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The Time of Honor season 5

- Spring 1941. Trained saboteurs previously...

landed in Poland.

They operated in a risky game of intelligence.

They hunt traitors and organise armed operations.

- I don't want us to break up. - Try it on.

I'm in love with you.

After an assassination attempt on the Eden restaurant

the sabotage unit

of Wladek, Bronek, Janek and Michal was disbanded.

After two years they met again.

Their last mission was spring 1944.

An attack on a convoy carrying gold. A year later...

the heroes of the time of honor returned to Warsaw.

The End and the Beginning episode 53

Warsaw, spring 1945

Ministry of Public Security

Enter.

Colonel Wasilewski reporting.

Sit down, comrade colonel.

- They speak highly of you. - Thank you.

You graduated from Kuybyshev.

Yes, first class after the war.

- This must remain between us. - Of course.

Comrade Bierut was asking about you.

Everything's fine.

You have a mission.

It may mean a promotion.

What's the mission?

According to Soviet estimates

300 saboteurs landed in Poland during the war.

Now they're working against us.

Our NKVD colleagues estimate that there are still around 200.

Do you smoke? That's good.

That means you have energy.

Find them in Poland and abroad.

- Drop all your other work. - Of course.

You'll have everything you need.

Hand everyone over to the NKVD.

The first report in one week.

Don't let me down, colonel.

-I recommended you to Comrade Bierut. -I won't.

Stefan Kurek? - What of it?

The death penalty for treason

- against Poland. - I'm a Pole!

- With Soviet papers? - I beg you.

The war's almost over. Are you going to shoot Poles?

That Poland's buried. We have to build a new homeland.

Please,

I've got a young son. Please,

I beg you. He's got his First Communion soon.

I beg you. I beg you. Have mercy.

Please.

Bronek, let's go.

Let's go.

You'll remember my words.

The Soviets will take on the Yanks and it'll all work out.

This war's not over and you're waiting for the next.

Should I let the Soviets make this one big kolkhoz?

It might not be so bad.

You also want a job in the communist government?

- I can see you're cracking. - No, you're cracking.

Stop.

Can you see anything?

It's a trap. It's a trap.

Withdraw.

Withdraw.

Covering fire.

Wladek!

They must have known about us.

Quickly!

Come on, come on.

Bavaria. Murnau am Staffelsee

Maybe we should try.

No point, they're releasing us soon.

Really? So why the hell are they taking us to another camp?

Because the Germans are afraid to admit they've been stuffed.

They know too much. Someone must have grassed.

That's all we need. To start suspecting each other.

You should show this to a doctor.

It's nothing. I had worse in the Uprising.

Brzoza, don't play the tough guy.

Michal, we've got a mole.

It was no accident they were waiting. We'll find out.

Right away.

Get out!

Something odd about this camp.

Faster, faster!

Somewhere near Pilzno

Ready?

-It was meant to be 4 feet deep. -OK, that's enough. Take the crates.

-Blow this. -Wonder what it is.

Better not to know.

-Is that everyone? -Yes.

-Kill them. Burn the bodies. -No, I won't!

We should have run for it. - Don't worry. Only four have weapons.

- Carry out the order. - They'll find out it was us.

- Who? - The Americans.

-It's a shame to die. -You're risking a court martial.

- Don't see any Germans or courts. - Carry out the order.

The war will be over in a few days.

Even if it's only one day.

- They have to die. - We should leg it, not kill

- civilians. - Carry out the order.

- Shut your trap! - Shut it!

- Halt. - Don't shoot.

To the jetty.

Comrade captain, the prisoner's here.

Bring him in.

- Sit him down and you may go. - Yes sir.

Name.

- It's all written down. - Answer.

Were you baptised?

- I see you're tired of life. - Anyone would with you in power.

-I'd like a word with you. -I've finished, comrade colonel.

Take away the prisoner.

- Who was that holy Joe? - He gave sermons against the USSR.

You dealt with paratroopers from England during the occupation.

Sit down.

- Am I right? - I've been fighting them since 1941.

I'm sure you remember some names.

If I put my mind to it.

Make me a list and send it to HQ.

- I want it on my desk by tomorrow. - Yes sir.

We're short of arms and ammo, and the food's running out.

We're going to attack a Militia HQ in Zarnowiec.

How many men have they got?

Six bumpkins with no military experience.

It's a gun shop, there's everything. Ammo,

- automatics, sniper's rifles. - Mokry, take Brzoza to hospital.

- I'm not the nurse here. - You are now.

Bialy and Kania stay here. The rest go home.

We'll meet in 2 days.

Fall out.

Kania, Bialy.

What are you up to?

- What? - An attack on the Militia?

- I don't know what you mean. - But I can see.

Off home and back here in 2 days.

-We report back here in 2 days. -As you wish.

What's he saying?

We're free.

We're free. Free.

Everybody out.

Wladek and Guzik are looking for...

She's alive!

Rozalka's alive!

She's turned up.

- She's a lucky woman. - We'll get lucky too.

- Have you been looking long? - For a month. My daughter.

I don't even know if she's alive. Are you looking for someone?

I'm looking for my son.

-Do you think it'll help? -If she's in Warsaw she'll come here.

- I'm not talking about Mum. - Who are you talking about?

I mean what you're planning.

If the secret police find out it means we've got a mole.

All of them were in the Uprising.

- So what? - Didn't you even tell Ruda?

It's some kind of nightmare.

I'm trying to wake up, but I can't.

- Stop thinking. Keep looking. - What's the point? Mum's dead,

everyone's dead. Us too. Us too, Wladek.

It's just we don't know it.

Guzik!

Sit down.

- Sign it. - What is it?

- Your testimony. - They aren't my words.

That's what you think. Sign it.

- Your name is Karol Ryszkowski. - What business is it of yours?

They told me in the cell. Karol Ryszkowski.

- An interesting coincidence. - Really?

I was a friend of Father Bernard.

I'm sure you remember him. He died in the Uprising.

- He told me about you before he died. - About me?

What was it?

Let's say...

I know why you do all this.

But you can't wipe out the past. The Bolsheviks will find out anyway.

- I really don't know what you mean. - I think you know quite well.

Bernard

said you're not a evil man.

You've just got lost in all this.

He attacked me. Get him out.

Get him out of here!

Jula, Olek, time for dinner.

- Hi. - Hi.

Nothing.

Not a trace of Mum or Janek.

Maybe it's not a bad thing.

Why?

Because if they're alive, it'd be better if they didn't come back.

They wouldn't recognise us.

- The war hasn't changed you at all. - But it's changed you.

I don't think you trust anybody now.

- You're exaggerating. - We were so brave for so long.

I'm still brave.

I'm done.

I'll make some food.

Thank you.

- From 1934. - Celina?

Michal.

You're still alive.

- Yes, I am. - I last saw you during the Uprising.

I wonder if all that really happened.

Let me introduce you. This is Marcin Butermant, writer.

Michal Konarski.

- And you're a... - Come on.

Talk.

- Please come through. - Excuse me.

- How are the boys? - I see Wladek every day

- and Ruda too. - What about Janek? And Bronek?

- Not a trace. But we'll find them. - Lenka?

Same again.

- What about your family? - They're all alive.

- I've been with them in Lodz. - And you came back here.

That's right.

- Where are you living? - At work, mostly.

- Do you work? - Yes.

- As a translator for a publisher. - Which one?

''Czytelnik.''

''Czytelnik.''

Where they print those commie books?

Where they print Mickiewicz as well.

-Him as weII? -Yes.

I'm translating this right now.

Brecht.

Who's he?

- A progressive German writer. - German and progressive?

Celina. Please.

What are you doing?

Trying to find a place for myself. In the new Poland.

I can ask at the publishers.

I'm not looking that hard.

- Take care. - Michal.

You can have the soup.

I've lost my appetite.

I'm sorry.

American transit camp

And that's your new president?

- I hope he's better than Roosevelt. - Roosevelt was a very good president.

- For you maybe. He sold us to Stalin. - ''Sold'' you.

You Poles always blame someone.

- You said you were born in Nowy Targ. - But I live in Chicago.

Home is where you hang your hat.

- I've never heard such rubbish. - Wise guy.

Do you have any brothers or sisters?

They're dead.

- Wife? - And child.

I lost touch during the Uprising. I don't know if they survived.

- What's her name? - Am I being interrogated?

It's almost the Gestapo.

I have to fill these forms in.

So we can bring your family here.

Take them.

Thank you.

I'm not bringing anyone here. I'm going back to Poland.

Why the hell are you going back? If you don't like communism.

You Yanks will never understand.

- What else is there? - Wife's surname.

Sajkowska, I mean Markiewicz.

- What did he want? - He wanted to talk.

- He's got Polish roots. - Really?

Said there are some Poles here. Let's take a look.

- And he's giving out smokes. - Ripping.

Now it's your turn.

Marysia,

eat.

I'll bring you some more.

I used to come here as a boy.

With my parents

in the winter. My father liked to ski.

- He had some friends here. - He's a German.

Hey Fritz. Say something.

Wormed your way in, Schweinhund?

- He's a friend. - He's a Hun.

A Hun?

We were in the Uprising together. In the camp in Pruszkow.

In cattle wagons.

Now we're together. And we deserve some bread.

Bread and peace.

Germans?

- Where are you from? - Breslau.

Can I come with you?

Where to?

Anywhere.

Extreme exhaustion.

She won't survive the night.

- She can hear us, doctor. - I doubt it.

If she happens to regain consciousness give her

- warm water and sugar. - Is that all?

- Do we have any glucose? - Yes.

Glucose, then.

We have hardly any medicine.

- How is she? - You aren't allowed in here.

- May I have the stethoscope? - Sorry?

- I'm a doctor. Please. - Go away

or I'll call the guard.

- Has she had any medicine? - There's nothing

for total exhaustion. You ought to know that.

- It's pneumonia. I'm certain. - You're wrong.

She needs penicillin urgently.

- Let me examine her. - That's enough. Please go away.

This moment. You aren't allowed in here.

- Bolek? - What?

- Going back? - Of course.

Jadzia and my son are waiting for me.

You're happy, aren't you?

What about you?

Going back too?

Of course.

But not for long.

Guard!

You're under arrest.

Hello, madam. Have you found them?

Hello. No luck. It's been up for a month.

I found my son.

Buried under a church. At least it's a church.

But I keep looking.

I don't know who I'm looking for.

I can't seem to live without it.

Hello. Helena.

Kazimierz?

- Have you heard? - What?

They aren't going to rebuild Warsaw.

Bolek, who told you that rubbish? That American?

A Frenchman.

They're going to leave the rubble, and build the city next to it.

The Frogs can rebuild Paris.

Germans!

How many are there of you?

- Two squads? - Brilliant. We're sitting ducks.

What's going on?

What is it?

- The bastards are up to something. - Got any rifles in the office?

- Yes. - Right. We're going.

What's happening?

They're running away.

They're running away.

Well?

Hey man. Say it in Polish.

The Germans have capitulated.

The war's over.

The war's over!

Listen. The war's over.

We have some very

important information.

Today, Hitler's Germany...

- Put me through. - ... surrendered unconditionally.

Yes, comrade general.

I'm happy.

I'm very happy.

The Second World War is over. We are victorious!

Poland has not yet perished,

While we are still alive.

What foreign powers took from us,

We take back with a sabre.

March, march, Dabrowski.

From Italy back to Poland,

Under your leadership,

We will rejoin the nation.

To victory!

Comrade captain, aren't you pleased?

Of course. To victory!

Yes sir, comrade general.

The war isn't over for us.

So many years.

So many people.

I can't believe the Germans lost.

What now?

What do we do now?

Our duty.

We continue to do our duty.

in the next episode... - KBW.

- Know what that means? - Capture, observe, take out.

- Where's Wanda? - Why ask now?

The Popular Theatre is opening. You should act there.

Soviets. Hide.

On the ground.

- Lie down. - Shouldn't we tell him?

That we're giving her vitamins?

That we don't have penicillin?

Colonel, urgent orders from group.

- People will call that treason. - I'm prepared to take responsibility.

You can be sure of that.

English version: DubbFilm Translation: David French

Subtitles: Micha� Kosiba