"POLISH TELEVISION" "What's going on?" "Everything's alright!" "Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for our panel to make their final statements." "The final statement goes to the representative of the Warsaw Curia, Mr. Jan Bratek." "The floor is yours, sir." "Thank you." "I would like to say this here and now." "This will be my address to the young viewers." "Everything I was able to achieve over my sixty-some years..." "Everything I was able to endure or to avoid..." "I owe to the Catholic faith." "The choices I made as a youth in 1968, for instance." "Later, the conspiracy and perplexities of my internment in 1981." "During hard times in my life, it was faith that gave me strength." "Strength and a certainty that I was doing the right thing." "I am proud to be a practicing Catholic." "Thank you very much." "Beautiful words." "And now it's time for some questions from the audience." "We have our first caller already." "Go ahead." "This is Kasia from Puławy." "Good evening." "Good evening." "I have one question for the Chairman." "Could you list the Six Truths of faith?" "Could you repeat the question?" "Do you know the six Truths of Faith?" "I don't know if this is the place for..." "It's only six sentences." "But of such importance that I wouldn't want to depreciate them." "Excuse me, but I don't really see the..." "The old man's going crazy." "Get the camera off him." "But what?" "The connection with..." "FACE TO FACE WITH FAITH" "That's it." "I'm done." "Finished." "Don't worry, Mr Chairman." "It's my fault." "I had it upside down." "What are you talking about, Father?" "I'm resigning." "If any girl can stump me, then I don't have the right to represent." "The other channels are showing variety shows." "Not may people saw it." "It's going to be on those youtubes." "This will kill mom." "THE CITIZEN" "THE CITIZEN This evening in October, 2014 is decisive to the campaign." "Written by This evening in October, 2014 is decisive to the campaign." "Written by This first debate is awaited with great interest." "I can see the presidential motorcade approaching." "Back to you in the studio." "Keep moving." "The president will be here." "Go inside, please." "Jesus!" "Starring" "Featuring JANUSZ GAJOS" "DOROTA STALIŃSKA JERZY FEDOROWICZ" "Costume Design by" "Make-up by!" "Art Direction by" "Sound by" "Edited by" "Music by" "Production Management" "Director of Photography" "Produced by" "Directed by" "1989 THE FIRST FREE ELECTIONS It's the first free elections!" "Mandate number 17 for Solidarity." "Thank you." ""My slogan..."" ""When we win, one liter of petrol will cost as little as one liter of milk."" ""The chairman of the Workers Committee was brutally beaten..."" ""during the occupation of the City Hall."" "Mom, no..." "Just not him." "It's some misunderstanding." "But son, between us..." "You ran away and he got beaten up." "She was so well spoken!" "You can tell she's an actress." "So modest." "On June 4th,1989, communism fell in Poland." "Just wonderful!" "With her beautiful curly hair!" "The Slavic beauty!" "...this was my ex-husband's room." "You can put an armoir here." "What do you think?" "We can move in next week." " Good bye." " Good bye." "Wait a minute!" "You have no right to administer this apartment." "I was born here." "And the fact that you became my wife in very tragic circumstances..." "Jan, cut the crap." "I know how your parents got here." "So, tread lightly." "I'll make a mess you can't handle." "One word out of you and I'll spill it all in court." "Did you see the defendant having relations with with the famous songstress, Anna Jantar, at the resort?" "I don't know..." "He was lying on her and they were singing." "So they were copulating?" "Your honor, you cannot sing and copulate simultaneously." "Why not?" "Well, I can't." "I warn the defendant." "I apologize." "The witness is dismissed." "I'm closing the case." "A verdict will be reached after deliberation." "Please vacate the courtroom." "I'll destroy you." "You already have." "I suggest you move out." "Or it'll be your necks." "That apartment will never be yours." "We'll see." "What a disgrace!" "The verdict is slander towards Poland!" "We'll put you in your place yet!" "This cannot stand, sir." "We must appeal to the higher court." "Jasiek?" "Jan Bratek!" "I'd recognize you anywhere." "You know me?" "No." "Mieczysław Dubel." "From primary school." "If you will..." "I'd like to introduce to you my schoolmate." "In the 50's, he stood up to the Jewry in Poland." "We need such Poles today." "Thank you all very much." "I don't want to bother you." "You probably have your hands full." "Here are all my numbers." "I'll find you." "Bye." "The Bratek divorce verdict is ready." "Please enter the courtroom." "You're finally free, son." "The nightmare's over." "Go right." "Please vacate the kitchen within the hour." "We'll want to eat something soon." "You can see that I'm being nice." "What?" "You should demolish this and make one big hallway." "What will happen to us?" "Hello, ladies and gentlemen." "This is my friend, Jan Bratek." "He'll be working with us." "Sit down right here, Janek." "Short and to the point." "You're the third party in this country." "Solidarity, which won." "The Communists, who lost." "And you." "The future of this parliament lies in your hands." "With your help, we'll find out who is who." "How many real Poles sit in that crowd." "I want to comb every parish, registry office, and family trees." "Excuse me, but I don't understand." "Can't we just conduct a poll and ask everyone about their origins?" "EXCUSE US, everyone." "Our colleague is new." "Whom do they have to fear?" "Us?" "The problem, dear colleague... is that sometimes they themselves do not know." "And then we'll be there to help." "This is Professor Ciecierka." "Please explain." "Thank you, Mr. Chairman." "Jews are nation of the Semitic race." "And we, Slavs, are of the Aryan race." "Semites exhibit different proportions in skull size." "A notch runs from the forehead towards the back of the skull." "Our skulls are completely flat." "The position of the ear in relation to the nose as seen in profile, if one runs a straight line from the tip of the nose..." "Jan!" "What's the matter?" "You don't feel well?" "I'm not cut out for this job." "I'm sorry." "I forgot to tell you that I'm going abroad." "Now that it's allowed." "You know... at this moment you're taking the same position as the secret police." "You're going crazy." "I'm sorry, son." "What's going on?" "I sold everything." "I can't go on after what she said." "I sold the jewelery, silver, furniture." "Forgive me." "But otherwise we will go crazy." "We're moving." "We've been here our whole lives." "A good life in spite of everything." "Why?" "I'm afraid." "That Dubel..." "He's paying you well?" "That's finished." "I'm looking for work." "The prosecutor has charged the "High Clean" company." "The employees of the cleaning firm were questioned under the suspicion of a possible assassination attempt on the president." "The man injured in the accident is in intensive care." "His condition is serious, but stable." "1994 THE TRAVEL AGENCY November 10th, 1994." "The sun rose at 6:45 am and will set at 3:56 pm." "Mr. Bratek..." "Yes, Mr. President?" "Here's your passport and the group's itinerary." "Barcelona, Costa Brava, and Madrid on the way back." "Something simple to start you off." "You'll collect the vouchers." "How's your language?" "I'm attending a course." "Excuse me." "You emboldened me." "Could we talk?" "How to say that I'm shy?" "So you do speak Polish?" "A little." "Her name was Anna?" "No..." "It was a different name." "Did you know her?" "Yes." "It was my entire childhood, my youth..." "So many emotions, memories..." "You look so much like her." "Could you give me her address?" "I could write her." "Why?" "You can talk to her now." "My mother does not know you." "It's a misunderstanding." "Yes, I remember now." "It was a completely different name." "Excuse me." "You bastard!" "Because of you my children won't be able to get back from holiday!" "What's going on?" "We're bankrupt." "The boss ran off." "There is no way of getting the group home." "You're the oldest one here." "They will respect you." "Go out there and talk to them." "They'll lynch us!" "Their respect for me is obvious." "If I go out there, they might rape me." "I see your point." "I'll cover you." "Everyone!" "Please, calm down!" "I have an announcement." "Our travel agency is closed until further notice." "Please calm down." "The owner is currently abroad and does not take the financial responsibility for..." "Because of this man, you won't be going on vacation." "We are not going anywhere!" "Please understand, we're all probably out of a job." "I was supposed to go abroad in a week." "For the first time in my life." " What's the patient's condition?" " Aśka!" "The old man's on TV!" "The patient's condition is serious, but stable." "We'll get answers only when he'll be taken out of the induced coma." "Will the patient be able to testify after such trauma?" "These cases often cause permanent damage." "He could have permanent amnesia." "2006" "Good morning." "Supposedly, you were in a folk group once." "I was." "Do you play anything?" "A harmonica, but only a little." "But you can read music?" "Yes." "You know..." "It would be nice, if during our meeting with Frasyniuk," "The boys played "The First Brigade"." "That's how it goes." "That's shit, Professor!" "We got something better." "Move that ass!" "Move that ass!" "And twist it!" "Move it for me, nice and dirty, and then let me lick it!" "You know what that is?" "That's crass." "What'd you say, punk?" "It's crass." "What?" "!" "I don't feel like listening to you or looking at you!" "What are you doing?" "!" "You little prick!" "Insult me, will you?" "!" "Someone should give you a good beating!" "Serves you right, grandpa!" "Grandpa..." "I recorded you." "You got a problem." "Please wait in the hall." "Good bye." "Mr. Bratek, we have a decision from the teacher's disciplinary committee." "Read this part, maybe." ""After a survey among the students, the committee asserts that you are guilty of offending your class at the Vocational High School in Warsaw and threatened one of them with bodily harm." "The commission motions for the teacher's immediate termination and revokes his teaching license permanently." "2008 Yeah, I'm coming." "I'll be in a cab in 5 minutes." "Boy, we got lucky." "The battle itself is worth 30 day wages." "They want hussars here all the time." "Mr. Bratek..." "A year's worth of work." "Make sure to be next to Gaps." "Get filmed next to King Sobieski, and they'll need you till the end." "I saw Gajos." "I should have been a Turk." "I wouldn't have to carry all this junk around." "Everyone, gather around!" "Attention!" "We're calling off primary photography." "Quiet!" "The production of "Sobieski At Vienna"" "is being stopped for organizational reasons." "Quiet!" "We will let you know if the shooting is back on." "We apologize." "Scandal!" "An international conspiracy!" "They sold it to the Italians!" "I overheard Gajos talking on the phone!" "They sold us out!" "We're starting a union!" "Let me help you with those wings." "You won't be needing them." "And the helmet." "Thank you." " Go to the other bus." " I'm staying." "What will do here?" "Hang myself." "I assure you we will finish this film about your great king." "Do the splits now!" "Don't shove it in!" "Do you hear me!" "?" "Only half a finger!" "We agreed." "But not fucking paid." "Hands to yourself!" "Get yourself to a shrink!" "But I do go!" "Getting at it, again?" "!" "That's it, Milena!" "Throw his clothes out." "Get the fuck out!" "Don't throw them out, ladies!" "Please, stop!" "They're gone!" "Go get them!" " How could you!" " Get lost!" "Girls, please!" "Out!" "Please help me." "I found myself in a very embarrassing situation." "My door..." "I locked myself out." "Please help me." "I'm begging." "Please, come in." "Why me?" "Why is it always me?" "Why is it always..." "Someone..." "Something..." "Somewhere..." "Thanking the Lord for all the grace we experience, we ask for strength that will help us overcome our weaknesses." "And with this hope and prayer on this holiday of Corpus Cristi" "let us walk to the next altar." "We want the Lord, oh blessed virgin..." "I will never forget what you did for me." "This will be a great victory." "A natural course of affairs." "There are many young people interested as our survey tells us." "Thank you very much." "It's my biggest achievement since working in the Curia." "A good number of years." "Yes, thank you." "Tomorrow." "We start the pilgrimage tomorrow." "We're in Tel Aviv one night." "Then it's off to Jerusalem." "Of course..." "I'll walk the entire way." "To the grave." "No, without..." "What do you mean I can rent one?" "What?" "An Arab rents them?" "No..." "Your Eminence walked?" "Now that's doing penance." "How's your vacation?" "It's warm there, even at night, yes..." "God bless." "Have a good holiday." "I'll see you in Warsaw." "Good bye." "You can turn this off, Father Stanisław." "Here's your passport." "And the tickets." "Mine, finally." "Valid until 2024." "I won't live that long." "Father Stanisław, a few words about the TV program..." "So that I know something." "It's called "Face To Face With Faith"." "It's a show aimed at young people." "Mr. Bratek," "You have a visitor." "Son..." "Do you recognize me?" "I will read you what you wanted." "The Truths of Faith." "First, there is a God." "Second, God is just." "Third, there is one God in three persons." "The human soul is immortal." "1 981 Can you hear this song and guitars playing, Pamela?" "It's boys from our pueblo singing." "We leave tomorrow at dawn." "The sky's skimping raindrops for the dry earth..." "The sky's skimping luck for people poor like us." "Darling, this is our last night together." "Remember this, mom?" "Where did you find it?" "Somewhere behind the closet." "I'm not here!" "Yes?" "Good evening." "We're here to see your son." "Solidarity from the dairy." "It's urgent." "My son's away." "Mrs. Bratek, we need to see him." "It can get dangerous tonight." "He's not in Warsaw." "Thank you, gentlemen." "Good bye." "Please warn him, Mrs. Bratek." "Scaring people again, making trouble." "Did I tell them right?" "Bothering me when the bigos is waiting." "Jesus!" "I'm out of salt." "Son..." "Borrow some from the Lipskis." "Yes?" "Come in." "I wanted to borrow some salt." "What's going on?" "An anniversary of some sort?" "They're combing the place." "Sir, I am a neighbor." "I came here in my slippers." "Want a beating?" "Keep your mouth shut." "Two bees to the hive." "Over." "This is the hive." "Over and out." "Stop." "Everyone quiet." "Yes?" "Come in." "I wanted to borrow some salt." "Jesus Christ!" "By the power of Martial Law introduced this very moment" "you are all to be interned." "You are all charged as members of the anti-government group, ŻUPA." "Your usage of the password and response determined today acts as proof on December 13th, 1981." "The password being, "Yes, Come in."" "The response:" ""I wanted to borrow some salt."" "Cuff them!" "On the way down." "Over and out." "The one in slippers did not get the password from me." "The snitch is wearing slippers." "Pass it on." "1982 THE INTERNMENT CAMP Before today's schedule an announcement:" "The authorities opened a psychological counseling office, but please be wary and avoid it." "And now the activities for today..." "The mess hall opens at 2 pm." "After that... 4:30 pm:" "English for beginners." "5 pm:" "A lecture by Prof. Arciszewski from the University of Warsaw," ""USA and the Vatican:" "The Hope For The Fall of Communism."" "6pm:" "Actors from the National Theatre will show us how to faint during questioning." "This is a petition for curtains in the bathrooms." "Let's sign." "Not you, but thanks." "The flower of the nation is singing from behind steel bars that Poland is still standing." "It fights, it lives, until the Commies give in..." "It fights the Premiere's goons." "We've got a war." "Those who snitch stay alive." "They shut down Wałęsa, they bought Kułaj..." "We've got a war." "Those who snitch stay alive." "Mr. Lipski, why can't we go to the psychologist?" "You need it most here." "You're a bit paranoid suspecting everyone." "I'm going to go." "I have the need." "Who's going to stop me?" "Why'd I go to borrow salt from you?" "And stayed..." "Ask your conscience." "Tell 'em about throwing your party membership away!" "Gentlemen, fourth verse..." "Good morning." "May I?" "Please, come in..." "Thank you for deciding to come." "I'm just here to chat, really." "I'm a bit bored." "You're my first patient." "None of your friends visit." "Pity." "They talk about one thing:" ""Out with Commies!"" "And Solidarity, naturally." "Please lie down." "Let's begin." "How old are you?" "35." "How do you handle isolation?" "That's why I'm here." "Very badly." "Mainly because my being here is a misunderstanding." "We have to be honest with each other." "I am." "It was an accident." "You don't want to be honest." "We'll have to work on that." "You react like my fellow inmates." "I'm even proud that they harass me." "I thought it would be worse." "Like being tortured..." "The worst torture comes from them." "Accusing me of being an agent, a traitor..." "It's horrible." "What are you going to about it?" "I don't know." "I'm not going back to Solidarity." "I understand." "A change of subject." "Have you ever been in love?" "I was." "It was a... youthful..." "A childhood love, really." "That's touching." "It never happened to me." "I said too much." "No!" "Why?" "It's very human." "It was love and I threw it away." "I don't know..." "I was a coward." "I can't talk about it." "But I still see her..." "To this day..." "In my dreams." "I have enough material." "I have to analyze it with the Robson method." "This will conclude our session." "And you have to tell your fellow inmates openly." "In public." "Even ostentatiously!" "Write it down and learn it by heart." "You disparage human dignity by throwing suspicion on an innocent man." "What do you know about me, Mr. Lipski?" "It's easy to throw slander around." "But resigning from the Party is not." "That required courage." "Must your desire for conspiracy destroy people's lives?" "As a colleague and an innocent man..." "I will be left with that disgrace my entire life." "Because Communism will never fall." "We've been seeing each other for two months now." "A pity that in such circumstances, but that will change soon." "I'm glad to be the first to tell you." "You're walking out tomorrow." "How do you know, Renia?" "Jesus, I will go crazy." "They asked me for my opinion and I sniffed it out." "But one more thing..." "Our sessions are over." "Why?" "But you helped me so much." "Every therapy forbids any relationship between the patient and the doctor." "And unfortunately, I broke this rule." "What happened?" "What do you think?" "I fell for you, stupid." "Not a word more." "Bye." "Such a dreadful place." "Yet so happy for me." "Please accept this engagement ring that I made" "from barbed wire." "How original." "Can I kiss you now?" "Mom..." "Let me finally..." "Introduce Renatka, my fiance." "She saved me through all this time." "I take you in as a daughter." "This home will be your home." "I never had a home." "Poor child." "I will take care of you." "But, dear children, you will wait with getting married?" "Jan doesn't have a job." "And he was in jail." "Who will employ him?" "Renatka took care of it." "We have a meeting today." "If all goes well, I start on Monday." "She is amazing." "Just look, son." "With God's help you can leave hell with an angel..." "A guardian angel." "For life." "We'll be so happy here." "Mr. Bratek, what would you like to do?" "I've always wanted to travel and write about it." "Like Budrewicz or Kapuściński." "But I don't know how it would be." "There might be a problem with that." "Because what we have to offer falls under state secret." "You won't get a passport." "This factory is a priority establishment and there can be no Solidarity here." "Mrs. Halinka!" "Why don't you go and see your work place." "Renatka, a word." "I'm glad." "I hope you have a good time working in Kusza." "I hereby declare that on May 25th 1982," "Miss Renata Zgółka and Mr. Jan Bratek became husband and wife." "And as a gift, a ration card for 20 liters of octane fuel." "Please sign for it here." "You may congratulate the married couple." "Son, will I ever see you vowing in front of God?" "We will convince her now for sure." "Hello?" "A moment..." "It's from your work." "Urgent." "Jadźka, have you gone mad?" "Do you have any idea what you're interrupting?" "How many hours?" "Stop fucking around." "Six hours of questioning and you got nothing out of her?" "That's a disgrace." "Say goodbye to your bonus." "Yeah?" "What do you mean she can't contact the resident?" "Sure..." "She doesn't know Paris!" "You let her feed you that?" "Please..." "What?" "Tell her that tomorrow, I will or Jarek will go to the rector and her scholarship is fucked." "Tell her that." "Stop pissing me off." "She got a passport to work for us, not to fuck around with scientific nonsense." "What?" "Yeah." "Of course!" "And..." "If she still won't, her father's on the street within a week." "We've got ways." "Renatka, was that some kind of joke?" "If it was, I don't..." "I don't understand." "What questioning?" "What resident?" "I don't understand." "Honey..." "I'm a captain in the security service." "Didn't you realize?" "Sweet Lord!" "What happened?" "Mommy!" "I let the secret police into our house." "What did I do?" "I wanna die!" "Save me!" "Mommy!" "That night..." "I aged decades." "You prick." "Siccing Jews on me." "They're forcing me to move." "Prick!" "Wheeze away..." "Who sent this Silber guy on me?" "Maybe it was his idea to come from America?" "You knew when to move, you fuck." "Fucking me over like this." "I'll pull these tubes out of your guts." "Visiting hours are over!" "Please leave." "You'll have visitors from America tomorrow, so get ready." "To rebuke any hostile claims by Western media towards Socialist Poland." "Start the demonstration." "Their claims addressed the products of this factory." "That we provide a different service altogether." "After me, please." "We are now in the finishing hall." "Thanks to modern technology and a highly qualified staff two sewing machines leave the assembly line every minute." "The final station is quality control where the final product is approved." "Please translate." "Wait." "Lift it, Rysiu." "Girls!" "You were great." "So brave!" "There will be a reward!" "Dear ladies," "The May holiday is upon us." "Times are changing." "As is the way we will celebrate." "No more parades!" "We're getting along weekend." "Perestroika." "The directors are inviting all of you to a May picnic in the holiday resort of our sister factory, Łucznik." "Agnieszka!" "Stop shooting for a moment!" "Married ladies are invited to bring their husbands." "And the single ladies will have the pleasure meeting the men from Łucznik." "Yes, Mrs. Wiaderna?" "You were in Solidarity, Mr. Bratek." "Have you gone crazy?" "If anyone goes, she's a backstabber!" "What?" "You'd prefer sitting on styrofoam?" "And plotting?" "And here I worked my ass off to get this for us." "Yes, I was in the Solidarity." "And let me tell you, none of us here can demolish the Berlin Wall." "Remember that!" "To hell with all that!" "For every lady attending the May picnic, the committee has prepared a surprise." "Extra ration cards for sweets and spirits." "And now, another song for our nice gentlemen." ""Oh, Izabella"!" "Why'd they do this to me?" "Those hussies!" "You save their jobs and they turn their backs on you." "The Director's mad." "At Bratek, of course." "It's always like this." "Always." "When you try doing some good." "For it to be nice." "Bloody women!" "It's Solidarity that they want." "Let's hope they won't tell any papers about the cover up." "That would be a mess." "Fuck it." "I'm having fun." "One second." "I must!" "Rysiek!" "Are you crazy?" "Go to bed!" "I only want to sing with her!" "Don't you understand that?" "I have to sing with her!" "Screw you." "Can you hear those guitars playing, Pamela?" "It's the boys from our pueblo singing." "I apologize profusely." "But today, my life's dream must come true." "And it will, because I'll sing with you." "The sky's skimping raindrops for the dry earth." "The sky's skimping luck for people poor like us." "It's bed time, Director." "I beg you." "Just sing." "Darling, this is our last night together." "Will you be quiet for fuck's sake?" "The city glitters beyond those empty steppes." "Think this is a brothel?" "I'm fucking calling the militia!" "I'll send a letter and you'll come to see me." ""The True Face Of Their People."" ""An orgy in the prestigious resort... with participation of ex-Solidarity management."" "You're done, Bratek." "You compromised, embarrassed, and disappointed us." "Sir, please allow me to behave with dignity and offer my resignation." "Hopefully, in an amicable manner." "Get out!" "What's the matter, Mr. Bratek?" "Don't cry." "You have a visitor." "Don't be long." "Can you hear me?" "My name is Silber, Shlomo." "I'm the son of Joszko from Poznańska street." "Where your father was a caretaker." "I came from Haifa." "The tenement is mine again." "Can you tell me..." "Where are my parents' belongings?" "Furniture, tableware." "A nice lady at the apartment told me that you and your mother took it all somewhere." "There was a silver sugar bowl." "An heirloom." "His blood pressure jumped!" "Leave, sir." "The visit is over." "I asked him an important question." "Can't you see the patient is in critical condition because of you?" "Good bye." "He cannot be wrapped like this." "His face will be red for the rest of his life." "I'm a dermatologist." "I said get out." "Jesus." "Damn Yid." "It will start now." "Mr. Bratek..." "Don't wheeze." "1968" "Step aside for the strike committee!" ""Don't be surprised, that they curse us." "For a century, from Moscow to Poland they send crowds of scoundrels."" "Adam Mickiewicz, "The Forefathers Eve"." ""Moscow's sparrows are very dangerous, I see." Also "Forefather's Eve"." "About us, without us!" "Introductions:" "The rector and the dean." "The Party Organization." "The delegate from Lublin." "The crowd is rowdy and time is scarce." "I give the floor to the delegate." "I apologize for being so tired, but I've been traveling for two days." "I haven't eaten." "I had to stay hidden." "Real quick:" "My mission is important." "I was sent by people from my university who think exactly like you." "But who I can't officially represent now." "I'll be brief, because the crowd is pushing." "The Polish Workers' Party must be destroyed." "And it can only be done from the inside." "20 universities are already in." "Strike committees have enrolled in the party." "Within a few months, they'll disable it from the inside." "People!" "This is the real revolution." "This is March on a European scale." "This country will soon be ours." "And the Russians?" "Dear colleague, that is demagogy and provocation." "Don't scare us with the Russians." "That's not what I wanted to say." "Excuse me." "Who is the First Secretary?" "You, sir!" "I ask the First Secretary for a guarantee that those people will be safe after they've joined the Party." "Any questions?" "THE MANDATORY MILITARY TRAINING This is our chance." "THE MANDATORY MILITARY TRAINING We trust each other, it's all in our hands, we'll chase the Russians." "I don't know." "I'm in." "If nothing changes, we're fucked for life." "You're fucked?" "You're fucked for life, if I'm not behind you." "Party wiseguys-." "Want me to fuck you up?" "Break's over." "Lieutenant..." "It's stuck." "Get down!" "Hold the gun up!" "Hold it up!" "Now it works!" "The fucker wanted to kill me." "Fucking school boy..." "Get down!" "Crawl!" "On all fours!" "Stand guard by the bushes!" "Go!" "Fall in!" "Polish philologist step forward!" "Sir, the person you asked for." "Turn it off." "This is highly classified." "Here are the topics." "Chose one." "You'll be writing in my office till 11:45." "I'll take the shooting range off your shoulders this semester." "What's this?" "High school finals?" "All right." "I need to know for whom." "And where?" "For my girlfriend." "In a cooking vocational school." "Night school." "A nice doll." "THE JEWISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION And now, listen to love." "I want poetry for you." "And send it all around." "Invite to the wedding, all the strange things, the flowers, the bushes, the lightning, songs and humming!" "And the Straw Man?" "You believe now?" "It has taken you." "The straw, the wilted rose, the night." "It's a supernatural force." "There could be a wedding party." "Jude Raus!" "Ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately we have to stop." "It's a pity that it needs to be under such circumstances." "Ania is with us for the last time." " How long have you been here?" " 1956." "So she's been with us 12 years." "Let's give her a warm and affectionate farewell." "She's leaving the country soon." "Please go." "You can see what's going on." "I'll call the militia." "They won't harm me." "I'll secure the windows." "Leave through the back." "I want to do it now." "For the first time." "With you." "In Poland." "I bought them as you asked." ""Please accept me as a candidate for the Polish United Workers Party?" "!"" "Son, I beg you, don't do this!" "Your father did and he died!" "A coincidence." "Now we have a chance to have the Party dad always wanted." "Without Russians, without Gomulka, and the secret police." "We have a candidate for the First Secretary at the university." "Our friend, Adam Michnik." "Maybe, he'll go for it." "Oh, God." "Mom, it's a revolution!" "Excuse me." "Hello?" "Janek's not here." "Ania, I sympathize deeply, but please don't call here again." "It could harm us." "But you are leaving and we are staying here." "Janek has to finish university." "I don't want any trouble." "Yes." "No." "It will be for the best." "All right, I will tell him." "But I can't hear you well." "Good bye." "Where are you going?" "The station." "To see Ania off." "I didn't tell you." "She phoned." "She left yesterday." "What?" "Why didn't you tell me?" "So you don't do anything stupid." "Agents are spying, taking photos." "I'm sorry." " Congratulations." " Thank you." "1971 1971 Congratulations." "Thank you." "Congratulations." "Together, we will do good work." "Young comrades," "I think that the best way to end today's ceremony will be the First Secretary's speech." "Let's sit." "Comrade Bratek, sit next to me." "I would like to use your zeal, honesty, and mettle." "Where would you feel best serving?" "I don't know..." "Something to do with culture." "We've been having a lot of trouble with our university folk group, "Kujawiak"." "You would become the new artistic director." "I've had some problems with their travels abroad." "Beautiful!" "Bravo!" "Sir, I've made up my mind." "I would write about the first flower show in Brussels." "I will be there in a few days when they will be putting a flower carpet on the main square." "It should really be something." "I can write something about its wastefulness." "But who is being taken advantage of?" "The people setting it up?" "All right, I can try..." "Would it be possible?" "Sir, the rehearsal is almost over." "Good morning, ladies and gentlemen." "My name is Jan Bratek." "I am the new manager of the group." "Considering the group's unquestionable merits, lam extremely proud and intend to continue this tradition." "We face a serious task." "A prestigious tour in the Benelux countries." "We will be ambassadors of Polish culture." "The face of the new government." "We must do this with dignity." "I will stand guard over this." "I hereby introduce a ban on drinking alcohol on the bus, the transport of any powdered soups, jars of pickled meat, noodles, rice, and cereals." "Not to mention foreign currency or crystals." "That is why the ministry of culture gives us 5 dollars in per diems so we can live on their level." "Sir, have you ever been to the Western Europe?" "No." "This will be my first trip." "That's why I'm counting on your understanding and cooperation." "Please go back to your rehearsal." "I will see you later." "What did we say?" "!" "To storage." "Jarczak." " Good." " Koronkiewicz." "They don't have sausage?" "Sir, can I take your suitcase to the bus?" "Yes, please." "Thank you." "Angowska." "You're kidding?" "To storage." "After we cross the border return your passports to me." "So that they don't get lost." "Looks good." "You can all pack your things." "We just need to check that." "That's my harmonica." "Some harmonica." "Wait, maybe it's not..." "It is my case." "Someone must have put it there." "Everybody says that." "Check this for me." "Sir, I've never that money in my life." "Someone planted it." "Please come with me." "Sir, this is a misunderstanding." "One moment." "Counterfeit." "That complicates things." "We will have to detain you and inform the militia and the prosecutor." "The rest of you can go." "Unfortunately, your friend won't be joining you." "Who framed me?" "Whose money is it?" "!" "This way." "Wait for me!" "On April 18th, 1971 the Party Commission, analyzed the case of Comrade Jan Bratek motions to revoke his Party membership." "Please return your party identity card." "Comrade Chairman, comrades..." "It's my personal tragedy that no one believed my version of events." "No one believed me or even assumed that I might be telling the truth." "If this is how you see your members, don't be surprised that the country is run by the secret police." "Though you are convinced that you do." "What happened was a provocation." "And Comrade Chairman..." "I won't return my identity card." "I'm throwing it away." "First Secretary Ulbricht of the Unified Socialist German Party has resigned." "Erick Honecker was elected to replace him." "lam the new milkman." "If you'd like fresh rolls or the newspaper, please let me know." "Your name please?" "It's good to know." "Bratek?" "Yes." "They talked about you on Radio Free Europe." "What?" "No!" "You managed some folk group." "Yes." "You threw down your Party membership card." "Nowak-Jeziorański did an editorial." "You're the first in the country." "You'll need help." "I'd like some rolls... and a newspaper..." "Here you go." "An advance." "It's too much." "You deserve it for your courage." "Let me embrace you." "The name's Lisieja." "I'm a high school teacher." "I hate Bolsheviks." "Who is it?" "You did not put out your empty milk bottles." "One moment." "I'm not dressed." "I'm sorry." "Good morning." "I'm the new milkman." "So handsome and nice." "Careful." "She works at the Internal Affairs cafeteria." "Snitching again, Lisieja?" "Can't keep your mouth shut for a single day?" "Good morning." "I'm the new milkman." "Lisieja called." "We know all about you." "We heard it, too." "Son..." "I cried when Jeziorański applauded you." "Please accept this." "It was my husband's." "An officer's eagle." "With a crown." "He got it from General Anders." " Thank you very much." " Thank you." "Good bye." "Good morning." "I am the new milkman." "What do you want?" "Oh, bottle is here." "Excuse me." "Good bye." "1972-1976 This is Bohdan Tomaszewski in Sapporo." "19-year-old Wojtek Fortuna has won the gold medal in the ski jump in Japan!" "A victory Poland was waiting for." "Today is a great day in the history of Polish sport." "Ryszard Szurkowski won his 4th bicycle Peace Race." "The Olympic silver medalists crowned his achievement with this amazing win." "It's over, ladies and gentlemen!" "The Poles have won third place!" "Grzegorz Lam's goal brought us this well-deserved success." "The jury of the 9th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition awards the first prize to Krystian Zimmerman." "Excuse me." "Mr. Bratek?" "Yes, that's me." "We work with the Workers' Defense Committee." "Our friends from Radio Free Europe highly recommend you." "You could bring down Communism." "Nice words, but I have milk to deliver." "Excuse me." "Don't say no." "Add one pamphlet to each milk bottle." "A note about what those fuckers are doing to the Constitution." "They want to sell us to the Russians." "Paid traitors." "Let me see." "Give me that." "Jacek Kuroń invites you to come tonight." "We meet at 11 pm on Miodowa 6." "Gentlemen, I'll distribute those pamphlets as an act of personal revenge." "But I just want to be let alone." "Please tell him that." "That's a shame." "At least, thank you for that." "Go to the kitchen." "One moment!" "Jan Bratek came in here a moment ago." "We're searching the apartment." "What are you talking about?" "Do you know where you are?" "I work for Internal Affairs." "Here's my card." "Get out before I call Kiszczak!" "I'm charged with surveillance of this building." "I'll go secure the milk cart." "Excuse me." "Right." "Sweet Christ." "Those assholes were agents." " How will I get out?" " You won't." "It's fate." "I'm Kama." "Want something to eat?" "Kama..." "I know it's hard, but don't shout my name." "They're downstairs." "Who'd have thought I could be so happy because of them." "Hard to believe." "Maybe you'd like some pierogi?" "We made them today." "I was thinking." "If I did stay..." "But my mom will die of loneliness." "I'll go to her." "In secret." "Marvelous!" "Maybe I can finish my MA thesis." "I'd finally have some time." "Would you bring me books?" "Of course." "Kazia in the library..." "Funny!" "But you have to tell me how to borrow those books." "I don't really know." "Someone even wrote my final exam for me at the night." "How-Z?" "Just like that." "My fiance was a lieutenant." "He taught some military course or something." "My exams came up." "I gave him the topics." "Some soldier wrote it and they got it back to me." "I copied it and that was it." "What grade did you get?" "A "C"." "Make me squeal again." "1978" "I'm back!" "I got your books from the library." "They didn't have Janion." "I took your mom some ribs." "We've got some, too." "Kiszczak said they're really good." "I will not eat the same food as him!" "I've already gained 12 kilos!" "And stop calling me that!" "But Janek..." "What's the matter?" "Give me a moment." "I traded some vouchers for it." "Jesus." "It's not?" "I'm sorry." "I am proud to be able to tell you this news." "We have a new head of the Vatican." "The Cardinal from Poland, Metropolitan Bishop of Cracow," "Cardinal Karol Wojtyła." "John Paul ll." "I'm leaving Internal Affairs." "I'll pray for you." "How does it go?" ""I don't recollect any more sins..." "I regret them all, I will try to make amends." "I ask you, Father, for penance... and absolution." Thank you." "From Via Del Corso, I turned towards Piazza Colonna and I could see the Pantheon." "It's gray, bulky shape." "This is shit, not a report." ""Grey Shape"?" "I visited your mom." "I brought her some ribs." "A letter for you." "What's wrong?" "What happened?" "I went to the Norbertine nuns." "I saw the Mother Superior." "They refused to take me." "She said," ""The world ate the flower." "Let it eat the stem."" "People from the dairies want to meet with me." "They're looking for me." "Somethings up." "Our kitchen got 100 extra kilos of meat." "For the riot police." "Hi." "This seat is taken, Madam." "It's me, Jan." "Thursday meeting, right?" "You got guts." "You made it." "You didn't give in to the secret police." "You're my idol." "We're putting together a plan." "Wałęsa's orders." "We need leaders." "Only you can do it." "Everyone is rallying on the A4 highway." "I was away for almost 4 years." "I've been completely alone." "Irrelevant." "We need legends." "And you are one in the dairy community." "No..." "Then who threw his red card down first?" "Who distributed pamphlets first?" "Who's evading the police?" "Without you." "We can't lead the people." "I'm not cut out for this." "I don't even want to." "But you have to!" "Everyone!" "Look who I brought!" "Jan Bratek is with us!" "Everyone!" "Before we welcome Jan, there is an important announcement from the regional authorities." "We occupy city hall in an hour." "If the authorities will not meet with us by morning, we will do a hunger strike!" "All major factories in town will be represented." "We need to be there, too." "And I elect" "Jan Bratek as our delegate!" "I welcome him warmly!" "Wait a moment!" "We have to ask him because it can become a hunger strike." "Do you accept?" "If need be..." "Will you refrain from eating?" "With pleasure." "Solidarity!" "Jan Bratek accepts!" "Bravo!" "Listen!" "Listen!" "Students from the Theater School are here to recite a poem by" "Czesław Miłosz for us." "You, who wronged a simple man." "Bursting into laughter at the crime," "And kept a pack of fools around you." "To mix good and evil, blurring the line." "Though everyone bowed down before you," "Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way." "Striking gold medals in your honor, glad to have survived another day." "Do not feel safe." "The poet remembers." "You can kill one, but another is born." "Written down will be your deeds and words." "For you a winter dawn will be warmer, a rope and a branch bent by your weight." "That's it?" "Fucking beautiful." "Almost better than this:" "It's the Commies, not the leaves, that will hang from the trees." "Sir, drink this." "You're weak." "What is it?" "Tomato juice." "But this is a hunger strike." "Just water." "I'm sorry." "I'll leave it." "Just in case." "Announcement!" "Zazula from Mosostal:" "Your wife's in labor." "Siwczyk from MPRG:" "Your father had an accident." "Bratek from the Dairies:" "You mother's in a hospital." "Heart attack." "Jesus Christ!" "I have to go." "Wait." "They're trying to provoke us." "Stop talking shit, you Commie bastard!" "We want our demands met immediately!" "Come on!" "You'll be carrying out our corpses!" "You red pig!" "In 30 seconds, we will take actions in order to stop this illegal occupation of the city hall" "We will use force." "They will attack in a minute." "We put up the cross and now we will tie ourselves to it." "We'll be hard to move." "Do you have a belt?" "No, just suspenders." "Wait, I'll ask." "Nurses, vacate now." "This is your last warning!" "Leave willingly." "No hitting." "Pass it on." "No hitting." "Counting down!" "10!" "$2" "Unfortunately, suspenders won't do." "I'm sorry." "Are you joining us?" "No sense in prayer." "We have to fight the Gestapo." "'V.!" "No hitting." "2!" "No hitting." "1!" "Too late." "Only under the cross, only beneath it's sign" "Poland is Poland and Poles are Poles." "Hit me!" "You puppet of Moscow!" "God damn it!" "This is how it'll be!" "People!" "Solidarity!" "They're beating Poles!" "So?" "Victory?" "I've been looking for you in all the hospitals!" "Why?" "I've been home." "You're back!" "Mom..." "I'm done fighting." "For either side." "Let me finish!" "Your party is responsible for the attempt on the president's life." "I will not listen to this on national TV." "Mr. Bratek, the TV claims you're dying." "But here you sit..." "Sit nicely..." "Here's your tube." "Eat." "Eat nicely." "Please, come in." "You have visitors." "The doctor forbade talking about tomorrow's events." "Son!" "I'm here to see you." "Tomorrow's your big day!" "The biggest day of your life, son." "I brought you new pajamas." "And look who came with me." "Come in!" "Hello, do you recognize me?" "I pray for you often." "The Carmelites accepted me." "20 years now." "Jan..." "I heard you work with his Excellency." "Could you put in a good word for me?" "I'd love to cook for him." "Oh, damn it." "You ladies have to go." "Excuse me." "He starts acting out." "Bad boy." "1953" "Daddy..." "What's Silber?" "Silver, son." "Remember it." "Off to bed." "But I have to repeat the poem with mom." "Tomorrow." " Will we sing?" " In bed." "Cuba is an island hot as a volcano." "A man puts his fan up to the sun." "And the sun smiles down upon it." "Go to sleep." "If he asks about Silber again, I'll go mad." "He'll ask about the furniture," "The bed covers and everything else." "Let's sell it and move." "I'll go crazy." "Don't be hysterical." "If one of them Jews comes back, you'll see hysteria." "They won't be back." "And the survivors?" "If they did, they set themselves up nicely in the West." "The sly fox..." "Why'd he care about bed covers and a sugar bowl?" "It's their nature." "I take the series with Nicaragua." "And give you Madagascar and two nibs." "Look, he's got Cuba." "Indonesia." "Can I have Cuba?" "Sure." "But for 50 groszy." "I believe in one God" "who created everything" "and rules everything." "You got ripped off." "Nicaragua's worth both Madagascar and Cuba." "We're not pay attention!" "Remember this for the rest of your life." "There is one God incarnated in three persons." "I even gave him 50 groszy." "I'll shout." "Let Jan shout." "I won't shout." "Then I will." "You Jew!" "Why'd You go to a Jew?" "He had Cuba." "Daddy..." "Can I get 50 groszy?" "Give it to him." "Those who get duped by a Jew don't get an allowance." "Where did we finish the poem?" ""And mom was yelling..." Right?" "Mom was yelling," ""Bambo, you brat!"" "But Bambo, just smiles at that." "His mother tells him, "Drink some milk."" "But escapes up a tree." "Naturally." "Like a monkey." "His mother says," ""Go wash yourself." "And be polite." But he's afraid that he'll turn white." "You can't see dirt on a black." "But mom still loves her little son, even if he's a little, black one." "It's a shame that Bambo, so black and so gay" "Can't go to school with us everyday." "That's what we need." "But Tuwim would probably like that." "This is how you should recite it." "Bratek, stop." "Line up." "We'll be placing flowers here tomorrow." "Each of you will approach with a flower and bow with respect." "Tomorrow, we'll do the whole poem." "But today, just the ending." "Złotowska." "But mom still loves her little son, even if he's a little, black one." "What's the meaning of this?" "!" "Who taught you that?" "!" "My dad told me to say it like that." "Hand!" "Dubel, Bratek, Krawczyk and Wasilewski!" "To the director's office." "Now!" ""On April 18th of this year, your students came to my store" "and yelled antisemitic slurs as instructed by their priest."" "That's how it is." "The priest had already been arrested for questioning." "Jesus Christ, impossible!" "Quite possible, Mrs. Bratek!" "Where would they learn these slurs?" "At home?" "!" "Citizen Kozłowski, point to one who yelled." "I can't be sure." "But the leader was my neighbor's son, young Bratek." "Oh, God!" "So?" "Relegation?" "Director, maybe we could do this another way?" "Comrade Secretary proposes another solution." "Resocialization at the TSKŻ." "Where?" "!" "The Jewish Cultural Association." "I know what it is." "But in Poland." "You understand." "Today." "Citizen Kozłowski agrees?" "No way." "They'll change my child there." "Maybe into matza." "Stop." "But sir, that's a foreign element." "Not Catholic." "Why our you talking about Catholicism in a Socialist country?" "Want to be blacklisted?" "Want Bratek in a reform school?" "Fear not." "They will suffer the consequences." "Thank you very much." "Mrs. Bratek, excuse my tone in there, but he's a very sensitive man." "Concerning that association..." "It's nothing, really." "They'll go once or twice." "Recite a poem." "Then we'll transfer them to the chess club." "It won't do any harm." "We're already getting organized, so we can keep an eye on everything." "Better keep an eye on them when they visit Angelika after school." "Daddy..." " I don't want to go to reform school." " Quiet, you!" "You've done enough!" "You're coming home right after school." "You're getting a beating." "Who's this Angelika?" "I will order the Straw Man, call him to the chambers" "For the wedding." "Maybe you will trust him." "That Rachel tells the truth." "Your name is Rachel?" "Does it change anything?" "Stop!" "Ania..." "Come here, child." ""Does it change things?" means you're scared of him." "You have to fear him." "He's a Pole." "A Goy." "Your name is Rachel?" "Does it change anything?" "Very good!" "What does he say?" "You are blushing." "Which means?" "She's ashamed!" "For she's a Jew." "Invite whomever you want." "You're name so lyrical." "True." "And lovely." "Now you like him!" "He's not antisemitic." "Jan, very good!" "And now, listen to love." "I want poetry for you." "For you, for them, for Poles." "Because they can't see it." "They don't have a nose for it." "Sit down and I'll read something to you." "On the hill overgrown with thistle, stood Doboszowa's inn." "She was Dobosz's widow." "He was an infamous robber." "The scare of Polish roads, robbing merchants traveling to Warsaw, Cracow, Gdańsk, and Leipzig." "When they finally hung him," "Doboszowa married Lapitut." "He was half man, half devil." "My blood is bursting through my ears when I listen to that." "You have your Elijahs," "Davids, and prophets..." "But if they're robbers, half devils and black magic, it's Doboszowa!" "And you teach that to the kids." " I'll burst in a minute!" " But sir..." "This is Singer!" "Singer Schminger." "Make sewing machines and stop spoiling children's minds." "We're going home this instant!" "I'm waiting downstairs." "Now!" "Rehearsal's over." "I had fun talking to you on stage." "Can I kiss you?" "Last seconds of the game and Gerard Cieślik scores!" "Will you carry my schoolbag home?" "Sure." "Złotowska is in love!" "Schoolmates!" "Let's go to Angelika's!" "Angelika!" "Show yourself!" "And?" "A boy, I think." "Jesus, let it be so." "His name will be Jan." " Shall I take it off?" " Yes." "Holy fuck." "It won't get any better." "Is something wrong?" "Let's get up, Mr. Bratek." "It's a very special moment." "For the first time ever, our highest national distinction will be given to a man who saved the President from a terrorist attack." "Mr. Bratek has paid dearly for his good deed." "The President decided to hold the ceremony with full honors." "Due to the size of the building, the army is represented by a symbolic few." "The guests are approaching." "Halt!" "About face!" "Present arms!"