sentences:  "A Short Film About Killing" was released in the same year that the death penalty was suspended in Poland.In 1988 the country carried out just a single execution, with 6 condemned prisoners being hanged in 1987.The portrayal of the execution method and procedure is mostly accurate, however in reality the date of executions were a surprise to the prisoner—the condemned man would simply be led into a room to discover it was the execution chamber.