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The video installments to "W labiryncie" 1-15 may be viewed as self-contained movies by clicking scenes from the INDEX OF INSTALLMENTS below.

Other files available here are:
Puppet show version of 'W labiryncie'.
Transcripts to Installments 1-21.
Questions to Installments 1-21.



INDEX OF INSTALLMENTS TO "W LABIRYNCIE" (LABYRINTH OF LIFE)

Installment 1, Scene 1 A car crash, in which Wojtek, Ewa's fiance, is fatally injured.
Installment 1, Scene 2 Ewa's was-to-have-been mother-in-law persuades Ewa to stay on in the Suchecki's house.
Installment 1, Scene 3. Credits.

Installment 2, Review. Review of Installment 1.
Installment 2, Scene 1. A sad Christmas Eve. Ewa wants to start work as soon as possible. Her mother-in-law vehemently objects.
Installment 2, Scene 2. Ewa finds work in Stopczyk's pharmaceutical lab and is introduced by Stopczyk to her co-workers.

Installment 3, Review. Review of Installment 2.
Installment 3, Scene 1. Director Stopczyk unceremoniously cuts funds for the Adoloran project. Janek can't control his anger over the decision.
Installment 3, Scene 2. Ewa's first, unpromising, encounter with Janek. Adam arrives and is suprised to find Ewa working in "his" lab.

Installment 4, Review. Review of Installment 3.
Installment 4, Scene 1. Janek and Krystyna have a spat, because Krystyna, a stewardess, suddenly has to fill in on a flight. Janek is jealous of Werner, Krystyna's pilot.
Installment 4, Scene 2. Krystyna introduces Joanna to her boss, captainWerner. Joanna is captivated. Krystyna invites Joanna in for a chat.
Installment 4, Scene 3. Krystyna and Joanna have a heart-to-heart talk about their husbands. Joanna reveals something about Adam's past.

Installment 5, Review. Review of Installment 4.
Installment 5, Scene 1. Adam has an appointment with Professor Suchecki.
Installment 5, Scene 2. Adam unexpectedly meets Ewa in the home of the Sucheckis.
Installment 5, Scene 3. Adam and the professor go into his study a talk.
Installment 5, Scene 4. Adam and Ewa meet in a cafe.

Installment 6, Review. Review of Installment 5.
Installment 6, Scene 1. The professor and his wife have a talk. He thinks everything will work out between his wife and Ewa.
Installment 6, Scene 2. Pawel's sudden return from Switzerland to look after his sick father creates a staffing problem for Stopczyk.
Installment 6, Scene 3. Ewa consults with her doctor friend, Agata Wieczorek, on some health matter.
Installment 6 Scene 4. Pawel unexpectedly meets Ewa and offers her a ride home.
Installment 6, Scene 5. Janek needs Mariola's help on some lab work after hours.
Installment 6, Scene 6. A confrontation between Stopczyk and Janek.

Installment 7, Review. Review of Installment 6.
Installment 7, Scene 1. Janek blows up at the office: Ewa has taken some professional journals home with her.
Installment 7, Scene 2. Ewa brings the missing journals to Janek's apartment and finds him in a better mood.
Installment 7, Scene 3. Krysia's flight to Moscow has been canceled. Captain Werner offers her a ride home.
Installment 7 Scene 4. Werner unsuccessfully tries to get Krysia to check into a hotel with him.
Installment 7, Scene 5. Janek and Ewa warm up to each other and go over to first-name basis. Krysia walks in on them at an awkward moment.
Installment 7, Scene 6. Janek and Pawel discuss Janek's marriage.

Installment 8, Review. Review of Installment 7.
Installment 8, Scene 1. Krysia and Joasia talk about their marriages.
Installment 8, Scene 2. Adam intervenes in a squabble between Marta and Piotr. Joanna wishes he wouldn't always take Piotr's side.
Installment 8, Scene 3. Adam tries to rekindle his old relationship with Ewa, but she doesn't respond in kind.
Installment 8, Scene 4. Stopczyk tries to enlist Adam's support in getting rid of Janek to open a permanent place in the lab for Ewa.

Installment 9.Review. Review of Installment 8.
Installment 9, Scene 1. Pawel visits his father, who feels increasingly pessimistic about his chances for recovery.
Installment 9, Scene 2. Ewa asks permission to leave work early for a doctor's appointment.
Installment 9, Scene 3. Ewa picks up her results at the clinic.
Installment 9, Scene 4. Ewa learns she is pregnant. She thinks she is pleased.
Installment 9, Scene 5. Ewa tells Adam about her pregnancy, and that the child's father is Wojtek.
Installment 9, Scene 6. Ewa discusses with Agata the problems she sees in becoming an unwed mother. Agata will hear none of it.
Installment 9, Scene 7. Over Wojtek's grave, Ewa tells Wojtek he is about to become a father.

Installment 10, Review. Review of Installment 9.
Installment 10, Scene 1. Dr. Zych tells Pawel his father's situation is very grave, and that he should be prepared for anything.
Installment 10, Scene 2. Krystyna helps Pawel import medicine for his father from Switzerland..
Installment 10, Scene 3.Ewa and Pawel accidentally meet near their homes. They go over to a first-name basis and make an informal date for that evening.
Installment 10, Scene 4.At Pawel' s house that evening, Ewa tells Pawel about her early childhood.
Installment 10, Scene 4.At Pawel' s house that evening, Ewa tells Pawel about her early childhood.

Installment 11, Review.Review of Installment 10.
Installment 11, Scene 1. A dead car battery (is it symbolic of their marriage?) leads to a falling out between Janek and Krystyna.
Installment 11, Scene 2. Joasia tells Krysia that she thinks Adam has someone on the side.
Installment 11, Scene 3. Professor Suchecki leaves for a conference in Krakow. He asks Ewa to keep the peace between her and her mother-in-law.
Installment 11, Scene 4. Joasia looks unusually dolled up for an editing session at the TV studio.
Installment 11, Scene 5. Joasia returns home late and drunk. Adam is waiting up for her, leading to a sharp exchange.

Installment 12, Review. Review of Installment 11.
Installment 12, Scene 1. Ewa's mother-in-law returns home to find Ewa passed out on the stairs.
Installment 12, Scene 2. Ewa's mother-in-law, visiting Ewa in the hospital, learns to her shock that she is expecting a child.
Installment 12, Scene 3. Ewa's mother-in-law suspects the person inquiring about Ewa's health is her former boyfriend.
Installment 12, Scene 4. Pawel visits Ewa in the hospital.
Installment 12, Scene 5. Next Ewa is visited by Adam.
Installment 12, Scene 6. Adam learns that Ewa miscarried their child five years earlier.

Installment 13, Review. Review of Installment 12.
Installment 13, Scene 1. Ewa's mother-in-law tactlessly tries to hold a conversation about Ewa's pregnancy and forthcoming child.
Installment 13, Scene 2. Adam tries to talk to Ewa about her pregnancy five years earlier.
Installment 13, Scene 3. Paweł pays a visit to Ewa at her home.
Installment 13, Scene 4. Paweł's visit provokes her mother-in-law again to suspect Ewa of unfaithfulness.
Installment 13, Scene 5. Paweł and Ewa's relationship seems to be proceeding nicely.
Installment 13, Scene 6. Director Stopczyk blows up when he learns of Professor Suchecki's intervention with the ministry over Adoloran.
Installment 13, Scene 7. It's International Women's Day, and union representatives come bearing small gifts.

Installment 14, Review. Review of Installment 13.
Installment 14, Scene 1. Janek neglects to tell Krystyna about his planned skiing trip.
Installment 14, Scene 2.Ewa is sick. Her mother-in-law doesn't approve of how Ewa is looking after herself.
Installment 14, Scene 3. Werner wangles his way inside Krystyna's apartment.
Installment 14, Scene 4. Agata examines Ewa and offers her a place to stay if she decides to move out of the Suckeckis.
Installment 14, Scene 5. Krystyna and Werner dance the samba, when guess who unexpectedly comes home.
Installment 14, Scene 6.Krysia exaggeratedly describes the night when Janek came home and found her together with Werner.
Installment 14, Scene 7. Janek just as inaccurately describes the same scene, from his point of view. He's says he's looking for a good divorce lawyer.

Installment 15, Review. Review of Installment 14.
Installment 15, Scene 1. Krystyna and Janek tearfully make up.
Installment 15, Scene 2. Adam and Professor Suckecki have a man-to-man talk about Ewa.
Installment 15, Scene 3. Director Stopczyk blows up at Janek, mistakenly thinking he has carried tales about Adoloran outside the institute.
Installment 15, Scene 4. Ewa tells Paweł about her past romance with Adam.
Installment 15, Scene 5. Ewa and Paweł take an excursion outside town. Paweł tries to draw closer, but is unexpectedly rebuffed.

Installment 16, Review. Review of Installment 15.
Installment 16, Scene 1. Ewa is rebuffed rudely by Paweł at work.
Installment 16, Scene 2. Agata and Ewa talk about men.
Installment 16, Scene 3. Ewa and Paweł have it out and clear the air.
Installment 16, Scene 4. Ewa clears the air with the other workers in the lab, informing them of her pregnancy.
Installment 16, Scene 5. Teściowa reminds Ewa: it is half a year since Wojtek's death; a mass is to be said in his memory.
Installment 16, Scene 6. Teściowa wants Ewa to "always be true" to Wojtek's memory.

Installment 17, Review. Review of Installment 16.
Installment 17, Scene 1. Joasia preps old Hanisz for an interview on her TV program.
Installment 17, Scene 2. Ewa looks for an apartment.
Installment 17, Scene 3. Paweł asks for directions to "Edelweiss Street".
Installment 17, Scene 4. The investigated apartment turns out not to be up to expectations, to put it mildly.
Installment 17, Scene 5. On the way back from the apartment hunt, Paweł bucks Ewa up.
Installment 17, Scene 6. Pani Maria to the rescue: Ewa can stay in her apartment until Pani Maria gets back from Paris.
Installment 17, Scene 7. Paweł shows how handy he is around the house by screwing in a light bulb.

Installment 18, Review.Review of Installment 17.
Installment 18, Scene 1. Ewa prepares for a maternity leave. Stopczyk has a ready-made replacement.
Installment 18, Scene 2. Birth complications.
Installment 18, Scene 3. Ewa asks to see her son.
Installment 18, Scene 4. Ewa writes a letter to Paweł from the hospital.
Installment 18, Scene 5. Ewa gets to see her son.
Installment 18, Scene 6. Things start to jell between Ewa and Paweł.
Installment 18, Scene 7. The new laboratory assistant has liver trouble.

Installment 19, Review. Review of Installment 18.
Installment 19, Scene 1. Ewa's baby has a serious infection. Only the medicine Pradol will help.
Installment 19, Scene 2. On their way to get the international prescription signed, Paweł and Ewa have a flat tire.
Installment 19, Scene 3. Ewa forces her way into the conference.
Installment 19, Scene 4. Profesor Sędlak is very understanding. The prescription is signed.
Installment 19, Scene 5. Typical bureaucracy. The office of emergency medical requests is open only until 12 o'clock.
Installment 19, Scene 6. A pastoral breakfast scene at Stopczyk's country place is interrupted.
Installment 19, Scene 7. Ewa and Janek unexpectedly show up at Stopczyk's place to ask for his help.
Installment 19, Scene 8. Stopczyk to the rescue.
Installment 19, Scene 9. With the Pradol now in hand, all Ewa and Paweł can do is wait.

Installment 20, Review. Review of Installment 19.
Installment 20, Scene 1. Pani Bożena tries to catch a mouse. Ewa puts in an appearance at the lab.
Installment 20, Scene 2. Pani Bożena succeeds in catching the mouse.
Installment 20, Scene 3. Things start to mend between Ewa and her mother-in-law.
Installment 20, Scene 4. Old Hanisz is set to pondering, as Ewa and Paweł set out to visit her mother's grave in Olecko.
Installment 20, Scene 5. At Ewa's mother's grave, Paweł tells Ewa about his own mother.
Installment 20, Scene 6. Leon promises Hanisz to look after an envelope containing a deep secret.
Installment 20, Scene 7. Pani Bożena, the "experienced" lab assistant, causes an exposition. A glass vessel blows up in Paweł's face.
Installment 20, Scene 8. Paweł finally proposes.
Installment 20, Scene 9. A happy scene back at the Suckeckis.
Installment 20, Scene 9. The next Suchecki.



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