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Who is it?

The Santa Klaus

Merry Christmas

Oh, sorry. I didn't recognize you

And you must be Krysia, right?

Well, Krysia, this is for you

A small gift

And you're Antos, aren't you?

There's something for you, too Yes

and this is for Basia

Why, thank you

Yes, let me see now Here's something for mummy

Isn't it nice! Thank you

Thank you

Do you really think we'll go?

We'll try

Thank you

She's in her room

Is she feeling bad?

Merry Christmas, Aunt

Ewa?

My dear Ewa

My you done your homework?

Yes, Aunt

The maths, too?

Yes, Aunt

I was always very good at maths

I thought you'd come with what's-his-name, er, Edward

Yes

Merry Christams

once more

The kids will never forget this Chirstman

the Santa klaus and the midnight mass

Oh yes, it's been as before

Yes?

What?

I don't know

It seems someone's trying to steal our car

I'll be back soon

Where's my home? Where's my home

It seems you forgot to wish me merry Christmas once again

What do you want? It's the Christmas Eve

Tell me. What do you want?

Edward's missing

What?

He's gone

Ewa

Went out in the morning and never came back

we've got the find him

It's the Christmas Eve

I'm sorry

Ewa

All right. I'll go with you

What have you told your wife?

That someone was trying to steal the car

Let me have the keys

Join me behind the corner

It's been stolen

Somebody's seen it in Wislostrada street

You call the police

and I'll try to catch a taxi

Is it worth your while?

The car earns our living doesn't it?

We attended the midnight mass

No, I didn't

I saw you there

Ah, all right, let's forget it

I've checked everywhere

with friends, with the police

Where to?

Where would you go if your wife disappeared?

I don't know. To the hospital the emergency department

The emergency service's in Banacha street tonight

Do you have emergency service tonight, Doctor?

Not today. Yesterday

I've made a mistake

What about today? Which hospital has?

Whom are you trying to find?

A husband

Your husband, sir?

No. Mine

That you, Jurek?

Hello. Do you happen to have a patient. His name?

Garus

By the name of Garus

How old is he?

Thiryt-eight

Yes, Garus. Thirty-eight

No, there's a female here looking for her husband

When was he brought to you?

When did he leave home?

At noon

It doesn't seem to be him he left home at noon. Yeah

They have a casualty No legs, no papers

But taht was before eleven THe Praga hospital

Shall I put the light off?

No, thanks. I'm on duty

It's his car

And his scarf

I'll leave it here He might be cold when he's back

He can hardly be back if he has no legs anymore

You'd better leave a sandwich for him, too.

He might be hungry when he's back

Go on, it's very funny

Gladly

Why don't we go to bed together you and me? In a hotel

And then you could call him to tell him the number fo our room

I... I didn't call him

You wanted to be through with me and to go home

And to be left in peace

I didn't call him

He told me. You didn't say who was calling, I admit

Ewa

I didn't call him. Believe me

I'm not

Nothing to choose between all of you

O. K., forget it

Take me to the praga hospital, please

The fellow with his legs cut off

Ewa. There

there, Ewa

No, let me have a look

It's isn't him

I'd like ti to be him

or you

Many a time I imagined both of you run over by a truck

the face squashed by the tires

I once saw you in my dream

your neck was broken

I could see your tongue protruding

I just looked at you and laughed

I wonder who's had a spite aganist this one here

who's going to be glad

It's the police

So what?

You're driving a stolen car Did you call them?

Hold on

Hey, Andrzej this is that stolen car

They're following us

Got any papers?

Yes

Then yu'd better slow down

Drive slowly

Get out of the car

Put out hands on the roof

All right... This your car, Mister?

This car's been reported stolen

We've only just found it Abandoned in Wislostrada street

had a drink?

I haven't had the time

Like driving fast, eh?

You're lucky it's the Christman Eve tonight

He was right. I was driving too fast

You could have wrecked the car and killed me and yourself

Shall we have another try?

Do you want it?

Fasten the belts

Got enough?

We were to go home

All right

Your car isn't here

Are you getting out?

He couldn't have left the car before noon

Why?

It was snowing in the afternnon

But the car had no snow on it

You know, I mean that snow cap

It started snowing at five pm

Well, I don't know

I say, what if he's at home? We shouldn't go in together

Wait here

If he isn't there I'll come out to the balcony

If I don't come out in five minutes drive home

Ewa

In case he's there, good-bye

Bye

Hallo

Emergency service

There's been an accident A man has fainted

Yes?

He's lying at the bus stop

May I have the address, please?

It's at the corner of Fulawsha and Walbrzyska streets

The City way

Perhaps he's drunk?

No. He's sober. We have his papers

His name?

Edward Garus

Born in 1949

Your name, please?

Anna Tatarkiewicz

Thank you I'm sending the ambulance over

He isn't there

Like I told you... He isn't

Why don't you take off your coat?

I'd rather not. I'm freezing

Want some tea?

Yeah

I didn't phone Edward that night three years ago

I didn't. It's nonsense to say I did

That was important to me

You were important

If you really want to know

I... I loved you

And I wanted to change everything

When we were getting dressed

and he was standing there with his back to us

You didn't even look at me once

I took you by the hand

But you tore yourself away

Then he said,

Now that we're both dressed

you can choose

You can stay or go

And added he was going

And you followed him without a word

Yes. It was like that

Yeah

Edward made still another condition

I could follow him if I would never meet you again

Yes

And you said

I have no intention to see him

And then I answered, all right That's how it happened

Give me your hand

The poor boy

whom nobody loved or understood

You're right

It was all my fault

But you seem to have landed well don't you?

You're the same as before aren't you?

You went at it hammer and tongs to straighten things

You're a good husband and father

you provide well for your family

And you never forget to collect the laundry

Let me go

I'll be glad to Your hands stink of petrol

Did you ever think what happened after we left that hotel?

How I was feeling?

What I felt when we watched some love story on TV

and he looked at me all the time instead of the screen?

I never made love to him since that night

Do you hear?

What are you doing?

Nothing special...

washing my hands

It's the Christmas Eve

I'm sorry

I lied to you

I do sleep with him, quite normally

This to to us

To us

It's him

At the wrong moment again

How about the second verse?

This is all we know

Special night rates

Thank you. Merry Christmas

Thank you. Best wishes

Has he grown a beard? I mean, Edward?

No, not at all

We're breaking the wafer

as if forgetting what we're really doing here

Let's go

Where to?

The emergency service or the railway station

Yes, the railway station

Just a second longer, O. K.?

Is this the emergency service?

Could you tell me if a Mr. Garus

Edward Garus has been brought to you?

Born 1949

Ah, I see. And do you receive notifications from all over Warsaw

A notification?

Where was it?

And?

Thank you very much

I phoned the emergency service there's been a notification

A notification?

Yes. Somebody reported him lying in Pulawska street

When the ambulance arrived he wasn't there anymore

What do you mean?

He wasn't there, that's all

They say it's usually like that with drunks

They told me to check at the sobering-up station

Where's my home?

Where's my home?

Where it is?

Let me see, Garus

Garus

A Jew?

No

We had a Garus once, back in 1979 He was a Jew

Do you have cards with particulars of all your patients?

Yes. Perhpas he's one of those who's been brought in today

Better have a look at them

Ah, they've gone to sleep

Just look at them dancing

What about this one?

Or that one?

Stop it!

Stop it, will you!

Can't you see they're cold?

You deserve to be put in there you bum

Just try. Come on, try it!

Let's dance. Come on!

It doesn't make any sense to go on looking

I'm going home

Where shall I take you?

I wrecked your car

And ruined your Christman Eve

Not at all. It was very nice

Come with me to the railway station, please

Are you on duty at the TV sets?

Yes

I keep falling asleep That's why I'm skating

We're looking for Has there been an accident perhaps

No

Do you remember a man wearing a short sheepskin coat?

A jacket actually?

He comes here quite often Never goes anywhere

I don't know

Who's this man?

Edward

And the woman?

His wife

And these are his children

He's living in Cracow

For nearly three years now

For three years?

Nearly, I lied a lot tonight

But why?

I don't know

Do you know a game

You say to yourself

If the person who appears from behind the corner is a man

I'll be lucky

If it's a woman, it means bad luck

I know it

I played that game tonight

I said to myself

If I manage to spend the whole night with you

till seven in the morning no motter how...

What then?

Then everything is going to be all right

What if you failed?

I've made preparations. I live alone

It's... it's so very hard to be alone on a night like this

People just...

Yeah, they lock themselves in

curtain the windows

Exactly. Going to the midnight mass tonight, I saw a boy

He slipped away from the hospital till wearing his pyjamas

What happened to him?

They got him

I know

it wasn't you who phoned that night

Be seeing you

They're all asleep, aren't they?

The car's been found

I know, I phoned during the night

Was it Ewa?

Yes

Are you going to spend the evening away from home like before

No

No, I'm not

The End

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