The left eye.
Read it, can you see a number?
96, 35, 26.
Next.
Breathe in.
It will be 92 when I breathe in.
Breathe out.
It's 88 when I breathe out.
It's 175, I didn't straighten up.
Let it be 175.
I practice sport, often measure myself.
125/80. Thank you, next.
Want to go to air forces with such height?
I'd like to.
So you're an alpine instructor?
Yes.
I read something about you,
about the Himalayas.
It was about my father, he died 10 years ago.
Fine, Partyka.
Sign this.
THE CONSTANT FACTOR
It's on your left.
What's going on?!
Lower me!
What's going on?
I'm not going anywhere!
I don't want to get killed!
Leave me alone!
Come on, you lazybones!
Or I'll throw you down!
Are you in a hurry?
No.
Vitamins.
Pay for it.
Excuse me, 84 zloties.
Thank you.
Take it, you'll have to buy a ticket.
I'll manage to come back somehow.
- Take it.
- But mum...
No way.
- Bye.
- Take care.
- Your old man was going this way?
- In 1960?
I don't know.
He came earlier with the Swiss people.
I don't know which way, neither does mother.
How old was he then?
He was 24 when I was born
and 36 when he died.
Boleslaw Partyka, geologist, alpinist
How much service do you have left?
Two months.
What then?
I'll get to work.
I want to spare some money and get an apartment.
Maybe I'll get on some extramural studies.
Your father was a chilly guy too,
always shivering.
He was?
I didn't know that.
Where are you going to work?
I'd like to work in Warsaw.
You finished technical college, didn't you?
Yes.
Can something be done about it?
Give me a call
when you finish your national service.
Thank you.
Your ID, please.
Are you the recommended person?
I think so.
Please come to human resources department, sir.
The gentleman has come.
It's a busy place, you know.
We have a serious rival.
- You worked there, right?
- Where?
In the International Trade and Fair Company.
No, I didn't.
- Nice to meet you.
- Hello.
- This gentleman is an electrician?
- Of course.
I'm glad when young people come to work here.
Let's go.
I don't want any misunderstandings, but...
I don't even know
the man who called to recommend me.
- What's your name?
- Witold.
Mr. Witek, for me you can be a total stranger,
but you have to be honest.
Mum?
I got the job.
The salary is small, but... Hello?
But there are business trips
to various countries.
Hello?
Next week
I'm going to apply for a passport
and I'll probably go to India.
Yes, to India, to Mumbai.
I can spare some money...
I don't spend much lately anyway...
Hello?
I'll probably buy a camera
or borrow one from my friend.
Yes, but... I think about my studies now.
Yes, I take care of myself.
I jog, train a bit.
I eat fruit... I ran out of coins!
What are we going to do now?
Go and buy 50 m of this fabric.
- Do you have dollars?
- Only my own.
Boys will stay for the night
and it will be done in the morning.
It's our third night shift.
I don't give a damn about such trips.
I'd rather prepare a fair in some Polish village.
- Do you have anything to declare?
- No.
- How many skins do you have?
- 4, but
it's for my wife, I'm not going to sell it.
Man, wouldn't you sell me one skin?
I'll pay you in foreign currency.
Why in foreign currency? It's 1000zl.
- OK.
- In front of the building.
Your father used to make slides, don't you do it?
It's beautiful.
- I'll hang it on the wall.
- I lost my camera.
I'll take photos next time.
- You're leaving again?
- Yes.
For how long?
There's a chance of going to USA.
For two months,
lots of interesting work and money too.
We could repaint the apartment...
14 dollars a day, can you imagine?
And how do you exchange dollars?
I haven't done it yet.
One can exchange bonds, right?
Mum, I don't do anything dishonest.
Prices are rip-off now.
When one buys medicine for dollars
it's horribly expensive.
I bought it myself so I know.
How are you?
I'm fine.
How about your studies?
I'm thinking about it.
You don't have time?
I think I'm not mature enough.
And I have to spare more money.
It's hot in India now, isn't it?
Yes.
Tell me more.
But I told you
almost everything about the trip.
It wasn't easy to get information
from your father either.
Mum, what do you think... Why did he die?
Did he stumble over a stone? Is that possible?
If that stone was...
You think that it was bound to happen?
I think it was.
How about grandpa?
Was it bound to happen to him too?
He could have been somewhere else then,
on another street.
Was it bound to happen?
Why does he take me to USA?
Who, Mariusz?
Actually he should reprimand me for India.
You have him in your grasp.
You saw him selling what we do here.
He knows someone supports you
so he won't hurt you.
You're saying that he's doing it for himself?
I'm not saying anything.
What about "Dead Souls"?
We slog away for three shifts,
then he throws us a little party.
He doesn't pay for it,
gets the cash for himself.
He takes names from a phonebook
while doing the settlement.
Mariusz is a good guy.
I knew him before working here.
He used to visit our old neighbour
and bring her medicine
bought for his own money.
3 seconds to start...
Start!
10 seconds!
You lost 3 seconds for the scarf!
Come on!
It's over 30 now!
You're there in less than a minute!
You play the lottery?
It's for fun.
I play roulette, write down the numbers,
count the average spread.
You're going to study mathematics?
I don't know yet.
Aren't you afraid that time goes by?
No.
I'm a bit afraid.
It's a way of catching the fate red-handed.
But nothing stands behind it.
You can't win or lose anything.
I can. I play with myself.
Sure. You're lucky anyway.
I applied for a trip to France
but it won't work out.
You'll spend 3 months in USA.
Will you buy a car?
No, I want an apartment.
I want my mother
to come back to Warsaw.
Moreover,
we have to spare money for our expedition.
You think that we'll really go to the Himalayas?
Yes.
Excuse me.
Mum? What is going on?
I don't know.
Are you in pain?
My hand is going numb.
It's draughty here.
I understand you. You say it's draughty, but
- Yes!
- What can I do about it?
It's the way they build today, you know it yourself.
Everyone complains here but does no good himself.
So what can be done?
Nothing.
I'll move your mother when there is a free bed.
You have to do it now.
I don't have to do anything.
Yes?
I have it here, I'm checking.
That's right, thank you.
- How much?
- What?
How much do you want?
I'll give you advice.
Leave this place at once.
Or I'll call the police. I have a witness.
Just tell me how much...
Yes, I'm coming.
If I see you here again
I'll have you removed from here.
- It isn't done this way.
- What way?
It should be in an envelope,
foreign currency preferred.
He knows you work abroad.
It can't be done other way?
If you have some contacts in Warsaw, use them.
Yes, of course, I will use them.
Meanwhile, please take care of my mother,
I have only zloties now...
Stop it or I'll slap you!
How am I supposed to know
if you take money or not?!
Look at my face!
You have to look more carefully.
My girlfriend's father has contacts
in provincial governor's office.
Man... Call him, will you?
I'll take care of it.
Leszek was to call too, but
I don't know if he succeeded.
- Leszek from the club?
- Yes.
For how long are you leaving now?
It looks serious,
she'll probably have a surgery.
I took an unpaid leave so I'll stay with her.
Do you have money?
I can lend you some money if you need it.
No, thank you. I'll call you in need.
Leszek is the one who organises
the expedition to the Himalayas?
- Yes.
- You're on the list.
But I don't know if I'll go.
Now I lost my trip to USA...
I don't even have the money.
How do you know I'm on the list?
I'm on the list myself.
That's great!
I don't have such chances as you...
I'll go as a photographer
or something like this.
But you'll call me?
Sure.
Take me away from here.
- But mum...
- Take me away. Give me my coat.
Go and get a taxi now.
Help me, son.
Tell them that my illness isn't contagious.
But mum, why?
Give me my bag.
Mum, it's peaceful here.
Please take me home.
Neighbours will take care of me.
It will be better this way.
They take care of you here.
Nevermind.
I don't need anything.
The doctor says
not much can be done and he's right.
Give me the shoes.
Please!
Otherwise I'll have to go by myself.
I think it should be consulted with the doctor...
Tell them it is my request. Go, my boy.
Doctor...
Excuse me, doctor.
My mother wants to leave the hospital
and I don't think her condition allows to...
Can you advise me anything?
Do what your mother wants.
Don't object to her.
So there's no hope?
There's always hope but the chances...
aren't too big.
Mum?
Let's go.
Have a sit,
I'll get a taxi now.
Wait a minute please, I'll bring the sick person.
Where are you...?!
Bastard!
I have to get some rest now.
Witus, go back to Warsaw.
You can't give up your job.
I have kind people around me.
Go, help her.
- I'll help you.
- No, thank you, I'll manage.
Leave me alone please,
I'd like to get some rest now.
Fine.
Here, take this.
- No, I don't want it.
- You'll sleep well.
No, thank you.
There must be some way out.
A chance, hope! What am I supposed to do?
A friend of mine from Warsaw knows a man
who cures by putting his palms on a sick person.
He often comes to the town so you could
try and bring your mum to him.
Give me the address.
Is there someone with her now?
Yes, the neighbours come in turns.
So why don't you stay here and sleep.
Of course if you want to.
How can he manage to see all these people?
It's just a moment, a touch of the hand.
And this touch helps?
If one believes so.
Bring your mother just on time
so that she won't have to wait.
Are there any chances
he'll come here this year?
Unfortunately not, he was here in autumn.
Do you take money from patients?
Are you a prosecutor?
No, but... Everyone takes it.
Not everyone.
I don't take money, neither does the young doctor.
But others do.
They take it
because they desperately need money?
They take it because they want to.
Good to know that it still surprises you.
I'll bring Grazyna, she'll give you an injection.
You are in pain, I can see it.
It will bring relief.
Let me go for her.
I don't want it.
But you suffer.
It's for your sake.
You wanted to ask me something?
Yes.
Explain it to me, Father
I'm sorry.
My mother wants to you come
and give her extreme unction.
It's now called Anointing of the Sick.
Even the Church
is afraid to talk about death.
Does my mother understand what's being said?
I think she does.
But the tumor is pressing against her brain.
I think she understands so
you should talk
as if she heard everything.
Take care.
I'm sorry.
There's no need.
Why is she dressed like that?
It was her wish.
You have to shave.
We have to go to the office.
- Do you understand?
- Yes, of course.
We have to go there and get an unpaid leave.
There's a meeting in Zakopane.
I fixed the car and everything.
Good. Let's go.
Man, come on.
Get up.
Are you crazy or something?
Sorry.
You know
Something has broken in me.
What is it?
Shall we? To the Himalayas.
No.
What happened?
I got a phone from work, have to go back.
I'll go to Zakopane,
maybe I'll catch a train.
I'm sorry.
Good evening.
Don't be ashamed.
You think something happened?
No, it's probably about the trip.
- To the West?
- Yes.
That's good, isn't it?
I don't know what is good anymore.
- Your projectors are here.
- I know.
There's no invoice for one of them,
we could sell it.
We'll divide the cash half-and-half.
- Go and have your head examined!
- Are you crazy?
What's going on?
It's like you found the cash.
- Do you make a living?
- Yes.
So do I.
You think you're a saint?
That you were hired because you're good?
You just had contacts.
Go to work,
40 people are waiting for your place.
That's true.
What the hell happened to you?
Firstly the projector,
now you don't want to sign.
We get the lump sum for hotels
we sign up for more, spend less.
That's our business.
It isn't my business, I'm fed up with this!
Hotels, taxis, still new swindles!
Why should I think
about my lies again and again?
What do you think about it for?
You have to?
Everyone has to.
Sign this or
your colleagues won't get the money too.
I won't sign this.
Open the door.
It was open.
Hey, no jokes.
Stop doing this...
Hi.
You're pregnant.
Are you crazy?
You had an abortion?
No way!
Then why did you come here?
I wanted to see the airport.
I live in Warsaw during my studies
I met your landlady
and she said you're coming back.
So I came.
Shall we go to my place?
No, I'll go by bus.
See you.
Bye.
In the denominator
the sum after ni
W
Using these results we can state that
average ni
is almost identical
to the most probable ni.
So average ni
is constant. It is the constant factor.
Let's have a cigarette break now.
Please reconstruct
the line of reasoning we followed.
It concerns also non-smokers.
Excuse me
Yes?
I was thinking that maybe it could be done
without using Lagrange multipliers.
I mean by eliminating one 'ni'
and placing it in here in the probability formula...
Then it's just seeking the extremum.
I don't know if it can be done this way.
Of course, but why do you think
it's a better way?
Perhaps not better, just easier.
It would be easier indeed
but less elegant.
You can make use of it only in cases
of very simple conditions of 'ni'.
But it won't work
in the case of mixed expressions.
I thought I was a genius.
It's an interesting idea.
It's stupid.
Are you our student?
No.
But you come to my classes.
I have time so I come here.
If you came regularly
you could get a grade.
Thank you, it's just a hobby of mine.
Drop to my office after the lecture.
I'm sorry
but I'm already late for work.
Maybe another time.
Why do you seek quarrels with the boys?
I don't, I just...
can't go on like this.
It's because you don't have to work.
It would be different
if you had to maintain a family.
It's easy to have clean hands now.
But you will make them dirty.
You won't be an exception.
That's possible.
There's a request from the management
to do some work in one house,
as a part of the job.
Why is that?
The guy can do much for us.
You'll take care of electricity there.
- No way.
- That's easy, everything's ready.
You'll install pipes like these.
Such pipes? I can't do that.
Don't fool around.
It's an order, as a part of the job.
I can't do this.
You're not the one to decide! Now go!
And note down
all the materials you used.
No.
You aren't going?
Why?
I don't want
some dignitary to take advantage
of his position and gain private benefit.
It's against
the rules of democracy and decency.
You're a worker,
let the smarter people think.
Are you going?
No.
Then you won't go abroad.
You'll sit here.
We'll manage without you in Canada.
But I work here.
It doesn't matter. Are you going?
No. And you won't
con me out of Canada so easily.
That's for luck!
I love her.
And I have the courage to say it.
And what does she say?
I don't have a mansion,
a father with a position.
But you have a future.
You seem to be against it.
No, why?
You act like a fanatic lately.
Stefan, everything is OK.
You make excuses.
Let my father-in-law explain
how he got the money.
That's his business.
You're going to live here, right?
For the time being.
Silly, you think we bought this place?
When one wants to achieve something
he has to reach a compromise.
We have to accept the world as it is.
It's mature attitude.
Don't laugh
you don't know what will happen to you.
I'm afraid already.
I'm not scaring you.
You won't achieve much this way.
How about the Himalayas?
We're both going.
- We got the car for the trip.
- So you're going.
You too.
- Hello.
- Hello.
Is it empty on the other side?
I'll take it for a moment.
What a rip-off.
Why?
Why can't I go?
You take people from outside.
I am.
It isn't fair.
You thought you'd win with me?
I'll appeal to the works committee.
They can kiss my ass.
They won't be glad to hear it.
They won't hear it.
I don't like such assholes like you.
Mariusz!
Don't call me by my first name, asshole.
You don't watch your language.
Why should I?
You lousy pig. You're recording?
I am.
Give it to me, asshole.
No.
Give it to me!
I won't.
- You won't?
- No.
Get out.
The girl was here.
Mr. Stefan brought this for the trip.
Thank you.
Will you bet on the numbers for me?
I got 3 in the last lottery.
I won't.
I don't know
what to bet on for myself.
Why don't you support me?
Why don't you admit that he steals, lies,
that the guys from above support him?
Let's call a meeting. You'll say that...
No.
Don't you trust me?
We don't.
Why? What makes me different from you?
We read the same newspapers,
we finished the same school!
Now the management will grind me down.
Won't you stand by me?
No.
It's because I'm not one of you.
Not because
they have something on all of you.
You always want to show us
you're better than we are.
You despise us.
What are you talking about?
You say you don't care about cash.
I do care about cash!
Is that so?
Yesterday you said you lost 200 bucks.
You don't even search for them.
I do!
Nobody steals in here.
So I'll find them.
Please sit down.
You lodged a complaint about
not being sent to Canada.
That it is a good trip.
It isn't only about that.
It's about the atmosphere in here.
About attitudes, hypocrisy.
Everyone steals.
Such accusations have to be proved!
That's why
I wanted to call a meeting with the staff.
But no-one from the staff came.
Even from your department.
I know.
I lost.
Why? You were wrong.
As far as the trip is concerned
we reconsidered the decision
and you're going.
It's not the case.
I would like to take an unpaid leave for a month.
I'm entitled to it.
I'm going on an expedition to the Himalayas.
Write an application then.
Was it so easy because you were afraid
I'd reveal the tape?
You don't have to worry.
I destroyed it.
You don't believe me?
I do.
I give you my word.
So as they say, we're quits.
The Himalayas.
I envy you.
Come here, please.
Are these yours?
No.
These two are mine.
Your passport, please.
This way, please.
What about the luggage?
Leave it here.
Is that all?
Whose is this?
It's Witek's bag.
Your belt, please.
200 dollars, not declared.
I didn't put it there.
Neither did I.
Well, get dressed.
Proceedings will be brought against you.
You can't hope for a better job, right?
No.
Maybe for a worse one. I'll find something.
You're not a criminal after all.
What about the apartment?
- Theoretically I can get it.
- Theoretically.
You aren't even registered.
Witek?
You can take revenge.
I suppose so.
You could play a dirty trick on him.
I could.
You want to do it?
I do.
Such man should be ruined.
So why won't you do it?
You don't feel like doing it.
I will do it some day.
These are just words.
In fact, you don't care about it.
- You don't care about anything.
- You think so?
What do you mean? That I'm reckless?
Yes.
If you cared, you'd be different.
You want me to worry?
Yes.
Why?
Then I'd feel that...
That you really care for me, that...
I think I'll beat you up.
You monster!
Marry me.
I've enough problems.
Marry me.
It is believed that
mathematics deals with beautiful, ideal objects.
Aren't they beautiful?
They are.
I just think that thanks to this disscipline
I can achieve maximum freedom
in the most infavourable conditions.
Mathematics is a game
in which we set the rules.
It's beautiful and pure,
but often disappointing,
because it's different than
reality from which you want to escape.
You got me wrong.
I don't want to escape from reality.
From what you said I deduced that
you said "I pass" and finished the game.
No, I didn't pass.
How is that?
You really believe that
the world would change
because of one fair person?
Yes.
If this person is really fair.
I know more simple arguments.
Fair people have better lives,
they are healthier,
but it isn't certain.
I know.
It isn't about the arguments.
I just know I can't live other way.
Why?
I don't know it yet.
Then try to find out. Seriously.
But for the time being
try to pass the exam.
I don't have
much chances for studying now.
That's a shame.
It is.
I'm afraid that something may happen to you.
I'm afraid too.
But I'm afraid for you more.
Me? Why?
I'm afraid you'll change.
Other things which may happen
are a matter of fate.
So what should we be afraid of, fate?
No, I keep thinking about it.
Fate can be estimated,
it's the probability calculus.
And if something can be estimated
there's no mystery in it anymore.
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