Polish Roulette Page #3

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- Good evening Mr. Stasiu.

- Good evening.

Why so empty?

Just the usual customers.

I got the spare on offer.

Hiya.

Northern Poland.

- Hi Mietek.

- Hi.

- Hi Adas, Student.

- Hi.

My mate Janek.

- Janek.

- Mietek.

Janek.

- Give us that table.

- Hi.

- May I?

- Sure.

Mrs. Jadziu our friends have arrived...

I'm very sorry, but we're closing.

Good night.

Bambaryla!

First of all it's not Bambaryla,

but Mr. Zdzislaw.

Secondly, we're closing.

Curfew.

Well then close.

I don't want any trouble.

Our friends from

the coast have come.

Close, sit with us.

We'll all chip in,

there'll be no harm.

Have a drink...

have a drink!

I can't. I'm really sorry, but I really

can't. It's out of the question.

Under no circumstance.

There's no such possibility.

A few minutes later...

Bambaryla...

- Here's to Bambaryla.

- Cheers.

To Mr. Zdzisio.

Mrs. Jadziu! Mrs. Jadziu in this case

we've made up our minds.

You're a loon.

Precisely, a loon.

Hey Student do you remember

last Christmas Eve?

We were in Budapest.

All day we'd work near this big shop

on the corner of Rakoczi and Lenin.

F***, I'd never seen so many people

eager to exchange all at once.

Foreigners were doing

their Christmas shopping.

Snow was falling,

but the frost was holding,

and Student and I

would cheat them like crazy.

Then we'd change, different coat,

hood on and back next to the shop.

We made a pile of money.

After work we bought a christmas tree

and we sped home to make dinner.

But we forgot the ornaments.

So we decorated the tree in currency.

And just like that, on string

hung dollars, marks, francs, lira...

and the top of the tree...

The top I made blue.

With Swedish krona.

And the tree sparkles.

It's our dreams fulfilled.

Because it's beautiful like a dream.

One has to dream sometimes.

Everyone wishes for... a star.

Mrs. Jadzia...

Listen, listen I was drinking

at the hotel on Saturday

and I met this French guy.

He stopped me himself,

to exchange one thousand francs.

I was extremely pissed.

So I'm beating him up behind the

hotel and out come three ZOMO.

Can you imagine what a

beautiful scare they gave me?

The frog eater got by lightly,

and I'm trying to pretend

that I'm also French,

whilst trying to back up.

There I realise I don't have the Francs.

I screwed over the guy

and I didn't take his money.

There's your lesson...

No drinking and working.

F***, you really lay

that one out Student.

- Cheers!

- Cheers.

And... Now there's a war,

who trades, lives.

When I sell blood sausages,

pork fat, meat carcasses

I'll have a drink of moonshine too...

Supervised call.

Welcome back after a short break,

let's get back to the party.

Don't rush me,

I'm losing my breath,

Don't rush me,

I'm losing my rhythm...

If I don't f*** someone up

in the morning then I walk

around in a daze all day.

My pressure drops.

I better not get f***ing sick.

Yes darling...

Yes I'm beating... I mean kissing. Bye.

Above the door of the deceased

there hung a wooden cross,

and on it a figure of a man around thirty...

Shall I read on?

First three.

- First three. Are there none?

- The last two now.

I have a feeling

they're going to shoot us.

Come on now,

us they can only send to Siberia.

Maybe you... I didn't belong to anything.

They can only kiss my ass.

What have they locked you up for?

I have a feeling it's for the same

thing you're in here for sir,

except I found myself here by mistake.

What industry?

Economic,

I demonstrated for reforms,

but only those

that didn't exceed the quota.

Cichosz, Adrian!

- Here.

- Hurry up!

Good bye.

That's not nice officer.

And don't be such a wise guy,

or you'll also get it in the mug.

Outright in the mug?

If you think you're so tough

why don't we make a bet?

What kind of bet?

Honorary.

You know such a word?

You put forward your

player, we put forward ours,

the winner takes... 10.000? Deal?

- You have that much?

- That's not your concern.

We'll take it from the deposit.

I can hold the bets.

You, you and you... out.

Take it.

Gong!

Come on...

I can't see anything.

- Injury?

- He f***ed him up, that's it.

- He put a finger in my eye.

- Technical knockout!

Never mind.

Poland is the most important.

Leave it! We'll stay where we are,

and they'll stay where the ZOMO is.

Mietek wait!

- Let's double the bid.

- Ok.

We can double the bid but we're

putting forward the other player.

Deal!

Go fetch Grzes.

He's not in your weight range.

Yeah he's big but easier to hit.

I'll kill him with speed.

It isn't easy to win a battle,

when you encounter a gang.

Speak, where you are publishing

this paper of yours!

Y- y-ou think,

that I'm sca-scared of you...

What does the secret police need

so much currency for?

We need it for our own purposes.

There are operations in the west,

the intelligence takes some...

Anyway, you don't need to

know evervthing.

You'll open a base on the Coast

and buy currency.

Wait, wait...

You'll earn yourself some points.

I always pay more than it's officially worth.

I'm not interested in such earnings.

Such as? Am I offering you cooperation?

You don't have to be an informer.

All you need to do is buy me dollars.

Think carefully.

In case of trouble I help.

But I can also do harm.

And I'm not asking what

you were doing yesterday with

a Solidarity activist from Cracow. Wanted

notices have already been issued for him.

SOPO:

It started about nine, ten years ago.

I don't know why.

It simply gets me

and I'm unable to say anything.

Attention! All passenger trains

departing from Gdynia

have been cancelled

until further notice.

We wish you a pleasant journey.

Neither asthma nor epilepsy,

just this, this blockage.

And always in stressful situations.

We're not going to organise it on our own.

We have to talk to my Professor.

Luckily the cloakroom attendant

didn't figure out what was in the wheel.

Who keeps cash in a wheel?

Just us.

Citizen! Give us a light please.

That's for three months.

- And what army is that?

- ZOMO.

It's good this martial law.

Maybe there'll be some order now.

What this Solidarity was up to...

Couldn't be bothered

to work so they went on strike.

How can it be good?

Evervthing for papers, and I have none.

Go to a peasant woman,

veal costs three times that in the shop.

But in the shop, of course, there isn't any.

Nothing there... just vinegar.

You spend hours in a queue

to get bread and milk.

Apparently evervthing

will become more expensive.

I'll show you a new trick!

Cool?

Yeah play, play.

That doesn't concern you,

after all you dine in the Grand Hotel.

Do you even know

how much sugar or butter costs?

I can't go to work, because they

won't accept Dominik to any nursery.

I don't know what

this year's Christmas is going to look like.

I feel increasingly worse.

My head hurts all day...

You need to give me

more child support.

Couldn't you just say

that to begin with?

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