"This is for you." "Thank you." "You live." "Where's Andrzej?" "Do you know?" "His name is not on the list." " I'm in place for him." " What do you mean?" "The captain had a sweater with my name." "Oh, God..." "Mrs. Anna." "It doesn't mean a thing." "You should have..." "Hope?" "I've been living hope for five years, so don't you tell me about it." "You've come to tell me that my husband is dead, yes?" " You want to tell me that he's dead..." " Yes." "He said that Andrzej is dead." "Mrs. Greta..." "Soviets of the NKVD are on the premises." "Have you seen them?" "Calm down." "They'll take us away when they find this." "They'll take us away anyway." "Hide all of this immediately." "What are you doing here?" "Do you have an order?" "I have an appointment with the professor." "Sir, the man says he has an appointment with you." "I don't remember." "You have a warrant, major?" "You don't remember me?" "Jerzy..." "How come you here?" "In this uniform?" "I came too late to Anders." "But for that, I would be in London now." "I'm here in private, sir." "You know that I'm on the Katyn list?" "Forgive me, but I don't know the list by heart." "Things with my name were my commander's." "That's why I've come here." "I think that his family would like to get them before you pack them." "Have you found an envelope with my name?" "I don't remember." "How many names of your former students could you have found here?" "Dozens, sir." "This is... the address of the captain's wife." "If you could find anything..." "I know you don't trust me." "But it's not the point that I've survived, am in the new service, in a new Poland, but you aren't." "That's not the point." "To you, this is just evidence, but to her it may be relics." "Aha." "On the strength of the decision of the Extraordinary State Committee concerning the investigation of the murder committed by the German invaders, a special commission was appointed to ascertain the circumstances of the crime committed on Polish officer POW's in the Katyn Forest." "Each body underwent detailed autopsy." "A shot in the back of the head, the favorite way of killing of Gestapo murderers." "Judging by autopsies, brains, and clothes, we can determine that the Polish POW's were murdered not earlier than in the fall of 1941." "The Germans committed the murder with utter cynicism, which the bullet wounds bear out." "That's how they shot the Poles." "Delegations of the 1 st Polish Corps in the USSR have come for the exequies." "HONOR TO THE FALLEN" "During the ceremony, the priest told the participants:" ""May the shed Polish blood be a foundation of our revived free homeland. "" " What's the matter?" " It's a lie." "It's a lie." "Do you hear?" "Please come with me." "It's a lie." "Madam..." "Where do you know me?" "I received a commission from the General before the war." "I was there a year ago." "Where?" "In Katyn when the Soviets sent us to the graves." "What were you doing there?" "Stalin needed us, officers of the 1 st Corps, to testify about the impartiality of their investigation." " And?" " We did." "It's a lie." "And you know it." " They had eye-witnesses." " Major..." "The Soviets must lie to cover up the crime, but you don't have to." "You mustn't." "I saw them... pull out of the pits those I was with in Kozielsk." "I watched in disbelief that I lived, whereas I should've been there with them." "You should... major..." "testify about the truth." "I could just as well shoot myself in the head." "You salute murderers as if they were victors." "Makes no difference whether Soviets or Germans." "Nobody will resurrect the dead anyway." "We have to survive, forgive." "We must live." "You're the same as they." "You may think differently, but you do the same." "What does it matter that you think differently?" "The Katyn graves opened up for the third time to reveal to the world the terrifying truth about still another German murder committed on the Polish nation." " Will you drink?" " Miss Krysia, pour one for the major." " I'm cold after the service." " They premiere a Soviet film in town." " What?" " Haven't you heard?" "A dozen thousand of our officers were murdered in Katyn." " What're you talking about?" " To the victory over those criminals." "Jerzy!" " What're you talking about, dammit?" " About the historical truth." "Miss Krysia, vodka for everyone." "The whole world didn't know... what to think about that crime." "There were horrible rumors that no one knew who and how..." " But it's plain that..." " Stop it!" "...it was the Germans in '41 murdered everyone shooting in the back of the head." "Piss off." "You're drunk." " Miss Krysia." " Don't pay." "I want to pay in memory of them." "Get out of here." "You're drunk." "Look, the people can be silenced." "You don't know what you're talking about." "That's why I'm talking!" "You fool." "I don't know what I'm saying?" "You all know the same." "AII." "And you, and you, and you." "Get out of here!" "The Katyn Forest blood is calling to us out loud... calling us to take a merciless... revenge..." "Not for a moment are we allowed to forget about the terrible death of our brothers... who were later dumped into a common pit... and next dragged out of the pit... those jackals and hyenas." "POW's were murdered in cold blood calmly, systematically." "Dumped into a common pit, professional officers, engineers, doctors..." " What's your name?" " Lieutenant Klin." "You'll be a witness." "Take him." "Quick!" "Over 10,000 of Polish intelligentsia, whom the war dressed in military uniforms." "Agnieszka, I was afraid I'd never see you again." "News from the rising raised doubts if anyone had survived." "I lucked up." "Thank God." "My sister said you were looking for me." "I asked her to get in touch, but she never came." "Nothing will change her and she won't return to church." "You'll be disappointed in me." "I haven't come to pray." "I was there." "There?" "Over the Katyn graves in 1943." "In my presence, this rosary was pried out of your brother's hand." "You recognized him?" "How?" "By his service papers." "I didn't want him to look so serious." "It was snapped when he was appointed lieutenant." "He wasn't a professional officer, but an engineer designer, building a new sports plane." "He looks so glum, rather than happy as he usually was." " May I?" " A pity I didn't have another photo." "I'll try to make him look smiling." "But it's a very beautiful photo." "I wanted to ask you if I could make a copy." "Yes?" " Go ahead." " Thank you." "It didn't bring us luck." "It'll be ready tomorrow." "Please come tomorrow." "Excuse me." "Tadzio?" "Aunt." " Tadzio." " Aunt Anna." " Tadzio." " Hello, Aunt." "God!" "What're you doing here?" "You've grown so tall that I hardly recognize you." "And Ela?" "Any news about mom?" "None since they took her away." "I thought you..." "No." "No answer to so many letters I sent." "You know about Father." "He's on the list." "Everything tallies:" "The number, rank..." " Good bye..." " Good bye." "Where have you been?" "With the aunt and uncle?" "After they took Mom with Halinka, I stayed with the uncle." " There was nothing to return to." " I worked in a factory." "When I turned 18 in the Kielce Province then." " In Kielce or in the country?" " Neither." "Tadzio..." "Thank you." "Come..." "Come, Tadzio." "Mr. Wladyslaw, my nephew has come to have his pictrue" " taken." " Yes, sir." "What size photo?" "A passport photo." "I read in the paper that the Fine Arts Academy is going to be opened." "If I start a new life..." "Wonderful." "I like to draw." "Take a look, Aunt." "Mrs. Anna we again have college students in Poland." "Exactly!" "And how clever." "Please follow me." "To the left." "My left, your right." "In high school, students don't smoke, sir." "Sorry." " You fought in the forest?" " Yes, but there's an amnesty." "I see that you attended secret classes." "You should get credits for the senior year and try to get a high school diploma after intensive courses." " Yes, ma'am." " Wonderful!" "Anything else?" "Why are you staring at me?" " Because I've seen you." " Where?" "In a photo in a photographic studio." "Along with a couple under a plane." " He was in a pilot's uniform." " Which studio?" " Near the marketplace?" " Yes." " Madam..." " Yes?" "Come here for a moment." "Good bye." "Wait a minute." "We have a problem here." " What?" " Your father." "What about him?" "What did you write here?" "Something not clear?" "The Soviets murdered him in Katyn in 1940." " I must lie about my father?" " Be reasonable." " In the forest..." " You're not in the forest." " Your opponents are not Germans." " This is treason, Madam." "I only care for you to get the diploma." "This country must be raised from ruins." "Who'll do it if you all let yourselves get killed." "You'll make corrections in your CV, yes?" "One have only one CV, Madam." "What do we do about him?" "Your attitude to Katyn bespeaks your loyalty to People's Poland." "I admit him and you see to it that he be reasonable." "You're his home room teacher, right?" " What if Poland becomes free?" " There will never be a free Poland." "Mark my words." "Never." "I don't know Cracow." "Where do I run away?" " Have you seen a boy in a brown coat?" " No, no, no." " You've saved me." " Why did you do it?" "Do I sit meek when they spit in my face?" "I fuck such an order." "Sorry." " "Aurochs"." " Ewa." "The coast is clear." " Will we meet again?" " I don't know." "But we will for sure." "It's destiny." "Maybe... if you think so." "Yes, we'll meet." "That's not what I think." "I want it." "So do I." "The world's laughing." "THE WORLD'S LAUGHING" " I've never been to the movies." " No kidding." "Haven't you seen that Disney's The Sleeping Beauty, remember?" "But that doesn't count." "I've never sat with a girl on the rooftop." "Tomorrow in the movie house?" "At 6 pm?" "Good." "Freeze or I'll shoot!" "Are you sure?" "We'll plait a braid first." "You are saving my role." "No character without hair, right?" "Those Germans who worked at the theater during the occupation took all the wigs away, didn't leave anything." " We'll plait a thick braid." " What if I let the hair down?" "It won't grow after the camp." "It was Auschwitz, you see?" "It's a pity to cut it off." "Does your husband know?" "Do your duty." "Don't you worry." "He'll return." "Yesterday a technical help from our theater returned." "All of us had bewailed him." "Why live with so much evil around?" "It'd be a true misfortune if my brother were left without a grave after his death." "And the rest." "It's indifferent to me." "Do you think I'm mad?" "How to judge a mad woman before the tribunal of a madman?" "Who puts on a wig of someone's hair, assumes his lot." "I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy." " Count it." " Would you like to see it?" "LIEUTENANT PILOT" "You're looking for someone?" "I have an appointment with the Canon." " The Canon is not here." " So I'll wait." "But he was taken away last night." " Last night?" " Last night." "When the Germans dug out the graves in Katyn in 1943, the Canon said Mass there?" "Those from the International" "Red Cross who were there, the NKVD arrested long ago." "But I've brought a plaque of my brother." " Did the Canon agree?" " Yes." "Lieutenant Pilot killed in Katyn in April 1940." "But I cannot put it up in the church." "I thought temples differed from government offices or papers." "Those who took the Canon away said they knew all enemies of the people's power, including the Lord God." "The Soviets did it in '40." "Everyone knows about it." " You must agree." " Did you think about the living?" "How this plaque may change the lot of the Canon?" "Take it away." "What do you want to do?" "To put it on our tomb before it can hang in the church." " Where have you been so long?" " What would you like to know?" " You could sometimes drop a line." " Have you forgotten that..." " we had a brother?" " No, I haven't." "So help me." " You're afraid." " You know I can't." "Join the Party." "That gives power." "It's not that way." "It's a different time and no one will free us from it neither during our life or that of our children." "You've joined already." "Even the Rising taught you nothing." "You won't change this world." "We can let them deport or kill us." "Or build as much freedom as we can here, as much Polish identity as we can." "You're too wise not to understand that." "You've found a place in this new world of yours, whereas I am whole in that where Piotr is." "If I must choose, I stay with him." "You choose the dead, which is morbid." "No." "I choose the murdered, not the murderers." "How long will it take?" "The work - 20 minutes, but later even less." "I don't understand." "You asked how long it would take." "Do your work." "I hear that you spread false information about Katyn." "What do you think is false?" "My brother's letter from" "April 6, 1940 is true." "You know it was the Germans." "You put a plaque in the cemetery with a false date of your brother's death in 1940." " To slander the Soviet comrades?" " I'm interested in the truth." "The truth is a given." "The Russians persuade all it was the Germans." "The Germans accuse the Russians." "Even the Polish" " government did not explain the affair." " Hands on the table!" "How can you say I spread false information about Katyn?" "You'll sign a statement that Katyn is a German crime." "No." "Who did you fight in the Rising?" "Saved by a miracle, you don't want to live in your own country?" " You're in your own country." " You find life unbearable?" "Major, the Germans tried that with me for 5 years, and you in 5 minutes?" "We have much more time than the Germans." "Maybe so." "Just tell me where I am." "In Poland?" "Take her away." "Nika!" " Father's coming." " No." "You're again imagining things." "Yes?" " This is for you." " Yes?" "We don't return mementos from Katyn to the families now." " When I learned that the major..." " What major?" "The one who asked to give it to you shot himself." "He shot himself." "So I decided to bring it." "Kozielsk, April 7, '40." "For two days they've been deporting us." "Where and why?" "Nobody knows." "After a search at 4:55 p.m." "Our Polish time 2:55 p.m." "We left the walls and barbed wires of the Kozielsk camp." "We were put in prison carriages." "I'd never seen such carriages." "They say that 50% of passenger cars in the USSR are prison ones." "8:30 a.m. Departure from Kozielsk westward." "9:45 a.m. Jelnia Station." "I'm along with a major, a colonel, and a few captains." "Twelve altogether with room for seven at the most." "Judging by the pieces of paper we found, we get off outside Smolensk about 10 km." "We'll see." "We must be going to Smolensk." "Gniezdovo Station." "Lieutenant Pilot," "1 st Air Squadron, Deblin." "April 10, 1940." "4:45 a.m. They wake us up in the prison cars." "Now by trucks..." "Arrival at Gniezdovo, :" "402 km away from Moscow." "Two Black Marias and a truck for things." "Take off your belt." "Next." "Family name, patronymic, rank." "The general's documents." "Born April 2, 1892." "It checks out." "Take him away." "Next." "5:00 a.m. We leave in a Black Maria." "They brought us to a forest, a kind of spa." "A thorough search." "They didn't find my wedding ring." "They took away my belt, penknife, and watch." "It showed 8:30 a.m., our Polish time 6:30 a.m." "What will happen to us?" "Our Father Thou art in heaven..." "Thy will be done on Earth as well as in Heaven." "Give us this day our daily bread Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us..." "Subtitles:" "DubbFilm" "Text:" "Jerzy Siemasz"