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The drive begins. A shoal of halibut has crossed the Gulf...

...Stream. Trawlers and fishing boats are sweeping round...

...the shoal. A fish processing boat follows us step by step.

Good fishing boys! Let's hope we won't run out of tins.

Fish processing fellows are as pleased as punch. There'll be...

...no shortage of fish and plenty of good fish to be...

...tinned in tomato sauce.

"Dear Comrade!" "In connection with your...

...letter of 7th February 1968, we can inform you that we..."

"...have sent you 15 of the publications in which you are..."

"...interested..." "The following books are missing."

Here they are, the anonymous heroes of the fishing trip...

...the skipper and his likeable crew. They are stained with...

...the salt of the ocean which they know inside out.

Hornby, Albert Syndney, Oxford, progressive English for Adult...

...Learners. London, Oxford University Press. Prejbisz,...

...Jasinska, exercises in English grammer. Warsaw.

A shark! Look, a shark! A shark!

What? What's the matter?

I say, a shark.

Hm.

I must go back to the kitchen to watch my pots.

Can't the dinner wait? You'd do better to watch television.

At the present time they are completely unobtainable, as...

...soon as we can find them on the market we shall not fail...

...to send them to your address...

Artur... tell how grandad saved the entire army of Anders.

It was night and Grandad was sitting in a trench. The...

...Germans approached them on a reconnaissance, one of...

...them farted and Grandad though they were shooting...

...and threw some grenades but they hadn't been primed.

Well, that's not the exact truth.

Don't confuse the child.

The child sucks up to you.

But when...

The child shouldn't tamper with the truth.

We wish you succes in your work.

Oh, seals. Lots of them.

Yes, I see.

Wlada!

What?

Look, seals.

So they are.

Lovely seals. The dolphins will appear soon. Close the door...

...to the kitchen because there is a bad smell coming from it.

A dolphin can sometimes leap through a hoop.

She is the most faithful friend of Polar man. When the long...

...Arctic night falls, the seal drops asleep. Woken up...

...suddenly by a Laplander or an Eskimo, she immediately...

...jumps back into the water

Have you seen a tumbler?

Then the Polar man returns alone to his igloo. Swimming...

...and diving are the seals most enjoyable occupations.

Tumblers keep disappearing. I bought six last week, eight...

...zloties each. I don't mind the money but you just simply...

...can't get them. Besides, why must I be bothered with all...

...those silly things? I always come home loaded like a...

...camel and on top of everything else tumblers...

..keep disappearing. Wlodek! Have you seen a tumbler?

Hmm...

A tumbler!

Hmm...

In the morning the sun warmed the grenades, the paraffin...

...melted and the whole German army was blown up.

Unlike the seal, the shark is man's enemy. It's fortunate...

...that he doesn't come up on to the shore as the seal...

...does - say our cheerful hosts on the islands.

Have you been to the cooperative? Found anything?

No, I haven't.

And what have I been doing? Don't I work? Don't I? The...

...whole day? Don't I? Don't I work?

What's the matter with you? Nobody denies that you work.

Well, I'm not saying that you should do it, of course not.

I've got the child on my hands haven't I?

Yes. Yes. I'll arrange it as soon as possible. You have...

...misunderstood me. Perhaps I didn't make myself clear.

It's a man's job and you must fix it. When I worked I could...

...go out now and then but I can't leave the house. You...

...must arrange it tomorrow, understand?

It's boiled away.

Lie down.

So another day has passed. The song which says that the...

...fisherman has fun in day and sleeps in a hammock at night...

...is untrue. As you can see for yourselves, ladies and...

...gentlemen, the fisherman goes on pulling his nets.

Do you know a Miss Teresa, a nurse from the hospital in...

...which I once stayed, because she asked about you when I...

...was there last time having inhalation treatment.

Oh, yes, we worked together and did the same course.

Well, six more injections and that will be the end of your...

...treatment. The vitamine will do you good.

But really, I fell all right without them.

Don't be silly.

When there is a big shoal of fish the fisherman doesn't...

...drop his net which's both the light of his eyes and his work.

You must go to them. Otherwise, we'll be lucky to...

...get an apartment on two years. Everybody arranges...

...things that way. Nobody likes it but you simply have to...

...keep pestering people. You can give up writing at home.

...for one day and go there to arrange things. And you must...

...enter Artur at a school. He is seven and so able. Perhaps...

...they'll take him in the second form.

Artur! Leave that alone. Sit down. Dinner is ready.

We wish you success in your work.

But you've gone and fried potatoes again. Why? If you...

...to poison me just give me the poison straight away.

Where are you going? You must be a psychopath.

Dinner's on the table. Can't you see it?

I just wanted to rush out to... I mean... cigarettes and then...

...come back. Well?

That's too bad.

What have cigarettes to do with it?

Rushing out like that can warp your character.

That's too bad. The pigeon swallowed only one drop of...

...nicotine and fell dead. Only one drop and...

Where?

On television. They aren't good.

What's wrong with them?

I'm not a cook.

They are quite good.

Too hard.

They should be hard.

But not that hard. Something else should be as hard as that.

What?

Something else.

Why aren't you eating?

And Grandad lifted as tone and moved it away.

I forgot them earlier and I have to do some more work tonight.

Cover the typewriter to keep the dust off.

Hunting Flies

Starring:

Directed by:

So I come to 'er and say good mornin' or maybe good evenin'

...wanna do a few shakes with me on the floor.

And vice-versailles.

How come?

An' she"?

You don't say!

Hey, mister, I've got a ticket for you for tonight.

But I don't want to go.

You can't 'ave it for peanuts.

But that's a ticket to a bath house.

Doesn't matter. You can dance there.

Pipe down.

Sure. Yes, it's 'ere.

And 'er?

Some dames!

Some ace - driver, ain't he.

Skorka's circus van full of birds.

Cute flappers!

Coming girls? Eh?

If you're comin' you're comin', if you ain't you ain't.

Hey, look!

If the bum steals your run- never mind. He'll take the lot.

Jabber - jabber and the throat is dry. She jabbers and I...

...trample on her feet.

I say, the blonde has no relative in Liverpool but she...

...listend to the Beatles every night.

Hey, mister, gimme a fag.

So I take them to my digs and say - we haven't known each...

...other long so mind you don't clean valuables out of my flat.

It makes fifty, eh?

I ring her and say: Isola at home. And it's 'er brother-in-law.

...or somebody and 'e gives me the gab. 'e ain't sayin' it's a...

...wrong number Telephones, you know, wrong numbers...

...often 'appen. I say no wrong number. Can't be. She's got...

...fair 'air, blue eyes and brown ears.

Narrow here and sticking out there.

A pregnant fly.

So I'm tellin' the dames that in such a situation the whole...

...evenin' is pointless for me.

Let's go and take some hot number.

Why go and take? They'll come our-way.

Don't talk wet. Girls are cold fish.

I'm clearing out now but I won't be two jiffs.

Hi! Wlodek!

Hi!

Oh, you're getting bald. How are you? How are you doing?

How much do you draw a month? Have you been to...

...the West? Have you got a car? What about an apartmen?

Where did you have that coat made? Have you seen any of...

...our old pals? All right, let's go inside and talk. I remember

...that trick you pulled that got you suspended from school.

Boys, move aside, leave the passage clear.

Go ahead. Don't be afraid. I supervise this joint. Follow.

Hi, old boy, come in. Let them pass.

Come in. Quick. Janke! Let our friends in. Quick.

Let us in.

You won't get in, old man. Nothing doing.

Why?

Because you aren't an African. Clear?

And who am I?

Follow me. Follow me. You did pull a stunt at school.

Go ahead. Come in. Excuse me.

Let's dance my friends. Every body's dancing.

Don't make us ashamed in the eyes of foreigners. Get selfing

...or leave the floor. Right? Listen, what was that stunt...

...you pulled at the university? Damn it. I've clean forgotten...

...what it was. Well, you can't help it can you?

My friends, that table has been booked for a group of our...

...colleagues from France. Please, leave it.

Let's go to the bar. Come on. I'm asking you most sincerely.

No wife, no child, travelling widely...Are you coming in?

You see, I operate on this territory. It's real drudgery.

Meeting, lectures, visits abroad Paris, Moscow, London...

...Brussels...My friend, the amount of wine in our bar is...

...limited. Each of you can have two or three glasses and you...

...have already had six rounds, haven't you?

...Athens...Drudgery all the time. Always moving around.

Meetings, lectures, conversations with our...

...colleagues from aboard, discussions, reports, papers.

I also dabble in art.

I've just bought a very beatiful book, "Italian Painting"

I've been there and in Copenhagen, too.

Do you know how Che Guevara was murdered? Do you know?

Listen, old man, he was surrounded by two thousand...

...soldiers and there were only the four of them. Do you...

...understand or don't you? No, he doesn't understand.

Yes. We support any movement for freedom.

Do you know that they cut his finger and sent it to the USA...

...so that they could identify him. Did you hear that?

It's very nice that we've met just by accident.

Yes, but in fact our future Fate is always somehow...

...initiated by accident. My name is Irena. I'm a final year...

...student of philology and now I'm writing my master's thesis.

Oh, I see.

And you?

I finished five terms of...well... Russina studies. But I really...

...must go home now. I only dashed out for a moment...

My name is Wlodek.

I live with my aunt, a charming woman but slightly puritan.

Sometimes she can not understand my behaviour.

It was very manly and tough of you to come to my rescue.

I wish...well...

Anyway, you didn't have to. You could have pretended...

...you hadn't noticed anything.

So I could. Well, shall we dance?

Strictly speaking, those boys, well I... May I take you home?

Although I must go back myself. I mean go back home...

Listen, call me Irena. It's silly to be so formal. I adore...

...structualists. I'm writing a paper on Olubiec at present.

Oh, I see, on Olubiec.

He is one of the greatest personalities among the...

...writers of the 1958 generation.

Undoubtedly, yes, of course.

He is eccentric but he is super. You must have been...

...struck by the concept of time in his recent works?

Yes.

When did you finish your studies?

They've been interrupted because I was suspended...

...in 1955 and never went back. But I finished five terms.

You've already told me. What were you suspended for?

I was asked to write a paper "Gryboyedov - the...

...Shakespeare of Russian literature". And then at the...

...English course I wrote a paper titled "Shakespeare...

...the Griboyedov of English Literature" and that was that.

That's very amusing. Dashing and manly, exactly your style.

Like giving those playboys the push. I'd recognize the trait.

I work in an office. I got a raise recently.

That's my place. Pick me up at the University tomorrow at...

...two. Wait for me.

Fresh honey is the most delicious snack for bears...

...and a keen hunter waiting for his game always remembers.

He waits for the animal just around the corner, as he...

...knows all the paths to its watering place very well.

Give me a flypaper. I'm asking you to give me a flypaper.

Well, I met a colleague, I mean a school friend and that's why.

I noticed the same thing with a flypaper we used before.

Flies don't stick to it. Moreover windows should be wide open.

And that's because my colleague...just my colleague...

Can't you stop hammering at it? You've been typing for...

...the whole evening. Go to bed.

A fly coming in from outside should, in principle, turn left.

It would be correct. And the last one turned right.

Who?

The fly.

And this colleague whom I met... and that's why...

You must go to the cooperative tomorrow. It's neccessary.

But the co-op is open till four and I... I work till four.

Take some leave.

Well. I'll try.

Trying isn't enough. You must do it and finish the matter.

Then slip out of her sight.

It wouldn't be sensible to buy the whole bottle of milk, if all...

...I need is one glass. I've already counted out the...

...exact amount of money and I worked it out at home and...

...it amounts to 12,60 a month for my daily glass of milk.

This is the first installment and if you allow me then I'll take...

...my glass of milk everyday.

In the palace of cultute and Science ladies and gentlemen.

You are now in the very center of our capitol, in a...

...building whic is 231 meters high... it's welcome is 817...

...thousand cubic meters, it covers an area of 53,848...

...and it has 3,312 rooms and halls of various kinds. Before...

...you reach the terrace from which you can see the...

...panorama of Warsaw, we'd like to give you some...

...information. The palace of Culture and Science was...

...handed over by Soviet builders to the use of...

...Polish Society on 22nd July, 1955.

I've come about a raise.

But you've had a raise quite recently.

But it was a small one.

Thank you. Thank you.

But you haven't finished your highest studies.

Well, I finished five terms.

But you're still some way off from the end.

Yes, but I've already completed more than half.

Well, I'll see what can be done. But you shouldn't have made...

...fun of Griboyedov and Shakespeare.

I say, well, thank you very much but, in fact, I wish I...

...could pop off for twenty minutes if possible.

Please do. Can't you manage to finish your studies? Our...

...institution would help you.

Yes, yes, yes... I'll think about that but now I must go out.

I never leave the office but today I really must.

You can go out whenever you need as long as you do...

...what work should be done, and I know that you do it.

That's sheer nonsense. Mother has told father expressally...

...that she won't put up with his jealousy any longer, and....

...father is still insanely jealous.

Did you talk to your father?

I did but he is pigheaded and I can't find a common language.

I understand your father perfectly well.

But my mother's made it quite clear to him: no fuss, no...

...scenes of jealousy. Everybody has the right to...

...live one's own life.

I say that's really a gross exaggeration. Your mother...

...should go somewhere with that fellow for two days and...

...there would be no problem.

You surprise me.

You don't take my point. I'm far from being prudish, but...

...this is a question of certain loyalty. There's a difference...

...going off with a fellow some where out of town and...

...walking out with him on a Sunday down the main street.

It may happen that before they call at their home port, they...

...are caught by a storm, circumstances the fleet is...

...manouvered into a wedge formation with the sterns...

...close together to ride out the storm. It's hight time to...

...start a drive. The far reaching echoe of a sounder is heard.

Tell us how Grandad's toe was cut off by a scyhte.

Grandad was careless, he was barefoot and it was cut off.

See now? Leave it alone. Have you been to the cooperative?

Have you discovered anything? I'm sure you haven't.

Dear Comrades...

Another tumbler has been lost.

This yet another of the much publicised sham sports. We...

...can see a Western professional maltreating an...

...Australian marsupial. The whole fight has been faked...

...from beginning to end.

I was sure that nobody would face the music. That nobody...

...would admit guilt. You're just like children.

Grandad carried a British officer over the frontier and...

...didn't even shake Grandpa's hand when they met at an...

...embassy party. I think Grandpa broke the tumbler.

That's not true. You certainly don't bring him up properly.

I broke something three days ago but it was a plate.

You know very well that we're not talking about a plate.

I'm sure he broke it himself.

Leave the child alone. If Artur had broken it, he would have...

...admitted it. Show me your hands.

Why my hands?

There was coffee in the tumbler, it might have left trace.

A bishop's daughter, a general wife and a professor's...

...daughter were all in love with Grandad and wanted to marry.

...him but he wouldn't.

Yes, and now the other one.

Perhaps, it has been mislaid somewhere. He'll find it.

I saw Dad wiping his hands, too, not long ago.

And where are you going? Stand by your father. Show...

...me your hands.

In the circumstances it'd be better to confess. You are...

...sometimes face with certain moral situations...

I don't think so.

...when you can't muster enough courage.

Your hands seem to be all right but that doesn't prove...

...anything. On the contrary.

It makes me even more suspicious.

I saw Mum sweeping under the couch.

Leave your mother alone. That's not nice to tell on your...

...mother without proof. All right, if you haven't got...

...enough courage or character you need not admit your...

...guilt. But from now on you'll drink tea from the teapot...

...except your mother.

But...but...I've asked for a raise.

What did you say?

I've asked for a raise.

Well? Have they agreed?

Rather yes.

Rather or certainly?

Rather certainly.

A fly's caught.

Perhaps they'll open.

They'll never open.

Where can you go if they don't open?

I reckon they'll open.

I'm telling you they won't.

You better tell me nothing.

Listen, something's moving there.

Moving nothing.

I'm not going home at this hour.

I reckon they'll open. I'm going to wait.

I don't think they will.

Hey, you, mister, let us in, for Pete's sake. Open the door.

I've booked a table.

Do you know a place where we can have fun?

No, I don't.

I couldn't come before.

It's wonderful to see you here. I knew that you would come.

Something prevented me from coming before.

It suited your style that you didn't come. That's exactly...

...what I like you for, your manliness, your rough...

...surface beneath which one can feel sensitivity, like the...

...hero of a western... although they are a product of an...

...infantile pop-culture. Are you married?

Me?

Me? How do you know?

Because of your wedding ring.

I am, in fact. And I've got a child.

I would be astonished if a man like you wasn't married.

Anyway, I like children.

You can't waste your capacity in that way. With your...

...intelligence... It's utter nonsense We must think up something...

...different for you.

Oh, Griboyedov... But this has been badly translated...

...because "Gorie at uma" means, in fact, something...

...entirely different.

Listen, I've got an idea. It's absolutely clear. You can...

...translate plays, or poetry.

No, I won't be able to cope with it and anyway I haven't...

...finished my studies.

Oh, skip it. What about five terms of Russian studies?

Anyway, your inner experience, your identity, your sensetivity

...are worth more than a diploma. At the beginning

I would help you, I would correct your style.

But I must go home now. I must, mustn't I?

Blast your office and blast your home. Nobody would...

...notice your absence at the office: nor would they at...

...home. Those six years that you've given them have been...

...a sheer waste, a terrible blunder. In any case, a man...

...like you can't prove himself in an office.

I'll hold it for you.

Militia! Help! Don't beat me! Oh, God!

Help! Help!

Keep quiet!

Why? What's the matter?

I did my best but I couldn't.

You were super. Well, it comes to you naturally.

If I'd managed to reach them on time...

I'm leaving you now for one or two days to attend a meeting.

...of Polish philologists. When I get back, we'll start. And...

...during those two days we must think over our future.

This is not a trifling matter and we must consider how to do.

May I see your identity card?

Here you are.

Profession: Philologist. I see. And who is this lady?

She lives here.

What is she to you?

Well, perhaps I should... I should go now.

I think we'll be seeing each other again.

I've got two poems here which students worked on at the...

...Russian course. Translate them and I'll arrange for...

...them to be published. When I return I'll ring you at the office.

Listen, listen what's happened to me. Listen...

Well?

I've lost my season ticket. It's dissappeared into thin air.

You are abnormal.

Listen. I want to tell you something.

Well?

You see, it's because I left so abruptly.

What did you say?

That I left.

Oh, yes.

Because, you see...

The fork's been found!

Did you talk to that pensioner?

Pensioner?

To stop him using our milk.

What?

Using our milk.

Oh, yes.

But he keeps on using it. But I'll catch him and I'll give his...

...bald nut what for. What did you say to him?

He'll pay for it.

I don't care about the payment. He may have illness.

What illness?

I don't know, but I'm disgusted. How much will he pay?

About 12,60. He gave me the first installment yesterday.

Let him use somebody else's milk.

Oh, leave it as is for the moment, it would be akward...

Well, we'll leave it at that but it's the first and the last time.

I get it.

Well, bye.

We now come to from "C". It meets your individual cities...

....halfway - you may take notes stimulating sensitivity and...

...refined tastes: moreover, it gives an oppurtunity for...

...making exceptionally bold and strikinglt accurate...

...appraisals. Form "D" on the other hand, please, don't take.

...any notes - performs the role of a kind of depth...

....sounder of your inner selves. I've made some observations...

...on this point but I don't think it's necessary to develop now.

Hello! Hello! Wrong number.

However, if anything is not clear to any of you, I'd...

...be happy to discuss it during private consultations which...

...will meet your doubts half way.

These may take place at any time of the day. If any of you...

...feels it necessary to ask a particular questions, I am of...

...course, prepared to answer practically any question now.

Hello! Hello! No, no, I can't ask anybody to take a call.

Oh, I've got something for you.

Some news?

A summons form the Militia.

I have no idea what that means.

I wonder, too.

I must go now.

Please do.

I have pleasure in presenting to you this symbolic cup...

...and I wish you, Mr. Philologist more achievements of this.

Thank you very much, gentlemen.

We thank you for your help in our work and for catching...

...hoodlums. If every citizen were so helpful to the Militia...

...so brave and determined, then the whole problem...

...would have looked differently. You don't realize, Mr...

...Philologist, how sorry we are that sometimes society does...

...not seem to understand us.

Can you imagine that one day when I was on the beat three...

...of them with flick knives approached me. One of them...

...was rather small but the two others...

Well, I thought it would be a hard nut to crack...

By the way, what's your name?

So you've eventually been cornered.

He's been burning the midnight oil.

Gentlemen, work is over for all of us, so perhaps you...

...accept my invitation...I'll pop off for a moment and bring...

...some brandy back.

Well, perhaps we'll arrange it for our next meeting.

Certainly, Mr. Editor.

That's right

Listen, Mr. Editor, these three chaps with flick knives...

...came up to me, and I especially minded two of them.

...and I thought that I might run into trouble.

You've already told me.

The strangler's been brought in.

Certainly, Mr. Editor.

That's right.

I've seen you before somewhere. You're a bit too...

noisy, don't you think?

Thank you very much.

So those two with flick knives attacked me... and do you...

...know what happened?

Make it short.

Well, they underestimated me.

I would like to thank you, gentlemen, I am very grateful.

My behaviour is utterly normal such as it should be. That is...

...the only way to deal with hoodlums. Apart from that...

...I do translations and then later I'll write something, and...

...my case you can always count on me. One should...

...liberate one's own indivisuality it's obvious. It's quite possible...

...that I'll divorce my wife. Yes...

Everybody else does. So why not me, too. Oh, God if only...

...she'd telephone me. So I'd like to drink to the health of...

...the Commandant.

You see, we would have given you a medal, but there is too...

...much trouble involved. And this cup looks nice and will...

...be a pleasent souvenir.

Yes.

Oh, it's you. My congratulations on having such a fiance.

So they let you know and you didn't give me a ring? Look.

We're going to my place.

What about your aunt?

She's gone to the cinema, so we've got two hours to...

...ourselves. Get rid of your petty bourgeoisie and let's go.

What made you do it?

Semantics... The meeting was terrific. We discussed...

...quasiopinions of Ingarden, the principles of Jacobsen's...

...language, and then Goldman, Poper...

I thought that something happened that you wouldn't...

...return. I was aware...

A kind of awareness is the awareness of something.

Poper. Listen, I've thought something over carefully.

I pondered it over the meeting and now everything seems...

...quite clear to me.

Ehh!

It's no use wasting time. Your family has no right to keep...

...you tied to them any longer. If you want, I will talk to them.

I could arrange it even today.

No, no, I prefer to do it myself.

Oh, I knew you would prefer to arrange it yourself. That's...

..typical of you. But you should not be too tough. You must...

...explain to them that it can't go on like this any longer.

Yes, of course, I'll talk to her. I'll tell her that it's a pity but...

...we can't go like this any longer. Goodness, I simply...

...can't imagine how I could have led such a life for so long.

But now it's the end. I'm through with it. I'll tell them...

...they have no right to flatten me. I'll tell them it's the end.

Not bad, but you've still to improve upon it. You see...

...darling, you've already got over the first stage. Oh, my...

...aunt's cups. She bought them in an antique shop and never...

...uses them. A sensless cult of objects, an objective world.

It's a good thing you specialize in Russian. Nowadays, it's a...

...subject rarely studied here, and they have splendid rest...

...houses for writers in the Cinema. Oh, oh, something is...

...pinching me. It's simply a structural anthropology.

I sleep with it. Well, darling.

It's terrible to think that we might never have met each...

...other and that I would... for my whole life... without any sense.

We hit the jackpot. You've not lived an authentic life till now.

Well, these poems aren't good, are they?

They aren't bad.

Well, you see, this is my first attempt... I know that I should...

...do better than that but....

I think you should specialize in prose. Listen, I've got an...

...entirely new idea. This is a wonderful coincidence. Take...

...it and change. We've got an appointment with Olubiec.

What for?

I talked to him about you and he was interested. We're...

...going with him to the country club tomorrow. In his car.

But why to the country club?

Why? Because it's the proper thing to show yourself there.

It'll do you good if you're seen in his company. And you can...

...take the oppurtunity to talk to him.

What about?

What about? You'll tell him all about yourself and besides...

...he likes manly tough types with languid movements.

Do you think my movements are languid?

Of course they are. And when you're talking to him use...

...words like muddled jumble, jumbled up, and so on, He...

...likes that. And finish with your family.

Is it wise to involve Olubiec?

Don't sweetheart me. I'm sure you'll succeed.

But why?

Because you have talent. You must go now because Auntie...

...will be back soon.

Many a sailor owes his life to the dolphin who is second to...

...man intelligence. A live dolphin weighs about half a...

...ton. No wonder, therefore, that he can carry a sailor....

...who has been washed overboard, on it's fin as if he...

...were a feather.

I'm back a bit late because I wanted to do some more....

...work and according to the new regulation, we can't take...

...office typewriters home.

Look, Wlada! Reindeers. Aren't they strong beasts?

Reindeers are useful not only for hats...

...handbags, gloves and purses....

...In many countries the reindeer is a likeable draft who can...

...patiently wear a harness for weeks.

He wouldn't stand it for one week.

Tell your Dad how your Grandad chased a Gestapo....

...man into a hole under the ice covered river.

He wouldn't stand it! Of course he would.

The Gestapo man jumped into a hole under the ice and...

Grandad jumped after him.

Listen, I'm very sorry, but you must understand that now...

...that you're taking care of the child I must do more work.

Have you been to the co-op?

I'll go tomorrow. I went there today but they closed early.

Well, you better.

Where's my boy?

The Gestapo man got out of the hole and Grandad caught.

Oh, here's the glass.

Thank God.

Hanka! Isn't it time for an injection?

Can't you wait? You've been home all day, so can't you...

...wait a bit longer.

Incidentally, where have you been?

Oh...

So, I'm right to be suspicious.

Flypaper is rather a primitive means of control. You can...

...do it in a chemically whole sale manner by filling up...

...window inlets. And the pigeon...

Wlodek, go to bed.

Let's go to bed.

Oh, you're there already.

Yes, darling. Well, there are no more injections.

We can buy some more.

Without a prescription?

I know a doctor who would give me one.

I have yet to see you arrange anything from beginning to end.

Listen, he's a friend from the university. A physician.

Then ask him to give you a prescription for calcium.

What?

Calcium.

How much?

I don't know. Ask him, he's the doctor not me.

True. Listen...listen...I haven't switched the gas off.

Doesn't matter. I have. Well?

Good night.

Hi! Hi!

Hi! Well... I'm gland... I'm glad.

You haven't done this room up for a long time. How are...

...you doing in general?

So so. I'm glad.

So am I.

Are you working on anything at present?

Yes. Oh...

Listen, what you did here... ...with us...

With us? There is no us any longer.

What? It's true.

You're looking very well, my teddy - bear.

Am I? Well, so that's all right.

Perhaps even better than before. You couldn't stand...

...intensity of the experience. You broke down on the...

...thereshold of success. It can't be helped. It's a matter of...

...having a personality and character.

Me?

But I've no grudge againist you. Of course not. I was...

...only very sorry that you did not prove yourself. I couldn't...

...help feel disappointed that I was wrong in my psychological....

...appraisal and it destroyed my affection. Well, you wouldn't...

...expect me to love somebody just for his talent, which I'm...

...still convinced you certainly have, but I've lost interest in....

...your personality. Are all the tools in their proper place?

Yes. I only use this for buttering the bread. Listen...

...you've really done a lot for me. I was just about sculpting.

All those programmes, classes that damn vernissage. Listen...

I wanted to apologize long ago but you didn't come. Tell me...

...why didn't you come?

I didn't come?

No.

Your bewilderment annoys me. There is no place for...

...metaphysics and anxiety in this world, as it is terribly...

...obvious and absurdly exact. Where's the cooker?

What cooker?

The gas cooker.

My neighbour's cooker conked out so I lent...

When?

It bust about a week ago.

And of course, they haven't returned it yet.

No, blast them, no.

Go there now and bring it back.

Yes, I'm going.

Listen, I need your studio for a superb boy, tough and manly.

...the exact opposite to you. He'll be translating.

I've discovered him and we must help him. He won't...

...disappoint us. I'm pulling him out of the drab existence...

...which by accident he is sinking in. And I need your...

...studio for him. Anyway, you don't use it at all. We must...

...move in today.

What about me?

What's happened to your fiance?

She got married.

Well, so you can move into my aunts temporarily and I'll...

...find something for you later.

Give me the keys.

It's absolutely wonderful that you come here and bear...

...me no grudge.

I don't bear you any grudge, teddy bear, of course not...

...now go and get the cooker.

I've brought you some coffee. It'll help you concentrate.

Yes, perhaps.

Take it off.

I've been to the thoughts of youth and I've arranged it.

They'll certainly publish your work.

Certainly?

Yes, because what you're doing is splendid.

It may not come off.

Impossible. It will come off, it must come off.

Commander and commisar, commander and commisar...

Your translation must be faithful to the original but at...

...the same time you should give a free treatment to...

...particular phrases and you must capture the rythm.

They clashed with their eyes in silence...

Perhaps they exchanged meaningful glances.

The commander and the commisar...

The commandant and the commisar. Quiet, darling, quiet.

But I don't know, I don't know, I don't know! I can't feel it.

I didn't finish my studies. So how can this work? How?

They hung glances on each other. They were bound by...

...their glasses. They looked at each other meaningfully.

Very good.

Good?

Of course, it must be good. It's tough going to the beginning.

...but after a time you'll get the hang of it and you'll be doing...

...it with no effort at all. Have some coffee.

Aren't I drinking too much coffee?

No. Have some more.

Bomb thump into the rocks with a sickening whine.

What does "woj" mean?

"Woj" means... I think it means a groan, or something like it.

Don't think, look it up in a dictionary.

Here you are. Well?

Whine, groan, whizz, lament. Oh, God! Oh, God!

Pour cold water over your head.

It won't help.

And now think it over quietly.

Yes, yes, yes. Bombs are whistling. I mean groaning...

It's better to say whizzing, although that's no exact.

Teddy bear, you shouldn't burn yourself out like that. Don't...

...get hysterical. Everything will turn out all right. You should...

...not be so tense.

The wailing bombs crash againist the rocks. Or wailing...

...ominously.

Well, a wail shouldn't be ominous. What is that word...

...beginning with "w"?

Whining, sheriking, lamenting. Perhaps howling, eh?

No, I think it may be necessary to deviate slightly from the...

...literal translation. I'm taking you for a walk now. Let's go.

I'm coming.

Perhaps thundering bombs or shreiking bombs?

Make it whizzing bombs and stop worrying. In any case...

...it should be a free translation and you can contribute your...

...own suggestions to it. At the moment we're taking a walk...

...and you must take your mind off other things. This will help...

...you concentrate later. Let's talk about something else.

Rets and relax. Oh, look, how lovely that bird is!

Where?

It's flown away. Take a long look around, identify yourself...

...with nature. Think about something striking. About...

..sand or the sun, for example. If you exercise your imagination.

...it may come in useful later in your writing. That's what...

...Olubiec always does when he relaxes.

But I'm not Olubiec.

I'm tired.

Breathe deeply. The art of relaxation isn't easy. Keep...

...on walking and I'll go make coffee. and then we'll get...

...cracking again.

Coffee is ready.

Commander and commisar, commander and commisar.

I haven't been to the country club for a long time.

I have never been there. It must be a lovely place.

Beatiful filed.

The Mazovial dull plains...

...don't you agree?

Commander and commisar...

Did you say something?

No.

I heard something.

It was about the fields. They are beatiful.

Possibly.

Wlodek is a very able translator.

What does he do?

What? I wonder how far it is to the country club?

Oh, he must be doing about 150.

I tell you, Barbara, you don't settle my accounts properly.

In my case this is a district town and I should be given...

...a bigger expense allowance.

A district town? What district?

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.

Hi!

Who is he?

Who is she?

Oh, a young poetess.

What I'm doing...

Skip it.

Why don't you sit down?

Well, I'll leave you two alone for a moment.

Nothing doing here. Why do we have to dance like two...

...donkeys. I've got delicious ham at home and two empty...

...rooms: a dining room and an executive room.

I won't take advantage of it.

Pity, I can guarantee fifteen minutes of carefree, psycho-

-delic bliss. Changing into dressing gowns right away.

No, thank you. Who is he?

A TV producer.

I'm a TV producer but at the moment that's not important.

But you can put it in the district category.

I can or I can't. Do you think you're an exception?

It concerns my translation. I mean in general that what...

...I'll be translating and...I mean... ...my messy life...Yes...Because

...I studied Russian philology for five terms and later I...

...was suspended because I played a trick, just me...

Can you get me together with that boy?

What boy?

The one you danced with.

I'm sorry but I don't know him.

But I saw you myself.

You're mistaken.

Pity. I'd make it worth your while.

The girl is a smasher, but the rest are simply sham.

Who is that boy?

He is the son of...

I see. Do you produce translated plays on TV?

No. But you represent a type of beauty which is just right...

...for television. Because specifically television features

are required for television. And we could make a hit.

So now we can go back to my home, eh?

Who is he?

Editor-in-chief of the mothly "He and She" with his wife.

What would you say?

I can't help it.

Shall we dance?

Yes.

Splendid

Your magazine is super. It has got its own particular style.

I'm very pleased.

A well defined style. We discussed it at the Polish...

...Philologists club.

Really?

When we analysed various forms of mass media.

I badly need someone of your type in television. Somebody...

...who is lovely and modern. You've got a great chance.

I must go back now. Who is he?

One hundred metres of tomatoes under glass. And...

...the magazine is in fact run by the editor's wife. He only...

...lends it his name.

You have a perfect understanding of what readers want.

Really? Thank you.

Will you take a piece of my scenario?

Who is that girl?

58, Beer Street. Her dad is posted abroad.

Are we going back?

You've managed to establish a authentic dialogue with society.

I'm out of tune, but if you, with all your literary and moral...

...authority could help me then I would have a great chance...

...of revival. You see, before I met Irena I didn't think about...

...translations. I mean, well, not that I didn't think about it at...

...all but I didn't realize it precisely.

And now after the poems and prose I'll be writing a sketch...

...and then I'll translate a one act play and, perhaps, I might...

...get a scolarship and I would go to Writers Home on the...

...Black Sea coast. You got me don't you? So please, help me.

Piss off!

Two human beings may have been looking for each other...

In any case, I made it out for the 1st class in an expres...

...train and only the 2nd is allowed.

You're inimitable. Absolutely inimitable!

My dear, can you introduce me to your friend?

No, I don't know him.

Oh, that's too bad.

Have you got any matches? Safety matches?

No, no, no.

Put me in touch...

With whom?

Well, with him.

What's happened? Where is Olubiec?

Well?

Introduce yourselves, gentlemen.

I'm very pleased. I much respect your father. He is...

...an extremely efficient man. I'd make a favour worth it.

Think nothing of Olubiec, he is really roughmannered. He's...

...taking revenge on me. I discussed his writing with...

...him two weeks ago, as I was just preparing a paper on...

..."Olubiec's transcendental visions", some fragments of...

...which were to be printed in the "Thoughts of Youth". At...

...the beginning he was very nice, asked me to visit him...

...to...well, show me his notes for an antinovel he was writing.

And then he got fresh with me and went at it in a big way.

I must say that it was quite pleaseant, however, it...

...contradicted the ethics of a writer. I might lost a proper...

...perspective towards his writing. Anyway, I'd already...

...fallen in love with you. There are two aspects of Olubiec...

...which are kept apart by the shadow of the Elict. His...

...writing and himself.

Somebody's scratched my car. Where is the manager?

This is a supervised parking lot. I won't let them get away.

Shall I get in?

I don't care one way or the other. Don't upset me. My car...

Now...

You represent a type of beauty which is just right...

...for television. Because specifically television features

...are required for television. So now can we go home?

Not me.

You must understand me. It's no means pleasant for me that

...I can't enlarge my greenhouse. If you talk to...

...your old man, you won't find me ungrateful.

Why are you so gloomy? This is our first weekend.

You're always leaving me.

Because I must take care of us. I'm doing it for you.

But don't go away all the time.

But I've got another brainwave.

I've heard that you're a splendid translator, that you...

...have an uncanny felicity of phrase. Bravo boy!

What's going on? Why are you running away?

Why should I dance with her and not with you?

You must fascinate her. Just be your true self.

Can't she dance with her husband?

They don't love each other. She is very lonely and...

...alienated. And I want you to do translations and get a...

...position. Why are you againist us? Do you think that...

...I'm enjoying it? Do you realize what I feel when you are...

...seducing her?

Me?

Who else? But I don't bear you a grudge. Well, teddy...

...bear, be sweet to her and don't mind me.

But what does she want from me?

It doesn't matter darling. We must both be nice to her.

It's nice here, isn't it?

Hm.

Do you often come here?

Hm.

When are you and your husband going back?

My husband is going back soon.

What do you mean, your husband?

I mean that I am staying.

Where?

Well, here. I've a room in the hotel and I don't want to go.

It must be rather dull here if you stay long?

Oh, it depends. I'm not bored. I'm resting.

Irena's told me that you are ill adapted. I can see that...

...you are nervous.

Me? Oh, no. It's a pleasant room. Does it overlook the lake?

Yes. We are going to do a special issue. That's why I...

...have brought you here. Where have your works been

...printed so far?

Well... it's rather hot here.

Then take something off.

I'll pop off and have a drink of water.

Darling, don't be silly. What do you want to give me?

What?

Well, for the next issue of my magazine.

Oh, I see.

What are you working on at present? Excuse me for...

...a moment, but I must change. I badly need translations.

How...how can I get out of this place, because...because...

...I would like to go back. I mean with your husband.

You can...but why?

Because I'm a translator, I must work on translations...

...first thing in the morning.

Oh, you can have some coffee.

But Irena is waiting for me.

Not now. You'll have coffee in the morning and it will make...

...you feel good.

But she's getting upset.

Why? She knows that you're here, so she doesn't need to...

..get upset.

But she's waiting.

I don't think so.

You don't? What are you talking about?

I want to help you.

Why did you say she wasn't waiting?

Don't be silly.

I'm sure she's waiting. Silly... Well, all right, now I know...

You're welcome. I can, of course, why not. It doesn't...

...really matter. Now I understand.

Pull yourself together, my boy, pull yourself together.

Stop making a fool of me. Take me, please yourself.

Go ahead. I can't manage it but you're welcome. Quick.

You're drunk. Get out of here. Get out and make it quick.

Nobody is going to rape you.

No, but she is fed up in general. The old man keeps...

...pestering her and now he is getting tough. I tried to...

...smooth things over and mentioned to mother a trip...

...to the country. I'm sure father would swallow it.

Well?

She said she didn't like the place I suggested and now...

...they're getting divorced.

And what about you?

I think I'll stay with my mother.

How will you come out of it financially? Did your parents...

...make a settlement when they got married?

Yes. The old man will get a jolt. Mother gets the house.

Oh, mother is a shrewdy.

She isn't shrewd, she is simple sensible.

Have you seen Irena?

No. Will you talk to your old man? Because if I don't get...

...the greenhouse, I can't get cracking.

One can try.

Well, well...

That's from a Volvo.

I've disguised it. It wouldn't do to have your old man going...

...after me, would it?

Did you have a good time?

You might at least have let me know you're leaving. Can...

...you imagine how I felt when I kept looking for you?

I got a different impression. It looked as if you had made...

...contact with her, that she's fascinated with you.

Yes, she was eventually.

It wasn't easy...

...it wasn't easy for me to go away.

Can you imagine what I felt...

Your wife and not that woman but I decided to let it pass...

...for our sake...

Drink it slowly, very slowly.

Relax completely, loosen up. It's necessary to relax.

Just think... you go out into the street, buy a newspaper...

...enter the club, smile... No, don't sugar your coffee.

Olubiec told me that bitter is refreshing. And we'll go on...

...holiday in two moths.

You'll be somebody after you have finished this translation.

Commander and commisar, commisar...

Perhaps a commandant, or a leader. Commandant is better.

One friend looked at the other friend in silence.

It sounds a bit stiff. And why do you repeat...

What?

Well, one friend at the other friend.

How would you do it?

Think how to make it some without losing the meaning.

At each other?

Perhaps over each other.

They looked over each other in silence. Perhaps at each...

...other would be better? Or without a word? They looked...

...at each other without a word.

Whizzing bombs attack... ...the rocks.

Why must it be the rocks?

Why rocks? Why rocks? Because it's written here.

The rocks! Soldiers are hidden there. Germans surrounded...

...the island. The enemy wants to take the isle storm but the...

...granite cliffs stand unshakeable. That means...

...that they don't wobble.

No, it should be that they are immobile, or immovable or...

...standing still.

The enemy tries...the enemy is trying...

Not like that.

The enemy is being trying...

Stop turning the same shoulder.

What shoulder?

If you take a walk in a room you should turn one shoulder...

...and then the other shoulder in turn. Otherwise you'll get...

...dizzy. That's how they used to walk in prison cells.

The enemy...

Foot forward.

The enemy tries to capture the island.

Now it's good.

Is being trying?

I was talking about turns. Your turning around properly.

Olubiec told me about this because he used to move...

...among social outcasts at one time.

What did you say at home?

At home? That I left for a concert... I mean a congress.

I changed the subject on purpose, so as to give you...

...moment of relaxation. And in your office?

I've taken leave.

Splendid. So you'll be able to work quietly.

The enemy has the intention.

Well?

You know what's happening to me? I can't translate.

Take it easy. Everything will turn out all right.

Tomorrow you'll go to the editorial office and give them...

...what you've already translated and get new texts...

...for translation. And then we'll leave town. Take it easy...

...everything will turn out all right.

But I don't want to. I can't cope with it!

Darling, you must rationalize the whole matter. This is how...

...your personality reacts to things. Olubiec, by comparison

...could always give his entire concentration, although the...

...tapping of the typewriter...

Although what?

Nothing darling, nothing.

Why should I care about Olubiec?

Don't be silly. It's difficult for you to out through. This is...

...natural. Your wife, your home, your child, the dullness have...

...have all been telling on you.

Why are you harping on my child?

These things have a great impact on one's personality.

And now get down to work.

I don't want to. I can't. It doesn't make sense.

Stop being hysterical, darling. Type it out again and tomorrow.

...morning you'll take it to a typist. I've made an...

...appointment with her on your behalf. They'll be waiting

...for you at the "Thought of Youth" at one o'clock. There...

...isn't much time left.

But you'll finish it soon. And I'll be waiting for you in the park.

...tomorrow morning. You'll go strainght to the editorial office.

Well darling, we must do it for our own good.

Yes, sir. It concerns that thing which you overlooked. Yes, it...

...was me who made the complaint. No, sir, I'm not...

...mistaken. It's not nice of you to suggest that. What? No,....

...not size six, size eight. The black tights, size eight.

Are you looking for somebody?

I'd like to see the head of the Work Department.

Well?

It's you...

If it suits you, it can be me.

Does that means that it's you?

Yes.

I've brought my translations. I'm a translator. I mean... I...

...studied Russian and... this is it.

Not bad. What?

Translations.

Oh, I see, translations. All right incidentally, aren't you the...

...subject of Miss Irena's story?

Yes, that's me, exatly. That's it. About an island.

Very interesting. You don't look bad. You look in fact...

...quite well. Come in, young man.

Please, come in. Sit down, please.

Excuse me, may I disturb you?

You may.

We've won. They've promised to exchange the tights.

That's what I've translated.

Very good. Take a car, go there and find out whether...

...they've got any thing else that may be of interest to me.

It must of course, be blue.

I can't stand blue. It must be beige. Show me that.

Yes.

Not this, that one.

A nice pair of tights.

Aren't they? They are for export. Quite exceptional.

Stretch...lots of stretch.

Oh, they're excellent, they're really excellent. This is quite...

... a rarity. You can't get them anywhere.

Not even at the PKO bank?

Oh, no, you can't get them at the PKO. May I go now?

You may.

Thank you.

Well... Commander and commisar... Speaking plainly...

...man to man this seems a bi like a school exercise, to say...

...nothing of stylistic errors. You've written "The enemy...

...is being trying to capture the island". It's not easy to know...

...a language well. Moreover, you haven't captured the...

...idea of the story, which though it comes near to...

...being a ballad, is in fact a striking, sharp and brutal...

...account of a soldier's hardships. Your rendering of...

...it is spiritless, or, at best, only correct. You did it calmly

...didn't you? One doesn't feel the pulsation of the verse,...

...of its spesific melody. Listen to this. Commander and...

...commisar silently looked at each other.

You don't feel it do you? Well, you see, if a cucumber does...

...not sing, it's probably because it can't. But don't...

...worry. That's all. Give my love to Irena. She's a wonderful girl

First of all, calm down!

This is really very disappointing but firstly that editor isn't...

...competent enough. She may have underestimated your...

...work. There have been many such precedents in the...

...history of literature. And second you've got talent.

Your translations are of great value and we'll take them up...

...again. But at the moment I've got a new idea.

Quiet! Quiet!

What?

Quiet.

Teddy bear, what's the matter with you? Calm down.

Can't you see what's the matter with me?

Everybody can have shaking hands now and then. It happens

..to me, too. And if you could see Olubiec in the morning...

What Olubiec? I don't want any Olubiec! What have you done...

...to me? I used to have some kind of life.

Straighten your tie and your hair. So now you can see...

...that your temperament and passion have been brought...

...to life. It's wonderful.

No!!

Wlodek! Telephone!

Telephone!

Hello!

Listen, teddy bear, an interesting thing's happened...

...to me and I must tell you about it. I think it may have...

...some importance to us. Do you understand?

Darling, what's the matter with you? Why didn't you come...

...to the park? I waited for you for over twenty minutes.

Listen, I've got a wonderful idea. Incidentally, what did...

...they tell you at the Editorial office? It's a pitty but never...

...mind. It must be counted againist the price of success.

Yes, yes, yes...that editor...she doesn't...I mean...

She isn't competent, she underestimated you. The...

...history of literature is full of such precedents. But you've...

...got talent. Listen, my new idea is absolutely terrific.

I know I've hit on the right thing, I'm sure of it. You'll be...

...a sculptor, teddy bear...

I would make it so short.

Would you? No, it would be too short.

It wouldn't be too short, it would look nice.

But it would be too short at the back.

Who telephoned?

It was for me.

I see.

You're looking very nice, darling, beatiful.

Those three days have done me a lot of good.

What days?

When you were away at the conference.

I see.

You were at a conference, so I went away, too. You knew?

Yes. Your hair is lovely.

What?

Lovely hair.

What's wrong with it?

Nothing, I'm just saying it's lovely.

Aren't you kidding me about my hair?

No, no. It's wonderful to be back.

Do you remember that moth on television?

Yes.

It had quite a trunk.

A trunk... Ha! Ha!

What?

Good night.

Good night, dear.

First waggle your ears and then say cheers. Waggle?

It was wonderful. I met some very interesting people. The...

...kind of people who can fix themselves up nicely, who...

...are really clever.

What?

Clever.

Hm.

Listen this work of yours is nonsense. With your...

...knowledge of Russian you might fix yourself up very well.

You can do translations, there is a lot of demand.

Well, I don't know, but they said that, they could help...

...you to join the Writer's Union and later we could go on...

...holidays to the Black Sea coast. There are Rest houses...

...for creative writers there. A man I know could introduce...

...you to a writer.

No! No! No! Be quiet.

Wlodek!