"Presents a Ryszard Brylski film" "Keep up ..." "Keep up ..." "Keep up ..." "Keep up ..." "Keep up ..." "Keep up ..." " Should've taken the pram." " Should've left when it was still light." " OK, OK!" "I wasn't ready in time." " Shouldn't have spent so much time preening." "You took ages as well." "I couldn't find my gloves, that's all." "Keep up ..." "Keep up ..." "Keep up ..." "Keep up ..." "Keep up..." "Keep up..." "What are you gawking at?" "Iwonka!" "Iwonka!" "ZHOOREK" "Starring" "Costarring" "Matuszek has fallen off his bike..." "in the middle of the road." "Fancy riding a bike in the middle of winter." " Can you hold the baby for a bit?" " What, now?" "Production Designer" "Music" "Photography" "Script" "Directed by" "Shall we call him out here...?" "I'll go - you'd better stay here with the baby." "He's not in the fish bar." "Must be at home." "Is that your kid, Wladek?" "No, he works for me." "My kid's at college." "We'd like a word with you?" "Can we come in?" "Can we sit down?" "Is it a girl or a boy?" "A boy." "Nice." "What's his name?" " He doesn't have one yet." " Wladyslaw!" "Wladyslaw?" "Who calls their kid Wladyslaw these days?" "Well, what do you want?" "Your name's Wladyslaw and so's his." "There's nothing wrong with that, is there?" "Well?" "It's nearly Christmas, Wladek." "He's your kid and we want to have him christened." "You must be off your fucking rocker, Halina!" "How could it be my kid?" "Come on Iwonka." "Who's the father?" "You are." "It's your baby." "Get out, the pair of you!" "I said clear off!" " Well, what now?" " What do you think?" "Nothing!" "What do you mean, nothing!" "Give me the baby." " Didn't you say it was here." "Eh?" " I never said nothing." "It was you." " I said I didn't know." " How can you not know, you stupid cow!" "I don't know and that's that." "There's one in about an hour." "What time is it now?" "We'll have to wait an hour and a half." "We'd be better off walking than freezing to death here." "I said we should've taken the pram." "Keep up..." "Keep up..." "Keep up..." "Iwonka." "What are you gawking at?" "Iwonka!" "Well hold it then!" "Come on!" "Ow!" "It hurts." "Take him back, it hurts." "He'll keep us up all night again." "I can't be bothered." "I want to sleep." "Iwonka?" "We were going to have a little chat." "I'm almost asleep." " You were going to tell me who." " Nobody." "It can't be nobody?" "You said you'd tell me." "It's hot." "You've put too much coal in the stove." "Will you tell me, Iwonka?" "I promised your Dad, didn't I?" " Shall we take the pram?" " What for when it's snowing?" "Brush." "Brush?" "What brush?" "Iwonka?" "Help us Witek." "All our money went on your grave and that pram." "If it wasn't for your pension we'd never survive." "I get peanuts from mopping floors." "Wladek helped us a lot but now he won't." "You're annoyed that we haven't got a father for the kid yet but..." "Iwonka's not all there and she's as pig-headed as you." "I just can't make head or tail of it all." "She said who it is." "She was talking in her sleep." "We'll find him and have the kid christened in time for Christmas." "Just like I swore to you." "Anything that'll stop bringing shame on us." "I'm sick of all this shame, Witek!" "Is Mr. Brush in school?" " Brush is his nickname." " So what's he called?" "Wait here..." "Why did we bother with the pram?" "Hey, Iwonka come and show us what you've got there!" "Hey, Iwonka, spread your legs..." "You bastards!" "Leave the child alone!" "Little shits!" "That Brush guy's real name is Blaszka." "Mhmm, Mr. Blaszka." "Come here!" "What does he look like?" "Sort of normal-looking, except he's got hair down to here." "Go and see if he's there and then come back and let me know." "I'll wait here with the pram." "Go on!" "You're to come straight back!" "I'll count to four and we'll switch it on." "Here we go then..." "Oh!" "It's you my dear child." "Have you come to help out?" "Do you all remember your classmate?" "Yes, we do." "It's our Iwonka!" "Come and have a look." "Come on!" "We did it all ourselves during the lessons." "You remember our Art." "Classes?" "Mhmm." "The saints as well?" "Those wooden figures are really old... but we waxed and varnished them to make them shine." "It's a beautiful crib isn't it?" "Yes, very beautiful." "Well, then." "Take your jacket off and get to work." " I can't." " Wait..." "We'll show you something." "Switch it on!" "I told you to come straight back!" "Is this him?" " I'm Iwonka's mother." " I know" " I remember you." "It's a shame you took her out of school." "A shame for you but it certainly isn't for me!" "She was talented." "In her own way." "So why did you make her repeat each year twice?" "That was my fault?" "She always got good grades from me" " Cs and Bs." "Oh sure..." "Bs." "Is that why you got her pregnant?" "I got her pregnant?" "I fathered her child you mean?" "My dear child." "Please, please, not in church." "Let's go to the vestry, shall we?" "He just smiled." "Well then?" "Are you expecting us to get married now?" "No, but Christmas is coming." "We have to have the boy christened and name him after his father." "That's fine by me." "I can be his godfather if you like." "What about maintenance?" "I can't support him on my own." "Someone fathered him, let them bloody well pay." "Paternity can be proven." "There are simple tests which can confirm it beyond all doubt." "This is blatant slander." "Look me in the eyes, dear child." "Did you make this all up yourself?" "Or is this all your mum's idea?" "Does she even have any idea how children are made?" "She's given birth, she must have a pretty good idea." "Two o'clock." "You are a mother yourself, dearest daughter..." "You know very well that a man and a woman can come together." "They lie beside each other, united by love... and give rise to new life." "Is that how it was with the man you see standing here?" "But you told me clearly that it was!" "I'm afraid she's not all there, Father." "It's hard to get any sense out of her." "But she definitely told me it was him... and now Father is trying to befuddle her with all his talk." "I am merely trying to ascertain the truth." "Sure!" "Just like when you didn't let my husband have a decent funeral." "I can appreciate your pain but it was a suicide case." " I cannot change the church laws." " Laws?" "Anywhere else he would have been treated like a hero." "It's not him." "What did you say?" "!" "It's not Brush." "If you weren't so soft in the head, I'd have thrown you and your bastard baby out by now." "Bringing such shame on us, as if there wasn't enough already." "If I hadn't promised your father you'd be locked up in the coal-cellar." " OK. - go ahead and lock me up!" " I will!" "You'll stay there until you tell me everything." "The pram!" "I left it right here." "Thieving bastards!" "A brand-new pram!" "Brand-new!" "It cost so much money!" "Only the best was good enough for you!" "It was all your fault, you were supposed to come straight back." " I had to come and look for you." " You would have gone inside anyway." "But I would have taken the pram in with me." "So you should have taken it then!" "Hang on, didn't we leave it at the gate?" "They even stoop to stealing outside churches now!" "It'll be those bastards from school!" "Give us back the pram, you little shits!" "It was in the bushes." "Behind the rubbish bins." "But we'd looked there." "I'll take it back to my workshop and it'll be as good as new." "Just as well they didn't rip the hood!" "Jesus Christ!" "The sound needs fixing." "Sure, but when?" "Who do you think is going to come here and fix it for you, eh?" " What about that pram-guy?" " Matuszek?" "Yeah, him." " He use to fancy me." " You what?" "Matuszek." "He used to fancy me before I married your Dad." "He was a cyclist, a racer." "He was even going to take part in the Peace Race." "He always like to drink, even dance, but he was always a bit...you know." "In the end he had an accident." "Rode smack into a bus." "He once almost got into a fight with your Dad." "But when Dad threw himself in front of the train..." "Matuszek helped carry his coffin all the way to the cemetery... although he'd nothing to do with the railway." "What's his first name?" "What was his name?" "He was always just Matuszek." "He ended up marrying Bozena." "A car's outside." "They're probably just stealing scrap metal." "Iwonka, you remember what the priest was saying you know about men and women  love and all that." "When?" "In the vestry." "About how we come together and make love to make babies." "I had one of my attacks so I can't remember all of it." "You once told me that you know everything." "'Cos it's true." "But you don't know who slept with you?" "!" "He's peed himself again." "For the second time." "That Brush guy." "Did he make love to you?" "He'll catch a chill and wet himself again." "I'm doing my best to keep calm so don't get all worked up, OK?" "Tell me, did he make love to you?" "No." "So what did he do?" " He held me." " How did he hold you?" "Show me." "And that's all he did?" " He felt me." " Show me." "And did he feel you down here?" "And did he put his thing in?" "No he didn't." "You've asked me this already!" "Was it somebody else?" "A young guy, an older guy?" "Didn't they?" "Nobody did, for God's sake?" "!" "Nobody shagged you, fucked you, stuck his prick up you?" "!" "Maybe I had one of my attacks and that's why I can't remember." "What about this one..." " or maybe..." "OK., I'll treat you." "I'll pay for it when I get to the till!" "What are you playing at, Matuszek." "Too much money to burn?" "Aw, come on, it's not expensive." "It's not just the money." "She'll catch a cold and lose some of her milk." "It's all only milk, you know." "So, is there going to be a wedding or christening at the army base?" "A Christmas Eve Party." "Merry Christmas!" "What's up, shitheads?" "Are you trying to piss your captain off?" "Stop!" "Gosh, it's chilly!" "Do you sell zhoorek?" "You know, zhoorek." "I don't know what the custom is round here, whether it's bottles or jars." " Zhoorek, white borscht... soup." " Oh, you mean borscht." "You're in luck." "The last bottle." "So it's in bottles after all!" "We are going skiing in Austria... and my wife was adamant that we should have some zhoorek." "And this looks like it's the last shop before the border." "What would Christmas be without zhoorek?" "I've been to so many countries but none of them have zhoorek." "Of course, they have their own specialties, but not zhoorek." "So I thought to myself, if I can't get it here then I'm stuck." "Rather chilly." "Oh, and I'd like some sausage." "Do you have any decent kielbasa here?" "Yes." "Six zlotys a kilo." "Well, it can't be very good sausage if it only costs six zlotys." "A bottle of vodka, please." "My partner's getting anxious." "We're supposed to get to the Alps by this evening." "But I really fancied some zhoorek." "And some orange food flavouring and that ice-cream as well." "And zhoorek." " A bottle of zhoorek please." " Of course." "Here you are." "You open it like this and close it like this." "Try it." "No, the fastener's here, don't tug it, that's it!" "I've made it to hold all your shopping." "OK.!" "OK.!" "You've woken up the baby." "Bozena's got a duvet for the pram." "Come and visit us before Christmas Eve." "Take it." "Make yourselves some borscht for Christmas." "But round here, we always called it borscht, not zhoorek." "I hope he doesn't hit the bus again." "We were going to buy ourselves some presents and stuff." "We'll just buy what we need most." " What are these?" " Disposable nappies." "You don't have to wash them." " Let's get you some fruit." " I don't want any food." "I want a present." "We can buy food in our local shop." "But you're breast-feeding." "What about one with buttons." "And the time I'm not breast-feeding?" "Look." "The colour goes with the pram." "Daddy would definitely have bought me it." "Come on!" "Along comes a Boy Scout, Why, hello there, my little daisy!" "Your beauty is quite enchanting Would you like to be mine?" "Or not?" "Iwonka?" "Iwonka, are you asleep?" "Come in, Wladek." "Did Iwonka think up all that stuff about the baby?" "Iwonka." "Good timing." "I'm sure she's got something to tell you." " What the fuck's got into you?" " What was I supposed to think?" "You used to visit me and then you stopped coming." "Because I've got a wife and kids..." "Funny how it coincided with Iwonka getting pregnant?" "Funny how I was meant to know she was pregnant?" "You think I didn't notice the way you used to look at her." "Witek was still alive then." "Who's been putting funny ideas in your head, Halina?" "As far as she's concerned I'm just her uncle." "Pull yourself together, you're cracking up." "I don't know what to think." "Maybe Witek threw himself in front of that train because of me." "Come off it!" "He told everyone he was going to throw himself... in front of the last train before they closed the line." "And that uniform, Polish flag?" "Stupid." "You really think so?" "He did it for all of us." "We were so afraid of losing work." "Even you worked for the railway before you took to smuggling." "If the trains're still running I'd throw myself in front of one as well." "I don't know why you married Witek and not me." "Things would be so different now." "We were just kids then, Wladek." "I like the dragon." "Choose it yourself?" "Great zhoorek." "You've even put mushrooms in it." "It'll be even better on Christmas Eve." "Just right." " The sound's buggered." " What?" "The TV." "Do you know how to fix it?" "Perhaps I do but it won't be until after Christmas." "I'll ask Matuszek to fix it." "Matuszek?" "He's already fixed the pram..." "and he's got a wife too." "Get a proper repairman in, don't bother asking Mr. Fixit." "Get something for the kid too." "From your uncle." "And drop by at the fish-bar." "I'll give you some fish for Christmas Eve." "I told you about Wladek as soon as I went with him, you know fine how it was..." "Too wet!" "Wladek's a good man, Witek." "He's started helping us again." "And I don't know if we'll get the kid christened in time for Christmas." "Don't look at me like that Witek, I can't take it any more." "Shall we wait for them or shall I serve yours now?" "A boy or a girl?" "A boy." "It's good fish, really fresh." "Try it." "That bird who left with the boss she's your mum, right?" "Mhmm!" "The fish I'm going to catch - is it for you two?" "Maybe you'd like to watch me catch them." "Out there in the hangar." "We could take him with us." "He can watch as well." " He's asleep." " All the better." "We'll close the door and he'll be OK." "Come on." "I bet you've never seen so many fish in your life!" " It's cold." " We'll soon be warm." "Which one do you want?" "What about this one?" "I don't know." "You're right." "You're better off with two little ones than that fat bastard." "Go on, choose one." "That one." "And now the next one." "Maybe you'd like to catch it yourself?" "Choose one." "This'll be dead easy." "Let's do it again!" "Let's do it again!" "Let's do it again!" " Let go." "It hurts." " It'll stop hurting in a minute." " I'll call my mum!" " She won't hear you." "She's doing the same thing with the boss." "I know your sort, you little bitch." "Sleeping around with soldiers." "With your little satchels on your backs." "It doesn't hurt then, eh?" "Jesus Christ!" "Has he done something to you?" "And what if I had?" "Her cunt's not made of soap." "It won't wash away." "Get out!" "When she was knocking around with those soldiers, that was OK?" "Have you checked to see if the kid was born wearing a uniform?" "You'll pay for the fish you've flattened." "And you're fired!" "You want me to gut them for you?" "Jesus!" "All I said was I didn't know how to kill them." "And you want to do the whole lot." "Who's going to eat it all?" "There's only the two of us." "Stick it in the freezer." "Or put it in a bowl, with onion and leave it outside in the cold." " When are you all going to move in here?" " Next spring." "You can use the heads to make jelly." "You're a good man, Wladek." "I've still got some of that wool at home." " I can darn it for you." " I only wear it to work." "Wladek, would you mind giving us a lift to the barracks?" "Where?" "I've asked her." "She'll recognize him." " Who?" " The soldier who got her pregnant." "Halina, you'd better watch your step." "It's the army." "They're men." "You need a man to talk to them." "They're not soldiers." "They're just a bunch of thugs." "You were a thug yourself, Wladek." "They were just guarding the border." "After New Year, OK." "I promised Witek I'd have the child christened by Christmas." "I've lost that lad because of you two." "I'm going to have to find someone else to keep an eye on things here." " What about tomorrow?" " Tomorrow I'm leaving town." "At Christmas?" "The whole family's going away?" " Where are you going?" " Abroad." "Skiing in Austria." "You?" "Skiing?" " Take some zhoorek with you." " What?" "Is it far to the barracks Mr. Soldier?" "We're going to see the baby's father." " Is it far?" " Three kilometres." " It's not him, is it?" " It's hard to say." "He's in his uniform." " Your one was out of uniform?" " No, it's not him." " So how old is your daughter?" " She's fifteen." "She's breast-feeding so she looks older." "And how can you be so sure that it was somebody from my company?" "There are no other solders round here." "So you're telling me that one of these men is the father?" "Can't you speak?" "Yes, I can." "Will you be able to recognize him?" "Yes, I will." "My dear child..." "Are we talking about rape here?" "Yes." "You're a priest, aren't you, Sir?" "My daughter is not all there and I promised my late husband, that we would find the father and have the kid christened for Christmas." "She's sure to recognize him." "A child must have a father, don't you think?" "Well I'll be blowed!" "I've thought I was just coming here to deliver a Christmas Eve sermon." "You don't know these people, Father." "It's either a nasty practical joke or even a provocation." "We must get to the bottom of this." " Why didn't you tell me anything?" " What was I supposed to say?" "!" " Do you know what rape means?" " So what does it mean then?" "That priest is leaving now." "Turn out for roll-call!" "Where's that priest of yours going?" "!" "The chaplain?" "He's leaving." "The Mass is over." "Turn out immediately!" "Step forward!" "This one?" "This soldier?" "I can't hear you." " This one." " Do you know this girl?" " No, I don't." " You've never seen her before?" " Well I suppose I've seen her twice." " Where?" " Once on the bus and once in the shop." " You seem to remember her well." "I liked her." "Her mother claims she's only fifteen and is mentally retarded." "Did you know that?" "No." "Apparently you are the father of her child." " Me?" "That's impossible, Sir." " She claims that you raped her." "The paternity can be checked." "If you're lying, you will be charged with raping a minor." "You will be sent to prison." " I am not lying." "How could...?" " Officer!" "Why all this fuss?" "All we want is to have the boy christened." "And name him after his father." "We're dealing with rape, not a Christening." "Captain, this soldier is a rookie." " How long have you been with us?" " Just six months." " Where are you from?" " Warsaw." "And you?" "Have you ever been to Warsaw?" "So when did he manage to rape you?" "So you see, Warsaw-boy..." "You could have had a kid without even screwing her!" "So you say you like her, shithead?" "Iwonka, wait!" "A Christening!" "Everything just for a bloody Christening." "I don't want a Christening." "I don't want the baby either." "Come here, let's be friends again." "Who's that?" " Mum!" " Leave her alone!" "Iwonka!" "We didn't get the sound back in time for Christmas." "Get dressed." "We're leaving now." "We'll take the zhoorek  and that fish as well." "Give me a hand with my bra." "The basket on the pram doesn't shut properly." "My poor child." "We mustn't tell a soul about this." " We've already had enough shame." " Ow!" "First your father's death..." "Your pregnancy, a child who's not been baptized and now this..." "We can't let anyone find out." " Do you hear me?" " OK." "Cross your heart and hope to die?" "This will be our own special secret." "We wouldn't even tell your Dad." "OK." "Don't blurt anything out this evening." "Do you know what it means, our own special secret?" "Yes." "I've already got a secret like that I haven't ever told anyone." "Really?" "Who with?" "With Dad." "With your dad!" "What special secret with your Dad?" "Hold it." "Don't be nervous." "Matuszek has invited us." "What makes you think I'm scared?" "Bozena, the girls've come for their duvet!" "She's not even sixteen and she's breast-feeding!" "Such is life!" "Such is life!" "Well cheers everybody!" "My Witek didn't drink so I never learnt how to." "Although I've started smoking because of it all." "Here you are." "Oh God!" "I forgot." "I've got something for you as well." "For Christmas Eve." "Fish  and zhoorek, I mean borsch." "It's a very good duvet." "Brand-new." "Left in the attic to air every year." " What's his name?" " He doesn't have one yet." "He doesn't?" "So when's the christening?" "He's the father!" "His father?" " Yes." "Its you." " Give it a rest, Iwonka." "I've got four of my own Sweetheart." "You don't even know who the fuck...slept with you." "I slept with her." "And I mean slept." "I was so rat-arsed, I fell straight asleep." " We'd better go, Iwonka." " Well I doubt it's mine." "My God!" "Why didn't you keep an eye on her." "It's all your fault." "Another bottle of vodka wouldn't go amiss." "Mrs. Matuszek, if you would be so kind..." "Enough of this drinking." "Go home, the lot of you!" "It's almost Christmas Eve." "Don't you have things to do at home?" "Get out!" "Hold on!" "Wait a minute!" "I am the father of this child." "Are you crazy?" "You can't have children." "Everyone knows that you had an accident and that you can't..." "I know what I'm saying." "It's my child." "But how..." "Sit down, everyone!" "My Bozena is a good woman." "And they all used to say he was a seedless orange." "Such is life!" "Such is life!" "We'll call him Witek." "After your Witek." "Didn't I say there'd be a christening?" "What's up with you?" "You're crying?" "At a moment like this?" "Halina!" "Iwonka!" "To top it all the basket on the pram doesn't shut properly." "Well, what's the problem." "Leave it here and I'll fix it." "Subtitles by Stuart Mc Kinlay"