All language subtitles for The Structure Of Crystal English

STRUCTURE OF CRYSTAL

music

design

- Are you cold?
- I am.

- Any warmer now?
- Yes.

- What time is it?
- It's three o'clock.

What is it?
Has anything happened?

- Did you put it up?
- Oh, no, it's an old one.

What a noise.

Leszek! Irenka!
Have you finished your classes?

- Yes, we have.
- How did you get so soiled?

Clean your nose. Where's your hanky?
Dash home. Quickly.

- They grow fast.
- Indeed.

camera

screenplay and director

- It's the car.
- The car?

Yes, I think it's him.

Well, it is kind of... small.

Finally.

Let me introduce you.
It's my wife, Anna.

Kawecki.

It's nice here, you know.

We've arrived.

It's here?

- It is.
- It's really just a few steps away.

Take a look here. This is my
weather station.

And this is our hut.

A hut?
It's a real manor.

Fortunately it belongs
to the state.

Quite all right.

Never mind.
The floor is dirty anyway.

What is it?

- Your room?
- Ours.

A real lab.

We have to get our own water.

Grandpa, this is a colleague
of Janek's, the professor.

And this is your room.

My God, it is so quiet here.

Don't expect any luxuries here.

Did it take you long
to get here?

Well, four hours.

It is faster than
the train anyway.

How long can you stay?

I don't know how long
you want to host me.

Well, how much holidays
have you got?

Six weeks for last year alone.

Man, you can't even imagine
how glad I am.

More tea?

No, no.
Thank you very much.

I thought I had so
much to tell you,

and now that you're here, we're just
sitting and I don't say a word.

We'll talk.

- When did you come back?
- In September.

Did you stay there for long?

Well, two and a half year
in the States. At Harvard.

Before that I had been
in Dubna for half a year.

And then two and a half year in the States.
First at Harvard, and then I spent

some more weeks
travelling in the States.

- You managed to save some money.
- I did and I published some papers.

They should put up a TV transmitter
in a year and we'll have the TV.

Was this taken in the boss' study?
No, it's on the other...

Yes, I guess it's on
the other side.

On my way here I kept on
thinking about our talk at...

At Strumiłło...
During his birthday.

What a face.

Just look at my ears.

You went to his laboratory.
In Dzielna street, do you remember?

I saw him after my return.

You said then that everyone should
have some point of reference,

someone who would be
for him like... a scale...

It wasn't about some
objective situation.

We quarrelled then.
Do you remember?

I can't, actually.
When was that?

In 1955...

No, it must have been April 1956.

Oh, 1956?
Maybe...

I could have thought
this way then.

I am sorry I did not write
to you from the States,

but I didn't write to anyone.
You know my attitude towards writing.

And how did you find me here?

I went to the Institute
right after I came back.

Lots of rumours about you.

Somebody said you were supposed
to work at Kasprowy Wierch.

- I met Masza.
- You saw Masza?

She works with the boss.
She still thinks about you, man.

- You saw him?
- Yes, I visited him right after I came back.

- Did you talk about me?
- We did.

We talked about you.

I am supposed to tell him exactly
what you're up to now.

Is this an anemometer?

- And what is this?
- A set of thermometers,

a thermograf.

- Do you take the measurements often?
- Only for the airport.

- Hair hygrometer. And what is this?
- Hygrograph.

- It is just a hair, isn't it?
- It is, just imagine, it's human.

And the best part is that
she was blonde, man.

Well, it was -18 tonight.

One could feel it, you know?
The wind was kind of strange.

Listen, we don't heat up
your room enough.

No, no, no.
It's OK.

We can take your temperature.

This is all basic stuff, isn't it?

Naturally, I don't make
any scientific research here.

- Meteorological station...
- Listen, I am boring you

talking about my work
which is far from interesting.

But why?
It's all very cool.

Listen, we only read about
you in the newspapers.

Tell us something about yourself.
What do you do now?

I heard you worked
with crystals again.

Well, initially I dealt
more with the theory.

And it was in reference to theory
that I needed to solve a problem

concerning electrons in combined
electric and magnetic fields.

Russians had their theory which
seemed quite reasonable

although it had
a disquieting element.

Take a look here.

For example, this...
What will you do with this

when magnetic field
here approaches zero?

Man, I can't remember
any of it anymore.

You must remember, this is an equation
on the level of the 4th year courses.

Anyway, I couldn't solve it myself
and none of the exiting sources

even considered the issue.

For strong electric field
and weak magnetic field

there must be some
solution of the electric kind.

And we managed to get there through
experiments and everything was confirmed.

Look what it all looks like.

Yes, it's interesting.

Move aside a little.
Come on, move.

Stay there and I will give you
some hay. Do you want some?

But stay there nicely.
Stay there and I'll give you hay.

Here you are. You see?
I'll look for some more.

Come on, I'll find some more.

Their commercials
are very convincing.

They are like... aggressive...
Always in colour.

You say it because...
It may get to that.

They are in production...

- Have you seen colour TV?
- I have, but...

I prefer black and white myself.

This type of car has been
made just perfect.

Their shapes are more
and more geometrical.

Time off.

- Is it a motor-boat?
- A hovercraft, I guess.

A hovercraft?

What I would suggest is this:
you have 120 kids,

tell each one to bring
a piece of wood,

- you will have enough for a month.
- Will you, please, stop joking!

- What are you babbling about?
- Dear madam, one should look for the wood

in September or October,
not in January.

I came to you because
the Council failed us.

You were supposed to deal with it.

What are you talking about? What am I...
Do I need it for myself?

You're barking up the wrong tree.

Your kids also go to school

- and they are freezing there as well
- Well, they do

- and they'll bring some wood too.
- You just don't give a damn!

- They'll bring some wood.
- You just don't get it!

- What kind of people you are!
- Please, sign the receipt for coal.

- Oh! Sir, here you are!
- Well, thank you, thank you so much!

This isn't the way to
deal with neighbours.

Never mind, here you are.

- Anna is from around here?
- Almost. From Terespol.

But you can ask
when she is present.

Listen, I see that one can
take a holiday for...

a few months, a year.

To catch your breath.

- But you've been here for...
- Almost five years.

Has it ever occurred to you that
"catching your breath" may be

the right way to live?

Come on, man, one
has to do something.

These are the best
years of our lives.

You'll have the time to
meditate when you retire.

- Are you sure?
- Of what?

- That you'll live long enough to retire?
- Oh, stop fooling around.

I meant it.

Excuse me...

I don't want to
be indiscreet but I don't get it,

what a man like you
is doing here.

What do you fill your days with?

- Grandpa, cross out, milk...
- Be more careful

or we'll get lost in
it all once more. OK.

I crossed out grandpa, milk is paid,
we have enough for the installments.

I'll write it down: installment 300.

And my drugs?

And my books, remember about them.
Last month we had

to make cuts.

And I... I need this...
When do you get your bonus?

In March but, well...
Let's not count too much on it.

- Well, but if you we get it...
- I'd like to make a new blouse.

I need one like this...
Like... with these tucks...

- OK, OK.
- I could use grandpa's shirt,

- the old one.
- Well, let's not exaggerate.

- It's a new school, isn't it?
- It is. Just two years old.

- Eight grades?
- Yes, yes.

Let us pass, kids.

- Girls! Calm down.
- Let us pass.

- And this is our guest.
- Good morning, nice to see you.

I promised to show the school,
the classes to the professor and...

You're welcome.
My colleague will show you around.

This is our club.

Almost all of the exhibits
we made ourselves.

Do you like it?
What is the name of this owl?

We haven't discussed it yet.

We use this to explain
wave motion to kids.

We make waves.

We have just bought it,
it's horisontarium.

It was broken, actually.
Janek did all again

from the scratch,
the lamp...

Kids, let's get ready.
Grażyna. Get down.

Come on. The train is coming,
the train, let's start!

The train is coming from afar,
it waits for no one.

Dear conductor,
take us to Warsaw.

It's not going to be easy,
There are lots of people aboard.

But get on right now,
and head for Warsaw.

Once more!
The train!

The train is coming from afar,
Everybody sings!

Dear conductor,
take us to Warsaw.

Maybe you would like to drive?

- What do you think, Anna?
- OK.

Well, just calm down. Check everything.
When you're ready...

Ah, just find the brake.

Here it is, when
you're ready, let's go.

Don't slow down when taking a turn
and step on the gas faster.

Faster.

You're good at it, man.

Enough.
That's enough.

Why?
It went very well.

A guy says to another...
lend me 100 zlotys.

The other says, I don't have 100,
I have only 50.

So lend me the 50 and
you'll owe me 50.

You're quite a con man.

Excuse me. I got carried away
in the conversation.

Listen, didn't you reinvent
yourself as such a...

The good lord of the manor?
Another good doctor Judym?

Maybe to some extent.

What do you talk with
these people about?

You know, I've never thought about it.
Actually, about everything.

Everything except weather.
They know more about it than me.

You must agree that their faces
Don't fill one with optimism.

Oh, it depends on how you look.

What is entropy?

Come on, girl!
I've explained it already.

Entropy, don't you remember?
Function of state.

- It is...
- A physical term in thermodynamics.

- Is it the same as atrophy?
- No, no, no.

But what is the context?

Well, it's there... there was
something and then:

"the reason of which is the
increasing entropy of the processes

taking place in every body".

Well. This meaning is
more applicable in the arts.

Well, it is... It is obviously
related to the physical term.

It is a kind of calming down,
quieting down, dying down.

Well, this way...

Oh, a beach.

There is some lady there...

Wait, let's see how...

- It lights up, look.
- Yes, when you push it further.

Oh, it's lovely.

- No, it's all the other way round.
- You twisted it all around, grandpa.

Have you got much of it?

- Well, there is some more.
- Give it here.

It may be the more interesting...

You know what? It's cool.

- What is it supposed to be?
- I don't know yet.

I mean, I don't have an idea.

What do you mean you don't know?

- Well, I don't...
- So what are you doing?

Listen, I just don't have a name for it.
Maybe you can come up with a name.

- And what is its purpose?
- Nothing.

When you twist this dial,
the lamp twinkles, you see?

I wanted it to play a carillon but
I'm missing certain parts.

Come on, stop laughing.

I like it very much
when things twinkle.

Anyway, I like to solder.

Come on, stop pulling my leg.

I got it. "Denaturator".

Are you mad?

How old are you?

I'll be 36 in March. No, 37.
Right, I was born in 1931, so it's 37.

So what?
Can I call it this way?

- Call it what?
- "Denaturator".

Dear God, man.
You're almost forty.

Three quarters of your life
have already passed

and you busy yourself
with bullshit.

How can you waste
your potential this way?

- Waste what?
- Gifts, talent, yourself.

- How do you know I waste myself?
- It is so banal but life...

You have to make some decisions.

One must... find some goal in life.

And I am looking at you and,
by God, I don't get it.

Where are you going?

I'm just trying to answer
this question.

I guess it'll take me the remaining
quarter of my life or more.

We're quite long-lived in our family.

- Who reaches the gate first, wins.
- No, no, no. You can't do it this way.

We may have a starting line,

the proper way.

- Inside or outside?
- Whatever. Long distance, right?

- OK.
- Who gives the signal?

Well, you.

Ready, steady, go!

Hey, you. Oh, don't get in the way.

Two first get into finals.

You know... Adult people...
Fall down.

Are you maturing?

Eee! Offside.

Oh, my leg.

Don't hit it.

That's enough.

Draw.

Have you noticed the evolution
of the concept of infinity?

For the Greeks - Aristotle, Plato -
for them infinity

was something imperfect.
Something worse from finity.

Well, it did change somewhat
in the Middle Ages.

These matters were revised.

Do you remember what
Thomas thought about it?

Just a moment, I'll show you...

The idea of infinity doesn't have
a qualification which means

it is neither perfect,
nor imperfect.

Actually, it ceased to be
the subject of fascination.

I know that we use it
daily in mathematics,

but it was for this reason that it is
nothing but a concept in calculations.

It is not an idea.

Have you thought about it?

No.

I don't even have
the time to read at least

one third of what concerns
my field of study, man.

We were so fascinated with
the philosophy of the imaginary numbers.

Yes, when we were students.

- Well, there is no time.
- Pity.

There is no time to deal in everything
we may be interested in.

- Great pity.
- Ah, we don't live in the Renaissance.

This is kind of...
Something like the oldest part of this...

And who is buried here?

- I don't know.
- Why do you do it then?

Just so.

I was who you are, I am what you will be,
Remember me for someone to remember you.

Like in a Chekhov's play.
We're only missing a samovar.

Everybody's having tea.

Silence and nothing happens.

Actually, there is a lot
happening in Chekhov's plays.

Could you...

Thank you.

- Do you like Chekhov?
- Well, he's kind of sad.

I saw Three Sisters with
Marina Vlady in Paris.

Do you know how Chekhov died?

I don't.

He suffered from TB. In his days
it was a fatal disease.

Doctors sent him away to Crimea.
He had many friends there.

He was visited by actors of
the Moscow Art Theatre.

When he felt he was going
to die, he invited guests.

They stayed up till late and Chekhov
entertained them with funny anecdotes.

He was on his sofa,
he did not fell well.

He asked for a glass of champagne, took a sip
and spoke in a very low voice:

Ich sterbe...

- And he turned towards the wall.
- Janek... stop.

Does he... do it often?

I am asking because...
you know...

He is not a stranger to me.

Do you know he had an accident?

- How long did you stay in bed?
- Six months.

Let me see it.

- You don't climb any more?
- No, it's not because of that.

I just don't have the time.

Allegedly, you had
a chance to take a ride.

Allegedly.
Why are you asking?

You know...

And an ear, and the nose,

- and a hand...
- Quiet now, time for bed.

- And an ear, and an eye, and a leg.
- Keep it down, Anna, people are asleep.

Calm down.

And a leg, and a head,
And a hand...

Anna, I've asked you already,
keep it down.

Who did throw it?

I won't do it again,
just don't hit me.

Will you be quiet now?

Traitor!

Listen. Maybe we could go
somewhere for Sunday?

Oh, yes! Wonderful!
To Puławy, shall we?

No, no, I can't leave
for a whole day.

Listen, wouldn't it be possible...
just once for such a nice guest,

if you could prepare everything
and ask grandpa?

Well.

- OK.
- OK.

One of the greatest in Europe.

Half of the country's production.

High level of automatisation.

Oh, a Sabre, do you see it?

- More likely a scythe.
- Yes, it's some tool.

Oh, come here, come.

Oh, these brooms.
They're wonderful.

How much does such a broom cost?

Usually, people put
them on the tables.

- And what is it?
- It is ledum, Anna.

To protect our furcoats.

Excuse me, we'd like
to buy the ledum.

And how much does it cost?

10 zloty altogether.

- Is it for all?
- Yes, yes, for all.

- But what do we need so much for?
- And how many furcoats do you have?

- Let me count: grandpa...
- Grandma.

Well, yes...

Ladies and gentleman, whips are cheap.
The world likes order, the whip likes the ass.

Learn, gentlemen. We're building a beautiful,
huge factory of fertilizers in Puławy.

Learn, here in Poland
people used to be wise.

Adam Mickiewicz, Kochanowski,
Copernicus, Maria Konopnicka,

Mickiewicz, Sienkiewicz, Kościuszko...

Strings for machines, strings for pants,
Strings for miniskirts...

I can save any woman, tie her up, tie her down,
save her from the vampyre.

Each man wants to save
the wife that he loves

because a good wife is
a great treasure for a man.

- What are you looking at?
- Oh, just nice girls.

Their skin looks sallow.
As if they were ill or something.

Look, there... By that car,
I guess it's Łomnicki... The artist.

Listen...

I...

Do you think I could
have such a hat?

Maybe. Not for school, anyway.

- Pity.
- What?

That they don't play it yet.

Janek!

- Do you have them? Did you get them?
- From a tout.

- Come quicker.
- Come on, let's go.

The factory produces almost
two million tons yearly,

which doubles current
production of the entire country.

Fully automatic production guarantees

high standards of the factory.

Once more we have
something to be proud of.

The newsreels were
horrible, weren't they?

No, why?

And how did you like the movie?

I hate it when they show
such dirt in the movies.

I'm a teacher, after all.

You were married once?

I was, so what?
Did Janek tell you?

He told you himself
or did you ask him?

I did.

Why did you?

Oh Jesus, I am such a fool.

- Do you want some tea?
- Why did you ask him?

- Just so, it doesn't matter.
- It does to me.

I can give you the information
from the horse's mouth.

Oh, I'm not curious.

- Really?
- Really.

And why did you divorce her?

We didn't love each other.

And I am not fit to be
a husband anyway.

Come on.

You're a horrible egoist,
such people always get married.

It's good that Janek
can't hear all this.

Why? He's also a horrible egoist,
just different from you.

And why did you get married?

I thought... I thought
we would be happy together.

You can't just think it.
You have to be sure.

Oh, sweet Jesus.

Does it show?

Oh, bloody hell! Well.

- Don't worry.
- Horrible.

Excuse me, I really wanted
to get it right, really.

You know, it's almost invisible.

Here...
We put this one...

I got it, I got it, I got it!

You got it?

And what will you do with the six of hearts?
You cheated. That's not fair.

Come on.

When I don't cheat, I never win,
I win only when I cheat.

- Doesn't it bother you?
- The radio? No.

Do you like to dance?

- Do you know this one?
- I don't.

Come, let me show you.

It's not difficult,
it's enough to jump around.

It's cool, you know?

When it boils, you can have some.

Did you work on the structure
of bohrium and then of silicon?

You got your double doctorate for research
in their practical applications?

Yes, what is it all about?

Were you the first to
do it in Warsaw?

Man, you're on to something.

You know, I got here your
interview for "The World Changes".

Oh, old days.

You wrote there that it would be cheaper
to buy the solutions from abroad.

As far as I can remember you mean
the research they did in Poznań.

They did it before you
there, didn't they?

And a year later you started
doing the same thing?

- They had no chance.
- But you didn't help them?

You stabbed them in the back.
Am I right?

- You are.
- Just like that?

Yes.

Are you a cynic?

No.

A realist. I had better chances
and I won. It's like a war, man.

If you don't shoot,
you'll be shot.

I got you!

Let me go.

We'll chase him out.

I got you.

Yes, I ordered a call.

Hello? Good morning,
Professor, Kawecki speaking.

Well, peace and quiet,
not a mood for work.

You rot.

Naturally, I talked to him.
I talk to him all the time.

- And one more...
- It's not clear yet.

I can't really talk
about it at the moment.

Well, no, I see, but he...

Professor, well, he has his reasons.

He lives his own life here.
Yes.

No, but... I can't force him...
No, but I will do my best.

I'll do my best, naturally.

Yes.

Well, no, the weather
is beautiful.

If there was anything important...
If the Russians from Leningrad

arrived, Ala was supposed to
let me know. She has my phone number.

Yes, I will arrive then.

Thank you.
Goodbye.

Good morning.

- Here you are.
- Ah, thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen. The first thing
you saw was a quartz crystal.

Common salt looks just the same.

In natural conditions
it also forms huge crystals.

And these are artificial crystals.

Here you can see them
under a microscope.

Thank you, please,
switch on the light.

As I have already
told you, our aim is to

obtain these crystals
in an artificial way.

We produce for example
artificial crystals,

which you can find in
your radios or TV sets.

We produce artificial diamonds.

Naturally, they are...
These diamonds are not quite

as beautiful as those
that charming ladies wear,

but the day may come
when man-made diamonds

are more beautiful than...
or more perfect than these

we find under ground and...
They will not be artificial jewellery

but real jewellery
artificially produced.

The modern man has
in many instances

surpassed nature.
The artificial things we make

are often better than what
we can find in the ground.

Nature has been outdone by man.

And I think this is it.

- Is there anything left?
- Yes, we still have some.

Well, you're welcome.

Oh, Anna. The OHP doesn't work.
Just a moment, the OHP doesn't work.

Thank you very much
for the lecture.

Oh, my pleasure.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

It was very good, you know.

They... They just aren't
much interested in technics.

Seriously? I wouldn't be so sure.

I think that something
is going to stick.

Excuse me, sir.

- What is it?
- I have a crystal.

You know, when I was twelve,
this is a period of fantasy-making,

I imagined I was a pilot,
a chimney-sweeper, a pirate.

I invented inconceivable stories
which I believed entirely.

To myself I was really
all that I imagined.

But I was 12 years old and
you are 36, you see?

I don't know if you're
aware of the fact that

you know only your own
conception of yourself.

Which you have no
chance of verifying.

You can walk on the meadows
thinking you're a saint,

that you're a stoic.

Contemplate your crystal soul.

But without a risk, without a fight,
you'll never learn the truth.

Listen. Why are you
telling me all this?

Because I feel sick when I see that a man
like you lives like an old-age pensioner.

A burnt out bulb.

Listen, man... I am sorry,
I didn't mean to touch you.

It doesn't matter.
You were wrong anyway.

By the way, I am curious to know
how you can be so sure.

Let it be, Marek.
We'll quarrel again.

Neither I can convince you,
nor you can convince me.

So we shouldn't talk at all?

It's better not to talk
about certain things.

- Is it for me?
- Warsaw calling.

Hello! Thank you, yes.
I'm on the line.

- They found you here.
- They did.

- You really have to go?
- Well, I don't know, actually.

- Is it anything important?
- I guess so.

Visitors from Leningrad.
I should meet them.

You should which doesn't
mean that you have to.

Look, and I thought they are
one and the same thing for you.

It's a pity, the weather is so nice.
We could have gone hunting.

Maybe next year.

- Will you come?
- If only I can take some time off.

- Without a special mission?
- What mission?

Do you think I don't know?

You talked to the boss. You promised
to get me out of here. Wasn't it so?

OK. But do you know he can
get you an apartment any time?

I do. He wrote to me some time ago.

So? No?

Come fishing in the summer.

Stay safe.

Goodbye.