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Law should not imitate nature...

but rather improve it

Law is mankind's idea...

to regulate the interpersonal relations

What we are and how we live is the effect of law...

which we either observe or infringe

Man is free

His freedom is restricted by another person's right to freedom

And punishment...

punishment is a revenge,

particularly if it's aimed at injuring the criminal

...and not at preventing crime

But in whose name does law take its revenge?

Is it really in the name of the innocent?

And are the law-maker really innocent?

Mr. Piotr Balicki

Will you come in, please?

Throwing rage away, Mister?

They might still be of use

Somebody threw this at me

And hit you?

No, did you see anybody with a rag like this?

Is it a good film?

No, it's boring

What is it about?

Love, but it's boring anyway

Besides, there's no performance right now, we're making a break

What are you doing?

Plucking the gray hairs out

Do you happen to know where...

the nearest taxi-rank is?

In the Castle Square

A gala concert took place,

organized by the Ministry of Culture and Art...

In fact...

I've taken so much time answering not because I don't know want to say

But I've already been asked this question twice

During my admission exams to the University, the answer seemed very simple

Four years later, in this building

I was not so confident any more

Hey, Madam! We've brought supplies

Quick, Beata!

Good morning

Want a portrait like this one?

No

Is this the way to the Castle Square?

Yeah, straight ahead

I suppose that practicing this profession,

one can correct the errors made by that huge machinery

...called administration of justice

Or at least one can try to correct them

I find another thing interesting, too

Most of all perhaps that I will meet and understand people...

whom I would never meet

if I practiced another profession

Go away! You scare my pigeons!

Go away, will you!

Cad!

Are you free?

Don't you see I'm washing the car?

Could we perhaps wait here? It's so cold...

We all ask ourselves...

whether what we're doing makes any sense

But...

I'm afraid finding the sense is a more and more difficult task

It's more and more often

...that we doubt the sense of our actions

And maybe even of our plans, too

I believe it's a decline of criteria Or worse still, of values

The manageress forgot to charge you for the soup vegetables

How about a life, Miss Beata?

I say, Mister!

Good afternoon

What can I do for you?

I have here...

Are you perhaps one of the specialists who drive pegs into the walls?

No

I thought you might be

I have here a photograph...

Could you enlarge it?

But the bends will be visible

Never mind

All right

Excuse me, Madam...

Is it true that you can tell from a picture...

whether the person is alive or dead?

You've been listening to some non sense

Acting through the prisoner,

or to be more precise, with the prisoner to influence others

I mean deterrence or simply frightening people

It's mentioned among others in Article 50 of the Penal Code

I don't think I like that irony in your voice, the general presentation

...is a doubtful justification of severity of punishment

Not in my opinion only Besides, it's often unjust...

Want some?

The wife's prepared it for us

There, have some

A glass of tea, please

We don't serve teas here

What do you serve?

Coffee and a cake...

I'll take coffee and a cake then

Which one?

A cream puff

No, not this one... This one here

From Cain, no punishment...

has ever improved anybody or deterred him from committing offences

And now, for the news for driver To begin with, the weather forecast

Road conditions are rather bad

Apart from the south-eastern regions, occasional showers possible all over the country

Madzio!

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

From today on, after four years of study and four years of legal training,

please consider yourself our colleague

Eh, Mister...

Excuse me

Are you perhaps going to Mokotow district?

NO, the opposite direction

You see, we're in a great hurry

Motokow, please

Where did that fellow want to go?

The opposite direction

Could you wind the window up?

It's cold

Turn left here

It's easier to reach Fogel street going straight ahead

I prefer it this way

As you wish...

Stop the car, it's over there

You couldn't get through any

I wouldn't even try

Christ...

The glove compartment...

The money...

My wife...

The money...

Give her...

Please...

Let me tell you about a lion A brave golden lion

He got braver and braver every day

All big lions kept telling him

That a lion should have a lion's heart

The session is closed

Is it all, sir?

It is

Yes, it's me...

I lost... yes, completely...

I don't know, have no idea

Maybe I'll go for a walk

No, don't come

How are you?

Slept well? Yes...

Well, bye then

Sir!

Jacek!

Excuse me, Your Highness

I know it isn't customary

You're right

It isn't

But I'd like to know, once it's all over now

Would it help any

...if he had an older

and renowned counsel?

Not at all

The things I said...

Maybe I could have said it differently...

Your speech was probably the best speech...

against capital punishment that I've heard in years

But the sentence had to be what it was

You made no mistakes,

whether as a lawyer or as a man

The circumstances of our meeting were rather unpleasant,

but all the same I'm glad to have met you

Good-bye, sir

This case... could have been tried by a better judge

All this to happen will be my fault Is that no consolation to you?

No, you know, sir

It may be irrelevant,

but remember what that boy said,

about winding a rope around his hand in the coffee bar

in Krakowskie Przedmiescie street

I was...

there

Where?

In that coffee-bar, at that very time

A year ago, that day I passed my lawyer's examination

Perhaps there was something I could have done then?

You're too sensitive to practice the legal profession

It's too late now

You've grown a year older today

The warden will see you presently

How are things doing?

Rather warm, eh?

Good morning?

The curtain doesn't work

Tidy up, will you?

Come in!

Everything's ready, sir

Thank you

Thank you

I expected this

So did I

Yes, sir You have half an hour time

Half an hour?

All right

Come in!

You wanted me, sir?

Take this gentleman

Hello, counselor

I'm going to see him He wants to talk to me

An unpleasant duty, that

It is... I say, sir

This is my first time

Let's hope it will be the last one

This isn't perhaps the best moment, counselor

But we don't see each other too often, you and me...

I heard you have a son Congratulations

Thank you

You wanted to see me?

Have you seen my mother?

Yes

Was she crying?

She was

Maybe she wanted you to...?

Tell me something, or...

No

She just cried

Sit down

Would you...

Could you...

see my mother...

once again?

Of course I could

After... you know, afterwards...

I'm asking because... back there in the court,

when they were putting me into the prison van...

You called my name You called, Jacek

Yes, I called you

I wanted...

I'm nearly twenty-one

But tears rose in my eyes...

when you called my name

I said during the trial...

I don't know

I didn't listen too much

Only when I heard you calling my name

They were against me

All of them, it's the same here

Against what you did

It doesn't make any difference

You wanted me to see your mother?

Yes

I want her to bury me in father's grave

It's a double grave

Can I be buried in a cemetery?

Yes

A priest visited me here He said it was possible

Yes

Well, in that case Father's grave is a double one

Mother was...

to be buried there It was arranged that way

You see, I'd like her to let me have that place

Yes, yes sir, Warden

The Warden wants to know whether you're ready yet?

Not yet...

You were saying...

I don't remember

But you told me it was a triple grave

Yes, that's right

Marysia's buried there and Father ...and the third place is free

They put Marysia there five years age

Yes, she was run over...

by a tractor five years ago

Back in our village...

She was starting the sixth form of elementary school

This means she was twelve when she died

The sixth form

That tractor-driver, he was an acquaintance

We'd been drinking together

We'd had wine and vodka

And then he drove away, and ran her over

...on a meadow near that forest

There was a meadow there, you know

I've been thinking

Had she been alive, everything would have been different

I wouldn't have to go away I'd have stayed in the village

She was my sister

I had three brothers but only one sister

I was her favourite

And I liked her best, too

Everything could have been different

Perhaps...

Perhaps

Perhaps it would never have happened

Yes

And I wouldn't be here now

The Warden and the prosecutor want to know if you're ready

Tell the prosecutor I'll never say I'm ready

You'll never say you're ready?

Never

We bought that grave...

Have you got the sentence?

I've got all the papers

Let's go

Leave your briefcase in my office

This way, please

Take the prisoner out

Yes, sir

The prosecutor requests that you end the conversation

They give the personal belongings back afterwards

things a receipt from a photographer's in Krakow

I wanted a photograph enlarged and

...didn't have the time to collect it

Please collect the enlarged picture and give it back to Mother

What is in that picture?

It's an old picture I had Made during her first Communion

I stole it from Mother when I was going away and I always had it with me

It got so bent...

Let's go

I say, sir

I don't want to

Hold him! Get him!

Now, gentlemen...

Open the door!

A medical certificate of death

Your name and Christian name?

Lazar, Jacek

Date of birth?

March 17, 1967

Parent's names?

Jan and...

Luc... Lucja

I'll now read to you the sentence...

in the name of the Polish People's Republic

...of November 27, 1987

Having examined the case of Jacek Lazar, accused of having an assault and robbery

...and murder of Waldemar Rykowski on March 16, 1987 in Warsaw

Provincial Court in Warsaw

...has found the defendant

...guilt of the act as charged

And sentenced him on force of Articles 148 point 1

...and 44 point 2 of the Penal Code

...to death penalty and deprivation

...of public rights forever

The Supreme Court has maintained the sentence in force

The Council of State has resigned it's right to grand pardon

In this connection, the penalty will be executed

Want a cigarette?

I'd rather have one without filter

The hands

Execute the penalty

Hold him!

All right, pull it now! Pull it!

Is it O.K. Now?

More! More!

I hate you!

I hate you!

I hate you!

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