1 00:00:26,876 --> 00:00:30,001 KADR Film Studio presents 2 00:00:39,084 --> 00:00:44,917 MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS 3 00:00:45,626 --> 00:00:48,667 Based on a novella by 4 00:00:50,542 --> 00:00:52,459 Starring 5 00:01:28,209 --> 00:01:31,167 Screenplay by 6 00:01:55,126 --> 00:01:57,751 Director of Photography 7 00:02:29,876 --> 00:02:32,376 Directed by 8 00:03:24,084 --> 00:03:25,334 The bells. 9 00:03:27,709 --> 00:03:29,501 Why are they ringing? 10 00:03:29,667 --> 00:03:31,167 It's a local custom. 11 00:03:31,334 --> 00:03:33,251 For lost travelers. 12 00:03:35,959 --> 00:03:37,376 Bishop's orders. 13 00:03:39,126 --> 00:03:41,501 For those lost in the forest. 14 00:03:42,376 --> 00:03:44,126 The forest is dangerous. 15 00:03:44,209 --> 00:03:47,001 - What is your name? - Juraj. 16 00:03:48,376 --> 00:03:50,876 Juraj, are you going back tomorrow? 17 00:03:50,959 --> 00:03:53,959 I am. The fathers told me to return at once. 18 00:03:55,001 --> 00:03:56,584 Is it far from here? 19 00:03:56,709 --> 00:03:59,209 It is. We traveled all day. 20 00:06:11,126 --> 00:06:14,084 My God, you cut your bread into such thin slices, 21 00:06:14,167 --> 00:06:16,209 as a lady would cut marzipan. 22 00:06:16,334 --> 00:06:18,584 You won't even know 23 00:06:18,834 --> 00:06:20,626 it's bread you're eating. 24 00:06:21,834 --> 00:06:24,001 That's the way we always cut bread. 25 00:06:24,501 --> 00:06:26,167 It's a monastery custom. 26 00:06:26,251 --> 00:06:27,459 But Why? 27 00:06:30,626 --> 00:06:31,626 Why? 28 00:06:32,584 --> 00:06:34,501 Why devour large bites? 29 00:06:34,584 --> 00:06:36,834 It's nothing but greed and gluttony. 30 00:06:40,167 --> 00:06:44,292 As I am a Wolodkowicz, 31 00:06:45,709 --> 00:06:50,417 you must be an extraordinary glutton, Father. 32 00:07:01,876 --> 00:07:03,001 God bless you. 33 00:07:25,459 --> 00:07:28,834 Will you tell the Father his fortune? 34 00:07:31,459 --> 00:07:35,917 Why not? Even priests have fortunes. 35 00:07:37,167 --> 00:07:40,209 Many a maiden and many a woman... 36 00:07:42,376 --> 00:07:47,417 Many a maiden asks him for advice before entering a convent. 37 00:07:47,792 --> 00:07:55,084 He'd also like to know the future, but he can't. 38 00:07:59,834 --> 00:08:02,542 Go on, tell him something. 39 00:08:04,042 --> 00:08:05,876 And what shall I tell him? 40 00:08:06,042 --> 00:08:08,042 Everything. Tell him everything. 41 00:08:08,209 --> 00:08:13,001 If he succeeds in his journey, who will he meet, who will he see... 42 00:08:16,001 --> 00:08:18,709 He will see a maiden who will be a mother. 43 00:08:18,751 --> 00:08:21,709 There is no shortage of such maidens in Poland. 44 00:08:26,584 --> 00:08:28,042 Poor you. 45 00:08:28,459 --> 00:08:30,751 - Why? - Poor, poor you. 46 00:08:36,084 --> 00:08:38,251 You'll fall for a humpback. 47 00:08:45,501 --> 00:08:47,292 Blessed be the Lord. 48 00:08:51,084 --> 00:08:52,792 For ever and ever. 49 00:09:04,667 --> 00:09:10,167 The holy maidens are impatiently waiting for you, Father. 50 00:09:13,501 --> 00:09:16,334 No one knew I was coming. 51 00:09:17,709 --> 00:09:20,501 They have their ways of knowing things. 52 00:09:20,584 --> 00:09:23,501 They just lie every now and then. 53 00:09:25,459 --> 00:09:28,709 So you too came to see the holy maids, Father. 54 00:09:29,459 --> 00:09:33,126 You know what goes on in there, 55 00:09:33,667 --> 00:09:36,917 what kind of holy maids they are. 56 00:09:39,167 --> 00:09:40,709 Do not say such things! 57 00:09:41,626 --> 00:09:44,126 Us theologians do know something about it 58 00:09:44,167 --> 00:09:46,876 but you should just pray and keep silent. 59 00:10:08,459 --> 00:10:12,417 Sister portress even left the gate slightly open 60 00:10:12,501 --> 00:10:14,292 for the night, 61 00:10:14,917 --> 00:10:18,209 she is so anxious to see the priest who will save them. 62 00:10:18,292 --> 00:10:21,417 How do you know what goes on in there? 63 00:10:22,042 --> 00:10:25,251 How? I help them with odd jobs. 64 00:10:30,417 --> 00:10:33,542 Are men allowed behind the walls of the convent? 65 00:10:35,001 --> 00:10:38,084 A woman won't chop a big log, Father. 66 00:10:40,251 --> 00:10:41,334 I guess not. 67 00:10:41,376 --> 00:10:44,584 Neither will she slaughter a bull or a ram. 68 00:10:46,876 --> 00:10:49,292 But the sisters do not eat meat, do they? 69 00:10:49,626 --> 00:10:53,917 They do. Some say that the devil tempts them. 70 00:10:55,667 --> 00:10:58,251 Guard us, oh Lord, from malicious words. 71 00:10:58,376 --> 00:11:01,209 I believe in our Holy Catholic Church, 72 00:11:01,251 --> 00:11:03,584 as I am a Wolodkowicz. 73 00:11:04,751 --> 00:11:09,584 We have a village, Father, where everyone is a Wolodkowicz. 74 00:11:09,917 --> 00:11:12,334 You can't spit without hitting one. 75 00:11:12,417 --> 00:11:16,084 The poor soil only bears flax and oats, nothing more. 76 00:11:17,209 --> 00:11:20,626 The apples are sour and the flax is knotty; 77 00:11:21,292 --> 00:11:25,084 only vodka is as strong as anywhere else. 78 00:11:33,792 --> 00:11:34,917 To you, Father. 79 00:11:36,709 --> 00:11:38,084 To your health, Canon! 80 00:11:39,334 --> 00:11:40,417 I am not a Canon. 81 00:11:40,501 --> 00:11:42,209 But you will be, Father. 82 00:11:42,459 --> 00:11:43,459 To your health. 83 00:11:43,584 --> 00:11:44,709 To your health. 84 00:12:00,626 --> 00:12:02,209 It's time for me. 85 00:12:04,501 --> 00:12:05,542 I have to go. 86 00:12:07,917 --> 00:12:09,876 Go to bed, Juraj. 87 00:12:10,959 --> 00:12:13,084 You have to get up early. 88 00:12:13,459 --> 00:12:16,251 The Father Provincial wanted you back at once. 89 00:12:16,334 --> 00:12:18,251 Kaziuk, Kaziuk! 90 00:12:21,459 --> 00:12:23,042 I must go to the convent. 91 00:12:23,584 --> 00:12:27,084 - Kaziuk will accompany you, Father. - God bless you. 92 00:12:32,626 --> 00:12:34,209 Blessed be the Lord. 93 00:12:35,501 --> 00:12:36,876 For ever and ever. 94 00:12:44,084 --> 00:12:46,084 He drank some of our vodka. 95 00:12:46,376 --> 00:12:48,959 Not as abstemious as he seems. 96 00:12:50,209 --> 00:12:52,167 They're all alike. 97 00:12:53,334 --> 00:12:56,834 Do your holy maidens eat pork as well? 98 00:12:58,042 --> 00:12:59,917 Why would they? 99 00:13:01,542 --> 00:13:04,959 - They have a different life. - Don't talk so much. 100 00:13:05,042 --> 00:13:08,959 You will bring some misfortune upon us. 101 00:13:10,917 --> 00:13:13,751 As I am a Wolodkowicz, do tell us, 102 00:13:14,126 --> 00:13:16,459 what is going on in the convent? 103 00:13:16,917 --> 00:13:20,584 Are the devils really prowling among the holy maidens? 104 00:13:20,792 --> 00:13:22,376 Keep quiet, sir. 105 00:13:24,251 --> 00:13:25,917 It is no place for jokes. 106 00:13:26,876 --> 00:13:29,042 Everyone spies on one another 107 00:13:29,834 --> 00:13:32,209 and reports to the priests in the convent. 108 00:13:32,292 --> 00:13:34,834 Are there many of them in the convent? 109 00:13:35,126 --> 00:13:38,792 Four came for the exorcisms and this one is the fifth. 110 00:13:40,209 --> 00:13:43,876 Twelve of them came to try our parson, Father Garniec. 111 00:13:44,876 --> 00:13:46,292 And they sentenced him 112 00:13:46,459 --> 00:13:48,459 to be burned at the stake. 113 00:13:48,667 --> 00:13:50,542 They burned our parson 114 00:13:50,834 --> 00:13:53,126 without any reason at all. 115 00:13:54,417 --> 00:13:57,251 The maidens didn't stop dancing? 116 00:13:58,084 --> 00:14:00,751 They show even better tricks now. 117 00:14:08,209 --> 00:14:11,209 Is it true that Father Garniec was a sorcerer? 118 00:14:31,751 --> 00:14:34,542 Do you really feel sorry for him? 119 00:14:36,417 --> 00:14:39,626 We may not feel sorry, but he was a human being. 120 00:14:40,834 --> 00:14:43,084 Even the worst man deserves pity. 121 00:14:43,126 --> 00:14:44,792 What was he like? 122 00:14:46,376 --> 00:14:47,917 He wasn't a saint. 123 00:14:49,626 --> 00:14:52,251 He sizzled on the stake like a pig. 124 00:14:57,167 --> 00:14:59,709 How can you burn a man like that? 125 00:15:00,542 --> 00:15:01,876 You'd better eat. 126 00:15:02,251 --> 00:15:03,292 Eat. Eat... 127 00:15:06,334 --> 00:15:07,834 How did they burn him? 128 00:15:08,417 --> 00:15:11,042 They dragged him out and burned him? 129 00:15:11,542 --> 00:15:13,709 Did they take off his clothes? 130 00:15:16,251 --> 00:15:19,584 The fire will burn the clothes first. 131 00:15:20,667 --> 00:15:23,292 And the man is left naked. 132 00:15:52,126 --> 00:15:53,667 Father Joseph! 133 00:15:56,001 --> 00:15:57,959 Welcome, Father Joseph! 134 00:16:01,126 --> 00:16:05,167 I'm Father Brym's housekeeper. He is our parson. 135 00:16:05,209 --> 00:16:09,292 It's all right, Krysia, leave me alone with our guest. 136 00:16:09,709 --> 00:16:11,584 A priest is not a guest. 137 00:16:11,626 --> 00:16:13,834 Not a guest... Go on, you two. 138 00:16:13,876 --> 00:16:16,001 Run around a little. 139 00:16:17,251 --> 00:16:18,626 Oh, Kaziuk! 140 00:16:32,001 --> 00:16:35,834 Poor children, they are my only comfort now. 141 00:16:35,917 --> 00:16:37,042 Orphans? 142 00:16:37,209 --> 00:16:41,667 They still have their mother but their father was burnt at the stake. 143 00:16:44,417 --> 00:16:46,292 Garniec left them behind... 144 00:16:47,626 --> 00:16:49,959 And what will happen to them now... 145 00:16:50,501 --> 00:16:53,167 To the children of a priest and a sorcerer. 146 00:16:53,417 --> 00:16:56,167 Do you believe in his bad intentions? 147 00:16:56,584 --> 00:17:00,542 I may disbelieve his sorcery, but not his bad intentions. 148 00:17:06,501 --> 00:17:08,292 Did Satan get into him? 149 00:17:12,501 --> 00:17:16,917 Well, there are difficult tasks set up for you here, Father. 150 00:17:17,876 --> 00:17:21,542 I spent the whole autumn fasting and mortifying myself. 151 00:17:21,584 --> 00:17:22,959 I prayed, Father. 152 00:17:23,209 --> 00:17:26,209 I keep praying and yet I am afraid of him. 153 00:17:26,292 --> 00:17:27,417 Who? 154 00:17:28,667 --> 00:17:29,834 The Evil One. 155 00:17:30,917 --> 00:17:33,459 I never go to the convent. 156 00:17:33,626 --> 00:17:36,251 I have my parish and my church. 157 00:17:36,626 --> 00:17:40,459 Father Garniec never went there either and yet the wenches, 158 00:17:40,792 --> 00:17:43,709 I mean the nuns, brought about his downfall. 159 00:17:44,626 --> 00:17:49,792 That's true that he was young and handsome and I'm but an old man. 160 00:17:50,584 --> 00:17:54,209 Mother Joan of the Angels won't see me in her dreams. 161 00:17:54,792 --> 00:17:56,751 Did she see him? 162 00:17:59,501 --> 00:18:04,626 They say he could penetrate right through those monastery walls. 163 00:18:06,584 --> 00:18:10,167 No point discussing it. Women and their stories... 164 00:18:14,709 --> 00:18:17,251 You think it's nothing but women's talk? 165 00:18:17,334 --> 00:18:19,792 I do. But it's only between you and me. 166 00:18:20,042 --> 00:18:23,917 The nuns desperately wanted Father Garniec to come to them. 167 00:18:26,876 --> 00:18:30,084 The maidens, or the devils that possessed them, 168 00:18:30,334 --> 00:18:32,542 tell such things... 169 00:18:32,792 --> 00:18:36,001 And they do it in public, with hundreds listening. 170 00:18:36,126 --> 00:18:39,584 Where the devils dwell, where the devils hold them... 171 00:18:39,667 --> 00:18:42,542 They tell it in church, during the exorcism. 172 00:18:42,667 --> 00:18:44,917 What an outrage! In the church! 173 00:18:45,584 --> 00:18:48,001 But try telling this to the exorcists. 174 00:18:48,084 --> 00:18:50,709 They claim that if you show people the Devil, 175 00:18:50,792 --> 00:18:53,959 it'll make their faith in God and the Catholic Church stronger. 176 00:18:54,042 --> 00:18:57,167 So they show the people whatever they can. 177 00:18:57,209 --> 00:18:59,001 Like tricks at the fair. 178 00:18:59,334 --> 00:19:02,459 But to use the Devil to introduce God into human souls? 179 00:19:02,542 --> 00:19:05,501 Who knows, Father Joseph, who knows? 180 00:19:06,709 --> 00:19:09,459 Maybe it isn't such a bad way? 181 00:19:09,584 --> 00:19:12,376 Maybe that's the way saints are made? 182 00:19:12,834 --> 00:19:14,251 Unless... 183 00:19:15,917 --> 00:19:19,376 Unless there are no devils there... 184 00:19:27,501 --> 00:19:30,584 Every woman is naturally inclined to fall. 185 00:19:30,667 --> 00:19:32,417 But also to achieve holiness. 186 00:19:32,667 --> 00:19:35,709 Well, if you look at the world closely... 187 00:19:36,917 --> 00:19:40,834 I cannot tell, I know nothing of the world. 188 00:19:43,251 --> 00:19:45,584 My mother was a Carmelite. 189 00:19:45,876 --> 00:19:48,251 Both my sisters were nuns. 190 00:19:48,542 --> 00:19:51,042 I was surrounded by women who were almost saints. 191 00:19:51,126 --> 00:19:53,292 It is well, very well, dear Father, 192 00:19:53,459 --> 00:19:55,501 that you are so pious 193 00:19:55,584 --> 00:19:58,709 and that you know nothing of women and their ways. 194 00:19:59,001 --> 00:20:02,917 I think you'll face some difficult times here. 195 00:20:04,542 --> 00:20:05,792 Pray for me, Father. 196 00:20:06,001 --> 00:20:10,251 Not much I can do as a sinner. My prayers are not the powerful ones. 197 00:20:10,959 --> 00:20:13,209 But I shall pray for you. I shall. 198 00:20:15,667 --> 00:20:17,126 Bless me, Father. 199 00:20:21,667 --> 00:20:24,376 Children! We're going home. 200 00:20:48,584 --> 00:20:51,584 I will accompany you, Father. 201 00:20:53,584 --> 00:20:55,917 That's not necessary. It really isn't. 202 00:20:56,751 --> 00:21:00,334 But it is more dignified... a priest should not walk alone. 203 00:21:00,459 --> 00:21:02,084 It's all the same to me. 204 00:21:02,251 --> 00:21:03,792 But not to us. 205 00:21:04,417 --> 00:21:07,126 I'll be coming with you, wherever you go. 206 00:21:07,209 --> 00:21:08,834 We're good people here. 207 00:21:08,917 --> 00:21:09,834 All of you? 208 00:21:11,251 --> 00:21:12,376 Maybe not all. 209 00:21:12,459 --> 00:21:15,667 But one shouldn't judge the day before the sunset. 210 00:21:18,209 --> 00:21:21,459 We're here. One of the sisters will open the gate. 211 00:21:23,084 --> 00:21:24,959 Her name is Margaret. 212 00:22:07,501 --> 00:22:11,417 Mother Superior has been expecting you since yesternight. 213 00:23:45,751 --> 00:23:48,667 Welcome, Father. I'm so glad to see you. 214 00:23:55,209 --> 00:23:58,167 We've been waiting for you as our savior. 215 00:23:58,834 --> 00:24:02,167 My daughter, our common prayer will help. 216 00:24:02,834 --> 00:24:04,667 Please, take a seat, Father. 217 00:24:08,959 --> 00:24:12,209 For months, we've been experiencing great misfortunes. 218 00:24:12,959 --> 00:24:16,292 Those priests who have been with us for a while 219 00:24:16,584 --> 00:24:18,834 are unable to deal with those miseries. 220 00:24:18,917 --> 00:24:22,084 You're our last hope, Father. Such a pious man... 221 00:24:22,126 --> 00:24:24,584 I was instructed to only take care of you. 222 00:24:24,626 --> 00:24:27,209 Other priests will attend to the rest of the nuns. 223 00:24:27,292 --> 00:24:30,459 Really? Just as well. If the spirits leave me, 224 00:24:30,542 --> 00:24:33,334 they will also let go of other sisters. 225 00:24:34,126 --> 00:24:36,001 It all started with me. 226 00:24:38,167 --> 00:24:40,459 I will try to chase this demon away. 227 00:24:40,542 --> 00:24:42,459 I have eight of them inside me. 228 00:24:42,959 --> 00:24:46,917 Behemoth, Balaam, lsaacaaron, Gresil, 229 00:24:47,001 --> 00:24:51,084 Amon, Asmodeus, Leviathan and Dog's Tail. 230 00:24:51,126 --> 00:24:53,209 Don't trust them, my daughter. 231 00:24:53,251 --> 00:24:56,084 The evil can take various shapes and forms. 232 00:24:57,209 --> 00:24:59,751 When was your last confession? 233 00:25:00,751 --> 00:25:03,626 Half a year ago, before I was first possessed. 234 00:25:03,709 --> 00:25:05,126 It's a very long time. 235 00:25:05,251 --> 00:25:07,417 Why did you put off your penance? 236 00:25:09,959 --> 00:25:11,334 We didn't. 237 00:25:11,917 --> 00:25:15,001 The demons wouldn't let us take the holy sacraments. 238 00:25:15,084 --> 00:25:16,709 Demons wouldn't let you? 239 00:25:17,209 --> 00:25:20,209 Our maybe it's just your own spiritual laziness 240 00:25:20,917 --> 00:25:23,292 that took the shape of the demons? 241 00:25:23,709 --> 00:25:26,167 So you don't believe I am possessed. 242 00:25:26,584 --> 00:25:29,876 My child, I must believe it, even if I don't want to. 243 00:25:30,126 --> 00:25:34,042 Satan uses various ways to reach our souls. 244 00:25:34,209 --> 00:25:35,876 He is mighty. 245 00:25:36,251 --> 00:25:38,667 We don't know much about the nature of demons. 246 00:25:38,709 --> 00:25:41,959 And what they tell us through the lips of the possessed, 247 00:25:42,042 --> 00:25:43,501 must not be trusted. 248 00:25:45,209 --> 00:25:48,584 Have you ever thought that they are sons of falsehood? 249 00:25:48,626 --> 00:25:52,167 What is falsehood, reverend Father, and what is the truth? 250 00:25:54,251 --> 00:25:57,751 Every Christian must have a conscience, 251 00:25:57,834 --> 00:26:01,001 that would tell him what is black and what is white. 252 00:26:01,501 --> 00:26:04,959 Was it evil that Father Garniec died because of me? 253 00:26:06,584 --> 00:26:09,834 Let your conscience answer that for you. 254 00:26:15,126 --> 00:26:18,709 If I told you of all the miseries, this man brought upon me, 255 00:26:18,792 --> 00:26:21,001 all the wicked things... 256 00:26:22,084 --> 00:26:25,042 I will tell you one day, I have to. 257 00:26:25,542 --> 00:26:28,542 Father, you must know everything I carry inside me, 258 00:26:28,584 --> 00:26:31,292 all my suffering, all I've been through. 259 00:26:31,584 --> 00:26:34,501 You are to lift me from this pit of solitude 260 00:26:34,584 --> 00:26:36,792 where God has cast me... 261 00:26:36,876 --> 00:26:38,501 Calm down, my child. 262 00:26:44,917 --> 00:26:46,209 Calm down. 263 00:26:46,459 --> 00:26:49,792 No one is alone in this world, my child, no one. 264 00:26:54,917 --> 00:26:57,459 I saw him standing by my bed. 265 00:26:59,042 --> 00:27:05,667 Guardian Angel... He reminded me of Kaziuk from the inn. 266 00:27:06,792 --> 00:27:10,542 Only he had long hair, falling down to his shoulders. 267 00:27:11,376 --> 00:27:15,126 He bent over me and touched my breast 268 00:27:15,626 --> 00:27:19,209 staining my shirt with five drops of a fragrant balm. 269 00:27:27,417 --> 00:27:30,792 Forgive me, but there is no one I could tell about 270 00:27:30,834 --> 00:27:33,209 what pains and frightens me so much. 271 00:27:38,792 --> 00:27:42,542 Defend me, reverend Father. 272 00:27:45,459 --> 00:27:47,126 It's all right. All right. 273 00:27:50,626 --> 00:27:53,167 Go to your chores, my daughter. 274 00:27:53,834 --> 00:27:56,584 I will pray and then we shall think 275 00:27:56,626 --> 00:27:58,876 of our sins and shortcomings. 276 00:28:52,709 --> 00:28:56,584 Oh, my dear. Don't think it will be easy 277 00:28:56,917 --> 00:29:00,042 to force me out of this sweet body. 278 00:29:01,667 --> 00:29:05,084 Mother Joan. Mother Joan. 279 00:29:05,459 --> 00:29:07,626 I am not Mother Joan. 280 00:29:07,751 --> 00:29:10,626 I am not Mother Joan. I am nobody. 281 00:29:11,917 --> 00:29:16,126 Don't think you can frighten us with your Latin babbling. 282 00:29:16,459 --> 00:29:18,167 You filthy priest! 283 00:29:19,959 --> 00:29:21,292 Apage Satanas, 284 00:29:24,209 --> 00:29:25,251 Apage... 285 00:29:26,917 --> 00:29:28,001 Apage Satanas, 286 00:29:29,376 --> 00:29:30,542 Apage Balaam, 287 00:29:32,001 --> 00:29:33,459 Apage lsaacaaron. 288 00:30:47,084 --> 00:30:49,542 Praise the Lord, Sister Margaret. 289 00:30:49,584 --> 00:30:50,667 For ever and ever. 290 00:30:50,709 --> 00:30:52,876 I thought you weren't coming today. 291 00:30:52,959 --> 00:30:55,334 I have more and more work, my dear. 292 00:30:55,417 --> 00:30:57,459 It's because of the exorcisms. 293 00:30:57,542 --> 00:31:01,709 The nuns do nothing but pray and you have to do all the work. 294 00:31:02,751 --> 00:31:04,917 I'm so out of breath. 295 00:31:05,626 --> 00:31:08,126 I like it here, away from it all. 296 00:31:08,584 --> 00:31:10,834 But it's nicer among people. 297 00:31:25,792 --> 00:31:31,209 I'm so glad to see a representative of the famous convent. 298 00:31:33,334 --> 00:31:36,501 Sister will certainly tell us something interesting. 299 00:31:40,917 --> 00:31:42,917 What interesting thing could I tell you? 300 00:31:42,959 --> 00:31:45,459 You're the ones coming from the outside world. 301 00:31:45,501 --> 00:31:49,459 We would have never have come here, 302 00:31:49,501 --> 00:31:52,751 if it wasn't for the Sister and her convent. 303 00:31:52,834 --> 00:31:55,251 We were attracted by the exorcisms. 304 00:31:55,917 --> 00:31:58,376 The devils are not interested in me. 305 00:31:58,584 --> 00:32:02,501 My soul must be too tough and my body undesirable. 306 00:32:04,626 --> 00:32:07,001 The serious exorcisms are about to begin. 307 00:32:07,126 --> 00:32:08,709 A new priest has arrived. 308 00:32:08,751 --> 00:32:11,001 This one's too weak for our convent. 309 00:32:12,334 --> 00:32:15,667 He turned pale as a corpse after a chat with the Mother Superior 310 00:32:15,709 --> 00:32:17,542 and was almost too weak to walk. 311 00:32:17,584 --> 00:32:21,209 And she only showed him her trick with soot-covered door handle. 312 00:32:21,292 --> 00:32:24,209 What are you saying? Mother Joan is cheating? 313 00:32:27,042 --> 00:32:32,042 Is it not the devil that makes her cover the handle with soot every morning? 314 00:32:34,001 --> 00:32:35,751 What kind of cheating is that? 315 00:32:35,792 --> 00:32:38,376 She mustn't cheat! Don't let her cheat! 316 00:32:38,834 --> 00:32:41,709 She mustn't cheat! She mustn't! 317 00:32:42,042 --> 00:32:45,001 Mother Joan mustn't cheat. It all must be real. 318 00:32:45,459 --> 00:32:47,292 And why did we come here? 319 00:32:47,334 --> 00:32:50,959 We should have gone to the fair, to see the tightrope walkers. 320 00:32:51,001 --> 00:32:53,417 I never liked the idea of devilish nuns. 321 00:32:53,501 --> 00:32:56,709 If only the devils would take off their clothes. 322 00:32:56,792 --> 00:32:59,667 They would take off their clothes sometimes. 323 00:32:59,917 --> 00:33:04,459 Before Father Garniec was burnt they'd run around the garden naked 324 00:33:04,709 --> 00:33:06,709 and they would call out to him! 325 00:33:09,209 --> 00:33:13,501 Let's go, gentlemen. We shall teach the nuns how to drink vodka. 326 00:33:13,876 --> 00:33:15,417 Come on! Come! 327 00:33:18,126 --> 00:33:21,959 Sister, as I am a Wolodkowicz, 328 00:33:22,834 --> 00:33:25,542 please, have a glass of mead with us. 329 00:33:25,792 --> 00:33:28,667 My God, gentlemen, you behave like Tartars. 330 00:33:29,001 --> 00:33:30,126 Drink, Sister. 331 00:33:30,209 --> 00:33:31,959 One sin you may commit. 332 00:33:34,417 --> 00:33:37,459 My God, gentlemen, what kind of men are you? 333 00:33:37,501 --> 00:33:39,084 Here's to the convent! 334 00:33:39,167 --> 00:33:42,042 - To Mother Joan! - To the Mother Superior! 335 00:33:42,959 --> 00:33:45,084 To the convent! 336 00:33:59,292 --> 00:34:03,334 My dear mother, I'd rather be a nun 337 00:34:03,376 --> 00:34:06,792 than to have a brute for a husband. 338 00:34:15,042 --> 00:34:18,626 He would beat me with his stick. 339 00:34:18,959 --> 00:34:23,126 He would beat me black and blue so I'd rather be a nun. 340 00:34:30,584 --> 00:34:34,209 I'd rather sing in a nunnery choir 341 00:34:34,667 --> 00:34:38,501 than take a beating he thinks I require. 342 00:34:46,042 --> 00:34:49,834 I'd rather sing matins for hours and hours 343 00:34:50,417 --> 00:34:53,834 and be saved from his stick. 344 00:34:58,292 --> 00:35:00,167 Father Suryn is coming back. 345 00:35:08,917 --> 00:35:11,584 My daughter, where do I find you? 346 00:35:12,501 --> 00:35:14,917 I had some business to attend to. 347 00:35:17,376 --> 00:35:19,876 Go and sin no more. 348 00:35:26,584 --> 00:35:32,126 The devil is here and he is there. That's how the world is. 349 00:35:35,334 --> 00:35:37,417 You know the world well? 350 00:35:37,667 --> 00:35:38,876 DO you? 351 00:35:40,167 --> 00:35:42,251 Me? I don't. 352 00:35:43,292 --> 00:35:45,667 I spent all my life in a monastery. 353 00:35:49,126 --> 00:35:50,459 Kaziuk, be careful. 354 00:35:56,001 --> 00:35:58,417 The devil must have left this axe here. 355 00:36:57,501 --> 00:37:01,334 I know how angry you are that I came here to fight you. 356 00:37:02,917 --> 00:37:05,376 This is your kingdom but others sent me 357 00:37:05,459 --> 00:37:07,334 in the name of Our Lord. 358 00:37:07,376 --> 00:37:09,251 I come from another kingdom; 359 00:37:09,501 --> 00:37:15,084 I come from light like you come from darkness. 360 00:37:15,251 --> 00:37:18,209 I come from good like you come from evil. 361 00:37:22,417 --> 00:37:23,584 Kaziuk... 362 00:37:26,542 --> 00:37:28,501 Do you believe in the devil? 363 00:37:29,876 --> 00:37:30,792 I do. 364 00:37:31,251 --> 00:37:33,042 Did you see him? 365 00:37:33,542 --> 00:37:34,834 I did. 366 00:37:35,292 --> 00:37:36,459 With horns? 367 00:37:36,667 --> 00:37:38,001 Don't be daft. 368 00:37:38,709 --> 00:37:39,584 Well? 369 00:37:40,626 --> 00:37:44,917 He had wings and the Mother Superior's face. 370 00:37:51,251 --> 00:37:52,959 But what did he look like? 371 00:37:53,126 --> 00:37:54,667 Don't be so curious. 372 00:37:55,209 --> 00:37:59,126 Please, tell me. I've never seen the devil. 373 00:38:01,376 --> 00:38:02,667 Neither have I. 374 00:38:03,459 --> 00:38:04,917 But you just said... 375 00:38:05,959 --> 00:38:11,209 I didn't see the devil himself. I just saw him tormenting the sisters. 376 00:38:12,834 --> 00:38:17,459 He tormented the Mother Superior the most, Mother Joan of the Angels. 377 00:38:20,167 --> 00:38:21,542 Is this her name? 378 00:38:21,584 --> 00:38:22,584 Yes. 379 00:38:23,001 --> 00:38:25,626 Mother Joan of the Angels. 380 00:38:31,126 --> 00:38:34,917 She should be called of the Devils, not of the Angels. 381 00:38:41,876 --> 00:38:45,292 The world is so terrible when one's alone. 382 00:38:46,417 --> 00:38:48,792 Maybe I will be possessed as well? 383 00:38:49,501 --> 00:38:52,459 The devil doesn't care for people like us. 384 00:38:53,917 --> 00:38:55,292 You say that, 385 00:38:55,917 --> 00:38:59,959 but sometimes I hate my father so much that I want to kill him. 386 00:39:01,876 --> 00:39:06,209 And if one kills one's father the devil will never let him go. 387 00:39:09,792 --> 00:39:13,501 Why kill your father? He will die anyway. 388 00:39:15,001 --> 00:39:18,209 One day he will, but today he is evil. 389 00:39:19,209 --> 00:39:23,334 He is evil, he beats my mother and me. 390 00:39:25,417 --> 00:39:26,959 Pray for him. 391 00:39:27,917 --> 00:39:29,292 May he... 392 00:39:29,709 --> 00:39:34,626 Say: In the name of the Father and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost, 393 00:39:36,167 --> 00:39:38,667 God, protect my father. 394 00:39:40,584 --> 00:39:44,501 I can say that. God, protect my father. 395 00:39:45,959 --> 00:39:47,334 And now go to sleep. 396 00:39:50,251 --> 00:39:53,001 In the name of the Father and of the Son... 397 00:39:54,459 --> 00:39:56,001 I'm asleep. 398 00:39:57,709 --> 00:40:00,626 - Goodnight. - Goodnight. 399 00:45:50,834 --> 00:45:51,959 Satan! 400 00:45:54,084 --> 00:45:59,417 I command you leave the body of the reverend Mother Joan of the Angels! 401 00:46:04,209 --> 00:46:05,542 Leave! 402 00:46:11,959 --> 00:46:15,251 Leave! Leave! 403 00:46:24,167 --> 00:46:26,792 Leave her, Satan! Leave her! 404 00:46:27,417 --> 00:46:31,501 I shall not! Do what you will! I shall not! 405 00:46:31,959 --> 00:46:34,709 I shall not! I don't want to! 406 00:46:35,834 --> 00:46:41,334 Baalam, lsaacaaran, Asmodeus, Gresil, 407 00:46:41,751 --> 00:46:44,417 Amon, Leviathan, 408 00:46:44,792 --> 00:46:47,501 respond, which are you? 409 00:46:55,709 --> 00:46:58,001 It's me, Dog's Tail, 410 00:46:58,584 --> 00:47:00,042 at your service. 411 00:47:02,126 --> 00:47:04,209 Respond, Dog's Tail, 412 00:47:05,126 --> 00:47:08,626 will you leave this woman's body if I command it? 413 00:47:09,459 --> 00:47:13,417 I will, at once. But what will you do with my brothers? 414 00:47:13,834 --> 00:47:18,584 Balaam is in the head, Gresil in the belly and Asmodeus... 415 00:47:31,542 --> 00:47:34,084 Satan! I command you, leave! 416 00:47:52,917 --> 00:47:54,459 Dog's Tail left. 417 00:48:32,251 --> 00:48:35,167 I am not Mother Joan! I am not Mother Joan! 418 00:48:36,292 --> 00:48:38,959 I am Satan! My name is Gresil! 419 00:48:42,667 --> 00:48:46,084 Gresil, Satan, it was God's will, 420 00:48:46,167 --> 00:48:48,959 that you should enter the body of this woman. 421 00:48:49,042 --> 00:48:53,001 You owe obedience to those, who command you in His name! 422 00:48:53,667 --> 00:48:55,334 Will you obey? 423 00:48:58,167 --> 00:48:59,042 I will. 424 00:48:59,167 --> 00:49:01,167 Show us then, evil spirit, 425 00:49:01,209 --> 00:49:04,251 how Seraphim worship the Lord of Hosts. 426 00:49:07,292 --> 00:49:10,792 How Seraphim worship the Lord of Hosts? 427 00:49:42,376 --> 00:49:50,959 Gresil! Show us now how Thrones worship the Almighty. 428 00:50:53,709 --> 00:50:58,834 Gresil! In the name of God I command you to pay homage 429 00:50:58,917 --> 00:51:01,792 to the sign of our salvation. 430 00:51:04,584 --> 00:51:08,292 Don't make me do it, Father. He will torment me terribly. 431 00:51:08,876 --> 00:51:10,834 Pay homage, I command you! 432 00:51:10,917 --> 00:51:12,167 I don't want to! 433 00:51:12,251 --> 00:51:14,084 No! I don't want to! 434 00:51:39,751 --> 00:51:45,126 No! I don't want to! 435 00:51:45,334 --> 00:51:48,167 I don't want to! I don't want to! 436 00:51:49,376 --> 00:51:51,376 I shall not pay homage! 437 00:51:52,042 --> 00:51:56,001 No earthly or heavenly powers can force me to do that! 438 00:51:57,584 --> 00:52:00,001 l am and I will be! 439 00:52:32,209 --> 00:52:34,334 Humble thyself! Humble thyself! 440 00:52:34,459 --> 00:52:36,709 Humble thyself! Humble thyself! 441 00:52:38,709 --> 00:52:40,209 No! No! 442 00:52:56,126 --> 00:52:59,709 I curse God the Father, and the Son, and the Spirit, 443 00:52:59,792 --> 00:53:03,001 and the Holy Mother, and the Heavenly Kingdom! 444 00:53:31,584 --> 00:53:34,417 Oh, Holy Cross! Oh, Our Lady! 445 00:53:35,001 --> 00:53:37,292 Forgive me all my blasphemies. 446 00:55:49,376 --> 00:55:50,292 God... 447 00:55:52,376 --> 00:55:54,376 My Lord, defend me from Satan. 448 00:56:35,959 --> 00:56:37,459 Sister Margaret! 449 00:56:38,084 --> 00:56:39,917 You frightened me again, Odryn! 450 00:56:40,001 --> 00:56:42,459 Won't there be any more exorcisms in the church? 451 00:56:42,542 --> 00:56:45,001 There will be. There always will be. 452 00:56:46,042 --> 00:56:49,209 Only the Mother Superior will be kept in solitude. 453 00:56:49,292 --> 00:56:51,251 - In solitude? - Yes... 454 00:57:56,084 --> 00:57:58,167 Kneel down, Mother Joan! 455 00:58:09,459 --> 00:58:11,584 Kneel down, my child! 456 00:58:24,584 --> 00:58:28,167 We shall pray together. I will say the prayers, 457 00:58:28,917 --> 00:58:32,001 and you'll try to connect with me spiritually. 458 00:58:34,959 --> 00:58:37,001 May peace come upon you. 459 00:59:25,751 --> 00:59:27,501 Love drives away Evil. 460 00:59:28,126 --> 00:59:29,709 Let it fill you. 461 00:59:30,209 --> 00:59:33,542 Is it possible not to give love in return for love? 462 00:59:36,709 --> 00:59:37,917 Let us pray. 463 00:59:39,917 --> 00:59:43,709 Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; 464 00:59:44,417 --> 00:59:47,584 thy kingdom come; thy will be done, 465 00:59:47,959 --> 00:59:49,834 on earth as it is in heaven. 466 00:59:49,917 --> 00:59:53,917 Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, 467 00:59:53,959 --> 00:59:58,126 as we forgive them that trespass against us. 468 01:00:02,667 --> 01:00:06,084 Hail Mary, full of grace. 469 01:00:06,626 --> 01:00:10,334 The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, 470 01:00:10,459 --> 01:00:14,167 and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. 471 01:00:14,376 --> 01:00:16,376 Hosanna! Hosanna! 472 01:00:43,876 --> 01:00:46,209 Odryn and I cleaned up here 473 01:00:46,251 --> 01:00:49,376 but there is nothing we could do about the pigeons. 474 01:00:49,459 --> 01:00:51,917 Make Odryn fix the holes in the roof. 475 01:00:52,001 --> 01:00:53,501 I will, Mother Joan. 476 01:00:57,834 --> 01:01:01,959 There are so many of them, so many of them everywhere. 477 01:01:02,167 --> 01:01:04,459 But no one will bother you here. 478 01:01:04,501 --> 01:01:06,251 Thank you, Sister Margaret. 479 01:01:17,584 --> 01:01:20,917 Here, in solitude, it'll be easier for you to part with your pride. 480 01:01:21,001 --> 01:01:23,667 Shameful pride, with which you sin the most. 481 01:01:25,584 --> 01:01:28,209 Mother Joan, when you're among people, 482 01:01:28,292 --> 01:01:30,542 you only think about your exaltation. 483 01:01:40,167 --> 01:01:43,709 Who am I? A poor servant of the Lord. 484 01:01:45,376 --> 01:01:48,126 Who worships Him in a remote convent. 485 01:01:49,001 --> 01:01:50,584 l am just a nun. 486 01:01:53,001 --> 01:01:56,834 Even though my father is a duke, our family is impoverished. 487 01:02:00,084 --> 01:02:04,709 He stays in Smolensk Marshes and nobody knows him. 488 01:02:08,459 --> 01:02:10,459 Who am I? A poor nun, 489 01:02:10,667 --> 01:02:13,917 and yet eight powerful demons possessed me. 490 01:02:18,292 --> 01:02:22,376 Be as good as a child, be as happy as a child, 491 01:02:24,501 --> 01:02:27,167 because God loves us very much. 492 01:02:37,459 --> 01:02:41,126 And what if Satan leaves me and possesses you? 493 01:04:44,251 --> 01:04:48,042 God, have mercy on my sinful soul. 494 01:04:49,167 --> 01:04:51,626 God, have mercy on my sinful soul. 495 01:04:52,626 --> 01:04:55,001 God, have mercy on my sinful soul. 496 01:07:50,876 --> 01:07:52,917 There is no truth in this world. 497 01:07:53,709 --> 01:07:56,917 You return once more to those hopeless words. 498 01:07:57,126 --> 01:08:00,459 After so many days of prayer, so many acts of humility. 499 01:08:06,709 --> 01:08:07,792 Don't! 500 01:08:09,292 --> 01:08:11,667 Demons inside me are waking up again. 501 01:08:11,751 --> 01:08:14,084 Let go of me! You're becoming Satan yourself. 502 01:08:14,126 --> 01:08:15,834 - No! - Let go of me! 503 01:08:15,917 --> 01:08:16,917 No... 504 01:08:55,709 --> 01:08:57,042 Lord, oh Lord... 505 01:08:59,751 --> 01:09:01,667 why hast thou forsaken me? 506 01:09:02,417 --> 01:09:03,834 Father, 507 01:09:04,251 --> 01:09:05,251 Father! 508 01:09:07,959 --> 01:09:10,501 You're getting your hands dirty, Father. 509 01:10:22,792 --> 01:10:23,917 Praise the Lord. 510 01:10:24,001 --> 01:10:26,876 For ever and ever. Father Suryn is out. 511 01:10:28,292 --> 01:10:30,959 I came to see you, dear. But only for a moment. 512 01:10:31,042 --> 01:10:34,042 I haven't been here in a while but you have no idea 513 01:10:34,084 --> 01:10:35,376 how much is going on. 514 01:10:35,417 --> 01:10:38,667 We can't even peep outside, through the gate anymore. 515 01:10:38,751 --> 01:10:41,667 And here, they've been making a grating for Father Suryn. 516 01:10:41,751 --> 01:10:44,959 Mother Joan has been possessed by even worse devils. 517 01:10:46,042 --> 01:10:48,667 The same thing happened with Father Garniec. 518 01:10:48,709 --> 01:10:49,751 Be quiet! 519 01:10:53,001 --> 01:10:55,584 You'll say something in an evil hour. 520 01:11:05,542 --> 01:11:10,584 This gentleman leaves everything and comes back to our muddy town. 521 01:11:11,542 --> 01:11:15,042 People say he is borrowing money from the local Jews. 522 01:11:15,334 --> 01:11:19,626 Stupid. Gentlemen like him don't take care of such matters themselves. 523 01:11:19,959 --> 01:11:22,459 What do you know about such matters? 524 01:11:22,542 --> 01:11:25,834 I do. When it was about Father Garniec... 525 01:11:31,834 --> 01:11:33,542 My dear mother... 526 01:11:42,667 --> 01:11:45,959 You must be surprised, madam, to see me here again. 527 01:11:46,042 --> 01:11:48,251 Something just makes me return here... 528 01:11:48,334 --> 01:11:51,334 Are you so curious about the convent? 529 01:13:05,417 --> 01:13:06,876 It's here, Father. 530 01:13:10,542 --> 01:13:12,501 Why would I go in there? 531 01:13:13,167 --> 01:13:15,042 Who knows what may happen. 532 01:13:15,126 --> 01:13:16,542 And he is a wise man. 533 01:13:16,626 --> 01:13:19,917 He always says "don't open the door for trouble, 534 01:13:20,292 --> 01:13:22,584 it can get in through the window". 535 01:13:26,459 --> 01:13:27,626 Come in. 536 01:13:59,001 --> 01:14:01,167 The rabbi is expecting you... 537 01:14:19,834 --> 01:14:20,876 Salve! 538 01:14:22,334 --> 01:14:24,334 You must be surprised. 539 01:14:25,042 --> 01:14:26,042 I'm not. 540 01:14:26,459 --> 01:14:29,917 I've been expecting one of you for a long time. 541 01:14:30,751 --> 01:14:31,959 You know? 542 01:14:32,584 --> 01:14:33,626 I do. 543 01:14:35,209 --> 01:14:36,292 What is it? 544 01:14:39,542 --> 01:14:42,459 A reverend father comes to a poor rabbi, 545 01:14:42,501 --> 01:14:44,209 to ask what it is? 546 01:14:45,751 --> 01:14:47,251 What are demons? 547 01:14:48,709 --> 01:14:50,334 A priest does not know? 548 01:14:52,001 --> 01:14:53,876 Maybe these aren't demons. 549 01:14:53,959 --> 01:14:55,876 Maybe angels are missing. 550 01:14:57,001 --> 01:15:01,042 An angel abandoned Mother Joan and she was left alone. 551 01:15:08,251 --> 01:15:11,167 Maybe this is human nature? 552 01:15:13,667 --> 01:15:15,959 Don't judge! Don't mock, Jew. 553 01:15:16,959 --> 01:15:19,292 You sit in this windowless room 554 01:15:19,376 --> 01:15:21,709 with your books and your candles 555 01:15:21,917 --> 01:15:25,542 and you don't care at all that people suffer. That women... 556 01:15:27,459 --> 01:15:32,792 Women suffer? Let them suffer. It is their fate. 557 01:15:35,459 --> 01:15:38,251 And no human being can escape fate. 558 01:15:46,001 --> 01:15:49,334 Tell me, what you know of demons. 559 01:15:54,584 --> 01:15:56,209 Sit down, Father. 560 01:16:10,376 --> 01:16:13,834 First, tell me what an evil spirit is. 561 01:16:14,042 --> 01:16:16,459 Where it abides? What is it like? 562 01:16:16,542 --> 01:16:19,251 Where it comes from? Who created it? 563 01:16:19,917 --> 01:16:21,126 Adonai? 564 01:16:23,417 --> 01:16:24,292 God. 565 01:16:26,126 --> 01:16:28,251 Who else could have created it. 566 01:16:31,001 --> 01:16:33,751 And what if Satan created the world? 567 01:16:34,251 --> 01:16:35,417 Stop it now. 568 01:16:37,209 --> 01:16:42,917 Because if the Lord created the world, why is there so much evil in it? 569 01:16:45,917 --> 01:16:48,917 Death, disease, wars. 570 01:16:50,584 --> 01:16:53,251 Why are we, Jews, persecuted? 571 01:16:54,292 --> 01:16:59,501 Why do they slaughter our sons, rape our daughters? 572 01:17:00,667 --> 01:17:02,126 Original sin. 573 01:17:02,792 --> 01:17:07,084 Original sin? The Fall of the first parents. 574 01:17:13,834 --> 01:17:17,084 How many times did people fall only to rise up again? 575 01:17:17,876 --> 01:17:22,042 How often was patient Abel killed by Cain? 576 01:17:24,876 --> 01:17:27,626 All that evil committed by men, 577 01:17:28,376 --> 01:17:31,667 doesn't justify the evil that torments them. 578 01:17:34,292 --> 01:17:38,667 The Fall of the first man, the Fall of the first Angel. 579 01:17:41,292 --> 01:17:45,959 Why did Angels step down from heaven to beget giants with women? 580 01:17:50,584 --> 01:17:52,251 Speak, reverend Father. 581 01:17:54,167 --> 01:17:58,501 Angels... are incomprehensible beings. 582 01:18:03,251 --> 01:18:06,251 Your Mother Joan calls herself of the Angels, 583 01:18:07,292 --> 01:18:10,126 and what does she know of the Angels? 584 01:18:12,126 --> 01:18:14,251 What are angels, Father? 585 01:18:19,917 --> 01:18:21,376 God sends them. 586 01:18:24,084 --> 01:18:26,376 And does he not send the devil? 587 01:18:26,459 --> 01:18:30,042 Without the Lord's will Satan cannot possess a human soul. 588 01:18:33,917 --> 01:18:37,167 When can Satan possess a human soul? 589 01:18:37,501 --> 01:18:40,001 When a man loves him very much. 590 01:18:44,001 --> 01:18:46,084 How can one love Satan? 591 01:18:48,667 --> 01:18:52,751 Love is the root of all that happens in the world. 592 01:18:55,834 --> 01:19:00,084 There was a young boy who loved a Jewish girl. 593 01:19:00,167 --> 01:19:04,001 He loved her so much that when he died, his soul entered her 594 01:19:04,417 --> 01:19:10,459 and they brought her here, and she stood where you stand, 595 01:19:11,542 --> 01:19:14,459 and I called upon the spirit to leave her. 596 01:19:15,584 --> 01:19:17,084 And what happened? 597 01:19:19,959 --> 01:19:21,917 The spirit refused. 598 01:19:24,167 --> 01:19:25,292 You see, 599 01:19:31,751 --> 01:19:36,417 the spirit told me it would not leave her and it took her soul, 600 01:19:38,584 --> 01:19:40,126 and she died. 601 01:19:42,084 --> 01:19:45,917 Love is as strong as death. 602 01:19:53,084 --> 01:19:55,751 I shall learn nothing from you. 603 01:20:02,792 --> 01:20:05,501 You want to know everything at once. 604 01:20:06,917 --> 01:20:10,292 What my grandfather learned from his father, 605 01:20:10,376 --> 01:20:12,126 and from others before him, 606 01:20:12,209 --> 01:20:14,501 what was written down on parchment, 607 01:20:14,584 --> 01:20:18,209 in the Zohar and the Temureh, you want to know it all, 608 01:20:18,251 --> 01:20:21,626 and you want me to convey it all in no more than three words? 609 01:20:21,709 --> 01:20:25,292 As if we were making a trade. Do you want a receipt? 610 01:20:25,376 --> 01:20:27,751 Hush, hush, and we are done? 611 01:20:29,584 --> 01:20:31,167 About all the demons? 612 01:20:32,042 --> 01:20:35,042 Those created by the Almighty Adonai? 613 01:20:35,626 --> 01:20:39,584 Those born of sons of angels and earthly women? 614 01:20:40,459 --> 01:20:43,001 And those which have risen inside you, 615 01:20:43,084 --> 01:20:48,834 which obscure your reason and seek to take away your wisdom? 616 01:20:49,376 --> 01:20:54,667 Those hidden in your heart, heart, heart? 617 01:20:55,626 --> 01:20:58,501 You want to know everything about demons? 618 01:21:00,001 --> 01:21:02,917 Let them enter your soul. 619 01:21:04,417 --> 01:21:08,084 My demons are my business. My soul is mine alone. 620 01:21:08,792 --> 01:21:11,542 I am you, you are me! 621 01:21:13,667 --> 01:21:15,459 My God, what are you saying? 622 01:21:16,667 --> 01:21:18,542 You know nothing, Father. 623 01:21:18,626 --> 01:21:22,417 You tread in the dark, your ignorance like a black cloak of night. 624 01:21:22,501 --> 01:21:25,959 I can't teach you anything more, for there is nothing more you can learn. 625 01:21:26,042 --> 01:21:28,584 My knowledge is not your knowledge any more! 626 01:21:33,251 --> 01:21:35,292 You are me... 627 01:21:36,917 --> 01:21:38,376 Away with you! 628 01:21:49,001 --> 01:21:51,167 Be gone. I also know nothing. 629 01:21:51,542 --> 01:21:52,417 Nothing. 630 01:23:06,001 --> 01:23:08,709 Sister, tell the Mother Superior, 631 01:23:08,751 --> 01:23:11,417 to come to the attic at once. 632 01:23:11,876 --> 01:23:13,084 To the attic? 633 01:23:13,167 --> 01:23:13,959 Yes. 634 01:23:14,042 --> 01:23:16,709 Tell her there will be no exorcisms. 635 01:24:05,251 --> 01:24:10,209 You, whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, 636 01:24:10,542 --> 01:24:13,626 and called its furthest corners... 637 01:24:14,334 --> 01:24:17,126 I have chosen you, not cast you away. 638 01:24:17,542 --> 01:24:19,917 Fear not, for I am with you. 639 01:24:29,959 --> 01:24:32,292 Why did you call me? 640 01:24:32,417 --> 01:24:34,126 I desire your salvation. 641 01:24:35,501 --> 01:24:37,001 Where is salvation? 642 01:24:39,501 --> 01:24:42,501 It is most difficult for me to speak openly. 643 01:24:42,709 --> 01:24:43,834 Speak... Speak. 644 01:24:45,917 --> 01:24:49,334 I will take it all upon myself. I will absorb all your sins. 645 01:24:49,417 --> 01:24:51,584 You will be clean. Tell me everything. 646 01:24:58,501 --> 01:25:01,751 The most terrible thing is that I love Satan. 647 01:25:02,209 --> 01:25:04,542 This possession gives me joy. 648 01:25:05,917 --> 01:25:08,459 I'm proud to have been chosen 649 01:25:08,626 --> 01:25:10,959 and it gives me satisfaction, 650 01:25:11,042 --> 01:25:13,709 that demons torment me more than anyone else. 651 01:25:13,751 --> 01:25:17,292 Once again, you sin with your pride. Pray for humility. 652 01:25:24,501 --> 01:25:26,251 There is no salvation for me. 653 01:25:26,334 --> 01:25:28,834 I've just said the same about myself, 654 01:25:28,876 --> 01:25:31,834 but I don't believe it any more. I am strong. 655 01:25:32,709 --> 01:25:35,042 Mother Joan, I shall lead you. 656 01:25:40,084 --> 01:25:43,334 Where to? What is that road that you're showing me? 657 01:25:44,834 --> 01:25:49,042 You only want me to calm down, to become grayer, smaller, 658 01:25:51,167 --> 01:25:53,709 to be exactly like all the other nuns. 659 01:25:55,001 --> 01:25:58,459 All right, then. I will tell you. 660 01:26:00,584 --> 01:26:04,334 I open my soul to let the demons enter. 661 01:26:05,042 --> 01:26:10,001 And you want to make me just like thousands of those aimless Wanderers. 662 01:26:10,251 --> 01:26:14,042 You want to see me pray every morning, every noon, every evening. 663 01:26:14,084 --> 01:26:16,501 You want me to eat beans in oil every day. 664 01:26:16,584 --> 01:26:19,459 What are you offering in exchange? Salvation? 665 01:26:19,584 --> 01:26:21,334 I don't want this salvation. 666 01:26:21,417 --> 01:26:24,709 If I can't be a saint, I would rather be damned. 667 01:26:35,001 --> 01:26:38,834 Oh, if you could make me a saint... This is my only longing. 668 01:26:39,876 --> 01:26:43,626 Do you know what it means to comprehend everything? 669 01:26:44,084 --> 01:26:46,501 To become one with eternity, 670 01:26:46,751 --> 01:26:48,626 and remain on earth? 671 01:26:49,292 --> 01:26:53,459 To stand on the altars surrounded by incense and candles? 672 01:26:54,126 --> 01:26:57,042 To return in prayers to everybody's lips. 673 01:26:58,167 --> 01:26:59,876 Oh, this is life. 674 01:27:02,626 --> 01:27:05,084 This is eternal life. 675 01:27:10,876 --> 01:27:11,876 Yes... Yes... 676 01:27:15,542 --> 01:27:17,751 It's better with the devils. 677 01:27:18,376 --> 01:27:20,542 Joan, calm down. 678 01:28:29,792 --> 01:28:32,334 Love is the redemption. 679 01:28:33,459 --> 01:28:36,126 Love is as strong as death. 680 01:28:50,459 --> 01:28:51,792 Make me a saint. 681 01:28:54,876 --> 01:28:58,292 No. No, this I cannot do. 682 01:29:21,376 --> 01:29:22,751 Suryn! 683 01:29:25,834 --> 01:29:26,917 Suryn! 684 01:29:29,167 --> 01:29:30,334 Suryn! 685 01:30:03,001 --> 01:30:04,834 Don't run on the grain! 686 01:30:04,959 --> 01:30:06,834 I'm chasing away the wolves! 687 01:30:06,917 --> 01:30:08,042 Wolves... 688 01:30:27,709 --> 01:30:30,834 Aleksey! Why is this child crying? 689 01:30:31,834 --> 01:30:33,626 She wet herself, Father. 690 01:30:33,709 --> 01:30:36,834 Take her to the kitchen or she'll catch a cold. 691 01:30:36,917 --> 01:30:39,709 See? And you were chasing the wolves. 692 01:30:57,084 --> 01:30:58,209 Good. 693 01:31:02,959 --> 01:31:06,876 I've been thinking that it must be some little devil 694 01:31:06,959 --> 01:31:09,542 who tempts me with this sweet beer. 695 01:31:10,251 --> 01:31:13,959 If evil exists, it can be both big and small. 696 01:31:14,667 --> 01:31:20,459 Great devil is called Behemoth, a small one may be called Beer. 697 01:31:30,292 --> 01:31:34,417 Go, Father Joseph. Leave right away. 698 01:31:35,376 --> 01:31:39,251 The journey will calm you down. You'll go to your cell, 699 01:31:39,459 --> 01:31:43,376 see your books, and maybe the demons will leave you, 700 01:31:43,459 --> 01:31:46,334 forsaking your body and soul. 701 01:31:46,709 --> 01:31:48,709 No! No! 702 01:31:50,334 --> 01:31:56,126 I don't want him to leave. Let him stay. He is me, I am him. 703 01:31:57,584 --> 01:31:59,667 I don't want to chase him away. 704 01:32:00,042 --> 01:32:03,792 It is Satan who possessed her soul, her body. 705 01:32:33,251 --> 01:32:34,709 Bells are ringing. 706 01:32:37,376 --> 01:32:39,126 For those who are lost. 707 01:32:45,084 --> 01:32:47,209 You can hear them far away. 708 01:32:47,626 --> 01:32:48,626 It's true. 709 01:32:50,417 --> 01:32:52,417 I have grown to like them. 710 01:32:54,001 --> 01:32:56,751 They ring every day- 711 01:33:01,792 --> 01:33:04,042 It must be terrible in the forest. 712 01:33:04,292 --> 01:33:05,667 Wolves howl. 713 01:33:06,667 --> 01:33:08,292 The evil is at large. 714 01:33:09,084 --> 01:33:10,001 Right... 715 01:34:10,251 --> 01:34:11,126 Well? 716 01:34:11,167 --> 01:34:13,501 She's here. She's already changed. 717 01:34:16,376 --> 01:34:18,834 Remember, we leave before dawn. 718 01:34:22,917 --> 01:34:24,417 Hold the horse! 719 01:34:24,959 --> 01:34:25,792 Stop! 720 01:34:30,917 --> 01:34:32,084 Hold it! 721 01:34:33,501 --> 01:34:34,417 Hold it! 722 01:34:35,626 --> 01:34:37,209 Where are you going?! 723 01:34:44,917 --> 01:34:45,917 Stop! 724 01:35:05,542 --> 01:35:09,376 I'd rather sing in a nunnery choir... 725 01:35:19,834 --> 01:35:23,167 My dear mother, I'd rather be a nun, 726 01:35:23,292 --> 01:35:26,792 than to have a brute for a husband. 727 01:35:34,376 --> 01:35:37,792 He would beat me with his stick, 728 01:35:37,876 --> 01:35:41,959 he would beat me black and blue so I'd rather be a nun. 729 01:35:48,751 --> 01:35:51,959 I'd rather sing in a nunnery choir 730 01:35:52,001 --> 01:35:55,459 than take a beating he thinks I require. 731 01:36:35,751 --> 01:36:37,376 Why did you stop? 732 01:36:38,709 --> 01:36:40,542 Dance. Sing. Rejoice. 733 01:36:40,834 --> 01:36:44,917 God will forgive you, for you do not know what you're doing. 734 01:37:52,542 --> 01:37:54,501 Man is a queer bird. 735 01:37:54,667 --> 01:37:57,542 What will happen to Mother Joan? 736 01:37:58,084 --> 01:38:00,959 What will happen? She will remain a nun. 737 01:38:02,834 --> 01:38:04,209 And the devil? 738 01:38:04,292 --> 01:38:06,834 Devils always find some other employment. 739 01:38:07,042 --> 01:38:10,542 They left Mother Joan, and they possessed Father Suryn. 740 01:38:14,334 --> 01:38:16,542 And probably also Sister Margaret. 741 01:38:19,459 --> 01:38:22,251 So that noble man came to fetch her? 742 01:38:23,709 --> 01:38:27,584 He must also be possessed. She is an ugly woman. 743 01:38:30,459 --> 01:38:31,751 I like her. 744 01:38:32,959 --> 01:38:34,042 She is big. 745 01:38:38,792 --> 01:38:40,834 And how is your father? 746 01:38:42,001 --> 01:38:44,292 He keeps drinking and beating us. 747 01:38:44,501 --> 01:38:46,459 Do you pray for him? 748 01:38:47,584 --> 01:38:48,417 I don't. 749 01:38:49,251 --> 01:38:54,417 So pray with me. Say: God protect my father. 750 01:38:57,501 --> 01:39:01,959 I can say that. God, protect my father. 751 01:39:02,042 --> 01:39:03,334 And everybody else. 752 01:39:03,959 --> 01:39:05,667 And everybody else... 753 01:39:08,834 --> 01:39:11,751 Amen. And now go to sleep. 754 01:39:13,167 --> 01:39:14,167 Goodnight. 755 01:39:17,709 --> 01:39:18,751 Goodnight. 756 01:39:36,501 --> 01:39:38,501 You're already here... 757 01:39:39,417 --> 01:39:40,751 You're here... 758 01:39:44,376 --> 01:39:49,042 Go away, don't torment me. Don't torment me. 759 01:39:53,376 --> 01:39:54,292 Stay. 760 01:39:56,792 --> 01:40:00,584 If you leave me, you will return to Mother Joan. 761 01:40:03,334 --> 01:40:04,542 Don't leave. 762 01:40:06,084 --> 01:40:07,209 Let her be free. 763 01:40:07,292 --> 01:40:12,292 Let her become a saint. Take me instead. 764 01:40:17,417 --> 01:40:21,209 And you will never go back to Mother Joan, 765 01:40:22,292 --> 01:40:25,126 you will never leave me. 766 01:40:29,417 --> 01:40:30,709 What am I to do? 767 01:40:33,709 --> 01:40:37,084 No, don't make me do it... no... 768 01:40:41,209 --> 01:40:42,292 Stay. 769 01:40:47,709 --> 01:40:51,501 I do remember where the axe is. 770 01:40:57,834 --> 01:40:59,167 I remember... 771 01:43:15,042 --> 01:43:17,209 My lord, the stable smells of blood. 772 01:43:17,292 --> 01:43:18,542 Stop babbling! 773 01:43:19,792 --> 01:43:22,292 - The horses sensed something. - Mount! 774 01:43:22,376 --> 01:43:24,917 - And the lady? - Come on! We're going! 775 01:43:54,209 --> 01:43:55,876 Wake up, sir, wake up! 776 01:43:55,959 --> 01:43:58,459 Chrzaszczewski has left! Do you hear me? 777 01:43:58,626 --> 01:44:01,209 Chrzaszczewski has left me! 778 01:44:01,709 --> 01:44:03,667 It's all your fault! Your fault! 779 01:44:03,709 --> 01:44:05,834 You talked me into this! 780 01:44:05,876 --> 01:44:07,584 You, you. you! 781 01:44:07,626 --> 01:44:09,001 He's escaped? 782 01:44:09,042 --> 01:44:11,667 You talked me into this sin! 783 01:44:22,292 --> 01:44:23,626 Sister Margaret! 784 01:44:24,126 --> 01:44:25,459 Sister Margaret! 785 01:44:25,542 --> 01:44:27,292 Chrzaszczewski left me! 786 01:44:29,917 --> 01:44:32,417 Oh, devil's spawn! Plague be upon you! 787 01:44:33,292 --> 01:44:34,792 What will I do? 788 01:44:34,876 --> 01:44:36,292 Kaziuk! Kaziuk! 789 01:44:40,001 --> 01:44:42,834 Murdered. The grooms were murdered. 790 01:44:48,459 --> 01:44:51,876 Kaziuk and the other one were slaughtered. 791 01:44:52,917 --> 01:44:54,292 Slaughtered. 792 01:45:00,001 --> 01:45:02,167 We need a priest. A priest. 793 01:45:02,417 --> 01:45:03,792 Father Suryn! 794 01:45:09,209 --> 01:45:11,251 Father Joseph! Father Joseph! 795 01:45:15,459 --> 01:45:16,584 Hush. 796 01:45:19,126 --> 01:45:23,417 They are innocent. They went straight to heaven! 797 01:45:24,209 --> 01:45:25,542 Father Joseph! 798 01:45:36,917 --> 01:45:37,917 My God. 799 01:45:39,751 --> 01:45:42,834 Now I am forever in the hands of Satan! 800 01:45:44,792 --> 01:45:47,917 Father Joseph! Chrzaszczewski left me. 801 01:45:50,959 --> 01:45:52,084 Go back. 802 01:45:52,126 --> 01:45:52,959 No... 803 01:45:53,501 --> 01:45:57,459 No, I won't go back to the convent. 804 01:45:59,876 --> 01:46:01,042 I can't. 805 01:46:03,751 --> 01:46:04,876 I don't want to. 806 01:46:06,376 --> 01:46:09,709 Go and tell Joan I did it for her. For her good. 807 01:46:11,376 --> 01:46:13,001 To save her. 808 01:46:15,626 --> 01:46:17,542 To keep devils with me, 809 01:46:17,626 --> 01:46:19,667 they wanted to go back to her. 810 01:46:20,792 --> 01:46:22,459 Tell her, don't forget. 811 01:46:24,292 --> 01:46:28,292 Tell her I did it for love. 812 01:46:41,709 --> 01:46:43,542 May the devils take you! 813 01:46:43,834 --> 01:46:45,501 May the wolves take you! 814 01:46:45,584 --> 01:46:47,542 May you burn in hell! 815 01:46:49,292 --> 01:46:51,834 May you never see the world again! 816 01:46:52,334 --> 01:46:54,292 Satan in human form!