sentences:  After the early years of Communist repression, executions were quite rare and invariably for murder; from 1969 a total of 183 men were hanged and no women.In her article about the film, Janina Falkowska describes the brutality of the effects class societies have on the lower class, emphasizing on the "hopelessness" of the latter and false hope of the former.Falkowska also talks about the law as a personified entity—capable of being both just and unjust, responsible for saving and ruining lives.