00:14,500 --> 01:00:17,540
And now fuck off.
I want to take a piss.

583
01:00:26,083 --> 01:00:29,749
Is that what you call
writing at night?! Bravo!

584
01:00:30,125 --> 01:00:32,790
Fucking intellectuals!

585
01:00:33,083 --> 01:00:36,124
Parasites! And whoremongers!

586
01:00:37,333 --> 01:00:38,333
Psst!

587
01:00:38,708 --> 01:00:40,207
Psst! Psst!

588
01:00:43,083 --> 01:00:47,249
They came and asked
the neighbours about you.

589
01:00:48,125 --> 01:00:51,874
- Who did?
- They didn't say their names.

590
01:00:52,625 --> 01:00:55,124
You must get yourself a dog.

591
01:00:55,750 --> 01:00:57,415
You must!

592
01:01:50,083 --> 01:01:52,290
You want to know what freedom is?

593
01:01:52,458 --> 01:01:53,582
Freedom.

594
01:03:51,958 --> 01:03:57,499
The sun disappeared behind the horizon
as the sky turned bronze.

595
01:03:58,458 --> 01:04:00,457
Lenin finished talking.

596
01:04:05,750 --> 01:04:10,082
The room was filled with silence
as deep as if everyone had died.

597
01:04:10,625 --> 01:04:13,749
Yet, Piotr knew it wasn't death
that caught up with them,

598
01:04:13,916 --> 01:04:15,832
but pangs of conscience.

599
01:04:16,458 --> 01:04:20,749
These pangs of conscience
were offered like bread or amber

600
01:04:20,958 --> 01:04:25,582
by this wonderful, modest man,
whom they were watching now.

601
01:04:27,333 --> 01:04:31,624
Lenin's simple words
finally broke the silence:

602
01:04:32,833 --> 01:04:36,624
Turn on the lights,
I want to see you.

603
01:04:37,916 --> 01:04:42,915
Someone reached for the lamp
and soon the room looked as usual.

604
01:04:44,625 --> 01:04:47,415
Piotr knew, however,
that it was only an illusion

605
01:04:47,583 --> 01:04:51,582
and since this moment on,
nothing would ever be the same.

606
01:04:55,375 --> 01:04:57,749
Vladimir Ilyich stared at the window.

607
01:04:58,666 --> 01:05:00,749
The sky over Poronin
had already darkened,

608
01:05:00,875 --> 01:05:04,207
while women in neighbouring
huts prepared supper.

609
01:05:06,125 --> 01:05:10,332
The world of highlanders
was changing for the better.

610
01:05:21,166 --> 01:05:22,166
Wonderful.

611
01:05:33,416 --> 01:05:36,707
"THE YOUNG JOURNALISTS' ASSOCIATION
IS THE PARTY'S AVANT-GARDE"

612
01:05:36,875 --> 01:05:38,457
Wonderful, Comrade.

613
01:05:39,541 --> 01:05:41,457
You have a great talent.

614
01:05:43,333 --> 01:05:45,124
Don't waste it.

615
01:06:30,750 --> 01:06:32,457
Comrade!

616
01:06:34,833 --> 01:06:36,249
Come here, please.

617
01:06:40,791 --> 01:06:44,707
We're looking for Mr Kozera.
He ordered a wall map from us.

618
01:06:45,625 --> 01:06:46,790
Beautiful!

619
01:06:47,250 --> 01:06:48,832
That's exactly what I wanted.

620
01:06:48,958 --> 01:06:52,207
It's big. The best paper
from Czechoslovakia.

621
01:06:52,541 --> 01:06:54,165
Louder, please!

622
01:06:54,666 --> 01:06:56,749
A huge map! You can see everything!

623
01:06:56,875 --> 01:06:58,582
It's beautiful!

624
01:06:58,750 --> 01:07:01,624
- Pity it shows the Soviet Union.
- There are no other maps.

625
01:07:01,791 --> 01:07:03,374
- But there will be!
- No!

626
01:07:03,500 --> 01:07:06,082
You will start to print them. Bravo!

627
01:07:06,208 --> 01:07:08,415
Look at our young Poles!

628
01:07:08,541 --> 01:07:11,249
They will print everything.
Everything!

629
01:07:11,375 --> 01:07:13,582
There will never be other maps!
Never!

630
01:07:13,708 --> 01:07:15,457
All right!

631
01:07:15,833 --> 01:07:20,332
All you need is a dog.
Every young person should have one.

632
01:07:20,500 --> 01:07:22,749
- What dog?
- This big.

633
01:07:23,125 --> 01:07:26,540
A dog is a man's best friend.

634
01:07:26,958 --> 01:07:29,540
It will never leave him. Never!

635
01:07:29,750 --> 01:07:32,082
They brought a summons
when you were out.

636
01:07:32,541 --> 01:07:35,082
"SUMMONS
The Secret Police"

637
01:08:06,583 --> 01:08:08,832
The Secret Police have called me in.

638
01:08:09,291 --> 01:08:10,790
Can I leave it here?

639
01:08:32,791 --> 01:08:35,332
"DOLLS FOR ADULTS
Wałach & Sons"

640
01:08:50,333 --> 01:08:52,332
Do you have a family?

641
01:08:52,458 --> 01:08:53,458
No.

642
01:08:55,291 --> 01:08:58,040
- A job?
- Not a permanent one.

643
01:08:58,208 --> 01:09:01,415
There you go. Now we've got a problem.

644
01:09:01,583 --> 01:09:04,499
Idling, meeting whores...

645
01:09:05,625 --> 01:09:06,707
That's a pity.

646
01:09:07,125 --> 01:09:10,415
I prefer meeting whores
to intellectuals.

647
01:09:10,833 --> 01:09:13,790
I understand your approach.

648
01:09:13,875 --> 01:09:16,457
So, maybe you've heard
something interesting?

649
01:09:18,625 --> 01:09:19,625
Meaning?

650
01:09:20,375 --> 01:09:23,040
Like, there's something big going on...

651
01:09:27,291 --> 01:09:28,624
What exactly?

652
01:09:32,541 --> 01:09:36,332
My adult age, the age of defeat,
has begun to exhaust me.

653
01:09:36,666 --> 01:09:39,874
I'd rather lose it like teeth
and go senile in peace.

654
01:09:40,166 --> 01:09:44,457
Yet, it's impossible...
Male urges won't leave me alone.

655
01:09:45,416 --> 01:09:48,374
Between two evils,
I don't know which is worse:

656
01:09:48,666 --> 01:09:50,707
an unproductive erection

657
01:09:51,625 --> 01:09:54,790
or the communist system
outside the window.

658
01:09:55,041 --> 01:09:57,415
Secret Police, open up!

659
01:10:03,666 --> 01:10:05,665
Secret Police, open up!

660
01:10:19,375 --> 01:10:21,707
It wouldn't hurt to air this pigsty.

661
01:10:21,875 --> 01:10:24,165
There's a problem...

662
01:10:24,666 --> 01:10:26,082
The window...

663
01:10:26,666 --> 01:10:28,374
...is broken. Totally.

664
01:10:31,583 --> 01:10:34,040
That hack writer from Room 20...

665
01:10:36,166 --> 01:10:38,040
Did you see him leave?

666
01:10:42,500 --> 01:10:44,124
Did he take anything with him?

667
01:10:44,333 --> 01:10:45,333
No.

668
01:10:46,958 --> 01:10:48,832
Maybe he left something?

669
01:10:49,666 --> 01:10:51,165
Papers?

670
01:10:54,083 --> 01:10:55,582
Papers?

671
01:10:56,125 --> 01:10:58,915
Blueprints. Architectural plans.

672
01:11:00,583 --> 01:11:02,374
Photographs perhaps?

673
01:11:02,916 --> 01:11:04,665
He didn't leave anything.

674
01:11:10,291 --> 01:11:12,374
Who's his closest friend here?

675
01:11:17,375 --> 01:11:19,374
Nobody.

676
01:11:20,208 --> 01:11:21,707
He's a poser.

677
01:11:21,958 --> 01:11:24,040
Pretending to be better
than he really is.

678
01:11:24,250 --> 01:11:26,790
A lousy drinker. No one likes him.

679
01:12:03,791 --> 01:12:05,582
I'll read you something.

680
01:12:13,208 --> 01:12:15,915
Over the green line of the meadow,

681
01:12:16,500 --> 01:12:19,707
the sky spread its wings like a kite,

682
01:12:20,208 --> 01:12:22,915
while the wind swept through the land

683
01:12:23,166 --> 01:12:25,790
as if it had been the beginning of love

684
01:12:26,250 --> 01:12:28,582
and not an autumn gale.

685
01:12:32,125 --> 01:12:33,624
And what do you think?

686
01:12:37,958 --> 01:12:38,958
Beautiful.

687
01:12:42,458 --> 01:12:43,458
Really?

688
01:14:41,250 --> 01:14:44,165
I hoped you'd say
something interesting.

689
01:14:44,833 --> 01:14:46,332
And what did I get?

690
01:14:49,666 --> 01:14:51,082
No specifics.

691
01:14:54,500 --> 01:14:57,790
That's not how I imagined
a meeting with an artist.

692
01:15:02,833 --> 01:15:05,624
And you think we don't know.

693
01:15:06,041 --> 01:15:07,374
We do.

694
01:15:09,333 --> 01:15:11,332
We know everything.

695
01:15:17,416 --> 01:15:20,165
We know you listen
to Western radio stations.

696
01:15:20,458 --> 01:15:24,165
We know you go to illegal concerts
of reactionary music.

697
01:15:26,916 --> 01:15:30,582
And we know you have
a scarf of the Nazi Kriegsmarine.

698
01:15:30,750 --> 01:15:32,207
We know everything.

699
01:15:32,916 --> 01:15:37,415
I use the scarf to clean my shoes
and jazz is the music of the oppressed.

700
01:15:37,583 --> 01:15:39,165
The oppressed from America.

701
01:15:39,333 --> 01:15:43,082
Exactly, it's played by black musicians,
descendants of slaves...

702
01:15:43,833 --> 01:15:44,833
Whatever.

703
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:47,957
Does it mean
you don't fucking like the system?!

704
01:15:50,041 --> 01:15:51,582
There's a law against it.

705
01:15:53,333 --> 01:15:57,499
How did you like the gherkins
Kisielewski brought you from Kraków?

706
01:16:01,458 --> 01:16:03,040
The walls have ears.

707
01:16:16,333 --> 01:16:18,624
That's why you won't deceive us.

708
01:16:19,666 --> 01:16:20,999
You won't.

709
01:16:22,833 --> 01:16:24,082
We know.

710
01:16:26,708 --> 01:16:27,708
What?

711
01:16:28,291 --> 01:16:29,832
That you're scheming.

712
01:16:31,833 --> 01:16:34,624
You're scheming
against the people's state.

713
01:16:34,916 --> 01:16:37,915
But the people's state
is like mother and father.

714
01:16:38,125 --> 01:16:41,124
If necessary,
it's gonna spank your arse

715
01:16:41,375 --> 01:16:43,915
to point you in the right direction.

716
01:16:45,958 --> 01:16:47,124
Sign it.

717
01:16:49,333 --> 01:16:50,540
What's this?

718
01:16:52,291 --> 01:16:53,957
A statement of commitment.

719
01:16:54,166 --> 01:16:57,165
You commit to keeping
this conversation to yourself.

720
01:17:00,291 --> 01:17:02,249
Now fucking sign it.

721
01:17:26,875 --> 01:17:28,374
"Mister T"

722
01:18:04,333 --> 01:18:05,540
You're here.

723
01:18:47,833 --> 01:18:50,832
My parents were happy together.

724
01:18:55,666 --> 01:18:57,957
So could we.

725
01:19:02,833 --> 01:19:05,415
You're taking your finals in a month.

726
01:19:07,333 --> 01:19:09,165
My work will be done.

727
01:19:14,458 --> 01:19:17,165
There's nothing else I can give you.

728
01:19:22,416 --> 01:19:23,915
I know.

729
01:20:09,708 --> 01:20:11,457
I'm giving it back.

730
01:20:34,125 --> 01:20:35,707
Agitator!

731
01:20:44,416 --> 01:20:46,915
A pathetic Don Juan
and a cheap informer.

732
01:20:47,166 --> 01:20:48,624
The worst sort.

733
01:23:00,708 --> 01:23:03,624
Can you repeat? I must have misheard.

734
01:23:04,208 --> 01:23:05,749
For the third time?

735
01:23:06,666 --> 01:23:10,207
If you refuse to cooperate,
you know what's coming for you?

736
01:23:14,708 --> 01:23:17,790
Those you grassed on
will meet you in jail.

737
01:23:18,166 --> 01:23:20,874
And they'll screw you nice and clean.

738
01:23:24,958 --> 01:23:26,415
Fuck that.

739
01:23:30,041 --> 01:23:31,540
Filak, Filak...

740
01:23:33,375 --> 01:23:38,790
I thought you were my bosom friend,
while you're treating me like this?

741
01:23:40,291 --> 01:23:42,749
You won't last long behind bars.

742
01:23:45,750 --> 01:23:47,624
You're gonna go to waste...

743
01:23:48,708 --> 01:23:50,540
Why not enjoy your life?

744
01:23:56,750 --> 01:23:59,207
So, you shut up all of a sudden?

745
01:24:06,250 --> 01:24:09,374
I have no gift for writing.

746
01:24:50,041 --> 01:24:51,457
I'm sorry...

747
01:24:53,375 --> 01:24:54,540
Investigation?

748
01:24:55,291 --> 01:24:56,790
Frustration.

749
01:24:59,625 --> 01:25:04,124
They don't print my articles
or publish my books.

750
01:25:06,500 --> 01:25:08,749
But they won't stop at that.

751
01:25:10,041 --> 01:25:13,832
Now they're trying find wickedness
I'm incapable of.

752
01:25:14,166 --> 01:25:16,915
You know what? You must get married.

753
01:25:17,333 --> 01:25:19,457
Then you'll be able
to screw the system.

754
01:25:19,625 --> 01:25:22,624
To focus on your family
and long walks.

755
01:25:25,125 --> 01:25:27,499
You think I wouldn't like to?

756
01:25:29,375 --> 01:25:30,540
But to whom?

757
01:25:37,375 --> 01:25:39,874
A liar and a first-rate slob.

758
01:25:41,875 --> 01:25:44,499
I might end up killing her
over a dirty sock.

759
01:25:45,666 --> 01:25:47,207
But you love her.

760
01:25:50,500 --> 01:25:52,957
That's why I won't ruin her life.

761
01:26:02,291 --> 01:26:04,374
Would you take a look
at my new rhymes?

762
01:26:04,541 --> 01:26:05,624
Sure.

763
01:26:10,500 --> 01:26:12,374
Zbigniew...

764
01:26:14,208 --> 01:26:16,749
Have you heard about
"Dolls for Adults"?

765
01:26:17,500 --> 01:26:18,707
Of course.

766
01:26:19,708 --> 01:26:22,832
Every respectable poet
has one at home.

767
01:26:23,708 --> 01:26:24,915
You too?

768
01:26:25,833 --> 01:26:27,915
I can't afford it, but I'd like to.

769
01:26:30,083 --> 01:26:31,083
But...

770
01:26:33,833 --> 01:26:37,790
What do you need that doll for?
I don't think it's for...

771
01:26:39,500 --> 01:26:41,624
On the contrary, my friend.

772
01:26:45,416 --> 01:26:46,915
On the contrary.

773
01:28:52,458 --> 01:28:55,707
The Devil showed up in Warsaw today.

774
01:28:56,666 --> 01:29:00,374
He said he was a substitute,
but never said for whom.

775
01:29:01,041 --> 01:29:04,790
All applications and requests
should be filed with him:

776
01:29:05,083 --> 01:29:08,749
that's what
he claimed with a cheerful smile.

777
01:29:09,333 --> 01:29:13,165
We formed a long queue,
each with their own painful issue.

778
01:29:13,458 --> 01:29:15,457
We were full of hope.

779
01:29:15,666 --> 01:29:20,999
Anyone could touch our heart and face
with one warm glance.

780
01:29:22,208 --> 01:29:26,290
None of us suspected
what we were waiting for.

781
01:29:49,041 --> 01:29:50,665
I want to say goodbye.

782
01:29:51,708 --> 01:29:53,082
I'm leaving.

783
01:30:19,083 --> 01:30:20,540
Thank you.

784
01:31:15,791 --> 01:31:18,707
"NOWY CZYTELNIK:
a publishing house"

785
01:31:23,875 --> 01:31:26,124
It's going to be a crime story
and a picture

786
01:31:26,250 --> 01:31:28,040
of life in Warsaw after the war.

787
01:31:28,208 --> 01:31:33,499
A book to read on the train and in bed,
with no intellectual content.

788
01:31:37,083 --> 01:31:38,457
I like that.

789
01:31:40,541 --> 01:31:43,749
Apparently, you have
first-hand information.

790
01:31:45,166 --> 01:31:47,749
You mean the criminal underworld?

791
01:31:49,500 --> 01:31:52,832
I mean the Secret Police.

792
01:31:55,625 --> 01:32:00,374
Writers look for consultants
even among them.

793
01:32:01,500 --> 01:32:05,457
Or in a password-only jazz club.

794
01:32:11,625 --> 01:32:13,957
Please excuse me for a moment.

795
01:38:14,750 --> 01:38:16,165
Have a seat, please.

796
01:38:29,333 --> 01:38:31,874
First Secretary Comrade Bierut

797
01:38:32,750 --> 01:38:37,457
is impressed
by a certain contemporary work.

798
01:38:37,875 --> 01:38:42,124
He told me
he'd like to ask your advice.

799
01:38:44,250 --> 01:38:45,457
My advice?

800
01:38:45,708 --> 01:38:46,708
Yes.

801
01:38:46,916 --> 01:38:50,124
The First Secretary
values your judgement.

802
01:38:51,791 --> 01:38:54,790
- My judgement?
- It's a detail.

803
01:38:55,250 --> 01:38:57,124
Quite important though.

804
01:38:57,541 --> 01:39:00,915
Is "Manchuria" a good title
for an epic poem?

805
01:39:04,416 --> 01:39:08,874
In my humble opinion,
it's absolutely perfect.

806
01:39:10,416 --> 01:39:13,040
Comrade Bierut thinks so too.

807
01:39:14,708 --> 01:39:18,249
We will sign a contract
for this little book of yours.

808
01:39:18,708 --> 01:39:21,499
No need to put it off.
Let's do it right away.

809
01:39:30,375 --> 01:39:32,749
"DOLLS FOR ADULTS
Wałach & Sons"

810
01:39:43,916 --> 01:39:45,790
What's the title?

811
01:39:45,958 --> 01:39:47,374
"The Good One."

812
01:39:49,541 --> 01:39:51,040
No doubt.

813
01:39:51,416 --> 01:39:52,790
So?

814
01:41:13,291 --> 01:41:15,207
In memory of
KAZIMIERZ KUTZ

815
01:41:16,416 --> 01:41:18,332
directed by

816
01:41:19,416 --> 01:41:21,332
written by

817
01:41:22,625 --> 01:41:24,540
producer

818
01:41:25,875 --> 01:41:27,749
line producer

819
01:41:28,916 --> 01:41:30,790
director of photography

820
01:41:32,083 --> 01:41:33,957
production designers

821
01:41:35,166 --> 01:41:37,082
editor

822
01:41:38,291 --> 01:41:40,207
costume designer

823
01:41:41,416 --> 01:41:43,332
make-up artist

824
01:41:44,541 --> 01:41:46,457
sound design by

825
01:41:47,625 --> 01:41:49,540
music by

826
01:41:53,833 --> 01:41:55,749
production manager

827
01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:58,160
translated by Magdalena Cedro
subtitled by Benno Zerbst