1 00:00:04,827 --> 00:00:08,163 Screenplay 2 00:00:08,283 --> 00:00:11,134 Music 3 00:00:29,671 --> 00:00:32,428 Director of Photography 4 00:00:56,224 --> 00:00:58,175 Producer 5 00:01:16,363 --> 00:01:17,919 Starring 6 00:01:56,619 --> 00:02:00,309 AXILIAD or The Winter of Forest People 7 00:02:01,518 --> 00:02:03,852 Based on the story by 8 00:02:06,792 --> 00:02:09,356 Director 9 00:02:29,030 --> 00:02:31,439 -Go already, John... stop complaining 10 00:02:34,183 --> 00:02:36,634 -Yes� maybe even to Patagonia 11 00:02:39,350 --> 00:02:43,593 -Even to Patagonia... -Shh. Shh, my girl. 12 00:02:45,979 --> 00:02:49,160 We shall meet again. On the meadow... 13 00:02:51,509 --> 00:02:53,152 -Go now� 14 00:02:58,406 --> 00:03:00,602 -Hey, you there, friend! 15 00:03:00,937 --> 00:03:02,334 Get off my back! 16 00:03:03,479 --> 00:03:06,726 I'm too old to lift you up! 17 00:03:07,615 --> 00:03:08,630 -I'm sorry 18 00:04:51,306 --> 00:04:55,206 -The two of us will get this over with in no time. Good day! 19 00:04:55,326 --> 00:04:57,835 -Good day. Where did you come from? 20 00:04:58,267 --> 00:05:01,051 -I hopped on the back and stowed away... 21 00:05:02,487 --> 00:05:04,948 -You're a godsend! To the saw! 22 00:05:15,637 --> 00:05:19,144 -Only yesterday I drove by and it wasn't here. 23 00:05:19,910 --> 00:05:21,498 -Must have fallen at night. 24 00:05:24,362 --> 00:05:26,999 -Is Hopla far from here? 25 00:05:29,686 --> 00:05:32,887 -Very. But I'll see you to a splendid road. 26 00:05:35,088 --> 00:05:37,441 -A splendid road, may it be just that. 27 00:05:41,985 --> 00:05:43,337 -I'm Bartoshko. 28 00:05:43,928 --> 00:05:45,333 -John Pradera. 29 00:05:51,219 --> 00:05:54,877 -What would it all be like without the roads, Mr Bartoshko? 30 00:05:56,614 --> 00:06:02,671 Both the iron ones, as they say, the rutted ones, and the threadbare ones. 31 00:06:03,793 --> 00:06:07,070 -If there were no roads? What sort of a question it that? 32 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,953 I'm from the countryside. As far as I remember, there were roads. 33 00:06:13,173 --> 00:06:15,433 Because how would people get to people? 34 00:06:16,407 --> 00:06:21,974 To the wedding, from the wedding, to the shop, the bailiff, the church... 35 00:06:23,009 --> 00:06:25,885 carts with rye, potatoes, which way? 36 00:06:26,857 --> 00:06:31,577 If there were no roads? You must be a city lad, to ask such questions. 37 00:06:33,627 --> 00:06:37,561 -Not really� More of a road lad. 38 00:06:43,983 --> 00:06:48,018 -And what is the road? La strada, as they say� 39 00:06:49,524 --> 00:06:54,374 -Mr John, about the road � is best found out with legs. 40 00:06:56,261 --> 00:07:00,915 Barefoot too, provided the sand isn't just so-so... 41 00:07:04,652 --> 00:07:09,822 only hot, like at harvest, or cold, like in november, at slight frost. 42 00:07:13,071 --> 00:07:18,312 And the legs should be young too. Old legs feel little. 43 00:07:19,843 --> 00:07:24,714 And there should be a puddle on that road� a rock, a root� 44 00:07:28,098 --> 00:07:32,360 and you cut your toe, or bump your heel. 45 00:07:34,129 --> 00:07:40,578 To get well personal with the road, you need to go far into foreign lands. 46 00:07:41,693 --> 00:07:42,946 Go, and go. 47 00:07:43,565 --> 00:07:48,345 And make a wrong turn at a crossroad. Walk into some strange undergrowth. 48 00:07:48,816 --> 00:07:50,032 -Right... 49 00:07:50,597 --> 00:07:56,066 -Oh Jesus, Jesus... How good it is to see another man then! 50 00:07:57,159 --> 00:08:03,721 And cross your heart, in case he were cloven hoofed, and say: Praise be to God. 51 00:08:05,411 --> 00:08:10,848 And when he responds, ask: Which way, my dear fellow, to Dolistov? 52 00:08:12,629 --> 00:08:14,833 -And he, what should he say? 53 00:08:15,506 --> 00:08:24,232 -To Dolistov, my dear fellow, that's right ahead! Let us go together. 54 00:08:24,555 --> 00:08:26,656 -And what next? 55 00:08:27,423 --> 00:08:36,351 -And it's good already, so good, Mr John. One goes calmly, and one talks. 56 00:08:37,782 --> 00:08:44,389 -Yes� One walks, one talks� 'One'� 'one'� 57 00:08:46,734 --> 00:08:48,702 -We have arrived! 58 00:09:04,547 --> 00:09:07,534 -Straight ahead to Hopla! Straight. 59 00:09:08,673 --> 00:09:11,379 -Thank you, thank you very much. 60 00:09:11,811 --> 00:09:13,356 -Go with God, Mr John. 61 00:10:17,325 --> 00:10:20,511 -Good evening. Are you Mrs Grandma Olenka? 62 00:10:22,906 --> 00:10:25,200 -Good evening. Good evening. 63 00:10:27,449 --> 00:10:30,949 -Ranger Bogdanski sent me, for lodging that is. 64 00:10:31,386 --> 00:10:34,013 -That's good, good. 65 00:10:38,326 --> 00:10:40,434 -Let him follow me. 66 00:10:42,968 --> 00:10:45,264 I will show him where. 67 00:10:57,733 --> 00:10:59,045 -It's here. 68 00:11:09,036 --> 00:11:10,111 -New� 69 00:11:10,812 --> 00:11:12,078 -Does it draught well? 70 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:13,719 -Well. 71 00:11:14,471 --> 00:11:16,912 Before, I had a tiled one too. 72 00:11:17,704 --> 00:11:24,080 Only it started fuming up. The fumes went not into the chimney, but under the bed. 73 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,815 So felled it down I have, and raised up a new one. 74 00:11:30,082 --> 00:11:33,923 Masons came from Hopla, and made. 75 00:11:35,987 --> 00:11:38,612 One thousand Zloty it cost. 76 00:11:41,381 --> 00:11:44,193 And he, from afar? 77 00:11:45,223 --> 00:11:46,223 -Who? 78 00:11:47,007 --> 00:11:48,315 -He. 79 00:11:48,834 --> 00:11:49,914 -Ah, me? 80 00:11:50,614 --> 00:11:56,334 I'm... from there, the north, the northern sides. 81 00:11:56,892 --> 00:12:02,953 -Oh, that's far. But there's not much to be made in the forest. 82 00:12:04,583 --> 00:12:08,196 Now recently, I had me three here, from Lodzkie. 83 00:12:09,460 --> 00:12:13,438 They made some at first. They worked at the trimmings. 84 00:12:14,102 --> 00:12:18,177 Some days they made 130 Zloty each... 85 00:12:19,543 --> 00:12:21,085 -Stick measure. 86 00:12:21,835 --> 00:12:23,011 -Ah.. Oh. 87 00:12:23,854 --> 00:12:28,005 -They did no bumming around. At night they went and at night they returned. 88 00:12:28,775 --> 00:12:32,897 Later, Sire put them to work at the fellings, and, heed you God, 89 00:12:33,181 --> 00:12:38,676 to cut those branches, burn after yourself, peel the bark, put up cubicles� 90 00:12:40,117 --> 00:12:44,947 What can you make on logging? Nought. 91 00:12:47,056 --> 00:12:48,839 -Any wood left over? 92 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:52,964 -Nothing's left, not even half a metre. 93 00:12:54,369 --> 00:12:55,776 I see he's a flashlight. 94 00:12:56,713 --> 00:12:59,571 Then we go to the shed and I show which. 95 00:13:08,389 --> 00:13:13,796 -What's this flashlight? So.. shiny. 96 00:13:14,725 --> 00:13:16,543 -Chinese. 97 00:13:17,909 --> 00:13:22,312 -Chinese? I thought... silver. 98 00:13:22,685 --> 00:13:24,754 -How silver!? Aluminium or some such. 99 00:13:25,038 --> 00:13:27,095 -Ah. Tinn. 100 00:13:28,829 --> 00:13:30,753 -So nice. 101 00:13:32,297 --> 00:13:36,048 -I will leave it to Grandma Olenka, when I leave� 102 00:13:37,453 --> 00:13:41,630 -That's nice. Nice of him. 103 00:14:09,331 --> 00:14:12,384 -Yes� and so it goes. 104 00:14:57,527 --> 00:14:59,682 -Enough! Nicodemus, enough! 105 00:15:02,917 --> 00:15:05,189 -Enough. Definitely enough. 106 00:15:08,495 --> 00:15:14,235 -Cut branches and gnarls by the neck, everything comes out once the bark is peeled. 107 00:15:16,045 --> 00:15:19,045 -Bigger branches and pulp to be cleaned, neatly piled. 108 00:15:21,151 --> 00:15:22,151 -Yes sir. 109 00:15:22,843 --> 00:15:25,565 -Smaller branches and kindlings are to be burned. 110 00:15:26,780 --> 00:15:31,800 When turnover comes I want the plot neat and clean. 111 00:15:34,748 --> 00:15:35,748 -Yes sir. 112 00:15:40,883 --> 00:15:45,337 -And see the gamekeeper for tools and clothing, Mr Pradera. 113 00:15:46,331 --> 00:15:48,290 -Yes sir, Mr Ranger. 114 00:15:48,391 --> 00:15:50,734 -Alright. God bless. 115 00:16:15,641 --> 00:16:22,327 -I promise myself� I, John Pradera, I will not give in... 116 00:16:28,487 --> 00:16:35,363 I promise you, my girl, my apple branch, until the last breath... 117 00:16:39,508 --> 00:16:45,603 I will go, I will run... I will not give in. 118 00:16:48,694 --> 00:16:50,010 -Hey, Mister! 119 00:16:52,262 --> 00:16:54,040 Here's some embers for the fire. 120 00:17:04,869 --> 00:17:06,040 -I'm Selpka. 121 00:17:06,444 --> 00:17:10,093 -Pradera. Smoke a Sport? 122 00:17:09,878 --> 00:17:11,049 -Sure... 123 00:17:14,251 --> 00:17:15,418 -So, you're new here. 124 00:17:15,940 --> 00:17:17,341 -Yes. You're a regular? 125 00:17:17,632 --> 00:17:19,188 -Us we're all regulars here. 126 00:17:19,747 --> 00:17:24,017 No newcomers so far. But they'll come, they'll come. Highlanders are coming soon. 127 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:28,753 -A while back there were three from Lodzkie, 128 00:17:31,829 --> 00:17:36,305 but they went home for holiday, and it looks like they're not coming back. Come from far? 129 00:17:36,675 --> 00:17:38,731 -From the north, the northern sides. 130 00:17:39,812 --> 00:17:41,408 -No work there? 131 00:17:42,156 --> 00:17:47,101 -Sure there is. But you know, they come here from there, there from here, and so it goes. 132 00:17:46,656 --> 00:17:47,970 -So it does. 133 00:17:49,057 --> 00:17:51,057 -But you won't make shit on logging. 134 00:17:51,505 --> 00:17:53,493 -It's going to be alright, we'll see. 135 00:17:53,595 --> 00:17:57,317 -Sure it's going to be alright. Grab a lass and it's going alright! 136 00:17:58,563 --> 00:18:03,174 Careful though. First see which walks by the hand and which astray, then go for it! 137 00:18:08,123 --> 00:18:11,594 -The bucket will stay with you. If anyone needs it, they'll holler. 138 00:18:11,683 --> 00:18:15,677 Then you put some embers in and give it away. It's a general bucket, a roaming one. 139 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,478 -Uh-huh. A roaming bucket� 140 00:18:16,910 --> 00:18:19,948 So... not only flying saucers, but roaming buckets too� 141 00:18:21,021 --> 00:18:22,490 That's good, good. 142 00:18:23,897 --> 00:18:27,364 -So� I'm going. I'm standing here and work's laid waste. 143 00:18:41,709 --> 00:18:46,813 -As for women, Mr Selpka� now my eyes only see one� 144 00:18:48,939 --> 00:18:50,234 the only one. 145 00:20:22,957 --> 00:20:25,026 -Good morning! Am I starved! 146 00:20:25,679 --> 00:20:27,409 -Good morning, good morning. 147 00:20:30,743 --> 00:20:31,819 -May I? 148 00:20:32,193 --> 00:20:34,445 -He may, he may. Let him warm up. 149 00:20:35,568 --> 00:20:38,670 -Oh. Thank you, grandma Olenka, for covering me with the duvet. 150 00:20:38,761 --> 00:20:41,227 I came back knackered from the axiliad. 151 00:20:45,552 --> 00:20:49,641 And you stroked my hair� like a son's... 152 00:20:55,879 --> 00:20:57,713 -I haven't covered him. 153 00:20:59,599 --> 00:21:01,935 I haven't stroked his hair. 154 00:21:04,945 --> 00:21:06,257 -Who then? 155 00:21:16,284 --> 00:21:20,660 -Last winter, highlanders came to work in the forest. 156 00:21:23,127 --> 00:21:28,315 Four I had lodging. Whatever they made, spent it all on booze. 157 00:21:31,659 --> 00:21:36,781 One time they drank so much... that they were drunk like Swedes! 158 00:21:39,399 --> 00:21:43,497 One of them tried to get into my bed in a lapse! 159 00:21:45,587 --> 00:21:53,181 Heed you God! I went over to see the Sire and reported to him. 160 00:21:54,912 --> 00:21:59,827 To strive at an old hag like me� Heed you God� 161 00:22:01,218 --> 00:22:05,557 Heed you God! -Well, well, well� 162 00:22:13,058 --> 00:22:16,502 -In the evening I went to sleep, and I woke up in the morning. 163 00:22:23,284 --> 00:22:24,659 -What did I say? 164 00:22:26,732 --> 00:22:30,807 -'In the evening I went to sleep, and I woke up in the morning'. 165 00:22:31,883 --> 00:22:34,701 But that's resurrection! It's a miracle! 166 00:22:35,964 --> 00:22:39,014 -Grandma Olenka, it's a miracle! 167 00:22:39,902 --> 00:22:42,339 -Yes, yes� it's a miracle. 168 00:23:51,899 --> 00:23:53,239 -Good evening. 169 00:23:52,762 --> 00:23:54,446 -Good evening. 170 00:23:54,330 --> 00:23:56,491 -You must be the newcomer? 171 00:23:58,040 --> 00:23:59,648 -Yes, that's me. 172 00:24:00,150 --> 00:24:07,658 -I'm Peresada. A local. I work at the trimmings. You can't make shit off felling. 173 00:24:12,784 --> 00:24:16,631 -I'm Pradera. Sit and help yourself, Mr Peresada. 174 00:24:36,055 --> 00:24:38,764 -Nice knife. Good for a party. 175 00:24:39,716 --> 00:24:41,262 -Yup. 176 00:24:48,945 --> 00:24:51,373 -Fried potatoes go well with a bit of hooch. 177 00:24:51,025 --> 00:24:53,149 -Indeed. 178 00:24:56,068 --> 00:24:59,343 -Let me tell you something, Newcomer, just don't you blab� 179 00:25:01,171 --> 00:25:05,719 One hag's brewing moonshine in Cerniava. A village nearby. 180 00:25:07,409 --> 00:25:09,944 If you're ever in demand, Newcomer� 181 00:25:10,935 --> 00:25:13,309 We could go knock on a window. 182 00:25:15,537 --> 00:25:17,496 What do you reckon? 183 00:25:20,446 --> 00:25:24,571 -I reckon we can knock on the window many a time. 184 00:25:24,176 --> 00:25:25,833 -Ah, I hear you! 185 00:25:29,261 --> 00:25:31,083 I like you! 186 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,458 -Have you seen that wicker jug at the Sire's, in his study? 187 00:25:36,299 --> 00:25:38,788 -What Sire's? 188 00:25:37,697 --> 00:25:41,958 -The ranger's. We call him the Sire in these parts. 189 00:25:42,402 --> 00:25:49,051 -Ah. Yes I've seen it. Would be about twenty litres there, or more� 190 00:25:51,245 --> 00:25:53,301 Made of plums, judging by the colour. 191 00:25:53,828 --> 00:26:02,942 -Yes plums, plums. Sire pours in spirit, and it's liquor. Slivovitz. 192 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:11,940 -Goodness, if I could get my hands on that balloon� There'd be no easing up. 193 00:26:13,473 --> 00:26:17,098 Just a pack of Sports, a hose� and a glass. 194 00:26:19,192 --> 00:26:22,607 No. Just the hose. A glass for what? 195 00:26:23,505 --> 00:26:28,888 -No need for a glass. And two hoses preferably, not to fight over one. 196 00:26:29,503 --> 00:26:33,916 You, Mr Peresada, on the one hand, me on the other. 197 00:26:34,973 --> 00:26:38,965 And on the side we chat, from time to time, only not too often. 198 00:26:39,937 --> 00:26:44,573 -Ah, I hear you, Newcomer. Even more I like you! 199 00:26:52,022 --> 00:26:56,699 We've agreed with Young Batiuk, who does logging here, and his mother helps him... 200 00:26:57,183 --> 00:27:02,112 that tomorrow me and mother will dress up and go to mass, to Hopla� 201 00:27:03,226 --> 00:27:07,908 And before it's over, we'll sneak out and hop in to Hoplanka. 202 00:27:10,568 --> 00:27:16,592 If you'd happen to be there, New, we'd down a glass. 203 00:27:18,580 --> 00:27:24,001 -I think I'll be there. And I'll have me a nice, warm meal at that. 204 00:27:28,501 --> 00:27:33,308 Now then, let us go now, Mr Peresada, or night will take best of us. 205 00:27:39,318 --> 00:27:40,817 -Hey! 206 00:27:57,155 --> 00:27:58,599 -Ma'am! 207 00:27:58,962 --> 00:28:00,319 -In a minute! 208 00:28:01,496 --> 00:28:04,757 -Such a pretty lady, but for us not a maybe... 209 00:28:05,575 --> 00:28:06,700 -Lady-maybe... 210 00:28:11,007 --> 00:28:12,279 -Up for starters? 211 00:28:12,690 --> 00:28:15,791 -Me, I'd have a pork knuckle, if there'd be one. 212 00:28:15,895 --> 00:28:18,416 -Good, New, you eat... 213 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,036 We'll have us a meal at the hut, back in Bobrovice. 214 00:28:22,538 --> 00:28:26,538 We're not about to break the bank over these mayonnaises or whathaveyou. 215 00:28:26,759 --> 00:28:29,923 -Starters are mandatory, else I can't serve any vodka. 216 00:28:30,511 --> 00:28:32,394 -And the pork knuckle don't count? 217 00:28:32,467 --> 00:28:37,406 -One pork knuckle's not enough! Besides, it's no starter, but a main. 218 00:28:37,969 --> 00:28:43,541 -Hell, let's save our breath. Bring us some pork aspic! 219 00:28:44,624 --> 00:28:46,180 And the stuff! 220 00:28:46,355 --> 00:28:47,949 -And the stuff! 221 00:28:50,575 --> 00:28:52,594 -And three pints! 222 00:28:54,375 --> 00:28:55,876 To clear the throat. 223 00:29:00,846 --> 00:29:04,180 -Alright then! God bless! 224 00:29:03,941 --> 00:29:06,260 -God bless. 225 00:29:05,987 --> 00:29:07,316 -God bless. 226 00:29:21,205 --> 00:29:24,865 -She's ripe for lumber, as Sire says of pines in the forest. 227 00:29:25,657 --> 00:29:27,908 -Ripe for lumber indeed! 228 00:29:29,407 --> 00:29:33,963 -What about that hurricane that passed last year, grandma Olenka mentioned... 229 00:29:34,357 --> 00:29:40,459 -Oh man! Sire said we've gathered twelve thousand cubic, just the breakwinds, 230 00:29:41,390 --> 00:29:45,517 like a frontline had passed, like artillery had battered from both sides! 231 00:29:46,811 --> 00:29:49,952 When we came with the axes we didn't know how go about it. 232 00:29:50,001 --> 00:29:52,993 Good that it took at the forest, had it taken to the village... 233 00:29:53,650 --> 00:29:55,123 -Annihilation! 234 00:29:54,475 --> 00:29:56,081 -Canada! 235 00:29:55,327 --> 00:29:57,722 -That's right, Canada! 236 00:30:09,721 --> 00:30:12,988 -Here's Wasyluk. Maybe he'd have a drink with us? 237 00:30:13,332 --> 00:30:16,466 -He's not coming as long as I'm here. He's mad at me. 238 00:30:16,704 --> 00:30:17,991 -Why? 239 00:30:18,581 --> 00:30:21,529 -Last Thursday� no, Friday... 240 00:30:23,340 --> 00:30:28,404 We're having a beer at the store and Wasyluk's got a cold. Snotting on and on. 241 00:30:29,693 --> 00:30:31,545 -So what? What's wrong about that? 242 00:30:31,919 --> 00:30:34,055 -Wait, moron, I'm not finished! 243 00:30:36,673 --> 00:30:41,640 Suddenly he says: 'I wonder, where's all the snot coming from'... 244 00:30:42,881 --> 00:30:45,448 And I say 'Maybe lost thoughts, Wasyluk', 245 00:30:46,271 --> 00:30:49,611 And whack! he puts down his unfinished beer, and goes. 246 00:30:50,712 --> 00:30:53,508 He took it upon his honour� taken offence! 247 00:30:55,672 --> 00:30:59,141 Saw him the next day and offered a cigarette. He refused. 248 00:30:59,715 --> 00:31:03,556 I understand him, but everyone blunders from time to time. 249 00:31:03,565 --> 00:31:04,565 -True. 250 00:31:04,837 --> 00:31:06,345 -Even the priest at mass. 251 00:31:06,495 --> 00:31:11,280 -Right! Unfortunately I was sober� If I had been drunk� 252 00:31:11,314 --> 00:31:14,246 That'd be a different story. It's easy to forgive a drunken man. 253 00:31:14,485 --> 00:31:16,595 -A drunken man, yes. 254 00:31:17,007 --> 00:31:20,821 -The situation is quite grave. But� I'll try to settle this. 255 00:31:21,405 --> 00:31:24,942 I'll tell Wasyluk you will apologise, Mr Peresada. 256 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,671 -Sure I can apologise, what the hell... 257 00:31:29,418 --> 00:31:33,852 But if he wants to be angry with me, I shit on him! 258 00:31:35,653 --> 00:31:38,659 -I like him just as much as a splinter in the ass. 259 00:31:41,512 --> 00:31:47,944 -Alright... to friendship, gentlemen. United we stand, divided we fall. 260 00:31:48,682 --> 00:31:50,888 -God bless! -God bless. 261 00:31:52,057 --> 00:31:53,559 -Bless us. 262 00:32:00,385 --> 00:32:02,107 -Went into his german throat... 263 00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:04,551 -In his french hole it did... 264 00:32:12,214 --> 00:32:13,918 -Alright already! Alright! 265 00:32:14,110 --> 00:32:16,126 Stop beating me! It's gone! 266 00:32:16,826 --> 00:32:19,553 -Hell, don't you drink so greedily next time! 267 00:32:22,587 --> 00:32:26,167 Have you seen how nice a cow drinks? -Or a horse? 268 00:32:26,269 --> 00:32:31,042 -But that's water! If you gave them vodka you can't say what'd happen. 269 00:32:31,147 --> 00:32:35,474 -Gotta smoke. Vodka likes the smoke. 270 00:32:43,659 --> 00:32:47,159 -They say a party's fixed for second Saturday, at the firehouse. 271 00:32:47,502 --> 00:32:48,578 -So they say. 272 00:32:48,955 --> 00:32:50,177 -Then we'll be carousing! 273 00:32:51,351 --> 00:32:54,957 -This Saturday there's a party for the kids. 274 00:32:56,735 --> 00:33:01,662 -So that the seniors can see how to play nice, and take example. 275 00:33:02,556 --> 00:33:06,494 -How is it then, the example is set at the top or bottom? 276 00:33:06,569 --> 00:33:08,934 -As the proverb says, at the top. 277 00:33:08,878 --> 00:33:11,545 -But sometimes it ought to be set at the bottom. 278 00:33:11,791 --> 00:33:13,114 -Or from the side. 279 00:33:13,115 --> 00:33:16,421 -From the side� one can catch a punch! 280 00:33:16,490 --> 00:33:18,774 -And from the top: a bottle to the head. 281 00:33:19,245 --> 00:33:24,156 -Speaking of which... I'm craving for a litre. 282 00:33:26,955 --> 00:33:32,281 -A litre might be much. How do you see it, Mr John? 283 00:33:33,733 --> 00:33:38,934 -Good point, Mr Wasyluk� I think we should take half, and we ditch. 284 00:33:40,343 --> 00:33:41,629 -And we ditch! 285 00:33:42,105 --> 00:33:43,230 -Ma'am! 286 00:33:46,190 --> 00:33:47,686 Half sounds weak-kneed... 287 00:33:51,527 --> 00:33:52,653 -So, for starters? 288 00:33:53,542 --> 00:33:54,860 -Pork aspic. 289 00:33:56,776 --> 00:33:57,767 With vinegar. 290 00:33:58,417 --> 00:34:02,404 -Aspic's out. Everyones always going 'pork aspic, pork aspic' 291 00:34:02,642 --> 00:34:05,165 -Bring whatever then! But cheap! 292 00:34:05,267 --> 00:34:10,047 -Hold on, Mr Peresada. I'm going to have a look at the aquarium. 293 00:34:11,657 --> 00:34:15,055 We're not going broke over these mayonnaises or whathaveyou! 294 00:34:15,089 --> 00:34:17,646 -That's right! Not for the mayonnaises! 295 00:34:21,419 --> 00:34:22,544 -Mister� 296 00:34:23,763 --> 00:34:27,805 Check out this belt. How much for it? 297 00:34:28,148 --> 00:34:29,592 An officer's belt, mister. 298 00:34:31,804 --> 00:34:35,976 -Oh, you've got better than mine. Because I've only got a private's. 299 00:34:36,727 --> 00:34:43,711 -Privates' shit. An officer's, now that's a belt! When you hit the missus, she'll feel it at least . 300 00:34:48,932 --> 00:34:55,153 -If I'd hit her, I'd cut my hand off. And then go to the tracks. Get it, mister? 301 00:34:57,369 --> 00:35:01,010 -Sure I understand, sure. What's there to misunderstand? 302 00:35:02,039 --> 00:35:03,028 -You ordered? 303 00:35:03,267 --> 00:35:06,015 -No� I mean yes. 304 00:35:18,624 --> 00:35:29,388 -All that lives, grows -My leg hurts -Dung is to be ploughed� it stinks. 305 00:35:31,076 --> 00:35:34,538 -The butcher's helper at least gets his mouth stuffed 306 00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:40,795 -And the workmen gape their eyes out... -My leg is hurting, at the hip� 307 00:35:41,590 --> 00:35:44,533 -'All that lives, grows' -'...aslant' 308 00:35:46,067 --> 00:35:48,908 -Apple branch of mine, I love you. 309 00:36:56,565 --> 00:36:57,997 -So late already!? 310 00:36:58,201 --> 00:37:01,203 -No, it's fifteen to nine, give or take. 311 00:37:01,985 --> 00:37:03,110 -Oh. 312 00:37:04,644 --> 00:37:07,939 -He's taking me for a ride, that clock... 313 00:37:08,846 --> 00:37:11,048 And only works when on the side. 314 00:37:11,754 --> 00:37:16,306 If you stand him up to his feet, he stops ticking altogether. 315 00:37:17,466 --> 00:37:18,923 That's how he is. 316 00:37:23,404 --> 00:37:25,445 -Let him have some of warm stuff! 317 00:37:44,305 --> 00:37:45,808 -Careful, careful! 318 00:37:46,510 --> 00:37:48,592 -Slow, slow I said! 319 00:37:53,261 --> 00:37:55,514 -Stop! 320 00:38:02,241 --> 00:38:04,548 -Nice shack, isn't it, Mr John? 321 00:38:05,450 --> 00:38:10,095 -A fancy shack it is. The world over, always a shack at a logging. 322 00:38:11,139 --> 00:38:14,411 -Look at us now, so worldly. 323 00:38:17,070 --> 00:38:19,326 -So, how do you like it? 324 00:38:20,655 --> 00:38:24,459 -Put a stove in, get a bear and off! 325 00:38:24,830 --> 00:38:27,706 Travel the world as travelling circus! 326 00:38:29,321 --> 00:38:31,812 -Get a hag in there and fool around! 327 00:38:33,119 --> 00:38:37,397 How many times do I have to tell you to stop laughing like a clam at high tide! 328 00:38:40,292 --> 00:38:41,886 -This will hang here� 329 00:38:44,231 --> 00:38:49,062 Just don't you put a finger on it without reason! Wasyluk, Selpka, you hear? 330 00:38:54,545 --> 00:38:58,738 -One more thing. The last one to go is to close the shack. 331 00:39:00,452 --> 00:39:03,498 The key� stick it under this wheel... 332 00:39:04,156 --> 00:39:08,473 -� not in the pocket, Pradera! You're usually the last one off the field. 333 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:14,609 -Mr John does enjoy his moments at the fire, after it's a day. 334 00:39:15,485 --> 00:39:19,201 Bakes some potatoes� Waits for Peresada... 335 00:39:20,435 --> 00:39:23,954 -With no girl to warm him up, he's warming up at the fire! 336 00:39:36,176 --> 00:39:39,423 -Oh, Lord hermit� God... 337 00:39:43,181 --> 00:39:45,176 But... is it worth it? 338 00:39:48,550 --> 00:39:51,624 I guess it's not. No� 339 00:39:56,824 --> 00:40:00,210 Oh, it must be. 340 00:40:02,808 --> 00:40:04,710 Dearly worth it! 341 00:40:06,416 --> 00:40:07,308 Yes� 342 00:40:12,573 --> 00:40:14,082 Is it? 343 00:40:18,442 --> 00:40:19,602 -What is it? 344 00:40:22,061 --> 00:40:25,503 Why'd you spring off like a rabbit? 345 00:40:26,236 --> 00:40:28,716 -Didn't hear you coming, and� got scared. 346 00:40:29,254 --> 00:40:32,040 -I treaded carefully, so as to somewhat scare you. 347 00:40:33,846 --> 00:40:36,030 -Better not do it anymore, from now on. 348 00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:38,628 -Alright now, alright. 349 00:40:45,116 --> 00:40:47,257 -Let me tell you something, New... 350 00:40:48,231 --> 00:40:51,942 I was in Cerniava at day's break, and I knocked on a window. 351 00:40:56,938 --> 00:40:59,444 -Forty zloty for an entire litre� 352 00:41:00,126 --> 00:41:01,253 Imagine that! 353 00:41:02,489 --> 00:41:06,446 So, take a plunge, New� you seem sickened. 354 00:41:07,344 --> 00:41:08,908 Must have a fever. 355 00:41:20,366 --> 00:41:22,946 -Who's it you spoke to while I approached? 356 00:41:24,501 --> 00:41:26,411 Can't see anyone around� 357 00:41:30,584 --> 00:41:32,603 -To God, Mr Peresada. 358 00:41:37,014 --> 00:41:38,748 But I couldn't talk it through. 359 00:41:40,035 --> 00:41:41,761 -To God himself you spoke? 360 00:41:44,437 --> 00:41:45,833 -I wanted to, but... 361 00:41:47,827 --> 00:41:51,399 My tongue rolled up in a twist, and I couldn't speak but nonsense... 362 00:41:54,468 --> 00:41:56,233 How'd we get back yesterday, from Hopla ? 363 00:41:57,001 --> 00:41:58,497 -Oh, you went haywire! 364 00:41:58,790 --> 00:41:59,891 -No! 365 00:42:00,107 --> 00:42:01,375 -The hell you were! 366 00:42:02,039 --> 00:42:05,132 We were lugging you every other yard with young Batiuk� 367 00:42:05,669 --> 00:42:09,092 because you'd tear off and run away... Lay down in a snowy ditch� 368 00:42:09,603 --> 00:42:12,340 jumping snowdrifts, shouting: 369 00:42:13,994 --> 00:42:15,868 'Apple branch, I love you'. 370 00:42:17,483 --> 00:42:19,137 You got it all mixed up... 371 00:42:21,982 --> 00:42:24,233 Here, take another sip. 372 00:42:25,446 --> 00:42:27,909 -No, no� -You'll straighten up in a spell! 373 00:42:28,894 --> 00:42:30,489 That I promise to you! 374 00:42:36,837 --> 00:42:38,348 -We'd better split, New. 375 00:42:39,096 --> 00:42:41,941 -Why are you so shaky all of a sudden, Mr Peresada? 376 00:42:42,853 --> 00:42:46,023 -A few months back poachers shot the gamekeeper from Cerniava. 377 00:42:46,884 --> 00:42:48,753 There was not a sign of him... 378 00:42:48,969 --> 00:42:51,568 Whole Cerniava was out looking, all of Bobrovice! 379 00:42:53,006 --> 00:42:56,037 Five days later, school kids found him... 380 00:42:56,887 --> 00:42:59,624 Found him by the crows circling him. 381 00:43:00,650 --> 00:43:02,004 Wasn't but a carrion. 382 00:43:03,945 --> 00:43:06,435 Ooh, there's no hokey-pokey with the poachers. 383 00:43:08,915 --> 00:43:10,181 -Let's go! 384 00:43:23,966 --> 00:43:25,372 -There! 385 00:44:06,972 --> 00:44:10,106 -To hell with it! I'm dead on my feet. 386 00:44:11,004 --> 00:44:13,154 -Sit then, Mr Peresada. 387 00:44:26,985 --> 00:44:29,188 -Long time since I last chased so hard. 388 00:44:29,983 --> 00:44:32,372 -We ran like a pair of sumpters on one thill! 389 00:44:32,892 --> 00:44:37,392 -I last chased around like that as a pup in Podole, when the cow got into heat. 390 00:44:39,882 --> 00:44:41,099 -Oh, right. 391 00:44:47,423 --> 00:44:49,299 -Open the can, Mr Peresada. 392 00:44:51,871 --> 00:44:56,553 I'll go over to grandma Olenka's and make hot tea. 393 00:45:21,867 --> 00:45:23,273 -Why the hopeless face? 394 00:45:27,211 --> 00:45:29,607 -I feel like crying, Mr Peresada. 395 00:45:31,764 --> 00:45:34,667 -What'd they do to you that you feel like crying? 396 00:45:35,183 --> 00:45:36,588 -It's not that... 397 00:45:36,687 --> 00:45:39,213 -Spell it out, you. 398 00:45:46,213 --> 00:45:49,755 -It's like I'm crying for something that... 399 00:45:50,739 --> 00:45:53,652 ...has yet to happen, in the future. 400 00:45:54,908 --> 00:45:56,296 Don't know when. 401 00:46:02,358 --> 00:46:07,848 And this instinct of mine, the instinct of life, tells me: 402 00:46:09,603 --> 00:46:10,492 Cry! 403 00:46:11,535 --> 00:46:15,985 Cry now� so that when it happens... 404 00:46:19,153 --> 00:46:21,695 Don't know what, don't even want to know what! 405 00:46:24,522 --> 00:46:27,658 � I just can't. I'm so sorry. 406 00:46:33,470 --> 00:46:36,846 -These tears� without a tear, New... 407 00:46:39,565 --> 00:46:41,769 Hell, these I know about. 408 00:46:44,254 --> 00:46:45,379 Well! 409 00:46:47,958 --> 00:46:51,004 One for the road and off to the cabin. 410 00:46:55,381 --> 00:46:58,756 My missus will start thinking I got lost in the woods... 411 00:46:59,852 --> 00:47:03,046 And snow's covered me head to toe. 412 00:47:10,905 --> 00:47:15,410 -And I'm leaving this to you, New� your medicine. 413 00:48:17,430 --> 00:48:20,758 TRAVELING LIBRARY Civic Public Library of Slavobory. 414 00:48:21,113 --> 00:48:22,973 -Good morning. 415 00:48:22,751 --> 00:48:23,832 -Good morning. 416 00:48:23,952 --> 00:48:24,862 -Good morning 417 00:48:24,696 --> 00:48:26,003 -Good morning. 418 00:48:28,031 --> 00:48:31,409 -You've arrived a bit early. Your readers are still at the mass. 419 00:48:32,373 --> 00:48:33,706 -Mass will soon be over. 420 00:48:34,340 --> 00:48:36,284 -It might be a good half an hour... 421 00:48:38,191 --> 00:48:41,313 -And you, sir, are not a reader of ours, if memory serves� 422 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,071 -No, only willing to become one. 423 00:48:45,802 --> 00:48:46,883 May I subscribe? 424 00:48:47,375 --> 00:48:50,220 -Certainly. I'll fill in your card. 425 00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:52,725 -May I have your name? 426 00:48:52,911 --> 00:48:54,024 -John Pradera 427 00:48:55,344 --> 00:48:57,266 -Pra-de-ra� John. 428 00:48:57,786 --> 00:48:59,285 Address: Hopla? 429 00:48:59,569 --> 00:49:01,736 -No, Bobrovice, Grandma Olenka's lodge. 430 00:49:01,912 --> 00:49:04,006 -You must be working in the woods then? 431 00:49:04,126 --> 00:49:07,405 -You have guessed right. I work at the fellings, a seasonal worker. 432 00:49:07,730 --> 00:49:11,409 -Wonderful! Few and far between are readers of this profession. 433 00:49:11,432 --> 00:49:12,683 Rare occurrences. 434 00:49:13,547 --> 00:49:14,594 -A hen's tooth! 435 00:49:14,916 --> 00:49:19,650 -You bet. Every librarian would be proud. 436 00:49:20,591 --> 00:49:22,088 -Then I am very pleased. 437 00:49:24,764 --> 00:49:29,070 -And what interests you? History books... 438 00:49:29,835 --> 00:49:31,384 Kraszewski, Sienkiewicz? 439 00:49:31,765 --> 00:49:32,642 -Uh... 440 00:49:34,126 --> 00:49:35,126 -How about war? 441 00:49:36,186 --> 00:49:40,067 -No! Not war, surely not. Too much war can kill you. 442 00:49:40,765 --> 00:49:43,324 -Have you read Lem? Stanislaw Lem. 443 00:49:44,029 --> 00:49:45,396 -No� no. Only heard about him. 444 00:49:46,711 --> 00:49:50,220 -He practices the genre of science fiction. Fictional science. 445 00:49:51,354 --> 00:49:55,137 He describes life in the future, thinks far ahead of our times. 446 00:49:57,364 --> 00:50:00,519 -Everyone thinks ahead in a way, but� 447 00:50:01,390 --> 00:50:04,385 I'm not sure. I'm not really drawn to it... 448 00:50:06,063 --> 00:50:11,386 When I think of future times, I can't say I like what I see... 449 00:50:12,340 --> 00:50:14,172 -Sounds a bit bitter� 450 00:50:14,497 --> 00:50:16,754 -Very nice to hear professionals speak... 451 00:50:16,909 --> 00:50:18,734 ...but I'm off to the countryside, Mrs Halinka. 452 00:50:19,579 --> 00:50:23,427 Maybe there'd be something inexpensive� some eggs, a hen maybe. 453 00:50:24,660 --> 00:50:27,363 -If you find any cottage, get me some, if you will. 454 00:50:47,369 --> 00:50:48,681 -What about Romance? 455 00:50:49,765 --> 00:50:52,346 -Yes. But they never end well... 456 00:50:52,879 --> 00:50:53,923 Tragically... 457 00:50:54,078 --> 00:50:54,914 -And you sympathise? 458 00:50:57,158 --> 00:51:00,222 -I'd gladly read a Roman, a piece... 459 00:51:01,725 --> 00:51:05,053 about a great, incredible feeling that does not end in tragedy� 460 00:51:06,070 --> 00:51:07,365 but ends beautifully. 461 00:51:09,107 --> 00:51:12,237 Actually no, it doesn't end... it persists beautifully. 462 00:51:13,536 --> 00:51:16,883 He and she overcome all the obstacles and rejoin, finally. 463 00:51:17,653 --> 00:51:20,054 A hundred years pass, they live... 464 00:51:20,379 --> 00:51:22,784 Five hundred years on, they live� 465 00:51:23,346 --> 00:51:25,806 and every time they touch� 466 00:51:26,820 --> 00:51:28,465 they tremble... 467 00:51:29,466 --> 00:51:32,771 -Wonderful! A wonderful fairytale. 468 00:51:35,270 --> 00:51:37,530 -No... I mean a realistic piece. 469 00:51:46,431 --> 00:51:48,062 -Good day! -Good day! -Good day! 470 00:51:48,039 --> 00:51:49,349 -Good day! -Good day! 471 00:51:49,410 --> 00:51:52,401 -We come to return books and would like to ask for assigned ones... 472 00:51:52,819 --> 00:51:54,396 assignments for second term. 473 00:51:54,631 --> 00:51:57,259 -Please, be my guest. 474 00:52:03,469 --> 00:52:04,802 -Here's the list, Madam. 475 00:52:05,391 --> 00:52:07,029 -I'll take this one, Madam. 476 00:52:08,674 --> 00:52:12,409 Maybe you can sign it out, and I'll be off. 477 00:52:14,199 --> 00:52:15,498 -What did you choose? 478 00:52:17,029 --> 00:52:19,805 "Summer of the Forest People"! Wonderful! 479 00:52:20,261 --> 00:52:25,101 Although it's winter� But no one's written "Winter of the Forest People"� 480 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:27,488 Not to my knowledge, at least... 481 00:52:28,313 --> 00:52:29,313 Please. 482 00:52:32,954 --> 00:52:34,671 -Maybe someone will write it. 483 00:52:36,021 --> 00:52:38,188 Thank you very much and goodbye, Madam. 484 00:52:38,485 --> 00:52:42,891 -Goodbye, sir. We'll be back in four weeks, so we'll talk again, alright? 485 00:52:43,460 --> 00:52:44,460 -Gladly. 486 00:52:45,804 --> 00:52:47,507 I would very much like to sound the horn� 487 00:52:47,693 --> 00:52:50,754 so the readers hear it in the church, and the priest at the ambo. 488 00:52:50,874 --> 00:52:54,653 He probably fell into the well of storytelling and needs a helping hand. 489 00:52:54,773 --> 00:52:57,899 -A very fine parallel, very poetic. 490 00:52:58,559 --> 00:53:00,590 Please, go ahead! 491 00:53:08,973 --> 00:53:11,451 VOLOUNTEER FIRE BRIGADES in Hopla 492 00:53:17,527 --> 00:53:19,130 -A ladder to heaven, Mr Tomala? 493 00:53:19,250 --> 00:53:20,781 -To hell, Mr Pradera. 494 00:53:21,598 --> 00:53:23,189 -By ladder to hell as well? 495 00:53:23,328 --> 00:53:24,255 -What did you think? 496 00:53:24,851 --> 00:53:27,758 To heaven by ladder upwards, to hell downwards. 497 00:53:28,412 --> 00:53:29,994 -Ah. Now I'll know. 498 00:53:58,641 --> 00:53:59,938 -Ma'am? 499 00:54:01,211 --> 00:54:03,071 A traditional glass of wine, please. 500 00:54:03,191 --> 00:54:04,725 -Seven zloty, up front. 501 00:54:25,729 --> 00:54:26,750 -Where to? 502 00:54:27,492 --> 00:54:30,554 You fool. To the bar!? 503 00:54:50,335 --> 00:54:53,676 -Never get married to a thin-lipped hag. 504 00:54:55,552 --> 00:54:58,593 Mine's got thin lips... 505 00:54:59,706 --> 00:55:02,676 Worst heartburn� with thin lips. 506 00:55:04,995 --> 00:55:06,619 Too thick a lip is bad too. 507 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,737 The best lips are� medium. 508 00:55:12,328 --> 00:55:13,784 -But big tits. 509 00:55:14,674 --> 00:55:15,990 -Right, Selpka? 510 00:55:17,670 --> 00:55:18,752 -Big tits! 511 00:55:19,411 --> 00:55:22,365 -Nowadays girls got pins! A guy can't even get a grip. 512 00:55:37,648 --> 00:55:40,784 -A chatty lass is not bad either... 513 00:55:42,943 --> 00:55:45,417 You put your elbow on the tabletop... 514 00:55:46,252 --> 00:55:50,103 Rest your head and listen� with one ear. 515 00:55:51,991 --> 00:55:57,307 She's rambling on� and you think of anything you fancy. 516 00:55:58,345 --> 00:56:00,415 And have the purest peace of mind. 517 00:56:01,696 --> 00:56:04,918 -Yet Kaziuk is chasing all over town, looking for his hag. 518 00:56:05,631 --> 00:56:07,964 Came back from Slawobory and off she went. 519 00:56:09,925 --> 00:56:13,131 -He's so angry it's scary. -But he's done chasing already. 520 00:56:13,809 --> 00:56:16,918 He's sitting at home, drinking... 521 00:56:17,567 --> 00:56:20,675 And waiting. Saw him through the window. 522 00:56:22,122 --> 00:56:24,233 -He'll beat the shit out of her again. 523 00:56:24,701 --> 00:56:27,727 -Why's she in with him, if she's so popular. 524 00:56:30,094 --> 00:56:34,361 -What do you think? You think everyone'd jump right to it? 525 00:56:36,089 --> 00:56:41,107 If Kaziuk threw her out, or if she'd walk out� 526 00:56:45,234 --> 00:56:50,383 To have a good time, get some� then send her back. 527 00:56:51,108 --> 00:56:55,473 Let him feed her! Everyone's a freeloader, what'd you think? 528 00:56:56,128 --> 00:57:00,119 -Eh, hags. Always were and always will be. 529 00:57:01,406 --> 00:57:03,752 It's best we'd have a drink. 530 00:57:38,274 --> 00:57:39,274 -Hey! 531 00:57:52,384 --> 00:57:53,384 -You startled me. 532 00:57:55,102 --> 00:57:56,435 You startled me, friend. 533 00:58:07,413 --> 00:58:08,774 -Been to the lodge? 534 00:58:08,545 --> 00:58:09,531 -Have been indeed.. 535 00:58:09,651 --> 00:58:11,178 -Brought us a little something? 536 00:58:13,815 --> 00:58:15,192 -Indeed I have. 537 00:58:16,742 --> 00:58:21,052 -Would you sprinkle up a bit� our fountain is all dry. 538 00:58:24,147 --> 00:58:26,804 Later I'll get some fresh stuff from the house. 539 00:58:26,584 --> 00:58:28,521 -That's right, the fresh stuff. 540 00:58:30,239 --> 00:58:33,902 -If I know you well, Mr Peresada, you don't need to go to the house... 541 00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:36,309 Because there's not a drop there. 542 00:58:36,475 --> 00:58:40,884 -Hell, you're good. Me and young Batiuk, we'll put it together... 543 00:58:40,961 --> 00:58:44,579 to get you some of that wine, the French one, La Patique... 544 00:58:44,867 --> 00:58:46,435 -That's right! Lapatik! 545 00:58:48,198 --> 00:58:51,817 -What do you say, Mr Peresada� Young Batuk's not so young at all� 546 00:58:53,082 --> 00:58:55,342 -Let me tell you, New. 547 00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:59,889 Just like you're New, so Young Batiuk here is Young, that's all. 548 00:59:10,511 --> 00:59:11,617 -Kaziuk. 549 00:59:14,658 --> 00:59:15,776 -Where is she? 550 00:59:17,573 --> 00:59:18,629 Where's that bitch? 551 00:59:20,987 --> 00:59:23,031 Where the hell is that bitch!? 552 00:59:23,588 --> 00:59:27,144 -Forget the bitches, Kaziuk, they always were and always will be! 553 00:59:27,477 --> 00:59:28,477 -Where!? 554 00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:40,760 -Bitch! 555 01:00:00,481 --> 01:00:04,037 -Your laughter is an insult to the grand sorrow of the universe. 556 01:00:37,542 --> 01:00:39,217 -Let's call it a day, Kaziuk. 557 01:01:14,981 --> 01:01:17,870 -Such a shiny medal on him, like a captain or major� 558 01:01:18,921 --> 01:01:20,232 -Or the colonel himself! 559 01:01:21,968 --> 01:01:23,524 Why aren't you dancing, huh? 560 01:01:24,453 --> 01:01:26,117 -Somehow I don't feel like it. 561 01:01:26,237 --> 01:01:27,830 -You don't like our gals? 562 01:01:32,487 --> 01:01:36,491 -Zenek, have a look. City lad forgot his tongue. 563 01:01:39,008 --> 01:01:41,632 What then, don't you like our gals? 564 01:01:42,936 --> 01:01:44,611 -Haven't really looked. 565 01:01:44,423 --> 01:01:47,393 -Why aren't you dancing? Wanna dance with us? 566 01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:50,328 -Should I call our guys? 567 01:01:51,924 --> 01:01:53,919 -Should I � ? 568 01:01:56,284 --> 01:01:57,594 -Call 'em. 569 01:02:07,674 --> 01:02:08,674 -Here for long? 570 01:02:09,785 --> 01:02:13,162 -A month or two� to rest a bit. 571 01:02:14,614 --> 01:02:15,694 -Just like me. 572 01:02:17,944 --> 01:02:18,944 Please! 573 01:02:19,676 --> 01:02:20,676 -Please! 574 01:02:27,646 --> 01:02:29,146 -Let me show you something. 575 01:02:34,665 --> 01:02:37,255 -First you scared me, then those three, at the dances... 576 01:02:41,072 --> 01:02:43,173 -Indeed� I apologise. 577 01:02:46,922 --> 01:02:50,478 -I got this from Peresada. The one who took on Kaziuk's axiliad. 578 01:02:52,313 --> 01:02:53,813 -I feel sorry for that man. 579 01:02:54,562 --> 01:02:58,977 He'll rot in prison if he gets his hands on her in a bout� 580 01:03:00,596 --> 01:03:03,081 Ooh, how he howled� 581 01:03:03,889 --> 01:03:05,202 -Like a wolf he howled. 582 01:03:07,077 --> 01:03:09,750 -I can still hear it� that howl. 583 01:03:10,993 --> 01:03:16,828 -It has been writ in the air, and will reverberate for a long time still. 584 01:03:20,814 --> 01:03:23,110 Which guys did you mean? 585 01:03:24,564 --> 01:03:29,793 -Which guys? The general ones. Our boys. 586 01:03:30,991 --> 01:03:33,412 The November Uprising ones� 587 01:03:33,895 --> 01:03:38,051 -Uh-uh. So� the January Uprising too then�. 588 01:03:39,814 --> 01:03:43,934 -Sure. Also the ones... from the Silesian Uprisings... 589 01:03:44,909 --> 01:03:46,556 -The Warsaw Uprising ones too? 590 01:03:47,253 --> 01:03:49,364 -Yes. Them too I meant. 591 01:03:52,248 --> 01:03:55,531 -If you had called them, if they'd heed... 592 01:03:56,012 --> 01:03:59,289 It would have been a mighty and beautiful army� of ghosts. 593 01:04:01,556 --> 01:04:04,949 -The three of them retreat like they knew what was upon them. 594 01:04:06,287 --> 01:04:09,099 -What did they want with you, really? 595 01:04:09,615 --> 01:04:11,864 -I'm not sure. Something wasn't right. 596 01:04:13,759 --> 01:04:19,021 -Oh. So it goes. I must tell you I'm the same. 597 01:04:20,544 --> 01:04:26,811 Either someone's very displeased with something, or likes it too much. 598 01:04:28,257 --> 01:04:30,396 It comes to one and the same. 599 01:04:30,767 --> 01:04:37,799 If there's someone who likes it too much, theres always another who's very displeased. 600 01:04:42,018 --> 01:04:43,051 -To your health. 601 01:04:45,393 --> 01:04:46,393 -Mine� 602 01:04:46,755 --> 01:04:47,755 ...and yours. 603 01:04:48,161 --> 01:04:49,195 -Ours. 604 01:05:01,863 --> 01:05:05,825 -I met a guy recently, on a train. I liked him a lot. 605 01:05:06,515 --> 01:05:08,672 Not by the looks, but what he said. 606 01:05:09,505 --> 01:05:10,461 -And? 607 01:05:11,578 --> 01:05:15,460 -Every other time I find myself outside of it all... 608 01:05:15,970 --> 01:05:19,125 Outside the galaxy's ellipse, so to speak. 609 01:05:19,981 --> 01:05:22,605 And from there, from beyond... 610 01:05:23,300 --> 01:05:27,151 Like on a platter, I have seen all the vividness. 611 01:05:30,445 --> 01:05:32,254 -All the vividness, you say... 612 01:05:33,853 --> 01:05:35,791 -Not me, it's his words. 613 01:05:36,570 --> 01:05:38,157 -And on the platter, like fruit... 614 01:05:39,430 --> 01:05:43,724 Melon, watermelon, apples, plums... all the celestial bodies. 615 01:05:44,698 --> 01:05:49,616 And somewhere in the midst of the crowd, is our Earth. 616 01:05:50,218 --> 01:05:51,855 Small as a cherry. 617 01:05:53,494 --> 01:05:57,259 And then, when I was beyond, far beyond... 618 01:05:57,496 --> 01:06:02,446 I've seen in all vividness that it's not at all about what's happening on the cherry� 619 01:06:03,188 --> 01:06:07,085 Life, death, love, hate� good, evil and so forth� 620 01:06:07,549 --> 01:06:11,168 But all of this put together and laid out on a platter. 621 01:06:11,771 --> 01:06:15,065 -It may be godlike, but� horribly inhuman. 622 01:06:17,013 --> 01:06:21,652 -You're right. Because we rarely go beyond the ellipse... 623 01:06:22,766 --> 01:06:25,945 Usually we're here, on the cherry... 624 01:06:27,381 --> 01:06:34,736 Here, it really is all about life, love, goodness, justice� 625 01:06:36,995 --> 01:06:39,766 That's what you have to fight for. 626 01:06:40,844 --> 01:06:44,754 That's all the vividness of here. 627 01:06:51,488 --> 01:06:52,704 -What about the guy? 628 01:06:55,895 --> 01:06:58,847 -'What's your name' I asked when he was getting off. 629 01:06:59,925 --> 01:07:02,851 'Be well' he only said. 630 01:07:05,315 --> 01:07:12,908 Be well� such a simple and beautiful farewell. 631 01:07:18,393 --> 01:07:20,376 -You intend on staying with us long? 632 01:07:23,122 --> 01:07:26,977 -A month or two� just so I rest. 633 01:07:28,619 --> 01:07:31,237 -Best till spring for a good rest... 634 01:07:33,540 --> 01:07:34,994 -Spring, or even summer. 635 01:07:36,117 --> 01:07:37,524 -Exactly. 636 01:07:40,394 --> 01:07:42,770 -Have you lads been to the party yesterday? 637 01:07:43,617 --> 01:07:47,554 -We were. -But left before midnight. 638 01:07:49,467 --> 01:07:51,584 -Two horses stolen from the firehouse� 639 01:07:52,751 --> 01:07:54,716 Kaziuk completely loses it... 640 01:07:55,024 --> 01:07:57,995 And, at dawn, a battle of Hopla with Cerniawa. 641 01:07:58,412 --> 01:08:00,553 A handful of memories. 642 01:08:02,980 --> 01:08:05,414 How about a little hair of the dog? 643 01:08:05,534 --> 01:08:07,197 -We haven't really drank. 644 01:08:07,698 --> 01:08:09,400 -Surely... 645 01:08:11,607 --> 01:08:14,749 Cecilia, pour us a bit from that wicker jug. 646 01:08:16,668 --> 01:08:19,720 -Mr Peresada, my god... 647 01:08:20,653 --> 01:08:21,634 -Excuse me? 648 01:08:21,754 --> 01:08:23,279 -Nothing, I'm sorry. 649 01:08:24,593 --> 01:08:27,543 -Good thing the highlanders come only tomorrow. 650 01:08:28,550 --> 01:08:31,935 If they had arrived yesterday� Ooh, that'd be quite something. 651 01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:34,484 -So they are coming. 652 01:08:35,936 --> 01:08:40,296 -As every year. You'll have company. 653 01:08:45,220 --> 01:08:48,443 -I don't know about Pradera, but I'm more of a loner� 654 01:08:49,546 --> 01:08:51,420 Ever since she left me. 655 01:08:52,389 --> 01:08:53,471 -Left! Left? 656 01:08:55,203 --> 01:08:56,203 -Left. 657 01:08:57,691 --> 01:08:58,858 -She took to leaving? 658 01:09:00,830 --> 01:09:01,830 -Took to leaving. 659 01:09:03,234 --> 01:09:04,734 -She'd rather with another? 660 01:09:06,043 --> 01:09:07,543 -She'd rather with another. 661 01:09:07,973 --> 01:09:09,195 -So she went with him? 662 01:09:09,885 --> 01:09:13,077 -No. She stayed with him. I left. 663 01:09:14,759 --> 01:09:17,077 -We went to hang ourselves, out of sorrow... 664 01:09:18,024 --> 01:09:21,902 -No. We went to the train tracks� out of sorrow. 665 01:09:24,212 --> 01:09:27,832 -And in the last moment we used our head? 666 01:09:28,842 --> 01:09:29,756 -No. 667 01:09:32,696 --> 01:09:36,635 At the last moment we returned to earth from the ellipse. 668 01:09:38,249 --> 01:09:40,485 -Clearly enough, it didn't run us over... 669 01:09:41,901 --> 01:09:43,595 -Clearly it didn't. 670 01:09:49,242 --> 01:09:50,627 -Good day all. 671 01:09:56,112 --> 01:09:58,379 My hands are wet so I'm not greeting you. 672 01:09:59,633 --> 01:10:02,999 -Did Grandma Olenka tell you about when the highlanders got drunk? 673 01:10:03,482 --> 01:10:05,617 One of them wanted in with her in bed. 674 01:10:06,057 --> 01:10:07,875 -What can one say, gentlemen? 675 01:10:08,178 --> 01:10:09,137 -Yes, we heard. 676 01:10:09,849 --> 01:10:11,998 -The poor fellow got it all wrong. 677 01:10:12,118 --> 01:10:14,396 -Really now, what can one say, gentlemen. 678 01:10:14,965 --> 01:10:20,125 -So then� welcome amongst us, Mr� 679 01:10:20,780 --> 01:10:21,836 -Michal Katny� 680 01:10:22,278 --> 01:10:24,848 -� Mr Katny, amongst the Forest People. 681 01:11:13,421 --> 01:11:15,910 -I recently found this letter on the street. 682 01:11:16,359 --> 01:11:19,351 A guy in jail writes to a friend on the outside� 683 01:11:21,206 --> 01:11:22,206 Want to hear some? 684 01:11:22,940 --> 01:11:23,628 -Read. 685 01:11:26,912 --> 01:11:30,482 -'As I fall from life's grace, everyone turns away... 686 01:11:30,993 --> 01:11:33,242 ... I only have two desires left� 687 01:11:33,848 --> 01:11:36,168 ... first, that my teeth don't go bad... 688 01:11:36,703 --> 01:11:41,203 ... second, you'll laugh, to ride around town by tram.' 689 01:11:45,258 --> 01:11:46,258 -What's he in for? 690 01:11:48,118 --> 01:11:49,118 -It doesn't say. 691 01:11:53,557 --> 01:11:54,557 -Doesn't say� 692 01:12:01,038 --> 01:12:02,162 -How about a game? 693 01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:04,788 -Let's play. 694 01:12:09,060 --> 01:12:10,060 -What's the stake? 695 01:12:10,605 --> 01:12:11,962 -Everything, if you like. 696 01:12:12,573 --> 01:12:14,685 -Yours�. or mine? 697 01:12:15,618 --> 01:12:16,618 -You choose. 698 01:12:19,198 --> 01:12:22,469 -No. I only play wiseguys. 699 01:12:23,359 --> 01:12:26,273 Because I play well... too well, one might say. 700 01:12:27,620 --> 01:12:28,764 -Want to switch? 701 01:12:30,686 --> 01:12:35,132 -Alright. You'll know mine, I'll know yours� 702 01:13:41,145 --> 01:13:44,142 -I'm here, little girl. 703 01:13:45,363 --> 01:13:47,709 -Come now, John. 704 01:14:44,996 --> 01:14:49,122 I'M GONE LOGGING -MICHAL I NEED TO GO NOW -JOHN 705 01:14:55,918 --> 01:14:58,307 -Here's that flashlight for Grandma Olenka. 706 01:16:41,211 --> 01:16:42,295 -JOHN! 707 01:16:53,230 --> 01:16:54,638 Could knock yourself down 708 01:16:55,339 --> 01:16:57,073 Every move, each step 709 01:16:57,543 --> 01:16:59,371 Each night, you sob 710 01:16:59,938 --> 01:17:01,340 And despair 711 01:17:02,281 --> 01:17:03,544 But- is it worth it? 712 01:17:04,063 --> 01:17:05,418 Maybe it's not? 713 01:17:06,074 --> 01:17:07,392 I guess it's not� 714 01:17:08,465 --> 01:17:09,779 Probably not 715 01:17:10,717 --> 01:17:11,939 No, no - not worth it 716 01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:25,906 Could die in a snap 717 01:17:26,634 --> 01:17:28,326 A knife to the veins 718 01:17:28,980 --> 01:17:30,951 Or under, to the pavement 719 01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:32,781 From upon 720 01:17:33,339 --> 01:17:34,796 But- is it worth it? 721 01:17:35,406 --> 01:17:36,808 Maybe it's not? 722 01:17:37,603 --> 01:17:39,058 I guess it's not� 723 01:17:39,951 --> 01:17:41,121 Probably not 724 01:17:42,009 --> 01:17:43,561 No, no - not worth it 725 01:17:55,441 --> 01:17:57,039 Could reach the cities 726 01:17:57,786 --> 01:17:59,564 or to the forest, the pastures 727 01:17:59,944 --> 01:18:01,818 To horse, and race 728 01:18:02,384 --> 01:18:03,787 The firmament 729 01:18:04,392 --> 01:18:05,747 But- is it worth it? 730 01:18:06,311 --> 01:18:07,808 Maybe it's not? 731 01:18:08,702 --> 01:18:10,250 I guess it's worth it 732 01:18:10,762 --> 01:18:12,738 Oh yes, that's worth it! 733 01:18:13,237 --> 01:18:15,367 So dearly worth it!