"UNDER THE PHRYGIAN STAR" "BASED ON THE NOVEL BY IGOR NEVERLY "A KEEPSAKE FROM CELLULOSE"" "SCREENPLAY" "DIRECTED BY" "DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY" "STARRING" "Szczesny!" " How many?" " Fifty." "They must be distributed today." "You know what day it is tomorrow?" "I do." " Would you come with me?" " Sure." "It's 3 years in a slammer, if you get caught." "I'm ready for it." "You still think I'm a ﬂash in the pan!" " It's been 4 months already!" " Report at the venue, then." "Ten o'clock." "Tomczewski!" "How many?" "Fifty." "Fifty's not enough for such an action!" "Give some more, Tomczewski." " Others need them too." "We have Julian, now." "Julian doesn't work for us only." "It has to produce enough for the entire Poland." "Bolek!" "Bolek!" "Where have you been?" "I must split earlier today." "We must hurry, then." "Go!" "I'll be there in a sec." "I'm ta king Szczesny." "You won't regret." "I've been watching him for a while." "Cool guy" "Just forget he broke your nose once." "He was a young hillbilly then." " Nothing more?" " For the time being, no." "They're happy Julian's come." " The action's gonna work out now." " What action?" "I don't know." "So what'd you know, fool!" "What're your coming with?" "Stop writing." "It's just a waste of paper." "The scumbag forgot what we let him out for." "For God's sake, commander." "It was out of the heart's need." "They just don't let me on it, yet." "Who gives a damn about your heart!" "Give me facts!" "Who knows about Julian?" "Tomczewski does." "I heard him talking about him." "Either you find out where Julian is, or go back behind bars." " Understood?" " Yes, commander." "Move!" "We should lock Tomczewski up." "But how can we do that?" "We have no evidence." "You'd only call on Jews, browse through their stores." "You're good with them, but with the political..." "Here's your evidence." "THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF POLAND" ""To the workers and peasants of the Wroclaw district"" "Director Pandera's got a kidney problem and my bro's raising money" "Director Pandera's got a kidney problem and my bro's raising money" " for the prayer for his recovery." " None of your business." "I don't want the entire Cellulose point their fingers at my brother!" "Here we are!" "How about your raising money for the reds?" "It's for the prisoners." "For those, who fight." "Fight whom?" "The police, the capital, the entire world?" " Horseshit." " Depends for whom." "Look who's teaching me." "A horse philosopher." "A horse and an axe has worked for you and your education, Mr. Engine Operator!" "Go away!" " Stop it!" " Let me study!" "Director's puppy" "It's not for me!" "It's for my family!" "For my father!" "With your wages..." "Knock it off!" "I'll get up to work again, so that you don't cry over the bread I eat." " It might well be a good idea!" " Shame on you." "Father is ill." "I can still make my living." "I can!" "God!" "Oh my God." "Rest, father." "We'll manage." "If you ever do it to father again," "I shall..." "I knew you were a brownnose... but didn't know you were a loser." "Why did he say 'loser'?" "Coz I'm not asking to be locked up." "And I'm not into communism." "Communism?" "Are you blind?" "Don't you see?" "This is what he reads." " The Communist Manifesto." " What's that?" "Their gospel." "'A shadow is spreading over Europe, a shadow of communism.'" "The boys will bring the kites to the venue." "They call me 'Doer'." "You should also have a nick." "What about 'Pauper'?" "Comrade Pauper..." "Sounds better than mine." "Much better." "Hush, hush." "You got something under your pillow?" "Nothing." "That's a good boy." "How about under the mattress?" "Stand up, little boy." "There is something under your buns." "No magical tricks, Palikot." "No tricks." "Only substantial evidence." "It's one year old!" " Where did you get it?" " Your son was sitting on it." "I know your kind." "Why would I keep such an old stuff!" "I don't know, Mr. Nervous." "Come with us." "Wladek." "All right." "Throw it up there." "It'll be fine." " All done?" " It was piece of cake." "It's a wrap, comrades." " I still have one." " Throw it up there and let's go home." "Damn." "Staszek!" "They shitted their pants." "You don't walk around with that." " With what?" " What you've got in your pocket." "Got nothing in there." " I did think you had a gun." " We all did." "You'll make a good technician, Pauper." "Get that kite up." "Well done." "Let's go, boys." "THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF POLAND" " What's going on here, Wincenty?" " Some commotion, Mr. Chairman." "Commotion?" "Aren't you working today?" "We're feasting, Mr. Korbal." "Not good, Mr. Chairman." "They may well have a fight." "The thieves of the Polish crown." " Better wait till it's over." " Tell the board I'll be late." "I've an export from Gdynia." "The Polish nation's been waiting for freedom for 14 years!" "Waiting for the work and the law." "They gave us the law, the new criminal codex!" "A Polish independent one!" "It doubles penalties of the old tear's one." "And for every little thing you get a summary trial!" "Most death sentences are passed in the Polish land occupied by imperialism!" "In western Ukraine and Belarus!" "Police!" "There's no point running." "Sure." "Let's just stand around." "Damn!" " What happened?" " Nothing." " My girlfriend left me." " A girlfriend again?" "The one, I told you about." "She stung me once." "There are trains you can't afford to miss." "Be nice this time." " If he can't walk, help him." " As you wish, Madam Commander." "Four rallies in town." "Fifteen in factories." "So many leaﬂets, kites, paintings..." "Damn them!" "Damn you!" "The department will." "You missed it again." "Gabinski's right." "You must find that Julian." "It's all his work." " But Tomczewski doesn't talk." " He must talk." " Give him some bite." " And if he doesn't swallow?" "Then do it the hard way." "Take a seat, Mr. Tomczewski." " I need to see a doctor." " But of course." "It's so sad." "But there's no other way." "I must get Julian." "I know no Julian." "You have a wife and kids." "I'm offering you good conditions." "You're wasting your time." "A thousand in cash." "One month in jail to confirm your innocence." "Then a transfer as a team master to Mirkow." "A company apartment." "And seven hundred a month." "You dealt with me so many times." "You should have known better." "So it's 'no'?" "Get me a doctor." "All right." "We'll fix you." "What if Tomczewski doesn't know?" "I heard it from him." "He knows for sure." "And appointing you to take care of Julian as Tomczewski's replacement, the Party counts on your wit and prudence." "Prudence in the first place." "We've been looking after Julian for 20 years." "We agreed to do time in prison to protect him and his work." " Excuse me." " Not the right one?" "Not really." "Which one are you looking for?" "Maybe we know her?" "She's not from Wloclawek." "She's from Radom." "Maybe it's you after all?" "It's my friend." "Let me introduce you." "This Radom girl of yours is living in Wloclawek now?" "I don't know, where." "We met once in Warsaw, when I was homeless." "She also had to spend the night on a bench." "And you talked all the night through in Powisle?" "How do you know?" "You said it yourself." "I didn't." "How come?" "Did you hear him, Jadzia?" "I did." " He said so." " Don't talk it into him." " Lunch!" " We're coming!" " What about the party?" " You should come." "It's for the Red Aid." " What's Red Aid?" " For political prisoners." "Let's not talk politics!" "I'll come to the party, because I love dancing!" "What a gm'.!" " A treasure." " Has she been long in the factory?" "Not long." "Day shifts only." " Worst scum!" " What's Bolek doing there?" "You're right." "Something's fishy." "Gotta be cautious." "The boys are watching." "How is it, comrades?" "As you can see." "If only we could have a drink!" "Later." "There're too many rats around." " Be careful." " We ain't no rookies." "Have you found her?" "No." "She must be hiding from me." "If I were you, I wouldn't even look." "There are enough girls around." "Madzia's also from Radom, or is that other girl prettier?" "Heart's no servant." "He's looking for the one who enchanted him." "How do you know she enchanted me?" "I know everything." "I can tell you your fortune." "Show me your palm..." "The left one, on the heart's side." "Madzia shows new talents each day!" "You were born under the Phrygian Star." "Total eclipse." "You know no day or hour of your birth." "True." "What's next?" "Your life was dark." "Mad life." "A long Jaffa lea to the dawn over a wide river." "The girl came as a morn." "Don't make up things about that girl any more." "A necromancer doesn't make things up." "She reads them." "I see joy in your hand." "Aster leads the way." "Who'll happen to me in the end?" "You'll die young for your Aster." "But shall not rue your life." "Such great the joy will be." "Nice ending." "It's no lifeline, though, but a sheer scar." "What fortune-telling is it, if a scar can twist it?" "What did you say?" "What does he know?" "Read our hands too!" "Not now." "I want to dance!" "We'll do it later, when it gets boring." "May I?" " Did you like it?" " I got tired." "It's not for me any more." "Twenty something and tired?" "Look at Kacha." "I can't feel my legs any more." "Sit down then." "My legs got stiff of sitting." "Jesus Christ!" " He hit her!" " Who?" "That military man hit her on her face!" "She didn't want to dance with him." "Is that what you're up to?" "Hold on, Poldek!" "They're beating up our men!" "Follow me!" "Play "First Brigade"!" "Now!" "Play!" "It was a provocation to end the party!" "Drunk pig!" "Hold him." "Move off the way!" "Twelfth one." "Damn!" "Who did you drink with, punk?" "Is that it?" "You against me?" "We'll talk tomorrow, but since you're so vigorous -jump!" "Gimme the gun!" "I'll shoot you all!" "Julian's a commie!" "Doer's a commie!" "I'll show you Julian even today!" "He spat it out while drunk." "Provocateur!" "Go back to the party." "I must talk to Bolek now." " Must you now?" " He'll rat all to the police." "I accidentally mentioned Julian at a card game last night." "Who's that?" "They've been looking after him for 20 years!" "They went to Siberia, to jail..." "Nothing's happened yet." "We'll get rid of the rat." "He'll go down Leska Street." "It's the only way to the police station." "If you fail, I'll get him later at Clays." "It's loaded." " Damn!" " You ever shot a gun?" "Go to Clays, then." "Hurry!" "He's getting away!" "Pauper!" "Pauper." "Lousy nick." "Damn lousy." "Give me the gun." "Give it to me!" "Here you are, rat!" "The door on the left's open." "Come upstairs." "The steps are ahead of you." "What crazy thing have you done, Doer?" "Sorry, it's me." "Staszek's not around." "You." "What about Staszek?" "He's probably back at the dance." "At the dance?" "And Gabinski?" "I heard a gunshot." "He killed himself." "He was drunk." "But if you tell anyone I was here..." "I'm not that stupid as you think." "Don't be afraid." "I'll tell no one." "No matter what." "They're coming back with Gawlikowski." "Sit down!" "This way it'll be better both of us." " Are you awake, Madzia?" " Don't turn the light on." "Why?" "I'm not alone." "Really?" "What?" "Am I humpbacked, or something?" "I said nothing like that." "You always let me had it my way." "Say something." "Let them know it's you." "I'm very sorry... for the inconvenience, Jadzia." "No problem." "We have a place to sleep." "Show yourself to Gawlikowski." "Janek!" "Damn you." "I thought it was Bolek." "Well, brother..." "Take ca re, okay?" "Why doesn't Fela marry him?" "The management would have fired her at once." "They don't employ married women." "She provides for her mother and siblings." "I'm sorry for what happened, Madzia." " They'll talk now." " Let them talk." "What matters are the witnesses." "You spent the night with me, period." " But..." " Go to bed, Mr. Szczesny." "There's no time for making a fuss." "What is 'Aster'?" "It's a star." "Every man is born, lives, and dies under his star." "Yours is the Phrygian star." "Mine, too." "That's why we met." "I'd always thought things like that happened only in romances." "Since I got acquainted with fortune-telling," "I've known Aster can do everything." "Goose." ""A suicide after the dance"" ""On April 14th Boleslaw Gabinski, a worker, shot himself to death, being drunk after a party"" "The police are after nobody, so what's the fuss?" "We're just trying to tell you, comrade Pauper." "You just don't want to understand!" "That what you did was lawless!" "If we'd waited for the party to pass a sentence," "Gabinski would have managed to snitch on everyone." "Then what?" "Would it have been better?" " I shot him." " And you thought, the party would condone it..." "call you a hero?" "But the party calls it uncontrolled terror!" "We shall not tolerate it!" "You shot, but you shot at the party..." " at the party discipline." " I didn't stick my head out for myself." "We all stick our heads out for others, comrade Pauper." "It's a serious matter." "The question is whether you should still be in the party." "I told you the way it was." "Anyway... just do with me, whatever you wish." " Difficult boy." " Anarchist." "I vote for his expulsion from the party." "I wouldn't go that far." "Let's wait to hear comrade Olejniczak's opinion." "I didn't come, because you had enough problems." "I'm a stranger after all." "Stranger, or not, they just don't get it." "She put him up for the night and he ran away?" "Why did he do it?" "I wasn't sure I wasn't followed by the police." "Don't be a ruffian and hold my arm." "Let them see you didn't split." "Szczesny!" "We need to talk." "Talk, then." "I'll go ahead." "We ain't expelled yet." "Now all is up to Olejniczak." "He will decide." " Let's go and see him." " What for?" "I took a risk." "They don't understand." "Are you offended, hellish fiend?" "Maybe the party should apologize to you?" "Don't be angry, comrade Pauper." "Wait!" "Where're you gonna be at?" "I'll go fishing." "For all night." "By the Green Dam." "Houses are here." "Lots of them." "I was told people lived in clay-pits around here." "Half of them." "In the past all of them did." "Something's bugging you, Mr. Szczesny." "Tell me, maybe I'll help." "I'll guess it anyway." "Blood." "This old woman's blood, which didn't dry, will raise wrath." "But wise Hakim will support you." "Though he can barely walk himself." "Hey, you, abra cadabra..." "Is it all?" "Well hard to believe that." "But you'll get paid, anyway." " How much?" " Let go!" "Tell me, how much?" "Szczesny, who are they?" "They're from the village." "Haven't you seen lizards?" "Off you go!" "How can you just stand and watch?" " And you're yelling at them." " What can I do?" "Such a plague in Grzywno." "Paralysis." " You've no mercy here." " Do you?" "Then take it and bust everybody's head." " But do it well, so they don't moan." " Stop that!" "Or donate for a little Negro boy." "The whole Grzywno is paying for a black pagan Negro in Africa, for a mission, sodality. ...!" "What do you care about those kids?" "They're baptized and will go to heaven." "Be quiet, or I'll go." "Go then, and visit the priest on your way." "Donate for the church." "Not for the sewer, but the church." "Let the poverty and reek stay here, and lizards still be born." "You're so full of anger." "And you believe in stars." "You believe that "Aster" means something." "And that the government will fix everything." "It will patch it." " This is your entire outlook on life." " You're an ape!" "Just an ape." "Do you mind?" "No, I don't." "There's enough space here." "I've cast a fishing rode." "Maybe I'll catch an eel." "Maybe." "No fun sitting like that." "We need to brew coffee." "Can you hear it?" "Like the Negro tom-tom." "Bittern." "A little bird, but it has a beak like a fanfare." "Fishermen say, that it makes such noise." "Do you think that all that noise is because of one bittern?" "I don't know." "They say so." "Can you believe all they say?" "Simply, the air cools at night, it goes down and rattles along the water." "Yet, you are not very critical... comrade Pauper." "I'm Olejniczak." "Franciszek." "You didn't want to come to me, so I came to you." "You came here specially to me?" "Comrade Doer explained to me how to find you." "In the morning I will have to sail this way for a picnic, so I took an opportunity to clear out your case at one go." "Why didn't you wait for the Party's sentence?" "Cause Gabinski would inform on Julian." " Who is Julian?" " I don't know." "A comrade, whom they have been protecting for 20 years." "And now they call me an anarchist." "Gabinski also began with shooting." "And how has he end up?" "No, comrade Pauper." "There is no other way." "Either a man understands that he can do nothing alone or he finally gets debased." "You can't always act reasonably, when you are agitated." "Agitated?" "Or maybe it's just that heroic solitude, which is later always disdained?" "I don't need them, all that working class... that rabble." "So you too are against me." "Eat." "You are off balance." "What are you saying?" "Am I clumsy?" "No, you are very skillful." "But you drip with hatred." "You're not going to tell me about brotherly love, are you?" "Evangelical love is not real." "And politically harmful." "Convenient for the owners and consistent with their propaganda." "Nothing more." "But the hatred for the enemy and love for the people, if they are people... are like the two wings." "If both of them are equally strong, you ﬂy high and steady." "But if one of them is defective, you can only ﬂy low." "To fight, to risk, even to die is not everything." "It's not the most difficult." "But to live all your life communistically, with no compromise, with eager heart, this is the real party task." "For how long had you been imprisoned?" "Eleven years." "I had an iron ball attached on my back." "What for?" "To beat my legs." "I had tried to escape twice." "You're going to be a good comrade." "But you have to control yourself and work at the grass roots." " First we'll send you to Rzekucie." " It's my home village." "So it will be easier for you to start." "We'll dismiss you from the factory." "You'll start working with the young." "Likewise, the peasants were fighting in the Leski district." "And they were shot and 300 of them imprisoned." "And now in Kobryn." "A new trial." "Eight peasants and one girl were sentenced to death." "Come here at night, we will talk about it." "Can we bring Michal Jozwiak with us?" "If he is reliable..." "Mormul." "Get a move on, Wladek!" "I didn't hire you to talk." "You could make them work faster." "Don't be afraid." "We'll manage with everything." "Is that what you say?" "The fruit is raping." "We have to prepare the crates." "See to it, for I have to go to the mill." "OK." "I'll do it." "Look after everything, for they can rob me." "Don't you worry." "They will not steal anything." "What are you doing here?" " I came straight from Wloclawek." " Is there any problem?" "Not yet." "But it may happen soon." "The press is in danger." "We need to save it." "Hide somewhere the Doer." "The police is hard on our heels." "Olejniczak is asking if we could hide it at your place." "The place is secluded." " Have you seen the counts' cellar?" " No, I haven't." "Come, I'll show it to you." "It's late." "Where were you?" "OK." "Take it." " Will you manage to be on time?" " I should." "It's over thirty kilometers." "The wind is strong." " We've already lost half an hour." " I will get there before dawn." "All right." "And this is comrade Zet." "Cover it." "That's good." " Szczesny!" " What?" "Take care!" "Damn!" " What?" " The shallows." "But don't go out, comrade." "I'll try to find some passage." "I beg your pardon." "I had to." "The fishermen might have seen us." "I don't need your excuses!" "What are you doing here?" "I'm Zet." " No, I'm not joking." " Neither am I, comrade Pauper." "You are to take me and the press to a safe place." "Wasn't it agreed?" "But to hit my head with a pole?" "No!" "Comrade Olejniczak didn't mention that." " But, why Staszek didn't...?" " I asked him not to." " Why?" " Just to see you like you're now." "For all your teasing, that I'm narrow-minded." "For your lectures what is MOPR and why we should support the reds." "For Aster and plaster." "Are you in the party?" "No, I'm in the corps the ballet." "So, what next, captain?" "Am Ito work here?" "No." "It's further." "But it's dangerous during the day." "We need to hide here." "Damn it!" "You must be cold." "You need to wring your clothes." "Once you called me by my first name." "You can do that now, especially as we are to work together." "What does this sound mean?" "You were offended." "You ran away." "And I thought..." "That I fell in love with you?" "No, I don't love you." "But I like you very much." "I belong to Julian." "The one, for whom I had to kill Gabinski?" "Yes." "How long do you know him?" "I met him just after my high school finals." "Have you worked with him for long?" "Until the give-away." "They managed to save Julian." "I was arrested." "You've been imprisoned." "For three yea rs." "We found each other in Wloclawek." "If you knew, what..." "Anyway, you see by yourself." "I don't understand one thing." "How did you get that coat and white beret?" "It's my coat." "I lent it to that comrade, when she was going to Warsaw." "She told me about your meeting at Powisle." "When you were running after me, I knew you meant her." "Now, leave us alone." "Who?" "Me and Julian." "I don't like gawkers, when I work." "You thought he was a man?" "A comrade?" "Sure." "A machine called with that name?" "Julian." "Have you heard about Marchlewski?" " He is from Wloclawek." " It's a gift from him." "He sent it from Germany for the SDKPiL Party." " You know what it was?" " I know." "Rosa Luxemburg." "They were the first Marxists." "But they too had their excesses." "Be that as it may." "Marchlewski sent it for the comrades in the country." "The Social Democracy and the Communist Party were using it." "For over twenty years." "It was called with his name, Julian." "Understand?" "I got it mixed up." "You said that you love Julian." "Because I love him." "He is our comrade." "And old, party comrade." "Go away." "We'd like to start working." "She loves a machine." "You little idiot." "A machine." "Madzia, would you like to eat?" "Wait." "I will finish soon" " My head is spinning." " No wonder." " After twelve hours of work." " Read it." "It's our first manifesto." "COMMUNIST PARTY OF POLAND" "It was easy today." "Go to bed." "You stayed up all night." "I was thinking about Szczesny all the time." "Why not about me?" "Cause he is better for print." " For what?" " One could write a novel about you." "I even have a title." "What a title?" "The son of a carpenter..." " and here I have a problem." "It's too long and maybe mystical... who didn't agreed to be crucified." "Or maybe better... who didn't let himself be stretched on the cross." "The father is coming." " Szczesny." "I'm going to Wloclawek." " Already?" "Give me the crates, cause I'm in a hurry." " Let's pack them." " Which ones?" " The ones by the window." " Let me help you." "It's all right." "The whole consignment is on the spot." "What else?" "I visited comrade Olejniczak." "You are to leave with Julian." "Tomorrow night." "What else will you tell me?" "You come in without saying hello." "You talk, as if you've never left." "Is this a hero of my story?" "Son of a carpenter... and so on." "Not nice." "My hero does not answer." "You're rig ht." "You don't come back like that." "But I don't know what's coming back and what's home." "I used to leave and come back and nobody was waiting for me." "This time you were awaited, master." "Eat." "And you can talk." "One comrade is renting a lake near Wloclawek." "He lives there with a daughter." "You will be her cousin." "And what about you?" "I'm going back to Wloclawek." "You've learned cooking already." "It's really tasty." "Before I thought, that Julian would have stomach trouble." " You thought that Julian...?" " I was sure it was your husband." "You take everything literally." "Actually, I like you for that." "You like me?" "Yes, a lot." "I never felt so light and good." "YOU have a courage OI' a trust that nothing bad can happen to you." " It's contageous." " So maybe we should get married?" "And what next?" "How do you imagine this?" "Curtains in the window?" "Flowers in the pots?" "Me and you." "Szczesny and Madzia." "And just happiness around us." "Our life is short, Szczesny." "Up to a year, on average." "And later a trial, sentence and a patch of sky in a little window." "I was in one cell with a comrade, who had husband and a child." "God, how she suffered." "How she missed them." "Even now I sometimes see her hand on the bars." "No, we just can't." "You know, what you are for me." "But if we can't, there's nothing to talk about." "Go to sleep." "It's a hard day tomorrow." "We need to pack up by night." "There many men like me in the Party." "But the people like her..." "educated..." "She writes proclamations and even a book." "We don't have many people like her." "That's why we have to protect her." "And to hold her i our arms... we can't even dream abou it, my doggy." "What is my hero dreaming of?" "I'm looking at the stars." "I want to find the Phrygian one, that you foretold me." "Do you remember?" "You take it all so literally." "There's no such star." "There is only a phrygian hat." "It was worn by revolutionaries during the Paris Commune." "I must have associated this." "That this world is so beautiful." "And they find it so wonderful that this world is so beautiful." " So, this is the a house." " It's even not so far." "You'll see." "It's a great accommodation." "And a surprise for you." "Good morning, Mrs. Lubartowa." "What a surprise!" "Long time not see!" "Ewa!" "Natan!" "My Broncia will be happy!" "Broncia, come here quickly!" "A surprise?" "Hello!" "Really!" "Long time not see!" "A new lodger?" "Yes, yes." "I'm Lapiec." "Shoemaker." "What a guest!" "Broncia!" "Look who came!" "Szczesny!" "I wouldn't have recognized you!" "What a big girl!" "Look at you!" "Have you got the materials?" "Here is Dymitrow's biography." "Defense of Dymitrow." "Whole campaign." "It should be reprinted as quickly as it's possible." "Distribute this." "It's completely fresh." "Forward to fight fascist." "How many?" "One hundred pieces." "I've talked to the host." "Only 8 zlotys." "Cause it's attic." "And no stove." "I will build a stove." "You will be like at your mother's." "Ewcia, give me the linen." "Fetch a broom." "We will make cleanup." "You'll see, how nice it will be here." "Ewcia, take all these things from here." "I've got the materials for Julian." "Will you go?" "Why should I?" "I thought you would want to." "Say on!" "How Dymitrow shouted:" ""Old man, your beer stinks."" "At this point we finished yesterday." ""Mr. attorney, the beer that you've brewed starts to stink."" "And he started to chew out the attorney, Hitler and the whole court." "And then Vander Lupa stands up." "The one, that was caught in the German Parliament with oakum." "He was to betray." "How does he stand up?" "Show me." "Stop it!" "I don't know these men." "I set the fire by myself." "You can my head off." "And give me civilian clothes." "Civilian clothes, categorically." "Vander Lupa got crazy." "I told you he was a weak man." "They cut his head off?" "But Dymitrow was set free." "Ewa's been imprisoned not in vain." "But Ewa was caught because of a meeting." "And why the meetings were hold?" "To free them." "It was the international operation." "Meetings, proclamations, strikes." "A movement strong as four devils." "Why four?" "Cause four is not one." "It's always stronger." "Come in." "What a conspiracy." "I'm walking and walking." "In the white, the snow." "The end of the city, but no sign of a house." "Like in a poem." "Have you seen that look?" ""You disgusting woman." "Why did you come here?"" "Actually." "I don't know." "They don't give me a chair." "They don't ask me to sit down." "Please, stop these literary jokes." "You've got a chair." "You can sit down, if you like." "Of course, I will." "And I'll take off the coat." "So this is how you live." "How are you?" "How is Julian?" "They took him to the division." "And I was moved to Wloclawek to work with the young." "That's why I'm here, comrade Pauper." "So, comrade Youthful, cause it may be the proper title..." "I report, I have seven the youth in Rzekucie." "I go there every month and do all my best." "But I don't know much." "And they start to ask me difficult questions." "Difficult questions, you say?" "I don't know all the answers." "But, finally, a proper person appeared." "It's cold here." "You must be cold here." "At night I sleep and don't feel anything." "And by day I'm rarely here." "You'll get warm in a minute." "I've lied." "I haven't come here to talk about the youth." "I just missed you very much." "Magdus, if it's because of kindness, please, don't start at all." "I don't need your pity." "You are really literal." "You asked me once to marry you." "That's why I came." "For, if we miss each other so much, why should we suffer any longer?" "Hold me." "Szesniak, release me, cause I'll get angry." "Why do you spoil it?" "I was imagining this thousand times, Magdus." "There were quite many people, at least a quarter of hundred." "Julek found a chair somewhere by the wall and gave it to Baryka, saying "Sit down."" "When he sat down, a man with a cunning face and gimlet eye lodged his gaze upon Baryka." "Again." "What am I to do with you?" "You're worst than the young." "A total moke." "I spend all day in the noise of the machine." "You would go mad." "You read only party press." "I came home." "It's warm and quiet." "And you were reading so nicely." "But a party member should have an idea of the world, the people." "OK." "I will learn." "You could knock at least." "You're kidding!" "What if we don't need a third person?" "I'm sorry, brother." "You love each other, as I see." "That's why you're sorry?" "I have to separate you." "Doer needs your wife in Kutno." "Just now?" "Yes, to the division." "So, I have to give him homework." "To read it till the end." "Magdus, I would do everything for you." "I would jump like a frog and play the trumpet." "One train is going at 40 km/h and the other at 50." "They meet in four hours." "And what if the trains are late?" "Some of them are not late." "Szczesny, they are chasing me." "Here is the whole issue." "Broncia, leave." "Door handle" "Through the window." "To Kubiak." "Hold my legs and jump." "The legs are too short." "Police!" "A thief!" "I've got him." "And who are you?" "A tenant." "Paprocki, run after her." "She's escaped." "How should I do that at night?" "Arrest him." "Stop it." "Who are you?" "I told you." "A tenant." "I looked through the window and saw somebody sneaking." "You are after the host's pantry, yes?" " I thought." "A thief." "But he is an officer." "He looks like a thief." "I saw him helping her to come down from the roof." "I swear on God, I was alone all the time." "Let the people tell you." "Have you seen a young woman in a checkered coat?" "No." "No." "But if you mean something checkered, the priest's housekeeper wearing a shawl made with half-double crochet." "You're a half-double crochet yourself." "Who was with him?" "I was." "Drop it!" "She's lying." "They all hide in the closet." "Not all of them." "And who hides, for example?" "Baska does." "Do you know, where it is?" "Do you think I'm a child?" "No, you are a big girl." "Will you show us?" "Keep an eye on him." "Here is the closet." "And this is Baska." "You'll be sorry, when you got a trashing." "Don't be afraid." "They only threaten." "Dymitrow wasn't afraid, either." "Comrades, don't donate to the Pilsudski's mound!" "Collect the money for political prisoners, his victims!" "Down with a fascist government!" "Stand up, wretched of the earth" "Stand up, galley slaves of hunger" "Reason thunders in its volcano" "This is the eruption of the end" "Of the past let us wipe the slate clean" "Masses, slaves, arise, arise" "The world is about to change its foundation" "We are nothing, let us be all" "We have to continue the general strike of textile workers to the moment of victory." "A delegate of the Poznanski factory." "It's urgent." "Someone from Wloclawek wants to see you." "From Wloclawek?" "Continue to talk." "I'll be back in a minute." "It's you." "Me." "It so fell out." "But I have a note from Szczesny." "They're going to free him." "So you will come back to Wloclawek." "No, I can't now." "Not so soon." "In Wloclawek it's at hand, as well." "I just came... 3,5 million cubic meters a day." "And 1,5 million of concrete." "And 26 thousand meters of steel framework." "What a construction." "Do you know how much power is it going to give?" "And this is scarcely a second 5-year period." "Just the beginning." "Beginning." "Very nice." "Franek, what is it?" "Reduction." "They fire all of us." " How come?" "Why?" " How come?" "A reduction?" "I saw it with my own eyes." "They're going to fire all of us, without exception." "And then they'll employ only fathers with families." "What about bachelors?" "Bachelors - no." "We will see." "And they'll reduce wages." "What do they think?" "At municipal work they can go further than the factory owners?" "We've had enough of this!" "Let's go to the town hall." " Let's go!" " We'll show them!" "We have to prevent the reduction." "I'm going to the city hall." "Janek, go to the division." "I will call delegates from all the municipal building sites." "The comrade from the division is late." "In a minute we will start without him." "No, it wouldn't be all right." "We were organizing strikes, but an occupation?" "Let the division decide." "But, listen, we can't be too long." "The city is seething." "Any moment it can change into not organized riots." "The city hall will use it and get its way." "All right?" "What about the delegate?" "I'm sorry I'm late." "They almost caught us." "I will greet his comrade later." "So, let's start." "Comrade Pauper is reporting." "Felus, keep watch." "The situation is clear, comrades." "Wloclawek has 56 thousand of citizens and 9 thousand of them are unemployed," "Damn, such mud." "You can get your feet wet." "I knew you would say so." "Come on." "Don't be ashamed." "I will really moisture my shoes." "I haven't greeted this comrade yet, you know?" "It's a disgrace - for a comrade at a division level..." "OK, Magdus." "It's all over." "It was difficult without you." "You can't imagine." "Just in case, let it focus on Jews." "Go!" "Join them!" "If we are submissive, they'll buy us again." "For three times a week." "And after a month they'll sack us and again." "Wait here." "We have to choose a committee - firstly." "To formulate the demands - secondly." "To send a delegation to the city hall - thirdly." "To the city!" "Let them employ everyone!" "There's no money?" "Let the Jews give it to us!" "Haven't they got fattened?" "They have money for a new synagogue, for golden candlesticks - thee kg each." "But for the unemployed - not." "Let's go to the city hall!" "We want to work, not to rob." "Tell this to those, who sent you." "I've been working here and I'm gonna stay here." "Sit down!" "We'll occupy the street." "Who votes for staying here and defending our workplace?" "How many of them?" "More or less a thousand and a half." "Surround all the streets leading to Krolewiecka." "Close them?" "No." "We don't want a clash." "Wait." "And you, go to the city." "Who makes a speech, who are the leaders, who is in the committee?" "25 zlotys for a name and the address." "Understood?" "Yes, sir." "I'm going to the prefect." "Sit down, please." "A delegation of unemployed?" "You're welcome." "I really don't know, what we can talk about." "About unemployment, Mr. Prefect." "I can't help it." "We come to you, Mr. Prefect as to the host of the city and the district." "And the host can't say "I can't help it."" "He has to do something." "Or else..." "Or else what?" "I wouldn't like to hurt you, Mr. Prefect." "A helpless host goes bankrupt in the end." "I beg your pardon, I don't like these personal critical remarks." "What brings you here?" "Sit down and speak, but no remarks." "Only united we stand, and working." "I understand you the best, cause I was working like you." "I owe everything to these hands." "I think, that thanks to the presence of a member of the parliament, a man of the common people, will let us speak the same language." "We have a democracy." "I'm listening." "Our demands are as follows." "Firstly, engagement of all unemployed." "No." "Bachelors won't be employed." "Secondly, 10 percent raise." "Thirdly, the question of a winter help and insurance." "A strike has broken out in Grunwald..." "Comrades metalworkers, it's not the time for inter-party conferences and empty words." "The question of city hall workers and us is still the same thing." "We have to support them." "Who is for a strike, go to the gate!" "Jerzyk, 'm God's name'." "What for do you need this 'gunk?" "For a barricade, mum." "Jerzyk, come back!" "Right now!" "The best view is from the Doctor's wife window." "Jerzyk, come back!" "Can you hear?" "Jerzyk, come back home!" "Give me the pole!" "Can you see, how they work their ass off?" "If there were working like this, we would have already had sewers made." "But not all of us." "It's all right." "Szczesny!" "What about this barricade?" "They are already beginning." "Would you have any task for a shoemaker?" "You helped us in our strike, so now we come to help you." "The best would be a collection." "You know all the merchants and they know you." "Take Gawlikowski to help." "Him?" "So, let's go." "Szczesny, we have to organize a kitchen." "May Weronka wanted..." "Werus, would you cook for the guard?" "Staszek will organize the kitchen for you." "We will do it" "Where's Janek?" "He's gone with Lapiec." "Your sagacity, your proverb is very true." "Every louse is alive until a poor man is alive." "See you soon." "Giddap!" "Good morning, Mr. Eustachy." "Forgive me, I'm late." "Have I invited you?" "I can't keep them away." "Everybody gives something." "Jews, Poles." "Even your son-in-law." " Korbal?" " I swear on God." "A member of parliament, but he gave." "He did it in a calculated manner." "In a calculated manner?" "Think about it, you sagacity." "Every louse is alive until a poor man is alive." "Even Gospel tells this." "Gospel?" "I don't remember." "In St. John's." "It's stated plain as day, your sagacity." "What do you hang on to this sagging?" "I'm not sagging at all." "God forbid!" "Sagacity is wisdom." "Yes, sir." "I understand, colonel." "Hard luck." "We'll be waiting." "Warsaw recommends peace." "They say "We'll fix it."" "Use fire-hoses and this will do." "Not quite." "They are not fruit trees to water them." "Barricades." "They play for time." "They're going to launch an assault." "Or take us by hunger." "They'll not make it." "Others will follow the Grunwald." "Tomorrow I'll bring the first money." "I should be on time." "My train leaves in an hour." "The money will be very useful, cause there is not enough food." "Lapiec." "Civil war grasped the whole Spain." "Army of general Franco moves on to Madrid." "International brigades defend the capital." "According to the latest news, a Polish battalion is being formed." "And here is something in bold letters." "A shoemaker, Nepomucen Lapiec is arriving from Wloclawek." "You're joking." "Where is it?" "It's stated here, you blind man." "Ne-po-mu-cen." "Can you see?" "No." "No." "No." "Nepomucen taunted him pretty well." "Broncia, what are you doing here?" "I'm going to the choir trial." "Will you come?" "I will." "In a moment." "Wait." "I'll look around first." "Isn't it a disgrace - a comrade at a division level..." "Only just I found you." "It won't be long." "You know, what?" "We'll win the strike and go to Spain." "With our Lapiec." "You're joking." "Why not?" "Comrades are going." "Why can't we?" "Come on." "Kiss." "I'm not watching." "They're getting ready for something." "Or are just blocking the way." "If only Staszek and Madzia have made it." "Stop!" "Watch out, Janek!" "Release me, I will not escape." "Can you see what we have found with him?" "Don't you know, that we have to fight without weapon?" "It was meant just to scare." "Don't you know, that the police would plant a few riﬂes just to obtain state of emergency and extraordinary means." "I know him!" "He's Rybon, a nationalist." "Sun of a bitch, incited by the police." "Stop it!" "Seize him by the neck and take him to the other side." "We have to be careful." "This will not satisfy them." "First grade chef of the kitchen." "Nice girl!" "Honestly, taste me, mummy." "You're from Grzywno?" "Yes." "Why?" "There is a peasant asking about Szczesny from Grzywno." "Over there, near the wall." " Zebro!" " Hallelujah!" "How long I was seeking for you!" "You could just ask about my name." "Wise guy." "And if your name was hot?" "Better safe... you know." "That's why I'm not alone, but with bread." "Oh, yeah." "Don't be stupid!" "We've baked it for you." "How come?" "Simply, for you!" "Damn it!" "Hey!" "Come here!" "Help to unload." "The peasants have sent us a gift." "Stefan, stand as the first." "What did you say yesterday?" "That you don't believe in worker-peasant alliance." "Cause I don't believe." " No?" " No!" "Here it is, the alliance!" "Hold it!" "Alliance, for the first time!" "Give it, Stefan!" "Alliance, for the second time!" "The peasants have brought us bread!" "Three." "Four." "Five." "It'll be enough for a time." "I came for you and Weronka." "Run away, cause you're lost!" "Really?" "We were happy for we were to eat the bread from Rzekucie." "Stop kidding.They called for the police from Goledzinow." "How do you know?" "I heard the Prefect and the President of the city talking." "They said, that workers' demands should be considered." "So why did they call for the police school from Goledzinow?" "They want to take the barricades by storm." "Then, they would consider the demands and accuse the leaders." "What will you get out of that?" "And everybody will get to know, who is a brother of the Prefect's secretary." "This is, what you are afraid of, don't you?" "We are all afraid." "Those, who escaped from Grzywno must be afraid not to get there again." "I don't want it!" "Do you see?" "I'm neither with you nor with them." "Let me alone with politics." "I only want to live." "Live like a human being." "Everyone wants to live like a human being." "But everyone understands this differently." "Werus, you don't need to expose yourself." "Am I worse than the others?" "Nobody has said such thing." "Werus, think, it's a waste of the house." "Walus renounces it for your benefit, me as well, and..." "You know well, I've never thought about having it." "I hate your goodness!" "Werus, why?" "Sure, I've always been too stupid." "They escaped from Grzywno and put me in the house." "He made me your rag, a blockhead, kitchen help." "May he was burnt with a lightening." "If the house is mine, I'll give it to Gawlikowski or somebody else, but I will not go back to that pallet." "I've joined them and I will stay with them." "Nothing to speak of." "So, it's settled." "Come on, Kachna." "I have to lead you out." "The legs are too short." "Take him!" "Far away, over the hills, my friend passed away and took his song with him." "And from that day he never heard:" "Grenada, Grenada, Grenada, my love." "The squadron buried him without regret and sang "An Apple" to the end." "Only a little drop of rain felt down to the velvet dusk." "My dearest, do you miss the song?" "You mustn't, for life has given us a new song." "It's been giving it to us all the time and makes us go on." "Grenada, Grenada Grenada my love." "How was it?" "What?" "How was I?" "Good." "Very good." "Especially the ending, when a squadron buried a buddy." "I have a bad memory for poems." "And how he was fighting for a land for the peasants in the district of Grenada." "Ok, I know." "Szczesny, they arrested Rychlik and Madzia." "Where?" "I saw them being taken by them." "Staszek looked at the suitcase and gave me a sign." "You mustn't, Szczesny." "Nothing to speak of." "Go." "It's late." "If they see you, they can remove you from school." "The girl is right." "We mustn't." "The girl is right." "We mustn't." "You have to go to Olejniczak and ask for a new contact with the division." "Perhaps in a moment." "Let's go to the post." "With a suitcase." "With hard evidence." "Five yea rs." "Company!" "Halt!" "Police from Goledzinow!" "Ru n away!" "Let's run away!" "Comrades, to the barricades!" "Straight from the railway station." "The bastards are in a hurry." "By order of the Prefect, go in the direction of the marketplace immediately." "If not, we'll have to remove you by force." "This is our workplace." "We fight for it." "And we will continue until the authorities have accepted our conditions." "Take the stones upwards!" "Ready to fire'.!" "Jesus Christ!" "Comrades!" "Szczesny." "Come on, Szczesny." "She will do the time." "she'll come back." "Five years." "Or maybe even seven." "They murder the nation." "But finally this will end." "They say, far away, in a great ocean, an island of wealth lies," "Australia." "There are masters, and no slaves." "You talk rubbish, old man." "There is no such fortunate island without a fight." "That's why you're going to Grenada?" "What are you going to fight there for?" "For the same thing, as here." "For better life." "For land for peasants." "And for your song." "Can you see?" "I do." "Like nobody else." "You can't live without a bright song." "THE END"