DRAMA

Antek Gralak has just been released from prison,He leaves his home town of Krakow and sets to work on a building site in Silesia, All he wants are the simple things in life: work, somewhere clean to sleep,something to eat, a wife, television and peace. Anxious to avoid conflicts and happy to be alive and free, he is friendly with his colleagues and open-hearted and grateful to his employer. He finds a girl, marries, but conflicts atwork prove inevitable. Building materials disappear and Gralak's boss is involved in the theft. Thinking that he's found a potential accomplice in Gralak, the boss proposes to bring him in on the under- hand deals. A strike breaks out among the builders. Torn between the two sides - his boss and his colleagues - and longing for peace, Gralak turns up for work. The builders believe he has grassed and beat him up as he mutters "Calm ... calm."

• Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
• Screenplay: Krzysztof Kieslowski, based on a story by Lech Borski
• Dialogue: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jerzy Stuhr
• Cinematography: Jacek Petrycki
• Editor: Maryla Szymanska
• Art director: Rafal Waltenberger
• Sound: Wieslaw Jurgala
• Music: Piotr Figiel
• Producer: Zbigniew Romantowski
• Production company: Polish Television
• Cast: Jerzy Stuhr (Antek Gralak), Izabella Olrzewska, Jeny Trela, Michal Szulkiewicz, Danuta Ruksza, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Elzbieta Karkoszka

16mm colour - 44 mins