The Decalogue (Dekalog)

You shall murder!

You shall covet everything all week long

And on Sundays...

You shall beat your father and mother,

...your sister and your juniors You shall steal

Because everything around you is yours

Everything is yours!

He sacrificed everything passion, his family, his career...

Perhaps even his emotions...

Taking leave of our late friend today,

...the winner of eleven international gold medals

...and participant of many exhibitions

I would like to offer

...my condolences

...to his family

I bow down before this grave

Farewell, my friend

Just take a look at this tin-plated door, damn him

Well?

Wait a minute, let me see it

Right, an alarm device

Stop yelling

Shit, look

Ah well, starved to death

Get a strainer

No good, it's been nailed up

But why?

What do you mean, why? Why the alarm device,

why the padlocks and bars

Don't you know what kind of man Father was?

Not too well, and what about airing?

No idea He probably never aired it

No, thanks I have business later on

Come on, it isn't much To Father

Cheers!

How much is it worth, I wonder?

I don't know, but the stamps are expensive nowadays

Well, some three or four thousand, I guess

Yeah, this is our poverty

Mother's wasted life...

No decent meals, no money...

Oh come on

I say, he didn't even own a decent suit to

be buried in, I had sacrificed one of mine

Tell me, what is it that makes one so...

So greedy? So set on possessing

You should know, you like to own things

No, I just use them I like to be comfortable

But I couldn't understand the old man for a long time

I say, it's ages since we last met

Yeah, over two years?

Hey, look

He collected press cutting about you

May I?

Yes

My name's Bromski Are you the son?

Yeah

I'd like to talk to you...

I know this is not the best moment possible,

but you see that's how it is with business

All right, what is it?

Your father and I were friends I have here...

Your father owed me

...two hundred twenty thousand

...zlotys

He never told me

I ought to get the money back in a few days

Well, I know a funeral coasts a lot...

But perhaps...

I could find an equivalent here,

if you know what I mean

To save you the trouble

Here's my phone number

Phone me in five days I'll try to raise the money for you

Thank you so much

If I get you right,

You aren't going to get rid of the collection for the time being?

Of course, you certainly have your reasons

In your place, I think I'd do the same

Well, sorry for bothering you

Dad owed a fellow two hundred twenty thousand

That one was the first to come... As yet

Nothing but rags

Look, this was his way to iron pants Under the sheet

What's this?

Those cuttings about you

And I thought he never even knew my name

I say, I've heard such guys have a market or something, well?

Would you like to have a try?

What about that lame fellow who was here?

No, he's too clever

And what about your kid? Doesn't he collect stamps?

Uh-uh, he only likes planes

Then why not give him these?

Balloons or something

Zeppelins

All right, Zeppelins It's a series

Polarfahrt, this means they're German

Uhm... 1931

Which one's yours?

This one here The first tenants

Quite nice, and tell the kid I have an LP for him

He's not really a kid anymore

Well, bye, then

To the Riviera Club, please

I'm glad we met

I'm sorry, I couldn't make it We'll go tomorrow

Artur and I started talking after the funeral and we quite forgot the time

I haven't said anything

No reception tomorrow

Well, the day after tomorrow then I'll ring him up

I'm sorry, really

I haven't said a word

That's true, you haven't...

Your slippers

This is from Grandpa, as a souvenir

Gee, they're nice

Grandpa died, you know

He was buried a few hours ago

Hey, what's that? You crying?

Not really, I've cried already

Mum told me at dinner

I'm sorry about Grandpa

Have you had toothache?

No...

I couldn't make it

Mum was angry She shouted at me all day long

Good morning

I'd like to have this priced And possibly to find a purchaser

Are you Korzen's son?

Yes

This is but a fragment of his collection

I could sell more, I don't know... perhaps the whole of it

Could you please wait a moment, sir?

Our president would like to talk to you

May I trouble you a minute, please?

Why, of course

There are two of you, if I remember right

Yes

Could we perhaps meet at your father's flat?

Of course, I'll write the address down for you

I know the address

Well, gentlemen What are you planning to do?

We'd like to sell it

We need money

How much of it?

Doesn't matter, just money

I see

Well, you can buy a 126 Fiat for this one

And this one will get you two cars with Diesel engines

And this series would be enough to buy a flat

I believe you don't realize

Well, and what is the value... of the whole lot?

Millions and millions

Your father wanted to insure his collection...

...for two hundred fifty million zlotys

You see, your father put all his life

...in it

It would be criminal to waste thirty years of somebody's life away

Even if that somebody was

...just one's father whom one hardly knew at all

Good-bye, gentlemen

Good-bye

Bloody hell

Yeah, quite a surprise

Hush, Mum's asleep Have you been at the office?

Yeah, in the morning But then... I met Artur

Mum tried to reach you several times

Why?

Are these autographs?

Yes

See what Artur wrote here? For Peter to make his life happier

I say, what have you done with those Zeppelins?

I exchanged them for these

Look how many I got

Whom...

...did you give them to?

Tell me

All right, which one was it?

The one with glasses

Stay here Don't go anywhere

I have some business with you

Yes, sir

Not here It's confidential

Hey, what do you think you're doing?

Careful, Mister, or...

You've cheated a kid

One has to make a living

He's my son

Ah well, nearly everyone has parents nowadays

I want that series with Zeppelins back

I sold it

To whom? Out with it!

To that fellow in Wspolna street

Thank you

I have an unpleasant business with you

A boy from Swietokrzyska street offered you a series of stamps

You bought it for forty thousand

I'm afraid that stamp cheated my son out of

those stamps and gave him rubbish instead