Dekalog, trzy (1989) - full transcript

Who is it?

The Santa Klaus

Merry Christmas!

"Oh, sorry..."
I didn't recognize you

"And you must be Krysia, right?"

"Well, Krysia, this is for you"
A small gift

"And you're Antos, aren't you?"

"There's something for you, too"

And for grandma

Thank you

This is for Basia



Here's something for Mummy

"Yes, let me see now"

Thank you

Do you really think we'll go?

We'll try

Thank you

She's in her room

Is she feeling bad?

"Merry Christmas, Aunt"

Ewa?

My dear Ewa...

Have you done your homework?

"Yes, Aunt"

"The maths, too?"



"Yes, Aunt"

I was always very good at maths...

I thought you'd come with...

what's-his-name... er...

Edward

Yes

Merry Christmas... once more

"The kids will never forget this Christmas,"
the Santa Klaus and the midnight mass

"Oh yes, It's been as before"

Yes

Yes?

I don't know

It seems someone's trying to steal our car

I'll be back soon

Where's my home?

Where's my home...

Where...

IT seems you forgot to wish me
merry Christmas once again

What do you want?

It's the Christmas Eve

"Tell me, what do you want?"

Edward's missing

What?

He's gone

Ewa...

Went out in the morning
and never come back

We've got to find him

It's the Christmas Eve

I'm sorry

Ewa...

"All right, I'll go with you"

What have you told your wife?

That someone was trying to steal the car

Let me have the keys

Join me behind the corner

It's been stolen

Somebody's seen it in Wislostrada street

You call the police

...and I'll try to catch a taxi

Is it worth your while?

"The car earns our living, doesn't it?"

We attended the midnight mass

"No, I didn't"

I saw you there

"Ah, all right, let's forget it"

I've checked everywhere

"...with friends, with the police..."

Where to?

Where would you go
if your wife disappeared?

"I don't know, to the hospital?"
...the emergency department

The emergency service's
in Banacha street tonight

"Do you have emergency service tonight,
Doctor?"

"Not today, yesterday"

I've made a mistake

What about today?

Which hospital has?

Whom are you trying to find?

A husband

"No, mine"

"That you, Jurek?"

Do you happen to have a patient...

His name?

By the name of Garus?

Thirty-eight

"Yes, Garus, thirty-eight"

"No, there's a female here..."
looking for her husband

When was he brought to you?

When did he leave home?

At noon

It doesn't seem to be him
"He left home at noon, yeah"

"They have a casualty,"
no legs no papers

But that was before eleven
The Prague hospital

Shall I put the light off?

"No, thanks, I'm on duty"

It's his car

And his scarf

I'll leave it here
He might be cold when he's back

He can hardly be back
if he has no legs any more

"You'd better leave a sandwich for him, too"
He might be hungry when he's back

"Go on, it's very funny"

"Gladly,"

"Why don't we go to bed together,"
in a hotel?

And then you could call him
to tell him the number of our room

I... I didn't call him

You wanted to be through with me
and to go home

And to be left in peace

I didn't call him

He told me

"You didn't say who was calling,"
I admit

"Ewa,"

"I didn't call him, believe me"
I'm not.

Nothing to choose between all of you

"O.K., forget it"

"Take me to the Prague hospital, please"

The fellow with his legs cut off

"Ewa... There, there, Ewa..."

"No, let me have a look"

It isn't him

I'd like it to be him...

or you...

Many a time I imagined...

"both of you run over by a truck,"
the face squashed by the tires

I once saw you in my dream

Your neck was broken

I could see your tongue protruding

I just looked at you - and laughed

I wonder who's had a spite
against this one here

Who's going to be glad

It's the police

So what?

You're driving a stolen car
Did you call them?

Hold on

"Hey, Andrzej"
This is that stolen car

They're following us

Got any papers?

Yes

Then you'd better slow down

Drive slowly

Get out of the car

Put your hands on the roof

"All right, this your car, Mister?"

This car's been reported stolen

We've only just found it
Abandoned in Wislostrada street

Had a drink?

I haven't had the time

"Like driving fast, eh?"

You're lucky
it's the Christmas Eve tonight

He was right
I was driving too fast

You could have wrecked the car
and killed me and yourself

Shall we have another try?

Do you want it?

Fasten the belts

Got enough?

We were to go home

All right

Your car isn't here

Are you getting out?

He couldn't have left the car
before noon

Why?

It was snowing in the afternoon

But the car had no snow on it

"You know, I mean that snow cap"

It started snowing at five pm

"Well, I don't know"

I say...

What if he's at home?
We shouldn't go in together

Wait here

"If he isn't there,"
I'll come out to the balcony

"If I don't come out in five minutes,"
drive home.

Ewa...

In case he's there

Good-bye

Emergency service

There's been an accident
A man has fainted

He's lying at the bus stop

"May I have the address, please?"

It's at the corner of Pulawsah and
"Walbrzyska streets, the city way"

Perhaps he's drunk?

"No, he's sober"
We have his papers

His name?

Edward Garus
Born in 1949...

"Your name, please?"

Anna Tatarkiewiez

He isn't there

"Like I told you, he isn't"

Why don't you take off your coat?

"I'd rather not, I'm freezing"

Want some tea?

Yeah

I didn't phone Edward that night
"three years ago, it's nonsense to say I did"

That was important to me

You were important

"If you really want to know,"
I loved you

And I wanted...

to change everything

"When we were getting dressed,"

and he was standing there
with his back to us...

You didn't even look at me once

I took you by the hand
But you tore yourself away

"Then he said,"
now that we're both dressed

"You can choose, you can stay or go"
And added he was going

And you followed him without a word

"Yes, it was like that?"

Yeah

Edward made still another condition

"I could follow him,"

if I would never meet you again

Yes...

And you said
I have no intention to see him

"And then I answered, all right"

That's how it happened?

Give me your hand

The poor boy whom nobody loved
or understood

You're right

It was all my fault

"But you seem to have landed well,"
don't you?

"You're the same as before, aren't you?"

You went as it hammer and tongs
to straighten things

"You're a good husband and father,"
you provided well for your family

And you never forget
to collect the laundry

Let me go

I'll be glad to
your hands stink of petrol

Did you ever think what happened
after we left that hotel?

How I was feeling? What I felt
when we watched some love story on TV

...and he looked at me all the time
instead of the screen?

I never made love to him
since that night

What are you doing?

Nothing special...

washing my hands

It's the Christmas Eve

I'm sorry

I lied to you

"I do sleep with him, quite normally"

The same to you
All the best

To us

It's him

At the wrong moment again

"Baby Jesus, sleep"

Sleep now

Mother is soothing

your cries...

How about the second verse?

This is all we know

Special night rates

"Thank you, merry Christmas"

Has he grown a beard?
"I mean, Edward?"

"No, not at all..."

We're breaking the wafer as if
here forgetting what we're really doing

Let's go

Where to?

The emergency service or
the rail way station

"Yes, the railway station"

"Just a second longer, O.K.?"

Is this the emergency service?

Could you tell me if a Mr. Garus
has been brought to you?

Edward Garus

Born 1949...

"Ah, I see, and do you receive"
notifications from all over Warsaw?

A notification? Where was it?

And?

Thank you very much

"I phoned the emergency service,"
there's been a notification

A notification?

"Yes, somebody reported him lying, when the"
"ambulance arrived, he wasn't there anymore"

"He wasn't there, that's all"

They say it's usually like that
with drunks

They told me to check
at the sobering-up station

Where's my home?

Where is it?

"Let me see, Garus..."

A Jew?

No

"We had a Garus once, back in 1979"

He was a Jew

Do you have cards with particulars
of all your patients?

"Yes, perhaps he's one of those"
who's been brought in today

Better have a look at them

"Ah, they've gone to sleep"

Just look at them dancing

What about this one?

Or that one?

Stop it!

"Stop it, will you!"

Can't you see they're cold?

"You deserve to be pun in there, you bum?"

Stop!

Just try
"Come on, try it!"

"Let's dance, come on!"

It doesn't make any sense
to go on looking

I'm going home

Where shall I take you?

I wrecked you car

And ruined your Christmas Eve

"Not at all, it was very nice"

Come with me...

"to the railway station, please"

Are you on duty at the TV sets?

Yes

I keep falling asleep
That's why I'm skating

We're looking for...
Has there been an accident perhaps?

No

Do you remember a man
wearing a short sheep skin coat?

A jacket actually?

He comes here quite often
Never goes anywhere

Who's this man?

Edward

And the woman?

His wife

And these are his children

He's living in Crakow
For nearly three years now

For three years?

Nearly...

I lied a lot tonight

But why?

I don't know

Do you know a game?
You say to yourself

If the person who appears from behind
"the corner is a man, I'll be lucky"

"If it's woman,"
it means bad luck

I know it

I played that game tonight

I said to myself

If I manage to spend the whole night
"with you, till seven in the morning"

no matter how...

What then?

Then everything is going to be all right

What if you failed?

I've made preparations

I live alone

It's so very hard to be alone...

on a night like this

People just...

"Yeah, they lock themselves in,"
curtain the windows

Exactly

"Going to the midnight mass tonight,"

I saw a boy

He slipped away from the hospital

Still wearing his pajamas...

What happened to him?

They got him

I know...

it wasn't you who phoned that night

Be seeing you

"They're all asleep, aren't they?"

The car's been found

I know

I phoned during the night

Was it Ewa?

Yes

Are you going to spend the evening
away from home like before?

No

"No, I'm not"

I'll be here