WEBVTT 00:16.980 --> 00:19.700 Law should not imitate nature... 00:20.660 --> 00:22.100 but rather improve it 00:24.820 --> 00:27.540 Law is mankind's idea... 00:27.700 --> 00:30.060 to regulate the interpersonal relations 00:30.420 --> 00:33.420 What we are and how we live is the effect of law... 00:34.100 --> 00:37.100 which we either observe or infringe 00:38.980 --> 00:40.300 Man is free 00:42.100 --> 00:46.740 His freedom is restricted by another person's right to freedom 00:47.540 --> 00:48.460 And punishment... 00:49.620 --> 00:51.340 punishment is a revenge, 00:52.180 --> 00:55.580 particularly if it's aimed at injuring the criminal 00:55.580 --> 00:57.540 ...and not at preventing crime 01:01.460 --> 01:03.900 But in whose name does law take its revenge? 01:04.780 --> 01:06.780 Is it really in the name of the innocent? 01:07.820 --> 01:10.540 And are the law-maker really innocent? 01:11.060 --> 01:12.620 Mr. Piotr Balicki 01:13.820 --> 01:15.700 Will you come in, please? 01:50.340 --> 01:52.100 Throwing rage away, Mister? 01:52.340 --> 01:53.900 They might still be of use 01:55.700 --> 01:57.660 Somebody threw this at me 01:58.660 --> 01:59.580 And hit you? 01:59.660 --> 02:02.420 No, did you see anybody with a rag like this? 02:39.980 --> 02:41.180 Is it a good film? 02:41.300 --> 02:42.660 No, it's boring 02:43.540 --> 02:44.940 What is it about? 02:45.820 --> 02:47.460 Love, but it's boring anyway 02:49.380 --> 02:52.140 Besides, there's no performance right now, we're making a break 02:53.180 --> 02:54.340 What are you doing? 02:56.500 --> 02:57.980 Plucking the gray hairs out 02:59.980 --> 03:01.980 Do you happen to know where... 03:03.380 --> 03:04.260 the nearest taxi-rank is? 03:05.140 --> 03:06.700 In the Castle Square 03:27.300 --> 03:31.060 A gala concert took place, 03:31.220 --> 03:33.660 organized by the Ministry of Culture and Art... 03:46.180 --> 03:47.260 In fact... 03:48.300 --> 03:51.180 I've taken so much time answering not because I don't know want to say 03:51.340 --> 03:55.220 But I've already been asked this question twice 03:55.820 --> 03:59.060 During my admission exams to the University, the answer seemed very simple 03:59.940 --> 04:02.860 Four years later, in this building 04:03.860 --> 04:06.140 I was not so confident any more 04:38.260 --> 04:39.820 Hey, Madam! We've brought supplies 04:43.220 --> 04:44.940 Quick, Beata! 04:48.060 --> 04:49.340 Good morning 05:42.740 --> 05:44.300 Want a portrait like this one? 05:46.220 --> 05:46.980 No 05:56.820 --> 05:58.060 Is this the way to the Castle Square? 05:58.700 --> 05:59.740 Yeah, straight ahead 06:04.820 --> 06:08.180 I suppose that practicing this profession, 06:08.380 --> 06:10.380 one can correct the errors made by that huge machinery 06:11.180 --> 06:13.740 ...called administration of justice 06:15.260 --> 06:17.220 Or at least one can try to correct them 06:20.100 --> 06:22.580 I find another thing interesting, too 06:23.820 --> 06:27.340 Most of all perhaps that I will meet and understand people... 06:27.700 --> 06:30.340 whom I would never meet 06:30.420 --> 06:33.420 if I practiced another profession 06:46.500 --> 06:49.820 Go away! You scare my pigeons! 06:56.660 --> 06:58.020 Go away, will you! 07:08.660 --> 07:09.900 Cad! 08:15.260 --> 08:15.740 Are you free? 08:16.340 --> 08:17.860 Don't you see I'm washing the car? 08:18.260 --> 08:20.180 Could we perhaps wait here? It's so cold... 08:42.700 --> 08:45.940 We all ask ourselves... 08:46.140 --> 08:48.780 whether what we're doing makes any sense 08:50.380 --> 08:51.220 But... 08:51.700 --> 08:54.100 I'm afraid finding the sense is a more and more difficult task 08:54.500 --> 08:57.420 It's more and more often 08:57.540 --> 09:00.140 ...that we doubt the sense of our actions 09:00.620 --> 09:03.140 And maybe even of our plans, too 09:03.220 --> 09:05.900 I believe it's a decline of criteria Or worse still, of values 09:27.700 --> 09:31.580 The manageress forgot to charge you for the soup vegetables 09:39.500 --> 09:41.420 How about a life, Miss Beata? 10:08.180 --> 10:09.180 I say, Mister! 11:05.340 --> 11:06.620 Good afternoon 11:06.700 --> 11:07.620 What can I do for you? 11:10.740 --> 11:11.660 I have here... 11:20.660 --> 11:22.460 Are you perhaps one of the specialists who drive pegs into the walls? 11:24.260 --> 11:25.060 No 11:25.180 --> 11:26.260 I thought you might be 11:28.020 --> 11:31.020 I have here a photograph... 11:33.180 --> 11:35.620 Could you enlarge it? 11:41.500 --> 11:43.180 But the bends will be visible 11:47.860 --> 11:48.820 Never mind 11:49.860 --> 11:50.740 All right 11:54.260 --> 11:55.180 Excuse me, Madam... 11:56.980 --> 11:59.340 Is it true that you can tell from a picture... 12:00.020 --> 12:01.740 whether the person is alive or dead? 12:02.260 --> 12:03.780 You've been listening to some non sense 12:04.460 --> 12:08.460 Acting through the prisoner, 12:08.980 --> 12:12.300 or to be more precise, with the prisoner to influence others 12:13.420 --> 12:16.740 I mean deterrence or simply frightening people 12:16.980 --> 12:19.820 It's mentioned among others in Article 50 of the Penal Code 12:20.180 --> 12:22.900 I don't think I like that irony in your voice, the general presentation 12:23.020 --> 12:27.620 ...is a doubtful justification of severity of punishment 12:29.140 --> 12:30.140 Not in my opinion only Besides, it's often unjust... 12:53.260 --> 12:54.060 Want some? 12:55.700 --> 12:57.340 The wife's prepared it for us 12:58.540 --> 12:59.820 There, have some 14:33.100 --> 14:33.900 A glass of tea, please 14:33.980 --> 14:35.180 We don't serve teas here 14:35.380 --> 14:36.300 What do you serve? 14:36.380 --> 14:37.820 Coffee and a cake... 14:37.900 --> 14:39.660 I'll take coffee and a cake then 14:39.780 --> 14:40.620 Which one? 14:40.700 --> 14:41.620 A cream puff 14:42.740 --> 14:45.900 No, not this one... This one here 14:50.300 --> 14:54.100 From Cain, no punishment... 14:54.220 --> 14:57.260 has ever improved anybody or deterred him from committing offences 16:24.740 --> 16:27.300 And now, for the news for driver To begin with, the weather forecast 16:28.340 --> 16:32.340 Road conditions are rather bad 16:32.460 --> 16:36.100 Apart from the south-eastern regions, occasional showers possible all over the country 16:39.740 --> 16:41.900 Madzio! 17:34.700 --> 17:38.700 It is my pleasure to inform you that you have passed the examination 17:40.700 --> 17:42.220 From today on, after four years of study and four years of legal training, 17:42.340 --> 17:45.140 please consider yourself our colleague 18:26.380 --> 18:27.460 Eh, Mister... 19:25.820 --> 19:27.020 Excuse me 19:27.820 --> 19:29.180 Are you perhaps going to Mokotow district? 19:30.220 --> 19:31.020 NO, the opposite direction 19:31.180 --> 19:32.660 You see, we're in a great hurry 19:40.220 --> 19:41.260 Motokow, please 19:41.420 --> 19:43.060 Where did that fellow want to go? 19:43.620 --> 19:44.580 The opposite direction 20:42.780 --> 20:44.460 Could you wind the window up? 20:45.540 --> 20:46.420 It's cold 21:26.420 --> 21:28.100 Turn left here 21:28.740 --> 21:30.660 It's easier to reach Fogel street going straight ahead 21:30.660 --> 21:31.860 I prefer it this way 21:33.100 --> 21:33.900 As you wish... 22:12.140 --> 22:13.900 Stop the car, it's over there 22:14.260 --> 22:15.380 You couldn't get through any 22:15.860 --> 22:17.700 I wouldn't even try 24:49.700 --> 24:51.220 Christ... 26:21.940 --> 26:23.500 The glove compartment... 26:27.820 --> 26:30.740 The money... 26:37.380 --> 26:39.820 My wife... 26:41.220 --> 26:43.220 The money... 26:47.980 --> 26:49.460 Give her... 27:00.020 --> 27:01.420 Please... 28:06.260 --> 28:09.940 Let me tell you about a lion A brave golden lion 28:10.100 --> 28:13.340 He got braver and braver every day 28:14.100 --> 28:17.700 All big lions kept telling him 28:17.860 --> 28:21.140 That a lion should have a lion's heart 28:48.500 --> 28:49.940 The session is closed 29:12.580 --> 29:15.820 Is it all, sir? 29:20.340 --> 29:21.300 It is 30:20.020 --> 30:21.740 Yes, it's me... 30:23.620 --> 30:26.380 I lost... yes, completely... 30:27.820 --> 30:29.260 I don't know, have no idea 30:32.100 --> 30:33.540 Maybe I'll go for a walk 30:34.540 --> 30:36.500 No, don't come 30:39.300 --> 30:40.340 How are you? 30:42.060 --> 30:45.820 Slept well? Yes... 30:48.500 --> 30:48.940 Well, bye then 31:11.420 --> 31:12.420 Sir! 31:14.260 --> 31:15.180 Jacek! 31:49.060 --> 31:50.340 Excuse me, Your Highness 31:52.380 --> 31:54.060 I know it isn't customary 31:54.740 --> 31:55.700 You're right 31:56.900 --> 31:57.740 It isn't 31:57.820 --> 32:02.340 But I'd like to know, once it's all over now 32:03.220 --> 32:05.180 Would it help any 32:05.780 --> 32:10.300 ...if he had an older 32:10.500 --> 32:11.140 and renowned counsel? 32:11.220 --> 32:12.340 Not at all 32:14.100 --> 32:16.660 The things I said... 32:18.300 --> 32:19.700 Maybe I could have said it differently... 32:19.900 --> 32:21.780 Your speech was probably the best speech... 32:22.820 --> 32:26.380 against capital punishment that I've heard in years 32:26.420 --> 32:27.860 But the sentence had to be what it was 32:30.100 --> 32:32.580 You made no mistakes, 32:33.300 --> 32:37.300 whether as a lawyer or as a man 32:40.180 --> 32:42.020 The circumstances of our meeting were rather unpleasant, 32:42.740 --> 32:45.100 but all the same I'm glad to have met you 32:49.380 --> 32:50.660 Good-bye, sir 32:50.820 --> 32:54.580 This case... could have been tried by a better judge 32:55.220 --> 32:59.500 All this to happen will be my fault Is that no consolation to you? 33:00.060 --> 33:00.940 No, you know, sir 33:01.940 --> 33:02.900 It may be irrelevant, 33:03.900 --> 33:05.780 but remember what that boy said, 33:06.620 --> 33:11.780 about winding a rope around his hand in the coffee bar 33:11.860 --> 33:16.300 in Krakowskie Przedmiescie street 33:17.180 --> 33:18.740 I was... 33:20.220 --> 33:21.020 there 33:21.140 --> 33:22.060 Where? 33:22.900 --> 33:24.980 In that coffee-bar, at that very time 33:25.220 --> 33:27.860 A year ago, that day I passed my lawyer's examination 33:28.140 --> 33:30.060 Perhaps there was something I could have done then? 33:30.940 --> 33:34.700 You're too sensitive to practice the legal profession 33:35.420 --> 33:36.780 It's too late now 33:39.220 --> 33:42.540 You've grown a year older today 34:22.980 --> 34:24.940 The warden will see you presently 35:02.740 --> 35:03.660 How are things doing? 35:03.740 --> 35:04.660 Rather warm, eh? 37:34.820 --> 37:35.980 Good morning? 37:36.820 --> 37:38.260 The curtain doesn't work 37:45.260 --> 37:46.220 Tidy up, will you? 38:00.420 --> 38:01.340 Come in! 38:09.100 --> 38:10.500 Everything's ready, sir 38:10.900 --> 38:12.460 Thank you 38:21.500 --> 38:22.380 Thank you 38:24.260 --> 38:25.460 I expected this 38:25.620 --> 38:26.740 So did I 38:28.460 --> 38:33.300 Yes, sir You have half an hour time 38:34.460 --> 38:35.540 Half an hour? 38:38.260 --> 38:39.060 All right 38:39.780 --> 38:40.340 Come in! 38:42.940 --> 38:43.820 You wanted me, sir? 38:44.740 --> 38:45.940 Take this gentleman 39:03.300 --> 39:05.020 Hello, counselor 39:11.540 --> 39:14.700 I'm going to see him He wants to talk to me 39:14.780 --> 39:16.300 An unpleasant duty, that 39:16.660 --> 39:19.380 It is... I say, sir 39:20.060 --> 39:21.100 This is my first time 39:21.220 --> 39:22.980 Let's hope it will be the last one 39:24.220 --> 39:28.340 This isn't perhaps the best moment, counselor 39:29.100 --> 39:31.180 But we don't see each other too often, you and me... 39:31.340 --> 39:32.900 I heard you have a son Congratulations 39:33.660 --> 39:37.380 Thank you 40:36.380 --> 40:37.860 You wanted to see me? 40:45.980 --> 40:50.580 Have you seen my mother? 40:51.500 --> 40:52.300 Yes 40:54.140 --> 40:55.100 Was she crying? 40:56.620 --> 40:57.540 She was 41:00.100 --> 41:04.140 Maybe she wanted you to...? 41:05.900 --> 41:07.060 Tell me something, or... 41:08.020 --> 41:08.820 No 41:11.700 --> 41:12.940 She just cried 41:15.260 --> 41:16.300 Sit down 41:21.500 --> 41:25.380 Would you... 41:25.940 --> 41:26.940 Could you... 41:28.820 --> 41:29.780 see my mother... 41:31.260 --> 41:33.420 once again? 41:36.060 --> 41:39.220 Of course I could 41:39.580 --> 41:41.300 After... you know, afterwards... 41:44.660 --> 41:45.380 I'm asking because... back there in the court, 41:47.540 --> 41:51.740 when they were putting me into the prison van... 41:52.980 --> 41:54.580 You called my name You called, Jacek 41:55.100 --> 41:56.820 Yes, I called you 41:59.580 --> 42:00.540 I wanted... 42:03.260 --> 42:06.180 I'm nearly twenty-one 42:09.180 --> 42:10.460 But tears rose in my eyes... 42:12.980 --> 42:15.020 when you called my name 42:22.100 --> 42:23.660 I said during the trial... 42:23.780 --> 42:25.700 I don't know 42:26.780 --> 42:27.780 I didn't listen too much 42:28.620 --> 42:30.300 Only when I heard you calling my name 42:33.060 --> 42:34.940 They were against me 42:36.020 --> 42:38.780 All of them, it's the same here 42:39.700 --> 42:43.900 Against what you did 42:44.020 --> 42:45.540 It doesn't make any difference 42:51.700 --> 42:54.700 You wanted me to see your mother? 42:57.260 --> 42:58.020 Yes 42:59.060 --> 43:03.020 I want her to bury me in father's grave 43:05.060 --> 43:05.940 It's a double grave 43:07.860 --> 43:10.700 Can I be buried in a cemetery? 43:11.900 --> 43:12.820 Yes 43:13.460 --> 43:16.500 A priest visited me here He said it was possible 43:17.140 --> 43:18.700 Yes 43:20.580 --> 43:23.500 Well, in that case Father's grave is a double one 43:23.940 --> 43:25.180 Mother was... 43:25.300 --> 43:30.060 to be buried there It was arranged that way 43:31.700 --> 43:34.700 You see, I'd like her to let me have that place 43:51.900 --> 43:55.220 Yes, yes sir, Warden 44:08.660 --> 44:09.580 The Warden wants to know whether you're ready yet? 44:10.220 --> 44:11.100 Not yet... 44:18.060 --> 44:18.980 You were saying... 44:24.500 --> 44:25.660 I don't remember 44:26.940 --> 44:29.740 But you told me it was a triple grave 44:32.100 --> 44:34.940 Yes, that's right 44:36.100 --> 44:40.820 Marysia's buried there and Father ...and the third place is free 44:43.140 --> 44:46.380 They put Marysia there five years age 44:47.860 --> 44:50.460 Yes, she was run over... 44:51.460 --> 44:53.180 by a tractor five years ago 44:53.300 --> 44:54.500 Back in our village... 44:56.300 --> 44:59.980 She was starting the sixth form of elementary school 45:00.940 --> 45:04.660 This means she was twelve when she died 45:06.100 --> 45:07.180 The sixth form 45:09.020 --> 45:13.380 That tractor-driver, he was an acquaintance 45:14.260 --> 45:17.420 We'd been drinking together 45:17.500 --> 45:21.460 We'd had wine and vodka 45:22.980 --> 45:26.340 And then he drove away, and ran her over 45:27.740 --> 45:29.300 ...on a meadow near that forest 45:32.820 --> 45:38.420 There was a meadow there, you know 45:44.100 --> 45:48.860 I've been thinking 45:50.100 --> 45:53.700 Had she been alive, everything would have been different 45:54.660 --> 45:59.980 I wouldn't have to go away I'd have stayed in the village 46:01.620 --> 46:03.780 She was my sister 46:05.540 --> 46:08.340 I had three brothers but only one sister 46:10.900 --> 46:12.420 I was her favourite 46:14.420 --> 46:16.620 And I liked her best, too 46:19.580 --> 46:21.580 Everything could have been different 46:22.820 --> 46:23.940 Perhaps... 46:24.740 --> 46:25.700 Perhaps 46:27.580 --> 46:29.420 Perhaps it would never have happened 46:30.500 --> 46:30.700 Yes 46:32.020 --> 46:35.460 And I wouldn't be here now 46:40.060 --> 46:44.140 The Warden and the prosecutor want to know if you're ready 46:49.460 --> 46:52.420 Tell the prosecutor I'll never say I'm ready 46:52.820 --> 46:54.660 You'll never say you're ready? 46:54.780 --> 46:55.580 Never 47:02.020 --> 47:03.780 We bought that grave... 47:26.100 --> 47:27.140 Have you got the sentence? 47:34.980 --> 47:36.380 I've got all the papers 47:37.780 --> 47:38.700 Let's go 47:39.500 --> 47:41.260 Leave your briefcase in my office 47:43.140 --> 47:43.980 This way, please 47:58.620 --> 47:59.900 Take the prisoner out 48:00.380 --> 48:01.380 Yes, sir 48:31.140 --> 48:33.420 The prosecutor requests that you end the conversation 48:41.660 --> 48:44.060 They give the personal belongings back afterwards 48:44.180 --> 48:47.060 things a receipt from a photographer's in Krakow 48:47.700 --> 48:50.380 I wanted a photograph enlarged and 48:50.580 --> 48:52.500 ...didn't have the time to collect it 48:52.660 --> 48:56.340 Please collect the enlarged picture and give it back to Mother 48:56.500 --> 48:57.420 What is in that picture? 48:57.620 --> 49:00.860 It's an old picture I had Made during her first Communion 49:01.940 --> 49:05.060 I stole it from Mother when I was going away and I always had it with me 49:07.060 --> 49:07.980 It got so bent... 49:08.060 --> 49:08.940 Let's go 49:13.300 --> 49:14.340 I say, sir 49:17.780 --> 49:18.220 I don't want to 49:22.500 --> 49:24.300 Hold him! Get him! 49:25.020 --> 49:25.980 Now, gentlemen... 49:27.380 --> 49:28.300 Open the door! 49:58.500 --> 50:00.780 A medical certificate of death 50:35.060 --> 50:36.020 Your name and Christian name? 50:37.820 --> 50:39.020 Lazar, Jacek 50:39.220 --> 50:40.740 Date of birth? 50:41.020 --> 50:44.020 March 17, 1967 50:44.220 --> 50:45.580 Parent's names? 50:46.620 --> 50:47.620 Jan and... 50:49.940 --> 50:51.820 Luc... Lucja 50:52.580 --> 50:54.020 I'll now read to you the sentence... 50:55.460 --> 50:57.900 in the name of the Polish People's Republic 50:58.060 --> 51:03.020 ...of November 27, 1987 51:03.300 --> 51:07.180 Having examined the case of Jacek Lazar, accused of having an assault and robbery 51:07.940 --> 51:09.580 ...and murder of Waldemar Rykowski on March 16, 1987 in Warsaw 51:09.780 --> 51:14.340 Provincial Court in Warsaw 51:14.500 --> 51:18.260 ...has found the defendant 51:18.460 --> 51:23.980 ...guilt of the act as charged 51:24.340 --> 51:28.620 And sentenced him on force of Articles 148 point 1 51:28.740 --> 51:32.940 ...and 44 point 2 of the Penal Code 51:33.060 --> 51:35.460 ...to death penalty and deprivation 51:35.700 --> 51:38.540 ...of public rights forever 51:38.700 --> 51:41.700 The Supreme Court has maintained the sentence in force 51:42.100 --> 51:45.300 The Council of State has resigned it's right to grand pardon 51:45.460 --> 51:48.260 In this connection, the penalty will be executed 51:58.100 --> 52:00.300 Want a cigarette? 52:03.580 --> 52:05.180 I'd rather have one without filter 53:11.100 --> 53:12.340 The hands 53:18.460 --> 53:19.660 Execute the penalty 53:37.980 --> 53:38.860 Hold him! 53:40.420 --> 53:43.060 All right, pull it now! Pull it! 53:46.260 --> 53:48.140 Is it O.K. Now? 53:48.220 --> 53:51.140 More! More! 54:59.220 --> 55:00.260 I hate you! 55:02.740 --> 55:04.180 I hate you! 55:19.700 --> 55:21.340 I hate you!