Dekalog (1989–1990): Season 1, Episode 4 - Dekalog, cztery - full transcript

To be opened after my death

Anka, stop it, damn you!
Please don't

Stop it, do you hear?

It's Easter Monday!

No...

What do you mean, no?
Open the door!

I won't

Please let me in
I'm in a hurry

No

Open the door, damn it

Easter Monday, eh?



Let me in

I won't have the time to get dry
if I'm to- Oh!

Yes, it's me... Just a moment

Would you hang up the receiver,
Dad? I'll take it from my room

O.K.

Has he hanged up?

Yes

Have you hanged up, Dad?

Yes

Well?

It's all right, false alarm
I got the curse in the morning

Thank God

Want me to come to the airport?

What is it?



My ticket, damn it

Are you scared?

You won't believe me anyway
if I say no

Right, I don't like your going away

It's wet, damn it

Bye, Dad

Bye, and take care

Anka...

I forgot to pay the rent and
the telephone bill

Where are those bills?

One of the bureau drawers
You'll find them

Dad!

To be opened after my death

Your Christian name, please?

Anna

Age?

Twenty

Are you a student?

PWST third year...

The Theatrical College

I know

I wonder...

My son wants to study there,
what exams did you have on admission?

Literature, prose, poetry, song

Let me see
Elliot's, Herbert's?

Elliot?
I see, he hasn't got a chance

Do you have problems with your sight?

Yes, yesterday I looked at a plane
from a distance

I ought to have seen it clearly
but it was just a blurred shape

And then I remembered
I only notice bus numbers

...from a very close distance

Here you are

F-A-T-H-E-R, Father

You've been guessing
At least the last letters

Yes

And you speak English

Yes

Why have you arranged the letters
like this?

I checked you I.Q., too

I see, my father was leaving on that
plane which I couldn't see yesterday

To be opened after my death

Have I done anything wrong?

Have I?

No...

You're not in the centre of everything

Bad temper?

I don't like Father to be away

If you feel sad or scared,

I can stay with you all the time

For my daughter Anna

Well, who's next?

I know it's going to be me...

And me

All right, step up to each other

Good night

We won't have any more games tonight

Good night

What a shrew, you love him, remember

You love him, you're offended
An offended princess, concentrate

Why should I love him?

Are you kidding?
Don't you get the implied meaning?

It's possible to love just anybody
We all have a silly something for which

All right, but why do I love him?

I don't know, Think of something

Let's say...

you love him because he stared at you

All right, sir, if you please

Now don't get personal
Lie down on the table

Let's imagine such a situation

Just the text

Good night

Good

We won't have any more games tonight

May the angel put his
blue wings around you...

Don't be shy

Good night

May your eyes that cried so much...

have some rest at last

Let the smile fade,
and now get closer to him

Good night

Turn your lovely eyes to me...

Look at me once more

Turn your cheek to me...

Good night

You aren't concentrating,
do you want?

Let me kiss you

Good night

Are you leaving like this?

I will touch your breasts

They are hiding under your clothes

With bonds of love

I will not let you sleep

See: You know how to look at him
Now you're concentrating

Thank you, we'll have a break now

Break...

For my daughter Anna

For my daughter Anna

Hi

Sorry I haven't phoned, I just
happened to be in the neighborhood

Michal asked me to collect some drawings

I'm in a hurry

Someone's waiting for me downstairs

I say, Adam...

Yes?

You've known Father a long time,
haven't you?

We were students together

Did you know my mother?

Yes, not too well, actually

What was she like?

You resemble her

I mean, what did she look like?

You resemble her that way, too
But she also had intuition, like you

Do you think she could have had a secret?

I don't know

Something she might have
wanted to let me know

She'd have told you
She was like you

I was five days old when she died

Ah, yes

She'd have wrote you a letter or something

Sorry, I've got to go

I'll call in some day
after Michal's back, bye

Thanks

Hello, why here of all places?

Well yes, it's quite nice

Pretty, pale frame

Is anything wrong?

No

At school?

Then what is it?

My dear baby daughter...

Pardon?

My dear baby daughter

I don't know what you look like
reading this letter

You must be a grown-up woman now,
and Michal is already dead

When I'm writing this, you're just
a tiny baby, I saw you just once

They refused to show you to me anymore
because I'll be dying soon, I guess

There's an important thing
I've got to tell you

Michal is not your father

But it doesn't really matter
who your father is

Just a moment of forgetfulness
and the harm was done

I know Michal will love you like a daughter
and you'll be comfortable with him

I'm thinking about you now...
wondering what you look like

...when you're reading this letter

You have dark hair, haven't you?

And slender hand...

and neck...

I would so much like to...

Mother...

Good afternoon, is Jarek home?

No, he's out

But he'll be back, come in

Did he tell you he wanted to marry me?

I guessed it, anyway

I can marry him straight away

What about your father?

It doesn't matter

He's not my father, really

I've been looking for you

I forgot the keys

Is this our floor?

Sorry

Good evening?

Are you going down?

Yes

You knew it?

And you first...

tell me

Yes, I guessed

Oh, I'm sorry
It seems I've brought all the way down

No, we weren't going down

But this is the basement, Dad

Never mind, come on!

Do you recognize your mother?

Yes, well

One of them may be your father

Dad?

It belonged to your mother

They gave it back to me in the hospital

Sin when do you know?

I've never known for sure

I only suspected

You deceived me

It never mattered to me
You've always been my daughter

You should have told me

First, I planned to show
this letter to you,

When you were ten

But then it turned out
you were still too small

Next, I decided to wait
till you were fifteen

Then you proved too big

So I just put it into
that yellow envelope

So damn simple

I thought things would be the same
between you and me

But you're lying

Yes, you are

Look

I've got two candles

This one's mine...

and the other one - yours

The person whose candle is the first
to die out will ask a question, O.K.?

O.K.

It's a draft

Got a cigarette?

You win

You can ask, and
you'll get a honest answer

Why I read the letter?

I read it because you wanted me to

I first saw it...

during the removal, quite accidentally

Papers fell out of a briefcase of yours

I was sixteen at that time

Fifteen and a half

All right, fifteen and a half

I put the letter back to the briefcase
but I already knew it existed

It was quite exciting to begin with,
to know there was something

I could only learn after your death

I noticed you took the letter
with you when you went away

But you didn't take it with you
the last time

You did it on purpose

Well, so I took it

I carried it with me three days long

A week had passed, and I went to sit
on the Vistula and opened the letter

Quite an exhaustive answer

Have you ever read it?

No

It wasn't too exhaustive, really

Like they tell us at school,
think...

why you say the things you say,
think about the intention or the implied meaning

Don't you want to learn about
the implied meaning?

The implied meaning is that...

I sensed, or guessed, the contents
of this letter several years ago

When I had my first boy-friend
I knew I was deceiving somebody

I couldn't understand it

That somebody was you

I keep looking for a person

Another person

But when somebody touches me
I think about your hand

When I'm close with somebody,
I'm not really with him but...

How shall I call you?

I don't know

Anka...

Ah, so you're back
Hello

Well, how was it?

Not too bad

Here are your drawing, I copied and
mailed them and they wired they got them

Oh, gush...

I've heard there are drafts

Yes...

That one?

Yes

Exactly the same

Does it help?

Just look at Anka

After just a month of taking it
Don't you believe me?

Just try it

Oh, you've been drinking together?

Yes, Anka...

How are things at school?
When are you graduating

In May

And what about those dreams you had?

Then I'm...

No thanks, old boy, I'll be going
You haven't even unpacked your things

Go to him

He's gone

I know

Take a bus and go to him

Or take a taxi and go no matter
where You don't want to talk, do you?

Anka baby

I'm not listening

Leave me alone!

Who are you afraid of?

Me or yourself?

No reason to be afraid

I'm getting married

Answer it

It might be Krystyna or Marta

Or Jarek, answer it

Yes?

I don't know

No, I haven't been asleep

Phone tomorrow, O.K.?

He doesn't know he's going to
be carried, does he?

No, but I told his mother

Aren't you afraid?

Want to talk?

Really?

You can run away

Go away, get married...

But it won't help any

What I told you before Adam came
was true

I always felt guilty in bed

Now I know why
I was deceiving you

I didn't feel it

I say, let's make a deal

If you lie and I catch you out,
you will admit it, O.K.?

All right

You lied that you'd never felt it

Yes

You did feel it, then?

Yes

You live your own life

You're free to do what you like

And I pretend it's all right

Even if you really want to marry
that boy Jarek,

I won't tell you not to
No matter how much you'd like me to

I have no right to forbid you anything

If I forbid you something or
force you to do something,

I'll consider myself jealous

Not the way a father is jealous
about his daughter

That would be ordinary jealousy,
like between man and woman

Do you get my meaning?

I don't want it to be like that
I've never wanted it

But it's been like that

I don't know why

Remember three years ago,

when you caught me in bed with Marcin?

Was it because of that
that you went away?

Yes

I tried to find an excuse then, too

No father likes it when his daughter
starts sleeping with men

But I wasn't you daughter

I don't know

I often thought your mother
could have

But they say women always know

But she could have been mistaken

No, she couldn't

Women do know

How do you know that?

I just know

Have you ever been pregnant?

When was it?

Last year

Let me tell you something

I used to go away, to spend night out
I left you alone because...

because I wanted something to happen

Something irreversible

At first I thought it would with
your first man, but it didn't

And then I just dreamed that
you should have a baby, I still dream about it

That's why I had an abortion, I didn't want
you to tell me it was all right

For that same reason, I didn't tell you
I was going to have that abortion

I was afraid you'd say, Ah well,
do as you wish, my girl

It's all right

Has it never occurred to you
at I didn't want anything irreversible to happen

What do you want my baby for?

You just want everything to be settled
without you once more, just like that letter

To be opened after my death

I'm putting it back where it belongs

It's addressed to you

I don't want it

I don't

I don't want it

When I was a little girl,
you used to caress my back

Sometime I would cry on purpose

...to make you reach under my pyjamas and
caress me

It gave me a thrill

You wanted me to stay a little girl,
didn't you?

To be a baby

You forbade me to wear a proper bathing suit
despite the fact I already had breasts

When I was to have the curse for the first time
you took me to the mountains to stop it somehow

And you never married,
Marta or another woman

I was afraid you might...

but there was no reason

You didn't marry again

You've been waiting for me,
haven't you?

Haven't you?

Yes...

It was bound to happen

I'm not your daughter,

and I'm a woman

Do you want to touch me?

Do you?

All right

Then answer just another question

Just one

Why did you want me to read
that letter?

I wanted the impossible

I wanted...

the impossible

That's why I hit you the first time,
back at the airport

That was because you'd read the letter,

and because I'd wanted you to read it

Because of Mother...

Because she wrote things
she never told me

Because I love you...

but you're not my daughter

Because everything could have shaped
quite differently

And because of the days that won't
ever be back

When you caressed my back
whenever I cried...

Candy King

Gingerbread Page

Marzipan Princess

Dad?

Dad!

Daddy!

I lied to you, Daddy

I didn't read that letter,
I didn't even open it

Dad, I wrote it myself what you read,
what I told you at the airport

I noticed Mother's handwriting on the
envelope and forged that letter

Dad, What did Mother write?

I don't know

Where have you been?

To fetch some milk for breakfast

I know what we should do
with the letter

This is the genuine one

Will you help me?

Yes

My darling daughter...

I'd like to...

is it: Tell?

I'd like to tell you

something...

most important

Michal...

Michal is not...

the rest of it's been burnt down