"TIME CLOCK IS RUNNING FAST REMEMBER THE END" "Production" " Editing" "Music" " Sound" "Script editor" " Camera assistant" "Story, photography, direction" "Almost half-a-million widows older than 65 years live among us." "Many of them spend the last years of their lives in the countryside." "Their men died, children moved on, and they are left alone with their work and daily troubles, solitary with their fate, their beliefs, with memories of momentary happiness and past injustices, with wisdom and humility of age," "as well as nature's simplicity which surrounds them all the time." "I take a longish rope, lay it down in the forest and place together small branches and sticks for a bundle this size." "I bind it together, throw it over my shoulder and gently trot home." "When it's nice outside three times in the morning, take a rest, lie down awhile, when days are long repeat it after lunch." "Depending on the weather." "When it suits I have a breather and go again." "I came back from shopping with the cart, so, was a bit tired." "I went to lie down and may have snoozed off." "Then I woke up..." "I was already awake... and it knocked on the window there." "I said to myself:" "It's a sign." "It answered me:" "It is." "Not aloud, like this:" "It is." "I was waiting for the goat's kids, but it should have been around the 10th and it was only the 6th." "But off I went to the sty." "The goat was almost ready!" "I said to myself:" "The souls in purgatory let me know that I should go to the sty." "After the coup they moved here." "It was like a madhouse here." "So many people moved here!" "They spent a month, six weeks, stole the lot and ran off." "Really." "I said then that they can even lock me up, but I saw it with my own eyes." "Stole everything in sight and disappeared." "As my dowry I brought a cow from home which was the done thing then." "She wasn't confiscated as I wouldn't let her be confiscated." "I said:" "No, the cow is from home, parents were Czechs, so, I am entitled to my own." "Now I just have a mini-pension and if it wasn't for the cow - you have to agree, 346 crowns wouldn't keep me going." "House repairs, charges..." "and keep oneself alive on top." "So, the cow is my saviour." "Over the summer I save a bit and in winter use it up." " The cottage was also confiscated?" " I had to pay for it once again." "560 crowns I paid for it." "I had to buy my own property where I toiled for forty years." "To tell the truth, we had nought to pay it with second time around." "They led the cattle out of the pen not giving us a penny for it." "We had to bring up the potatoes from the cellar, they took it all." "What were we to do?" "When they took the horses out he never even went out." "He really loved horses." "But he was old by then." "Those people are all still alive." "Maybe two, one hanged himself..." "Two hanged themselves 'cos of it." "We had to save and slave and save again." "When we paid it off they took it off us and we saved once again." "It's good it's all behind us." "They made all kinds of mistakes, didn't have to do this." "Come here, go on." "I can't complain about my kids." "I have good children." "Only good thing I've in the world." "I've four and on Sundays they come and ask how I am - they're worried I might fall sick." "I always think:" "Couldn't give them anything as it all got taken, so, rather want nought from them." "Every mother would rather give than take, make no mistake." ""Josef, come..."" "I have four children, but they're scattered around the world." "I have one son though in the next village." "When I need anything I write a note and Šmudla hares off." "You must go to Hláska, right?" "To Josef." "Give him the note, see?" "You're a good doggie." "I'll tie it." "Darn, I have to tie it on." "Sit nicely!" ""Josef, come down right away, I feel awful." "Gran."" "I won't be here much longer." "I can feel it within me." "I said to the kids that I'll pass away and they won't even know." "That the goat and chickens will die and I'll be lying here stone cold." "Jesus, I believe in Thee, that you are truthfully present." "All my suffering and pain I sacrifice for Thee." "Once again I sincerely repent all my sins of life gone past." "And I beg Thee for pity and forgiveness." "Amen." "With this Holy unction and owing to Your unbounding mercy may God forgive you for sins committed through seeing." "With this Holy unction and owing to your unbounding mercy may God forgive you for sins committed by hearing." "With this Holy unction and owing to your unbounding mercy may God forgive you for sins committed by touch and walking." "Lord, I am not worthy for You to come under my roof, but just say one word and I will be healthy once more." "The body of Christ." "Dear God, over those 85 years..." "I cannot imagine it myself, and always say to myself when I sit here in the house:" "Where have the years gone?" "Where?" "Lmagine the length of time!" "And all the work, everything one endured." "I am dry as the rake, ever the same." "How I have toiled!" "You know, I pray for it, laugh by all means, that it be all and done with, because, I tell you, when I've no-one left it's real awful!" "When one feels sick at night and there's nobody in the place where should one turn to?" "I am far away from the village." "If I was in the village I'd perhaps crawl out on all fours." "If only I could sleep!" "Last night I didn't sleep a wink all Holy night long." "I couldn't stand it any more, I put my slippers on, my jumper and shawl, and went out under the window." "I was cold there, so, I went back in and crawled back under the covers." "Just when one wants to die death refuses to come." "And it comes for people instead who are still really needed here." "What use am I?" "But I have to wait for it to come." "Until my time clock is up."