1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:53,171 --> 00:00:56,038 September 30, 1939. 4 00:00:57,105 --> 00:01:00,206 We were loaded like cattle on prisoner trains near Grodno. 5 00:01:01,872 --> 00:01:04,372 Very cramped and humid in conditions. 6 00:01:05,838 --> 00:01:07,506 It was very difficult to sleep. 7 00:01:08,838 --> 00:01:12,873 I don't know how long the other one wounded men would hold out. 8 00:01:14,339 --> 00:01:17,006 The icicles that formed to the window grid 9 00:01:17,940 --> 00:01:19,974 was the only drinkable water. 10 00:01:25,204 --> 00:01:27,839 October 9, 1939. 11 00:01:29,804 --> 00:01:31,637 We're finally off that train. 12 00:01:33,004 --> 00:01:36,904 Now we are apparently no longer prisoners but guests. 13 00:01:38,171 --> 00:01:40,905 At various times officers issued orders the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs 14 00:01:41,272 --> 00:01:44,839 some of us do interrogation during the night. 15 00:01:46,472 --> 00:01:49,905 Because of this kind of madness, isn't it a wonder 16 00:01:50,072 --> 00:01:53,273 that we no longer knew what to do. 17 00:01:56,972 --> 00:01:59,172 March 20, 1940. 18 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,507 It seems that the Soviets are now doing something be more accommodating towards us. 19 00:02:05,873 --> 00:02:09,874 The rumor is going around among the troops that our release is imminent 20 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,337 April 15, 1940. 21 00:02:16,771 --> 00:02:20,038 Finally. My prayers were heard after all. 22 00:02:20,771 --> 00:02:22,904 My name was called this morning 23 00:02:24,071 --> 00:02:25,537 Spring is in the air, 24 00:02:26,071 --> 00:02:28,905 and I didn't feel anymore so lively in many months. 25 00:02:30,272 --> 00:02:32,905 I hope this is the last time 26 00:02:33,038 --> 00:02:35,806 that I will ever be that way again will have to travel. 27 00:02:40,247 --> 00:02:46,255 THE LAST WITNESS subtitles: "Bère" 28 00:02:48,594 --> 00:02:52,215 based on true events 29 00:03:08,404 --> 00:03:10,605 You shouldn't be so eager, buddy. 30 00:03:13,073 --> 00:03:14,673 Suicide, most likely. 31 00:03:15,838 --> 00:03:16,872 Sir. 32 00:03:22,238 --> 00:03:23,139 Oh, great. 33 00:03:29,273 --> 00:03:31,207 Hopefully this will be the suicide note. 34 00:03:34,241 --> 00:03:34,907 Poor bastard. 35 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,407 All right, just take it away. - Yes, sir. 36 00:03:40,940 --> 00:03:41,841 Watch where you walk. 37 00:03:44,841 --> 00:03:47,608 The British Military Occupation ends in Iraq. 38 00:03:50,074 --> 00:03:53,442 Western Post! British military occupation ends in Iraq. 39 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,075 So... Sandy can beat over the docks. 40 00:03:56,807 --> 00:03:58,341 McCloud, the Redcliffe thing, 41 00:03:59,343 --> 00:04:02,973 and John gets the union story... because of his sins. 42 00:04:03,872 --> 00:04:04,872 Nothing too controversial. 43 00:04:05,871 --> 00:04:07,971 Underwood, the Cider Festival. 44 00:04:08,071 --> 00:04:10,041 That's it. 45 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:11,640 Get started. 46 00:04:16,806 --> 00:04:19,041 Hey, I said no. 47 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,842 Nobody wants to hear about suicide, Stephen. 48 00:04:23,273 --> 00:04:24,106 Not now. 49 00:04:24,974 --> 00:04:26,842 That is bad for the blood circulation. 50 00:04:27,940 --> 00:04:29,041 What if it's not suicide? 51 00:04:29,873 --> 00:04:31,807 I have a contact in the camp. 52 00:04:32,641 --> 00:04:33,841 Stephen, dear boy... 53 00:04:34,374 --> 00:04:37,842 Gave the police any indication 54 00:04:38,375 --> 00:04:41,542 as if they thought it was something other than suicide? 55 00:04:44,007 --> 00:04:44,876 No. 56 00:04:44,975 --> 00:04:45,975 Precisely. 57 00:04:46,807 --> 00:04:48,908 So don't try my patience. 58 00:04:49,842 --> 00:04:53,543 War is a terrible thing and many can't handle it, 59 00:04:53,808 --> 00:04:55,110 and that's it. 60 00:04:56,340 --> 00:04:57,841 There's no story in this. 61 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:00,539 Am I clear? 62 00:05:02,172 --> 00:05:03,006 Yes. 63 00:05:03,406 --> 00:05:05,041 Correct. Thank you. You can go. 64 00:05:17,808 --> 00:05:19,873 Can you put this away, Maisie? Thank you. 65 00:05:23,707 --> 00:05:25,474 Rose. - Yes, Mr. Underwood? 66 00:05:27,809 --> 00:05:30,376 Have you ever gone? to the Cider Festival? 67 00:05:44,810 --> 00:05:46,010 Good evening, Mr. Underwood. 68 00:05:46,776 --> 00:05:48,841 So late again? - I had to work. 69 00:05:50,141 --> 00:05:50,874 Like this. 70 00:05:52,107 --> 00:05:53,842 Good night. -Goodnight. 71 00:06:31,009 --> 00:06:34,876 Despite the approval of the Polish Resettlement Act earlier this year, 72 00:06:35,043 --> 00:06:38,843 The West Country is witnessing an increasing number of unexplained suicides. 73 00:06:39,844 --> 00:06:43,308 The men are all ex-military, of the Polish Second Corps. 74 00:06:44,140 --> 00:06:47,508 Coincidence? Or would it be something more terrifying? 75 00:07:10,976 --> 00:07:11,944 Good morning. - Tomorrow. 76 00:07:45,841 --> 00:07:48,008 Can I help you? - I'm here to see the captain. 77 00:07:48,209 --> 00:07:49,310 Good morning, sir. - Good morning. 78 00:07:53,642 --> 00:07:54,509 One moment, sir. 79 00:07:57,643 --> 00:08:00,844 Sir, Colonel Pietrowski has arrived with the two transfers from Stowell Park. 80 00:08:02,644 --> 00:08:04,119 When we're done here, then tell the quartermaster 81 00:08:04,154 --> 00:08:06,037 make inventory of everything we have a shortage of. 82 00:08:06,072 --> 00:08:07,476 Double that and put it in a written order. 83 00:08:07,610 --> 00:08:08,344 Yes, captain. 84 00:08:08,811 --> 00:08:09,877 Good morning. 85 00:08:15,893 --> 00:08:18,719 Mother... We're going to America! 86 00:08:22,343 --> 00:08:23,911 Thank you. - Good luck. 87 00:08:30,075 --> 00:08:31,676 This seems okay to me. 88 00:08:32,175 --> 00:08:33,675 If you'd like to bring them in, Colonel, 89 00:08:33,809 --> 00:08:35,176 a few more signatures are required. 90 00:08:35,576 --> 00:08:36,310 Naturally. 91 00:08:38,809 --> 00:08:40,343 Colonel, perhaps you can and your men 92 00:08:40,443 --> 00:08:42,277 have another breakfast before you drive back home? 93 00:08:43,643 --> 00:08:45,443 We don't have much but at least it's warm. 94 00:08:45,842 --> 00:08:47,910 Thank you, that's very kind. -Jeanette... 95 00:08:48,810 --> 00:08:51,043 when you're done, do you want the Colonel refer his deputy to the mess? 96 00:08:51,144 --> 00:08:51,978 Yes, sir. 97 00:08:53,011 --> 00:08:53,811 John. 98 00:09:01,076 --> 00:09:02,412 I'll talk to you later. 99 00:09:02,844 --> 00:09:03,911 This way, Colonel. - Colonel. 100 00:09:05,577 --> 00:09:09,112 My name is Stephen Underwood. The captain is my brother. 101 00:09:09,810 --> 00:09:11,478 I'm a journalist for The Western Post. 102 00:09:12,110 --> 00:09:13,744 Colonel Janusz Pietrowski, 103 00:09:13,844 --> 00:09:15,311 previously in the Polish Second Corps 104 00:09:15,411 --> 00:09:17,011 Acting Resettlement Corps liaison officer. 105 00:09:18,278 --> 00:09:20,645 Colonel, nice to meet you. - And I with you, Mr. Underwood. 106 00:09:21,245 --> 00:09:22,013 Shall we? 107 00:09:31,477 --> 00:09:33,344 Colonel? 108 00:09:33,843 --> 00:09:35,209 I said no, Stephen. 109 00:09:35,844 --> 00:09:37,977 Please captain. Your brother is welcome. 110 00:09:38,144 --> 00:09:40,177 I was wondering if you had any comments about the... 111 00:09:40,844 --> 00:09:42,877 suicide of yet another Polish soldier, yesterday? 112 00:09:43,809 --> 00:09:45,044 Sosnowicz. 113 00:09:46,145 --> 00:09:47,845 You don't seem very surprised, Colonel. 114 00:09:48,311 --> 00:09:50,778 Well, Mr. Underwood, it is always very disturbing 115 00:09:50,878 --> 00:09:52,944 when a proud man loses all hope. 116 00:09:53,778 --> 00:09:54,978 And why, Colonel? 117 00:09:55,978 --> 00:10:00,012 Men like Sosnowicz fought in the war for their homeland, Mr. Underwood, 118 00:10:00,345 --> 00:10:01,878 which is now part of it of the Soviet Union, 119 00:10:02,012 --> 00:10:04,079 who labels them as enemies of the state. 120 00:10:05,013 --> 00:10:07,713 He had just learned that his entire family was murdered. 121 00:10:07,813 --> 00:10:10,046 Colonel, please we have no proof of that. 122 00:10:10,845 --> 00:10:13,680 It is clear that he believed it sufficiently to take his own life, Captain. 123 00:10:14,112 --> 00:10:15,646 And why do you believe it, Colonel? 124 00:10:16,846 --> 00:10:19,676 Because apparently we've forgotten that in 1939 125 00:10:19,810 --> 00:10:21,711 the Soviet Union invaded Poland 126 00:10:22,278 --> 00:10:25,612 in alliance with the Nazis and with same intentions, Mr. Underwood. 127 00:10:26,910 --> 00:10:28,410 To wipe Poland off the map. 128 00:10:29,044 --> 00:10:31,846 Destroying its culture and its people. 129 00:10:33,478 --> 00:10:36,412 When the Soviets took Poland back in 1944, 130 00:10:37,045 --> 00:10:39,844 they allowed the Nazis to start the Warsaw Uprising to press the head 131 00:10:40,777 --> 00:10:43,312 and therefore also the slightest possible threat to eliminate before their occupation. 132 00:10:44,845 --> 00:10:48,679 The recent so-called "free elections" in Poland 133 00:10:49,811 --> 00:10:51,712 are nothing more than a Soviet puppet theatre. 134 00:10:52,846 --> 00:10:55,313 No, the Polish real government is still in exile in London, 135 00:10:55,811 --> 00:10:59,012 but is no longer recognized by Great Britain or the U.S. 136 00:10:59,113 --> 00:11:01,880 And last year, became the Free Polish Forces 137 00:11:01,979 --> 00:11:04,113 banned from your victory parade. 138 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,080 This was so as not to annoy Comrade Stalin. 139 00:11:08,813 --> 00:11:09,913 What does that tell you, Mr. Underwood? 140 00:11:11,478 --> 00:11:12,312 That everything is fine? 141 00:11:17,111 --> 00:11:19,178 I understand that the world is exhausted because of the war 142 00:11:20,011 --> 00:11:21,111 We all are. 143 00:11:22,677 --> 00:11:24,412 But that's no excuse for naivety. 144 00:11:25,812 --> 00:11:26,878 Your brother knows that. 145 00:11:28,977 --> 00:11:31,578 He still has the little enviable task to attempt 146 00:11:31,678 --> 00:11:33,978 to convince my fellow countrymen to return to Poland, 147 00:11:34,813 --> 00:11:37,245 knowing full well that he cannot guarantee their safety. 148 00:11:38,046 --> 00:11:40,213 No one has to return who doesn't want to, Colonel. 149 00:11:42,813 --> 00:11:44,880 Yes, captain. Naturally. 150 00:11:48,646 --> 00:11:51,681 Colonel, please. Breakfast awaits. 151 00:12:05,844 --> 00:12:08,011 I want to see you tonight. 152 00:12:08,678 --> 00:12:11,911 8:30pm at the King's Arms. - No, that's too public. 153 00:12:12,045 --> 00:12:13,645 No, only people come there local people. 154 00:12:14,145 --> 00:12:15,879 All right. 155 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:17,478 Around eight? 156 00:12:20,778 --> 00:12:22,847 I have to go. Mason wants to talk to me. 157 00:12:23,978 --> 00:12:25,012 Is that really necessary? 158 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:27,414 You know that. 159 00:12:55,816 --> 00:12:56,549 Come. 160 00:12:57,883 --> 00:12:59,879 Thank you, Stanley. 161 00:13:05,612 --> 00:13:06,678 Still on duty? 162 00:13:07,246 --> 00:13:08,846 I hardly ever see you out of uniform anymore these days. 163 00:13:11,847 --> 00:13:12,981 You hardly ever see me anymore anyway. 164 00:13:13,113 --> 00:13:15,447 I know, I'm sorry. It goes Not all that good at the moment. 165 00:13:16,013 --> 00:13:16,881 Anyway, good that you came. 166 00:13:18,081 --> 00:13:21,847 We are invited to it Robinsons' annual ball. 167 00:13:21,947 --> 00:13:24,515 Oh, God. Is it this moment again? of the year? 168 00:13:24,614 --> 00:13:27,012 I know, extremely annoying, but... 169 00:13:27,179 --> 00:13:29,914 I would really appreciate it if we could go together this year. 170 00:13:30,281 --> 00:13:33,615 Your parents will be there. - I'd rather not go, if it's the same for you. 171 00:13:34,849 --> 00:13:37,415 It would seem a bit strange if I could go alone. 172 00:13:38,081 --> 00:13:40,816 It would set some tongues in motion. 173 00:13:41,882 --> 00:13:43,481 If you really have to. - Great. 174 00:13:44,882 --> 00:13:45,849 Oh! 175 00:13:45,949 --> 00:13:47,615 One more thing before you go. 176 00:13:48,281 --> 00:13:50,082 You would be perfectly placed 177 00:13:50,815 --> 00:13:52,479 to please me one more time if you want. 178 00:13:52,879 --> 00:13:55,847 Loboda and Nowak, 179 00:13:55,946 --> 00:13:57,780 two transfers to your camp this morning. 180 00:13:57,879 --> 00:14:00,147 You are very well informed again, as always. 181 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,314 Will you really do me a huge favor? and keep them informed of their whereabouts? 182 00:14:04,780 --> 00:14:06,880 Travels, visitors, friends, things like that. 183 00:14:07,647 --> 00:14:08,414 Why? 184 00:14:08,981 --> 00:14:11,982 It's probably nothing. A vague memo from London. 185 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:14,882 Nothing to worry about. Just to keep me informed. 186 00:14:16,947 --> 00:14:18,981 I don't expect you crosses the entire city every morning. 187 00:14:19,081 --> 00:14:20,913 A simple phone call is sufficient. 188 00:14:21,448 --> 00:14:25,048 I know you're very busy with all the repatriation commotion. 189 00:14:25,147 --> 00:14:27,115 Yes. 190 00:14:29,016 --> 00:14:30,083 Is that all? 191 00:14:32,447 --> 00:14:34,049 Well, I actually have to return. 192 00:14:35,617 --> 00:14:37,683 Please, don't let me keep you any longer. 193 00:14:37,849 --> 00:14:39,849 But if we were to... 194 00:14:40,281 --> 00:14:41,883 keep us between us? 195 00:14:42,350 --> 00:14:43,117 Naturally. 196 00:14:44,849 --> 00:14:45,980 Do we agree then? 197 00:14:47,814 --> 00:14:48,880 About what? 198 00:14:49,913 --> 00:14:53,214 The Robinson's Ball? - Yes, yes. 199 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:54,848 Fine. 200 00:15:19,814 --> 00:15:22,115 You know why he married you, right? 201 00:15:25,949 --> 00:15:28,950 He's not the monster that you want him to be. 202 00:15:29,850 --> 00:15:33,218 So your father has the right to sell you to the highest bidder? 203 00:15:37,017 --> 00:15:39,148 They were really convinced that he would be a good husband. 204 00:15:41,881 --> 00:15:43,882 They only want the best for me. 205 00:15:50,781 --> 00:15:51,516 Did they know? 206 00:15:55,615 --> 00:15:57,648 Marriage is not about love for them. 207 00:16:00,014 --> 00:16:01,382 And I wanted to marry him. 208 00:16:03,049 --> 00:16:04,049 I was in love with him. 209 00:16:06,948 --> 00:16:09,283 Apparently, I didn't know at the time what I know now. 210 00:16:10,849 --> 00:16:12,717 But our love is of a different kind now. 211 00:16:15,849 --> 00:16:17,851 Stephen, he's my friend. 212 00:16:20,849 --> 00:16:21,851 It's a lie. 213 00:16:22,949 --> 00:16:24,650 Then what do you want me to do? 214 00:16:26,018 --> 00:16:28,151 Do you want me to just my husband leaves my job, 215 00:16:28,285 --> 00:16:31,051 turning my back on my family and run away to London with you? 216 00:16:31,850 --> 00:16:33,048 That's impossible. 217 00:16:36,848 --> 00:16:38,981 I'm not sure how much I believe may attach to your great story 218 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,049 because even if it is true what the Polish colonel said, 219 00:16:41,149 --> 00:16:41,916 you have no proof. 220 00:16:42,882 --> 00:16:44,549 And however deplorable they may be, 221 00:16:44,649 --> 00:16:46,283 those suicides are what they are. 222 00:16:47,615 --> 00:16:49,915 Suicides. Nothing more. 223 00:17:03,950 --> 00:17:07,818 'Evening, folks. What will it be? - How much for this? 224 00:17:09,417 --> 00:17:11,051 Fourpence. 225 00:17:11,152 --> 00:17:13,085 And for this? - A sicken. 226 00:17:15,383 --> 00:17:16,852 Two half liters of the Special, please, sir 227 00:17:18,950 --> 00:17:19,851 Slop for the pigs. 228 00:17:23,646 --> 00:17:26,856 He's drunk. Ignore him. 229 00:18:04,051 --> 00:18:05,485 Same sir? - Please. 230 00:18:07,083 --> 00:18:08,451 Filthy scabs. 231 00:18:10,019 --> 00:18:11,652 They talk about it, them soon to work in the mines. 232 00:18:12,086 --> 00:18:15,151 The war is over. Send the bastards back, I say. 233 00:18:15,851 --> 00:18:17,852 Instead of them our boys to give them work. 234 00:18:20,048 --> 00:18:21,883 You can't go back because of the Bolsheviks? 235 00:18:24,283 --> 00:18:26,051 Well, you're not going to escape here either to the Reds, son. 236 00:18:27,415 --> 00:18:29,883 Not with the Workers Party who governs the country. 237 00:18:31,050 --> 00:18:34,916 You don't know anything about it. - Who's asking you something, Polak? 238 00:18:40,250 --> 00:18:42,851 I'm not Polak. I am Russian. 239 00:18:42,950 --> 00:18:45,784 Why does that interest me? You are one damn thing wet. Go back home! 240 00:18:45,885 --> 00:18:47,784 Okay, let's go. - Well, go then! 241 00:18:47,884 --> 00:18:49,052 Hey, let's go. - And don't come back! 242 00:18:50,018 --> 00:18:51,317 You're not welcome here! 243 00:18:51,885 --> 00:18:54,053 All right, Bill. It's still my name above that door. That's enough. 244 00:19:04,952 --> 00:19:05,720 We're leaving. 245 00:19:11,287 --> 00:19:12,687 Hey, kid, what about your drinks? 246 00:19:17,883 --> 00:19:18,917 Stephen? 247 00:19:21,950 --> 00:19:22,717 Stephen? 248 00:19:36,818 --> 00:19:38,885 Mr. Nowak, it's me, Jeanette Mitchell, of the camp. 249 00:19:39,817 --> 00:19:42,518 Yes... we have to turn back, i'm sorry. 250 00:19:43,284 --> 00:19:44,852 He said he was Russian. 251 00:19:46,985 --> 00:19:48,485 I write for a newspaper. 252 00:19:49,518 --> 00:19:50,853 I just want to ask you a few questions. 253 00:19:51,887 --> 00:19:53,420 No. 254 00:19:54,886 --> 00:19:57,819 You are Russian pretending to be Pole, why? 255 00:19:59,653 --> 00:20:01,120 Mr. Loboda, please! 256 00:20:04,853 --> 00:20:07,483 I don't pretend to be nobody. 257 00:20:09,051 --> 00:20:12,885 If you had seen what I saw then you would understand. 258 00:20:14,284 --> 00:20:16,384 Then what did you see? -Ivan. 259 00:20:17,852 --> 00:20:20,686 They would kill you just like they want to kill me. 260 00:20:24,618 --> 00:20:25,918 Who wants to kill you? 261 00:20:26,852 --> 00:20:27,886 All of them. 262 00:20:31,418 --> 00:20:32,186 Stephen? 263 00:20:45,818 --> 00:20:47,386 Stephen... - I'm fine. 264 00:20:57,854 --> 00:20:58,955 Please, Stephen. 265 00:21:01,251 --> 00:21:03,885 What did he get? - I don't remember. 266 00:21:04,484 --> 00:21:06,418 Clothes especially. Almost nothing. 267 00:21:09,651 --> 00:21:12,352 Don't do this. You heard what he said. 268 00:21:14,085 --> 00:21:15,884 Don't you think... 269 00:21:16,853 --> 00:21:18,853 if someone wants to kill him wouldn't they have done it already? 270 00:21:19,652 --> 00:21:21,086 Not if they don't know who he is. 271 00:21:30,020 --> 00:21:31,688 He could be involved in suicides. 272 00:21:32,619 --> 00:21:33,954 Loboda could be the story. 273 00:21:37,819 --> 00:21:38,653 Let me do this. 274 00:21:40,687 --> 00:21:41,487 For us. 275 00:24:45,687 --> 00:24:46,554 This is Polish. 276 00:24:48,621 --> 00:24:50,056 He could keep it for a friend. 277 00:24:52,087 --> 00:24:52,855 No. 278 00:24:54,488 --> 00:24:57,021 Rose. Rose Miller, the typist at work. 279 00:24:57,988 --> 00:24:59,355 Her family is from Poland. 280 00:25:00,655 --> 00:25:01,789 She could translate it for me. 281 00:25:01,890 --> 00:25:05,023 No! And what about Loboda? What if he finds out it's gone? 282 00:25:05,290 --> 00:25:07,256 Tell me it's not here all the time things disappear. 283 00:25:07,356 --> 00:25:09,323 Are you drunk? What if he thinks it was me? 284 00:25:09,822 --> 00:25:12,624 How to keep him away for a while. 285 00:25:14,823 --> 00:25:17,090 I thought this was going to be about us? 286 00:25:22,056 --> 00:25:22,857 It is. 287 00:25:24,091 --> 00:25:26,859 Because it certainly looks like it that I have to take all the risks. 288 00:25:32,289 --> 00:25:33,555 Give me that box. 289 00:25:40,589 --> 00:25:41,523 I have to do this. 290 00:27:37,123 --> 00:27:37,890 Mr. Underwood? 291 00:27:38,824 --> 00:27:41,491 I did it. The story, the Cider Festival. 292 00:27:43,824 --> 00:27:46,858 Thank you. I want to ask you one more favor. 293 00:27:47,159 --> 00:27:49,657 Of course, whatever you want. - I want this translated. 294 00:27:50,158 --> 00:27:51,890 If you can ask your father. 295 00:27:52,458 --> 00:27:54,859 What is it about? - I don't know. 296 00:27:56,058 --> 00:27:58,125 Again, it stays between us. 297 00:28:00,824 --> 00:28:01,993 As fast as you can. 298 00:28:11,824 --> 00:28:13,024 Stephen Underwood. 299 00:28:28,824 --> 00:28:29,624 Stephen! 300 00:28:31,157 --> 00:28:32,825 They can't find him anywhere anymore. 301 00:28:36,625 --> 00:28:38,358 Normally my sincerest apologies, Colonel. 302 00:28:38,458 --> 00:28:41,157 The truth is, Captain, Mr. Loboda has a habit of disappearing, 303 00:28:41,826 --> 00:28:45,026 like Mr. Nowak knows all too well. He is a very troubled man. 304 00:28:45,425 --> 00:28:47,659 Sometimes his imagination takes over. 305 00:28:48,426 --> 00:28:49,193 We'll find him. 306 00:29:06,591 --> 00:29:08,124 Are you going to tell them about the box? 307 00:29:08,224 --> 00:29:09,692 Do you still think I did the wrong thing? 308 00:29:25,190 --> 00:29:26,859 He can't just have disappeared. 309 00:29:27,458 --> 00:29:30,925 The Poles moved him again. Find out where! 310 00:29:44,059 --> 00:29:46,060 'Morning Mabel. Is Richard there yet? 311 00:29:48,026 --> 00:29:50,460 My father wanted to know where you got this from. 312 00:29:55,861 --> 00:29:56,660 Why? 313 00:29:57,692 --> 00:29:58,790 He said they are extremely valuable 314 00:29:58,891 --> 00:29:59,925 and that you have to be careful. 315 00:30:02,458 --> 00:30:03,292 Thank you. 316 00:30:12,691 --> 00:30:14,891 I don't understand what's going on. 317 00:30:15,525 --> 00:30:17,891 Our train stopped earlier sidetracked. 318 00:30:18,425 --> 00:30:21,125 We were met by Soviet guards and ordered to dismount. 319 00:30:22,093 --> 00:30:23,660 There is a big forest here. 320 00:30:25,026 --> 00:30:26,994 We became black prisoners transport vehicles loaded. 321 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,061 I have to stop writing now. 322 00:32:06,860 --> 00:32:08,293 Yes sir, can I help you? 323 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:10,527 I'm looking for a Colonel Pietrowski. 324 00:32:10,861 --> 00:32:11,895 Yes sir, follow me. 325 00:32:14,860 --> 00:32:15,895 Colonel Pietrowski. 326 00:32:19,060 --> 00:32:20,094 Can I bring you something? 327 00:32:24,029 --> 00:32:24,863 No objection? 328 00:32:36,829 --> 00:32:37,896 Why would a Russian... 329 00:32:39,026 --> 00:32:43,328 have a diary, letters and personal belongings 330 00:32:43,427 --> 00:32:44,993 of a young Polish cadet, 331 00:32:45,493 --> 00:32:48,994 interned in a prisoner of war camp in the Soviet Union? 332 00:32:49,827 --> 00:32:50,861 And... 333 00:32:52,660 --> 00:32:54,294 why does he think that everyone want to kill him? 334 00:32:57,827 --> 00:33:01,061 I really have no idea what you have it, Mr. Underwood. 335 00:33:01,994 --> 00:33:03,694 If you'll excuse me, I have things to do. 336 00:33:03,828 --> 00:33:04,695 I have the box. 337 00:33:07,194 --> 00:33:08,162 I want to help. 338 00:33:08,862 --> 00:33:11,493 No, Mr. Underwood, you want a story. 339 00:33:11,495 --> 00:33:13,862 Yes, I want the story and then we have both what we want. 340 00:33:14,927 --> 00:33:16,529 Believe me, there is nothing you can do. 341 00:33:16,863 --> 00:33:19,330 If you really want to help, then hand me the box. 342 00:33:19,830 --> 00:33:20,864 Let me talk to Loboda. 343 00:33:22,062 --> 00:33:23,864 Goodbye, Mr. Underwood. 344 00:33:25,863 --> 00:33:27,864 Colonel. Colonel! 345 00:33:29,996 --> 00:33:31,063 Then I will... 346 00:33:32,093 --> 00:33:34,328 take this to the authorities and tell them where I got it. 347 00:33:37,061 --> 00:33:38,895 I have the diary and the letters have it translated. 348 00:33:43,861 --> 00:33:45,062 Come with me. 349 00:33:55,962 --> 00:33:56,963 Wait here. 350 00:34:30,628 --> 00:34:32,829 My deputy will take you to Mr. Loboda. 351 00:34:33,294 --> 00:34:34,661 So you know where he is? 352 00:34:39,527 --> 00:34:41,428 Once you know the truth you can try as much as you want, 353 00:34:41,528 --> 00:34:43,328 but I will take you further not provide any support. 354 00:34:43,896 --> 00:34:46,296 I will deny any involvement everyone's knowledge or whatever 355 00:34:46,396 --> 00:34:47,897 and you will never see Loboda again. 356 00:34:49,996 --> 00:34:51,129 Am I clear? 357 00:35:07,829 --> 00:35:09,930 Here, at five o'clock. 358 00:35:10,465 --> 00:35:11,865 We will pick you up and bring it to him. 359 00:35:13,530 --> 00:35:14,365 You come alone. 360 00:35:15,530 --> 00:35:16,998 How can I know that I can trust you? 361 00:35:17,999 --> 00:35:18,999 You don't know that. 362 00:35:19,896 --> 00:35:22,863 Then I want an interview with Loboda. 363 00:35:23,795 --> 00:35:25,896 And I want to record it. - Why? 364 00:35:27,029 --> 00:35:28,463 Once you have the box I have nothing left. 365 00:35:31,862 --> 00:35:33,064 That can be arranged. 366 00:35:34,097 --> 00:35:36,964 And I want those translations if you have no objection. 367 00:35:42,064 --> 00:35:42,863 Thank you. 368 00:36:30,597 --> 00:36:32,530 I expect you to pay for the damage. 369 00:36:32,929 --> 00:36:34,630 Who did this? - The police. 370 00:36:35,630 --> 00:36:39,064 They said they suspected you of possession of smuggled goods. 371 00:36:39,263 --> 00:36:40,997 That's ridiculous and you know it. 372 00:36:41,297 --> 00:36:43,564 Well, I'm sorry, but... 373 00:36:43,864 --> 00:36:47,898 through all your comings and goings lately I really couldn't say. 374 00:36:48,899 --> 00:36:51,898 This is still my house... 375 00:36:52,298 --> 00:36:54,333 As far as I know, Mr. Underwood. 376 00:37:11,631 --> 00:37:12,363 Nettie. 377 00:37:15,697 --> 00:37:16,898 Nettie, please 378 00:37:18,696 --> 00:37:19,496 I'm sorry. 379 00:37:20,830 --> 00:37:24,097 What is? - They took the box away. 380 00:37:26,064 --> 00:37:26,899 Then it's over. 381 00:37:27,997 --> 00:37:30,698 I'm going to talk to Loboda. - Do you know where he is? 382 00:37:31,031 --> 00:37:32,065 Pietrowski has it. 383 00:37:33,165 --> 00:37:35,065 Then how do you know they didn't take them away? 384 00:37:35,433 --> 00:37:37,866 Because I said I want the box would return if I could speak to him. 385 00:37:39,097 --> 00:37:40,399 How do you know they aren't lying? 386 00:37:40,498 --> 00:37:42,665 You have no idea who those people really are. 387 00:37:43,698 --> 00:37:44,665 I need to know. 388 00:37:45,865 --> 00:37:47,499 You have nothing to do with it. 389 00:37:54,533 --> 00:37:56,000 If something happens to me, 390 00:37:56,999 --> 00:37:58,467 I want you to hand this over to the police. 391 00:38:00,964 --> 00:38:01,965 But... 392 00:40:15,866 --> 00:40:17,001 Stay here. 393 00:40:56,967 --> 00:40:58,434 They tell me I can trust you. 394 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,900 That I can tell you everything. 395 00:41:04,832 --> 00:41:05,634 Yes. 396 00:41:07,033 --> 00:41:08,467 Did you take the box? 397 00:41:13,867 --> 00:41:15,869 How can I trust a thief? 398 00:41:19,034 --> 00:41:20,669 I didn't mean it in a bad way. 399 00:41:22,535 --> 00:41:23,936 Will you put it in your newspaper? 400 00:41:27,535 --> 00:41:29,103 I'll do everything I can. 401 00:41:33,068 --> 00:41:33,935 Please, sit down. 402 00:42:26,136 --> 00:42:28,567 My name is Ivan Krivozertsev. 403 00:42:32,832 --> 00:42:34,901 My home is near Smolensk. 404 00:42:35,867 --> 00:42:36,734 Small town. 405 00:42:37,868 --> 00:42:39,069 Novyye Bateki. 406 00:42:41,835 --> 00:42:45,668 I was there the first time they came. 407 00:43:01,335 --> 00:43:03,337 People said they were Finns. 408 00:43:06,035 --> 00:43:07,870 But my friend Kisselev... 409 00:43:10,368 --> 00:43:13,903 he saw their four-cornered caps. 410 00:43:20,837 --> 00:43:22,668 They were all Poles. 411 00:43:27,334 --> 00:43:30,934 Every day they tucked them in "chornly voron". 412 00:43:31,867 --> 00:43:34,936 Prison vans. Drove to the forest. 413 00:44:07,070 --> 00:44:13,072 In forest, Bolsheviks federated their hands behind their backs. 414 00:44:14,805 --> 00:44:16,469 Rope around neck... 415 00:44:18,301 --> 00:44:21,134 so that you suffocate when you move. 416 00:44:29,068 --> 00:44:30,169 They put them... 417 00:44:31,835 --> 00:44:32,669 "Na zeemi". 418 00:44:33,836 --> 00:44:34,570 On ground. 419 00:44:36,469 --> 00:44:37,369 And put... 420 00:44:38,536 --> 00:44:39,337 firearms... 421 00:44:41,469 --> 00:44:42,970 in the back of the neck. 422 00:44:46,103 --> 00:44:47,337 One after another... 423 00:44:48,871 --> 00:44:51,337 bodies fall into well... 424 00:44:54,637 --> 00:44:57,004 face to ground. 425 00:45:02,905 --> 00:45:06,371 And weapons loaded for next group. 426 00:45:07,838 --> 00:45:09,870 Again and again... 427 00:45:11,035 --> 00:45:13,470 ...until work is done. 428 00:45:22,303 --> 00:45:26,137 When Germans come, they also bring Poland workers. 429 00:45:26,835 --> 00:45:27,903 Prisoners. 430 00:45:28,969 --> 00:45:31,436 Make roads good for tanks. 431 00:45:34,837 --> 00:45:36,705 First, Germans don't see. 432 00:45:38,337 --> 00:45:39,938 Only see Polish workers. 433 00:45:54,004 --> 00:45:57,072 Then I'll tell you what I saw... 434 00:46:01,204 --> 00:46:03,569 and we start digging. 435 00:46:11,070 --> 00:46:15,671 Book and letters, I took from dead man 436 00:46:17,037 --> 00:46:18,037 Young man. 437 00:46:35,672 --> 00:46:36,439 Where was this? 438 00:46:39,072 --> 00:46:39,938 Where did this happen? 439 00:46:45,839 --> 00:46:48,707 In the forest near Katyn. 440 00:47:14,904 --> 00:47:15,939 How many? 441 00:47:17,672 --> 00:47:20,638 Currently, more than 4,000 corpses. 442 00:47:22,504 --> 00:47:24,671 But there are still three times as many missing people. 443 00:47:26,372 --> 00:47:32,006 Mostly officers, reservists, lawyers, teachers... priests. 444 00:47:32,839 --> 00:47:36,673 Stalin knew these people would never capitulate to the Soviet order. 445 00:47:38,207 --> 00:47:41,173 And the Poles know all about being occupied by foreign powers, 446 00:47:41,306 --> 00:47:43,106 and they were the best of my country. 447 00:47:43,873 --> 00:47:46,874 They would fight for their freedom with everything they had. 448 00:47:51,037 --> 00:47:52,970 Stalin killed them so that Poland 449 00:47:53,637 --> 00:47:55,972 could never rise again from its ashes. 450 00:47:57,836 --> 00:47:59,137 And the British? 451 00:48:01,038 --> 00:48:01,873 Did they know about this? 452 00:48:02,605 --> 00:48:03,539 Of course they did. 453 00:48:04,638 --> 00:48:07,238 The British and Americans just wanted to that this case would disappear. 454 00:48:07,838 --> 00:48:10,905 They needed the Red Army to keep fighting the Germans. 455 00:48:11,005 --> 00:48:13,372 They feared Stalin would make peace with Hitler. 456 00:48:15,305 --> 00:48:18,572 Now Stalin has half of Europe under his boot and they can do nothing. 457 00:48:20,873 --> 00:48:22,907 And my country is occupied. 458 00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:25,907 And criticism of Stalin is not tolerated. 459 00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:29,307 My people are a good people. 460 00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:33,874 You need to know what happened. 461 00:48:35,841 --> 00:48:36,874 You must know murderer. 462 00:48:39,341 --> 00:48:40,575 We need the proof. 463 00:48:41,542 --> 00:48:43,875 The diary, the letters. 464 00:48:45,204 --> 00:48:48,904 Evidence that the murders were committed in 1940 by the Soviets. 465 00:48:49,904 --> 00:48:53,472 And not by the Nazis in 1941, as everyone believes. 466 00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:01,139 Did you bring the box? 467 00:49:07,207 --> 00:49:08,707 She was stolen from my room. 468 00:49:18,874 --> 00:49:19,907 Please! 469 00:49:42,838 --> 00:49:43,906 Yes? 470 00:49:47,140 --> 00:49:47,940 What, now? 471 00:49:49,073 --> 00:49:49,874 Why? 472 00:49:54,039 --> 00:49:55,340 All right, in five minutes. 473 00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:07,407 What the hell are you doing? In the middle of the night. 474 00:50:07,874 --> 00:50:09,675 It's important. - It better be. 475 00:50:10,140 --> 00:50:12,040 I want to know something about a place called Katyn. 476 00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:14,874 Why? 477 00:50:15,141 --> 00:50:17,441 Polish soldiers were taken there in 1940. 478 00:50:18,209 --> 00:50:19,741 I want to know what happened to them. 479 00:50:20,075 --> 00:50:21,708 Did Pietrowski put you up to this? 480 00:50:21,841 --> 00:50:22,774 No. 481 00:50:22,874 --> 00:50:24,676 Then look it up in the newspapers. 482 00:50:25,008 --> 00:50:27,075 I want to see the official papers. 483 00:50:28,042 --> 00:50:29,875 And I can't help you with that, you know that. 484 00:50:30,842 --> 00:50:33,306 In my position, I can't be seen, fraternizing with journalists, 485 00:50:33,807 --> 00:50:35,541 not even with second-rate provincials. 486 00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:36,907 John, please. 487 00:50:37,939 --> 00:50:39,205 This could explain the suicides. 488 00:50:39,973 --> 00:50:42,074 More than 4,000 Polish soldiers were murdered. 489 00:50:44,974 --> 00:50:46,008 Step back. 490 00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,175 It was the Germans, the Nazis, end of the story. 491 00:50:53,307 --> 00:50:55,040 You know about this. - That's the official version. 492 00:50:55,140 --> 00:50:56,708 Yes, but you know it's not true. 493 00:50:57,308 --> 00:50:59,075 I believe what I am told to believe. 494 00:51:00,374 --> 00:51:02,675 So you're burying your head in the sand and let them get away with it? 495 00:51:02,841 --> 00:51:05,409 That's my job. Now go home. 496 00:51:05,876 --> 00:51:07,975 You went to war to free people from oppression 497 00:51:08,175 --> 00:51:10,275 so that they would have the right to choose their own destination. 498 00:51:10,376 --> 00:51:12,943 And you just go with that stand still and do nothing? 499 00:51:13,308 --> 00:51:14,376 Go home, Stephen. 500 00:51:15,209 --> 00:51:16,942 Stop being something you're not. 501 00:51:18,643 --> 00:51:19,376 I did that. 502 00:51:19,842 --> 00:51:22,676 You went to war and I stayed. I did as I was told. 503 00:51:24,907 --> 00:51:26,740 But for the first time I have something I believe in. 504 00:51:26,874 --> 00:51:28,874 Don't be so childish. The war is over. 505 00:51:29,507 --> 00:51:30,840 Do you really want to start one again? 506 00:51:30,941 --> 00:51:32,707 just because of how you feel of inadequacy? 507 00:51:32,839 --> 00:51:34,208 You were not required to serve, be grateful. 508 00:51:36,939 --> 00:51:37,708 No. 509 00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:40,074 You're right. 510 00:51:42,841 --> 00:51:45,708 I couldn't enlist... because of this. 511 00:51:59,276 --> 00:52:00,409 Phillip Edwards. 512 00:52:01,608 --> 00:52:03,909 Disenchanted socialist type whom I met in Cambridge. 513 00:52:04,876 --> 00:52:07,077 Now working in the archive of Foreign Affairs. 514 00:52:08,308 --> 00:52:11,476 If it's there... does he know where? 515 00:52:14,876 --> 00:52:16,510 This is my transport document. 516 00:52:17,843 --> 00:52:21,074 And this should get you through the entrance. 517 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,507 You can improvise. Out now. 518 00:52:32,508 --> 00:52:34,408 Oh, and Stephen, the accident. 519 00:52:34,874 --> 00:52:38,009 It was my fault and I know you you could have lost your eyesight. 520 00:52:38,109 --> 00:52:39,042 I'm sorry. 521 00:53:06,443 --> 00:53:07,310 Did you see him? 522 00:53:08,278 --> 00:53:09,979 Yes. - Where is he? 523 00:53:16,841 --> 00:53:18,908 There is only one farm nearby where they grow them. 524 00:53:23,908 --> 00:53:25,109 I'm going to London. 525 00:53:26,843 --> 00:53:29,109 I want you to keep these translations. 526 00:53:32,676 --> 00:53:33,477 Don't go there. 527 00:53:35,444 --> 00:53:37,409 I have to. - Stephen... 528 00:53:43,310 --> 00:53:45,011 You let this get out of proportion. 529 00:53:46,443 --> 00:53:47,878 Despite everything that's happened... 530 00:53:49,876 --> 00:53:51,878 you have to realize that I still care about you. 531 00:53:53,344 --> 00:53:56,112 Then, please, leave him alone. 532 00:53:57,311 --> 00:54:01,244 It's your Stephen who makes your life difficult. 533 00:54:01,344 --> 00:54:03,078 He dragged you into this, not me. 534 00:54:05,045 --> 00:54:09,077 Just tell me what he's up to. 535 00:54:12,375 --> 00:54:13,909 He knows where he is, doesn't he? 536 00:54:16,842 --> 00:54:20,443 You have to understand, it's no longer possible about you and Underwood. 537 00:54:21,909 --> 00:54:25,909 You involve yourself in something very sensitive 538 00:54:26,010 --> 00:54:27,877 and potentially very damaging. 539 00:54:28,476 --> 00:54:29,876 Is Stephen in danger? 540 00:54:30,343 --> 00:54:33,243 If he told you where they hide the Russian, 541 00:54:33,344 --> 00:54:35,044 you have to tell me that, now. 542 00:54:39,944 --> 00:54:40,712 Look... 543 00:54:44,610 --> 00:54:46,078 tell me what you know... 544 00:54:47,844 --> 00:54:49,878 and you can continue to see Underwood. 545 00:54:52,010 --> 00:54:53,678 As long as you don't draw attention to you, 546 00:54:54,046 --> 00:54:56,512 I won't say another word about it. 547 00:54:56,979 --> 00:54:58,913 It will just blow over. 548 00:55:00,909 --> 00:55:03,908 I don't think either of us want a scandal in our lives now. 549 00:55:05,609 --> 00:55:09,143 And I think we should do both what we can to avoid that, isn't it? 550 00:56:32,910 --> 00:56:36,025 You can't keep me here. 551 00:56:37,164 --> 00:56:41,743 My friends will come to look for me. 552 00:56:42,188 --> 00:56:44,278 No one will come, Ivan. 553 00:56:45,246 --> 00:56:49,570 Just do what you have to and you are free to go. 554 00:56:50,282 --> 00:56:54,851 Who are you? - A friend from home. 555 00:56:56,742 --> 00:56:58,883 This is my home now. 556 00:57:01,833 --> 00:57:04,210 Don't you miss your farm? 557 00:57:04,759 --> 00:57:12,289 Your family, your friends? Speak your own language? 558 00:57:13,936 --> 00:57:19,487 This is not a life for you. Picking apples... 559 00:57:19,966 --> 00:57:24,804 Living like a prisoner in a camp full of vagrants and farmers. 560 00:57:29,755 --> 00:57:36,449 Come home, Ivan. That's where you should be. 561 00:57:37,928 --> 00:57:46,804 After all the fascists put you through you would be a hero. 562 00:57:50,289 --> 00:57:55,997 Here... I have this statement prepared for you. 563 00:57:56,491 --> 00:57:59,043 Herein lies the truth. 564 00:57:59,472 --> 00:58:03,061 How the Poles worked to build of roads in Smolensk 565 00:58:03,641 --> 00:58:10,394 when the Germans killed them, 566 00:58:10,578 --> 00:58:16,562 in the summer of 1941. Remember? 567 00:58:19,375 --> 00:58:26,857 You were then forced to withdraw with those cowardly Nazis, against your will, 568 00:58:27,098 --> 00:58:37,438 so that they could falsely Soviet Russia accused of these terrible crimes. 569 00:58:39,013 --> 00:58:41,203 No. That's a lie. 570 00:58:43,855 --> 00:58:48,441 You know no one believes that anymore. 571 00:58:52,731 --> 00:59:01,849 Just sign the statement... and you are free to go. 572 00:59:03,124 --> 00:59:08,625 Back home, whenever you want. 573 00:59:12,919 --> 00:59:14,235 No. 574 00:59:23,015 --> 00:59:27,048 You're a fool. A swinish ignorant fool. 575 00:59:28,946 --> 00:59:31,080 Do you really think there is does anyone even care about you? 576 00:59:32,345 --> 00:59:33,913 Do you think the Poles care about you? 577 00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:38,080 Nobody cares about you or for what you have to say! 578 01:00:46,982 --> 01:00:47,749 Mr. Underwood? 579 01:00:49,314 --> 01:00:50,082 Yes. 580 01:00:50,847 --> 01:00:52,882 I served with your brother in Austria. 581 01:00:53,882 --> 01:00:54,916 He's a good man. 582 01:01:03,217 --> 01:01:05,884 An address and a map. 583 01:01:09,350 --> 01:01:12,084 What you want is kept very quiet. It's way back on the shelf. 584 01:01:14,650 --> 01:01:16,581 “X” marks the spot, if you will. 585 01:01:22,114 --> 01:01:24,482 Things aren't the same anymore, Mr. Underwood. 586 01:01:25,815 --> 01:01:28,481 During the war, we knew what we had to do. 587 01:01:28,614 --> 01:01:31,648 We put our backs into it and we did it. We didn't question anything. 588 01:01:32,814 --> 01:01:35,249 It was all very black and white. 589 01:01:36,915 --> 01:01:38,049 But now... 590 01:01:39,649 --> 01:01:41,083 Now nothing seems to make sense anymore. 591 01:01:43,716 --> 01:01:45,116 It makes you wonder who's really there is in control. 592 01:01:53,384 --> 01:01:55,417 Can I buy you a drink? - No. 593 01:01:56,182 --> 01:01:57,317 No, I can't stay. 594 01:01:57,884 --> 01:02:00,350 If anything what I can do for you. 595 01:02:00,450 --> 01:02:02,483 No, please, don't worry. 596 01:02:05,016 --> 01:02:07,018 Anything to break the boredom. 597 01:02:08,484 --> 01:02:12,014 Sometimes I wonder if I still... will be buried in that archive, you know. 598 01:02:12,146 --> 01:02:13,681 Dust up to my eyeballs. 599 01:02:15,914 --> 01:02:17,082 No one would notice. 600 01:02:20,316 --> 01:02:22,883 Say hello to your brother for me and good luck. 601 01:03:08,082 --> 01:03:10,948 Captain Underwood. Will you need an escort? 602 01:05:26,985 --> 01:05:30,685 "Based on the evidence we have it's hard to escape 603 01:05:30,818 --> 01:05:33,219 to the presumption of guilt of the Russians. 604 01:05:34,653 --> 01:05:37,353 How can we, like the Russians their crime is established, 605 01:05:37,886 --> 01:05:40,786 then the Poles expect that to live together in friendship 606 01:05:40,887 --> 01:05:44,352 side by side with the Russians for generations to come?" 607 01:05:49,151 --> 01:05:51,585 “This document is explosive. 608 01:05:52,150 --> 01:05:54,917 If it ends up into unauthorized hands, 609 01:05:55,685 --> 01:06:00,318 the consequences would be compared to our relationship with Russia is serious." 610 01:06:16,485 --> 01:06:21,052 "Regarding the announcement of the Katyn event... 611 01:06:22,086 --> 01:06:24,453 we are limited 612 01:06:24,886 --> 01:06:29,119 due to the urgent need for friend- reasonable relations with the Soviet government 613 01:06:29,852 --> 01:06:32,920 and therefore must provide evidence rather behold 614 01:06:33,054 --> 01:06:36,154 with more restraint and resignation, 615 01:06:36,855 --> 01:06:40,919 than that we would do it in a common sense assessment. 616 01:06:45,917 --> 01:06:49,353 We have in fact inevitable 617 01:06:50,051 --> 01:06:52,352 uses the good name of England 618 01:06:53,050 --> 01:06:58,019 like the killer small conifers used to cover up a massacre." 619 01:07:36,886 --> 01:07:39,785 “Let us always remember these things 620 01:07:39,886 --> 01:07:41,853 and never talk about it again. 621 01:07:42,852 --> 01:07:46,020 Never talk about it again, is the advice given by me 622 01:07:46,119 --> 01:07:50,253 to the Polish government, but that turned out to be unnecessary. 623 01:07:51,987 --> 01:07:54,753 The torment and their sojourn in this land 624 01:07:55,021 --> 01:07:58,687 seemed to have taught them, how much better it is in politics 625 01:07:58,986 --> 01:08:01,686 to leave some things undiscussed, 626 01:08:01,819 --> 01:08:04,354 what people are concerned about feels most passionate." 627 01:08:45,221 --> 01:08:45,954 Colonel. 628 01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:48,921 I have seen the documents. 629 01:08:50,620 --> 01:08:52,889 A report from a certain Owen O'Malley, 630 01:08:53,853 --> 01:08:55,321 the British Ambassador to Poland. 631 01:08:58,054 --> 01:08:59,854 You were right, they knew it all along. 632 01:09:02,888 --> 01:09:04,889 Ivan Krivozertsev is dead. 633 01:09:10,956 --> 01:09:13,055 He was found yesterday hung on a tree. 634 01:09:14,289 --> 01:09:15,156 In the evening. 635 01:09:25,852 --> 01:09:29,887 So you see, Mr. Underwood, I doubt anyone will ever have the chance to see those documents. 636 01:09:34,487 --> 01:09:35,254 Why... 637 01:09:38,486 --> 01:09:39,888 Why didn't you hide him earlier? 638 01:09:42,555 --> 01:09:43,921 He wouldn't let us. 639 01:09:45,055 --> 01:09:47,922 It was first after you took the box that he reconsidered. 640 01:09:52,621 --> 01:09:55,555 He approached the Red Cross joined our troops in Italy, 641 01:09:56,523 --> 01:09:58,023 where he met Mr. Nowak met. 642 01:09:59,655 --> 01:10:02,989 Drunk one evening, he left forgot that he was there in Katyn... 643 01:10:04,823 --> 01:10:05,724 when it happened. 644 01:10:08,655 --> 01:10:09,923 No one else made it west. 645 01:10:11,619 --> 01:10:14,921 He was the only one to escape from the region when the Soviets retook it. 646 01:10:19,687 --> 01:10:21,688 He was a blot on the Soviets. 647 01:10:24,855 --> 01:10:26,889 An inconvenience for the British. 648 01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:30,954 Superfluous for the Americans 649 01:10:34,855 --> 01:10:36,890 He approached them in Nuremberg and... 650 01:10:38,223 --> 01:10:41,090 they almost sent him back to the Russian sector. 651 01:10:45,657 --> 01:10:48,123 Have you told anyone that you love him? you've seen, Mr. Underwood? 652 01:10:51,488 --> 01:10:52,956 I have nothing to do with it. 653 01:11:09,820 --> 01:11:10,555 What is? 654 01:11:12,621 --> 01:11:13,655 Who did you tell? 655 01:11:17,388 --> 01:11:18,154 Excuse me. 656 01:11:31,423 --> 01:11:34,091 I'm sorry. I can't let you go. Orders. 657 01:11:35,056 --> 01:11:36,356 I want to speak to my brother. 658 01:11:39,023 --> 01:11:40,756 Captain Underwood was transferred. 659 01:11:43,856 --> 01:11:45,090 And Lieutenant Mitchell? 660 01:11:46,223 --> 01:11:46,958 I don't know. 661 01:12:03,056 --> 01:12:05,421 Number please? - Foreign Affairs Archives. 662 01:12:05,988 --> 01:12:07,089 I'll connect you. 663 01:12:07,955 --> 01:12:08,922 Archive. How can I help you? 664 01:12:09,522 --> 01:12:12,022 Philip Edwards, please. - One moment, sir. 665 01:12:13,690 --> 01:12:15,323 I'm afraid Mr. Edwards is on leave. 666 01:12:15,657 --> 01:12:16,857 When will he come back? 667 01:12:16,991 --> 01:12:19,156 May I ask the reason? why are you calling? 668 01:12:21,656 --> 01:12:22,423 Sir? 669 01:12:27,955 --> 01:12:30,523 Western Post. Come and get your Western Post. 670 01:12:31,357 --> 01:12:33,124 Western Post. Come and get your Western Post. 671 01:12:33,256 --> 01:12:33,957 Hot off the press! 672 01:12:35,924 --> 01:12:36,958 Thank you, sir. 673 01:12:49,025 --> 01:12:51,192 Come and get your Western Post! Hot off the press! 674 01:12:56,888 --> 01:12:57,955 Mr. Hamilton, can I speak to you for a moment? 675 01:12:59,689 --> 01:13:02,923 I'm sorry, Stephen, but you don't work here anymore. 676 01:13:03,890 --> 01:13:05,024 Excuse me? 677 01:13:06,290 --> 01:13:10,224 Brilliant idea... to give the festival to the typist. 678 01:13:10,323 --> 01:13:13,490 You were right. She turns out to be very promising. 679 01:13:14,890 --> 01:13:17,925 So that's why she will from now on do your job. 680 01:13:19,957 --> 01:13:23,724 Now, this is a month's wages. Clear your desk. 681 01:13:28,024 --> 01:13:29,058 I have a story. 682 01:13:29,858 --> 01:13:30,892 I don't want to hear it. 683 01:13:39,692 --> 01:13:41,525 The British government covers up the murder 684 01:13:41,659 --> 01:13:44,259 at more than 15,000 Polish officers and men... 685 01:13:45,325 --> 01:13:46,956 committed by the Soviets in 1940. 686 01:13:49,889 --> 01:13:50,956 They deny an entire nation. 687 01:13:52,722 --> 01:13:53,724 Their own allies. 688 01:13:54,657 --> 01:13:56,758 A country they went to war for to protect it. 689 01:13:57,356 --> 01:13:58,891 And it doesn't end there. 690 01:14:00,857 --> 01:14:04,891 Last night, the last one became a witness of that massacre murdered, 691 01:14:05,457 --> 01:14:06,358 here in Bristol. 692 01:14:07,858 --> 01:14:08,659 Well... 693 01:14:09,625 --> 01:14:11,859 What is certain is that you have a vivid imagination. 694 01:14:16,891 --> 01:14:18,092 What did they say to you, Frank? 695 01:14:18,892 --> 01:14:20,159 Excuse me? 696 01:14:22,325 --> 01:14:27,158 That you will lose your job? The newspaper loses? 697 01:14:27,893 --> 01:14:30,159 Will be disgraced? 698 01:14:32,060 --> 01:14:36,093 That it is your duty to the country not to print it? 699 01:14:39,093 --> 01:14:42,190 If you don't leave right now, let me throw you out. 700 01:14:46,323 --> 01:14:48,957 Keep your money. I'm resigning. 701 01:15:57,859 --> 01:15:58,892 Oh, mr. Underwood. 702 01:15:59,860 --> 01:16:02,725 I want to have it refreshed here in the near future 703 01:16:02,858 --> 01:16:05,092 so I have to ask you to vacate your room. 704 01:16:05,926 --> 01:16:09,426 But since I'm not someone that someone just throws on the street, 705 01:16:09,526 --> 01:16:13,694 I will of course give you the time to do so find suitable alternative housing. 706 01:16:15,894 --> 01:16:18,362 Two weeks should certainly be enough do you agree? 707 01:16:19,860 --> 01:16:21,428 And you have visitors. 708 01:16:49,892 --> 01:16:51,527 I didn't think this would happen. 709 01:16:57,094 --> 01:16:58,061 What have you done? 710 01:17:02,361 --> 01:17:04,595 Stephen, I just wanted to be safe. 711 01:17:06,661 --> 01:17:07,729 What have you done? 712 01:17:09,895 --> 01:17:13,896 Mason asked me to keep an eye on Loboda and tell him everything. 713 01:17:17,128 --> 01:17:18,062 Did you tell him where he was? 714 01:17:26,859 --> 01:17:29,359 Why didn't you tell me Mason wanted to keep an eye on him? 715 01:17:30,893 --> 01:17:33,927 I thought it wouldn't stop you! I thought it would only get worse! 716 01:17:34,859 --> 01:17:35,994 Worse? 717 01:17:39,060 --> 01:17:39,794 He's dead. 718 01:17:40,860 --> 01:17:42,593 They found him hanging from a tree. 719 01:17:43,860 --> 01:17:44,594 I know. 720 01:17:45,926 --> 01:17:48,061 And if I could undo whatever I did, I would do it. 721 01:17:49,926 --> 01:17:53,928 I didn't think Mason was up to something like that would be able to. Still not. 722 01:18:01,362 --> 01:18:02,762 What did they do with John? 723 01:18:06,028 --> 01:18:07,396 They took him to London. 724 01:18:09,997 --> 01:18:11,930 You won't be allowed to see him nor speak. 725 01:18:13,962 --> 01:18:15,492 He gets a post overseas. 726 01:18:25,327 --> 01:18:27,095 I didn't give him this. 727 01:18:29,894 --> 01:18:31,161 They no longer make sense. 728 01:18:38,828 --> 01:18:40,995 I want you to leave. - Stephen... 729 01:18:44,429 --> 01:18:45,961 I want you to leave now. 730 01:19:08,561 --> 01:19:11,961 An investigation by interrogation on behalf of our sovereign the king in the parish of Flax Bourton, 731 01:19:12,094 --> 01:19:16,328 in the county of Somerset, here, on the third day of November 1947, 732 01:19:16,861 --> 01:19:19,295 for one of the coroners from our Lord the King, 733 01:19:19,395 --> 01:19:23,729 of the aforementioned county of Somerset, regarding the death of Ivan Krivosertsev, 734 01:19:24,128 --> 01:19:27,096 known as Michael Loboda, and regarding his corpse. 735 01:19:29,194 --> 01:19:31,161 Were the witnesses sworn in? 736 01:19:31,629 --> 01:19:32,362 Yes, sir. 737 01:19:32,828 --> 01:19:33,896 Well, let's start with it then, shall we? 738 01:19:35,896 --> 01:19:37,663 It was around five, I'd say. 739 01:19:38,863 --> 01:19:42,730 I was at Long Orchard. I work there, you see. 740 01:19:44,696 --> 01:19:46,030 And near the railway bridge, 741 01:19:46,895 --> 01:19:48,730 coming from Court House Farm, 742 01:19:51,062 --> 01:19:53,596 I saw that gentleman hanging from a tree. 743 01:19:56,562 --> 01:19:57,930 It was an apple tree. 744 01:20:05,094 --> 01:20:08,395 It was hanging at a height of about 2.50 metres on a leather belt. 745 01:20:11,228 --> 01:20:14,928 It seemed to me that the deceased had put the belt around his neck, 746 01:20:15,694 --> 01:20:18,729 climbed the tree, attached the end to a branch 747 01:20:19,328 --> 01:20:20,862 and it had jumped off. 748 01:20:23,130 --> 01:20:25,097 We untied him and lowered him to the ground. 749 01:20:26,062 --> 01:20:28,696 He was already cold. Frozen. 750 01:20:32,063 --> 01:20:34,929 We searched the body and in a wallet we found three letters 751 01:20:35,864 --> 01:20:37,931 One of them was marked "Secret Service". 752 01:20:58,862 --> 01:20:59,894 Go on. 753 01:21:00,928 --> 01:21:02,896 We then took him to Long Ashton Mortuary. 754 01:21:06,162 --> 01:21:07,097 I knew him well. 755 01:21:08,729 --> 01:21:10,963 We had been friends since 1945. 756 01:21:12,329 --> 01:21:13,096 He was happy. 757 01:21:14,362 --> 01:21:17,264 He was proud of who he was and what he had seen. 758 01:21:19,397 --> 01:21:22,497 He didn't really drink much but he could also take something. 759 01:21:24,830 --> 01:21:27,998 I don't see any reason why he would hang himself. 760 01:21:31,063 --> 01:21:32,098 He wouldn't do that. 761 01:21:45,332 --> 01:21:48,065 Let it be properly recorded here that in response 762 01:21:48,866 --> 01:21:51,596 of all statements under oath, 763 01:21:52,096 --> 01:21:56,129 I, as appointed coroner of the county of Somerset 764 01:21:56,229 --> 01:21:58,529 authorized by the civil service of His Majesty the King, 765 01:21:58,896 --> 01:22:02,596 after deliberation on the probable cause of death of Michael Loboda, 766 01:22:02,697 --> 01:22:05,464 also known as Ivan Krivosertsev, 767 01:22:06,564 --> 01:22:09,198 decide the verdicts of suicide 768 01:22:10,896 --> 01:22:11,964 by hanging. 769 01:22:14,863 --> 01:22:17,898 This procedure is hereby concluded. 770 01:22:30,699 --> 01:22:32,099 You're certainly not going to accept this. 771 01:22:32,531 --> 01:22:33,898 I have to accept it. 772 01:22:34,198 --> 01:22:36,933 Now this is just another suicide that no one wants to hear about. 773 01:22:37,066 --> 01:22:38,731 What about the letters in his wallet? 774 01:22:38,865 --> 01:22:41,000 We were not allowed to see them. 775 01:22:42,131 --> 01:22:43,096 Why were they not read? 776 01:22:43,896 --> 01:22:45,497 I'm very sorry, Mr. Underwood, 777 01:22:45,895 --> 01:22:48,329 but if you didn't get involved, it might not be necessary to know. 778 01:22:49,129 --> 01:22:53,730 Look, Colonel, I'm sorry, but I did what I thought was the right thing. 779 01:22:55,230 --> 01:22:56,898 Did you? Really? 780 01:22:58,031 --> 01:22:59,063 We still have this. 781 01:22:59,896 --> 01:23:01,931 A testimony has no value without the man. 782 01:23:03,931 --> 01:23:06,132 Even if it is not accepted by the court, 783 01:23:06,998 --> 01:23:08,964 it still brings the story into the open. 784 01:23:09,331 --> 01:23:12,697 That's all you need, isn't it? - Yes, Mr. Underwood, but there's nothing more I can do. 785 01:23:13,499 --> 01:23:15,065 We were told in no uncertain terms 786 01:23:15,164 --> 01:23:17,831 that the newspapers emphasize were advised 787 01:23:17,932 --> 01:23:19,132 never again the subject to bring to light. 788 01:23:20,732 --> 01:23:22,166 My apologies, I have to go. 789 01:23:25,132 --> 01:23:28,366 He didn't deserve this. He was a good person. 790 01:23:37,464 --> 01:23:39,098 I'm very sorry, Colonel. 791 01:23:40,330 --> 01:23:41,331 Sincerely. 792 01:23:51,198 --> 01:23:52,931 Don't you dare leave me! 793 01:23:54,064 --> 01:23:57,064 You are equally to blame to this impossible situation! 794 01:23:58,097 --> 01:23:59,931 You did what you thought was right. 795 01:24:01,432 --> 01:24:02,366 And so I did. 796 01:24:04,698 --> 01:24:05,965 This has not ended yet. 797 01:27:43,068 --> 01:27:45,801 The moment Stephen died 798 01:27:45,901 --> 01:27:47,736 changed my life forever. 799 01:27:48,902 --> 01:27:52,703 Everything I believed in was shattered by the revelations he discovered 800 01:27:53,036 --> 01:27:55,670 and I was determined to finish what he had started, 801 01:27:57,068 --> 01:27:59,036 to finally print Stephen's story 802 01:27:59,137 --> 01:28:00,903 and the testimony of Michael Loboda, 803 01:28:01,035 --> 01:28:03,403 the last witness for the countless Polish soldiers 804 01:28:03,503 --> 01:28:04,934 who died at Katyn, 805 01:28:05,034 --> 01:28:07,966 despite the possible risks and however long it might take. 806 01:28:08,933 --> 01:28:09,967 They would not be forgotten 807 01:28:10,868 --> 01:28:11,967 and upheld their testimony. 808 01:28:25,990 --> 01:28:30,478 Excuse me, Colonel. This is just arrived for you from America. 809 01:29:19,735 --> 01:29:29,306 In 1990, Soviet President Gorbachev admitted that the Soviet Union was responsible for the murder 810 01:29:29,875 --> 01:29:33,421 No one was ever prosecuted. 811 01:29:37,069 --> 01:29:44,719 In 2012, declassified documents provided proof that the US government withheld information 812 01:29:46,549 --> 01:29:55,659 No British government has ever had the former Soviet Union publicly held responsible 813 01:29:57,927 --> 01:30:05,268 This film is dedicated to the 22,000 Polish prisoners of war who were murdered 814 01:30:05,271 --> 01:30:09,882 and to those who were murdered in the years that followed that the truth might be buried forever 815 01:30:18,114 --> 01:30:21,578 Subtitles: "Bère"