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- Brains.

*The Shaman Woman (SZAMANKA)*

and sherbet.

Screenplay: Manuela Gretkowska

Photography: Andrzej Jaroszewicz

Music: Andrzej Korzynski

Directed by Andrzej Zulawski

- Don't leave the seminary. Take a vacation. Be patient.

Why? I already know. - Everything will be all right.

What? The sickness?

Please! Stop it, you'd better find somebody.

How much?

- Right now? - Not too much.

Well, how much?

Collect my things before she moves in.

Well, how much?

- One million. Do you have money? - I'll pay in three months.

The landlady will decide.

- isn't it your flat? - My brother rented it.

Nobody's here.

- Do you like it? - Yes.

- Are you a student? - Yes..

- Where? - The College of Mines.

Can't you live in a hostel?

It was too late. I have just passed my exams.

Did you fail the exams in the summer?

Yes, I worked as a waitress to earn for the college.

One has to pass an exam to register in a hostel.

- What's your name? - They call me the Italian girl.

- Why? I used to make the best pizza.

Pizza, arse, and bed.

If you're going to eat, you should wash yourself. Like a good girl.

Take a look, you're wet.

I have a girlfriend.

So do l.

A regular one?

Are you a doctor?

An assistant at the anthropology department.

I'm digging at the foundry with students.

It's the landlady. Come, I'll introduce you.

Hello. My brother has moved out.

He has? I tried to persuade him. It's an insult of the Lord.

We have found a student instead of him.

His recommendation will do.

Good-bye!

We're waiting for you. Hurry up!.

I'm coming.

Keep digging, you'll find it.

What an intuition! At least in that!

Fortunately, the marsh hasn't swallowed him.

Such a miracle is found once in many centuries.

Shit will rise to the surface itself.

In the peat he would be preserved till the Day of Judgment.

And who will be our judge?

The Day of Judgment has come.

My God, he's so beautiful!

He's 25-30. A young old man, who lived 2,500 years ago.

They have checked him up with carbon-14 and with something else, I don't know.

We were lucky that they gave him to us.

Careful.

What's that?

Don't know.

Careful.

An arrow without an arrow-head and feathering.

Fungi.

Psiloscybes semilacente. Muscarin. Hallucinogen.

Psilocybin is extracted from the psilocyb fungus, muscarin is a toadstool.

The best psilocybs grow in the mountains.

They are dangerous only for cops, when they chase the mushroomers.

Welzevul is the Lord of the flies in Hebrew, that is scourge.

When it's plague in the air, he attracts flies and death. Reigns over them.

Perhaps he wanted to be the Lord of the marshes?

You may know it, not me.

Lend me 500 thousand.

- For how long? - Till tomorrow.

Martin!

- Are you admitted? - Yes.

Lend me three million till the grant.

I'll see. They pay me so little, and I pay my parents' rent.

Then why are you working with morons?

I sing lullabies to the hydrocephals, when water is boiling in their heads.

I've just finished school, I have no choice.

You'll never become a doctor. Not even if you enter the psychiatric department.

And you won't become an engineer. You'll make money with the hammer.

I know so much about children! I'll write a book. About nuns, too...

I'll become a religious and pornographic writer.

What's up?

Look, what I've invented!

Are you having an orgasm?

You're insatiable.

Martin!

I haven't got money on me. I'll be back soon.

And?

What?

I'll live in Warsaw. I need money.

To booze? And then you'll bring me kids.

I can't go to Warsaw every day, it's too far. I'll study.

This place is too small. I'm not going to bring up your kids.

I'm exhausted. I'll go abroad, find a husband. Not a drunkard like your father.

He did nothing but beat me. When l think about him, I have diarrhea.

It's nerves.

Where's anthropology?

Take the tube.

Take a bus, not a tram.

Where's anthropology?

You should say hello.

Where's anthropology?

It's everywhere, dear.

To tell the truth, we don't know how the brain works.

Two million years ago Nature formed an anthropoid.

Some people call him homo habilis, but I prefer anthropoid.

Partly he was an ape, partly a man...

...because he used tools and had imagination.

In order to survive, he conquered his environment and his organism.

Take the tools away from an astraunaut,...

...and he'll die in a few minutes without oxygen.

Take everything away from a yogi or a shaman, and he will survive.

An astranaut lives in the physical world, and a shaman in the mental one.

I prefer shamanism to yoga because it was the first religion of man.

Thanks to imagination the man became human,...

...not thanks to the invention of the hammer.

The Neanderthal was a cleverer anthropoid, crushed stones and believed in magic.

This anthropoid with an axe or a computer will stay in us.

You have to remember that.

Thus we became people, thanks to imagination, magical rituals,...

...instincts, not thanks to tools.

Let's finish on a humanist note. Your assignment for next week.

To survive in the antihumanist world. I'll take a roll call.

Spit out...

Lick.

Help me.

Help me.

How do you manage to track me?

At the academy lectures start later.

How is that? Where's your schedule? The record book? The student's card?

Later.

When later? They'll throw you out.

Let's go, student.

What are you doing at the academy?

Michael is going to get the Nobel Prize.

His nickname is Einstein.

They say you've found a dinosaur in the foundry.

He has found a mummy, he won't talk to us, to philosophers.

Go, have some beer with your mummy.

It wouldn't be bad. He's three thousand years old.

He was a bumpkin, he died of hard drinking.

Shut up, Bartek. Go on.

I thought he had been drowned. They did so when somebody made a mistake.

It seems that he did it himself. He was a shaman.

He got into the trench himself, he didn't try to get out.

How do you know he was a shaman?

By his passport.

The tattoo, amulets, psilocybs in his pockets.

You've found a tattooed dealer.

How about beer?

Hi!

A bottle of vodka and five glasses. Thanks.

And the fairy turned the pumpkin into a ball-dress.

I've been given my record book, my treat.

If I won't get the Heidelberg grant, I'll teach you philosophy.

At the academy?

Nietze was crazy about philosophy.

You'll get the grant.

Right.

Michael, is he one of us? A Pole?

Come on! He has no vodka in his blood.

Do you know why the water in the spring stinks?

Shamans used to wash their feet in it.

How do you know he's a shaman?

He confessed like a good Catholic.

Celts used to have schools for witches in Methil.

Druids, Poles, Catholics, Mogila, the New Foundry, communists.

All of them are shit. Amen.

Sacrum, profanum, sacrum. Do you know what sacrum is?

It's coccyx in Latin. And sacrum in...

A holy drink, the rice wine, sake and rum, in honour of the Holy Spirit.

What do the young people read now? Guns N Roses and Leroy?

- And what do you read? - I've passed my school exams.

An intellectual virgin.

The vein bursts, wipes out everything in your brain, and you forget even your name.

But your spirit keeps everything, because your soul is there.

That's why there are common saints, God's morons with a soul, no brains.

I like Madonna and Nirvana, who had an overdose.

A shaman sees another shaman from afar.

Where are you going?

To my fiancee. Her dad rents a room for me. Piss off, idiot.

Production of goods is necessary for satisfying the man's needs.

Machines are divided into two groups: power machines and working ones.

Vapour-liquid and solid substance form a love pair to Absolute Zero.

Then friction stops,...

...resistance of materials to fatigue is smaller than resistance to widening.

Liquids are called bodies.

A perfect liquid, like saliva, is transparent and it's not viscous.

Bad liquids are viscous, they flow out from everywhere.

Hydromechanics is a exact science, hydrostatics is an expanding science.

We divide liquid bodies into liquids and gases. There's no algorithm here.

I'm crying, I'm wet. The particles which extract in chemical substances...

What's that?

The list of practical training in the foundry.

...they divide into minimum particles with an electric charge,...

...i. e. they decompose in an electromagic way.

Electrolytes are called ions. An ion has its humidity,...

...which contains lingva.

Thus mechanics satisfies needs of the man, of the people, of mankind.

Hi!

Check the box, if the machine breaks down, repair it. Will you manage?

Does Mother want me to work here?

Your mother wanted to kill you. I give you a job, because we're family...

...One has to support one's family.

Take it and come tomorrow.

A strange ringing sound.

Doesn't your fiancee sleep with you?

She does. But I prefer brunettes. Do you have some food? Something to eat.

You can eat me.

One can fuck you with anything. Put a finger into your ear, and go.

Do you want to go back to your den?

I want to take you to some normal people.

Hasn't it occurred to you that you can think and answer, when you have to?

Michael!

Barbara, my beauty!

Anya, wait for me!

In neurophysiology drugs leave their traces.

Why not in cybernetics?

Hi, darling!

Let's go!

How shall we live without her, Michael?

Dad, it's only for two months.

Is Anna leaving?

To Denmark. To work.

I'll be back in two months, when Michael defends, I'll make some money.

Help me.

Happy birthday, Anna!

Congratulations!

To the best glass houses!

To the second prize!

The fiirst prize is not for talent, it's for connections.

We're celebrating two events: Anna's birthday...

It's interesting.

Anna's prize.

Next year you'll get the first prize, this year you were only dreaming.

Michael, a phone call for you!

Hello!

I'll come tomorrow.

What's up?

I have to go home. Something with my brother.

Again?

You can see what a family is.

I knew you wouldn't stay there.

Look at the shoes. I have stolen them.

Leave me alone. My brother is dead. He hung himself. I'm going to Miekowice.

I'm coming with you.

I didn't know you're from here. Probably I was too little.

Your brother left a letter and the money. You'll get the rest from the notary.

Count it.

Did he need to do it?

He sold the house because of me. Else he would have left everything to you.

Suppose I do not exist.

We'll miss the train.

May I ask one question?

I want to go home. See you at 1 1 near the train.

I'll go to the notary.

Whore.

Whore.

I have been beaten for stealing already.

I'll beat you again.

I'll never come back.

Fine!

Nice panties.

If I hadn't saved the money, you wouldn't have bought me anything!

Why did you give the money to that whimperer?

Our father died when I was 19. He was 15.

He took care of me, he got me out of the gang.

He had a character of a priest, he sacrificed himself for other people.

He went to the seminary only after I finished school.

He read philosophers in Greek and Latin. Our father went from one prison to another.

He came out in 1956, he was crazy. Only our mother could deal with him.

My brother wanted to be a priest, didn't need the house. I was not coming back.

And this whimperer was hardly making ends meet. My brother helped him, too.

He slept at his place. But my brother got him involved in this thing with gays.

He was a priest and gay by vocation. Didn't find a way out and he hung himself.

Train 101 to Waclaw, platform No 3.

I also was in prison because of politics. You were a little girl then.

Then I left, then I came back, I don't know why.

Shall I fuck you?

Deaf fool.

I'm moving.

For that?

I don't know. For no reason.

I'll not stand it with you.

Maybe a thought is a secretion, just like hormones in glands.

I exist, because I'm in you.

Hello, professor!

The maid told me that you collected your things yesterday.

I don't want to meddle with your things, but...

This patient is 40, she was hospitalized a week ago, after a crisis.

She sucks the fingers of her right hand.

Last time she cut her tongue off.

Phenoctyl?

400 milligramme a day.

- 600. Diagnosis? - Psychosis, severe schizophrenia.

This is our permanent patient. He's 25.

The first crisis was at 16. Short remissions.

Neuroleptics. Tied up at his request.

Yes, a typical case of a paranoidal syndrome of schizophrenia.

OK.

They're transmitting again. Go away! This is confidential! Stock-exchange.

- Stock-exchange. - Stock-exchange?

This is temporary, sometimes one has to be alone.

But if you keep thinking of yourself, you'll lose your friend.

And then no chemistry...

I don't live alone. I have a woman.

I'd like to defend a thesis on psychiatry.

This shaman ruled madmen. They were on the verge of psychosis:...

...drugs, famine, fear, darkness.

You need a doctor.. What you decided about Anna?

May l?

You think that I'm only a professor. You forget that I'm a father.

You're losing your mind. Brain is chemistry.

A little of poison will be enough to make you an imbecile and crazy.

Would you like me to make a map of your soul, to install electrodes of happiness?

We did it on rats. Shamans are chosen not from normal people.

Preferably from epileptics and hermaphrodite.

I'd like to study these processes. As for your daughter, I don't care.

So? OK, I'll show you some perfect shamans.

You know why? You're a very talented... crank.

- Did you phone Anna yesterday? - No, she's on the building-site.

Don't forget about safety rules.

Not bad?

What a broad! All legs!

She'll climb into your bed herself.

I don't have time for that. I don't want her to break the machine.

Give it to me.

Be careful. Iit's dangerous here.

- Shall I give you a lift? - As you wish.

Look, like a new one. I repaired it myself. It was a wreck.

Can you hear the engine? Where to?

To another work. To Targuwek.

He treated patients, bore the sins of others. So, why did he drown himself?

Not clear. If somebody wanted to kill him, he would have been tied up, or something.

There's nothing here. Nothing.

It means he killed himself.

I don't know.

You'll make up a thesis for doctor's degree out of this "l don't know".

Do you think it's neurosis?

You already know what is neurosis?

I start understanding it, thanks to you.

What does it mean to lay hands on oneself?

Pale toadstools on the penis.

- I'm exhausted. - So am l.

How is your college?

You're a machine. You either eat, sleep or fuck.

Yesterday the machine fell asleep, there was no fuel.

Magnesium for the machine.

Get out!

I'll walk you to the department.

You better go to your lectures.

I was at your place.

I have nothing.

Do you want her? Go ahead!

That's better. Come on!

Let's go.

Put on the helmet. Well, truant, let's go, you'll see the new welding machine.

An accident! An accident!

Hail, Mary, full of grace...

The Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women,...

...and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.

Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

- Do you believe it? - I'm sick of you.

I'm sick and tired of everything. I'll take you home.

Did you know the address?

Tomska Street, House 33, Flat 31..

Why did he go to the marsh?

Slut!

Where's Julius?

He's cleaning toilets at the station, he wants to buy roller skates.

Take a look!

What else?

Too many tattoos for a common shaman.

How do you know? Can you compare?

Do you know what ethnic group he belongs to? Is he a Celt or a Yatzwing?

The patriot has kept his property.

I don't understand.

This is sperm.

Turn him over! The tattoo on his back is from coccyx to neck.

Just like yours.

No, the spiral. The drawing of kundalini yogi.

Whit shakra energy is called with the lower part, through sex of the energetic snake...

...it surrounds the spine and bursts in the head as illumination.

Puss-puss!

His scull has an opening for his soul to fly out.

This is a shaman, a superhuman, the Pope.

Sorry, I don't know what's the matter with me.

A chap pesters me, he offers two million for fucking me..

Sort out your things yourself!

Next week I'll be free, I can take you to the foundry.

Am I interrupting you?

I'm waiting for a friend, I shaved my pussy and lubricated it, it was prickly.

I didn't know you had a friend.

I'm living with him.

Michael, one cannot survive on a pension in Poland.

What are you doing in the darkness?

Michael...

What the hell!

Why have you shaved?

I wanted to be like in the museum. Do you like it?

Turn around.

That's it!

The shaman also had sperm in his arse.

Sodomite!

Female sperm. They impregnate demons.

There're no demons.

Do you hear him crying?

Am I going crazy, or have you torn me apart?

Starting from head...

The swimming-pool...

The swimming-pool.

The kitchen will be here. Dad's study over there, your workshop over there.

You'll have time to think. Everyone has crises.

Even in our family, although my father is a decent person. What about your shaman?

I know almost everything: his height, blood group, what he was eating...

He was followed, he ran to the marsh, he didn't resist.

- Why did you move out? - I wanted to be with her.

- Why? - I don�t know.

She's either a fool or a saint, a possessed one.

She has stigmas, at least one.

Don't pay attention.

When will you be back?

When I earn money.

It's better to draw cages with rabbits for the Arabs in Paris,

...than fail the competitions here.

Do you remember how it was in Burgundy during the grape harvest? And now?

In a year I'll get a degree of doctor on shamanism,...

...and you'll become the minister of architecture.

There are no ministers of architecture.

But you will be, you're so talented.

- Me? - Yes.

- Windows down to the floor. - Windows down to the floor.

- The table in the centre. - Garlic against vampires in the kitchen.

The door will guard from plebs.

If you'll need it.

You can't!

It's impossible.

If you can cry, you can speak as well.

About what?

If you don't know, you can ask!

What?

If you cannot ask, read!

I am reading.

The soul is breathing, oxygen is necessary for burning glucose in the brain...

...this increases knowledge.

My father brought me up and used to say, "Be silent, when you talk to me!"

What?

Walk, you stoop, like...

Like a cow?

Come here, sit down!

Use the knife! Mind your elbows!

Your elbows! Sit straight!

Is that all right?

One doesn't spit at the table.

Your hormones taste sweet. You're a vagina.

You're doing it yourself, it's not me.

Tie me up. Yes! Good.

No!

He's so handsome!

Did hippies exist at that time?

His things have been damaged.

This is a profitable business.

Take a look!

- We'll have butter and caviar! - What's this?

From the Ukraine, the nuclear thing. Gives you good money in the West.

Are you crazy? Is it radio-active?

No! Chocolate won't let pass!

You'll be safe, but the shaman will melt. Get out of here.

- I can't go home. They are looking for me. - Who?

- The Mafia. - I don't know anything.

Uranium turns to gold alchemically. Uranium turns into dollars.

Take the key. But throw this thing away.

- What the hell? - Again?

Damned machine! Fucking work!

Have you seen Romek?

What's there to see?

The rats have gobbled everything in slaughter-houses.

The cousin has no job. Mafiia has smashed everything.

You wanted to try with him? OK, do it.

Go to hell!

In which room is Woytek Gutsa?

In No 15, he's on duty today. I think he is up already.

Do you love me?

- I do. - Then love me!

I wanted to marry you. In church.

- How should I love you? - Right now.

- Have you finished? - I don't finish. Only with him.

- Why? - Because.

Is he waiting for you?

- Why are you here? - Because you love.

And he?

He exists.

How are you, Mr Shaman?

You don't smoke, you prefer fungi.

As soon as she touches me, I'm covered with sperm...

I perceive and hear everything in a different way...

What is your secret?

If I'm torn apart, you'll find only her in me.

It's because of the shaman woman. She was love and death for me.

Death?

She pushed me into the marsh.

Into the marsh?

She wanted my power. She got it. I loved her.

I loved her. She raped me.

She raped me in secret.

The secret? It's in death.

The secter is in death.

And all the rest?

Any God is the God of Death.

Are you sick?

Are you hurt?

You always had a doll's head.

Michael, I'm back. I was looking for you.

Forgive me.

Where have you been?

Where have I been?

Me too.

I'm leaving. They have found me.

What about the job at the station?

The garage, Ogrodowa Street.

See you!

He has stolen the money.

He has?

What? He has stolen the money?

I have to buy a new car and flee to Germany.

Take it.

I have nothing.

Let me go!

Did you work at the railway station?

My father was a railwayman.

You're clever, you have succeeded, you know everything, you can everything.

Where are you going?

Why are you smiling?

Why are you leaving me?

I don't know, and when you don't know, you should become a priest.

You have bewitched me, and now you make off.

I love you.

Why?

You are... Like death.